AP: GOP Shifted Billions to Districts

AP | 8-05-02 | David Pace

[My2Cents]

Good point. It was from the Republican districts that the bulk of tax revenues came to spend in poor rural and urban Democratic districts. I'm tired of paying their freight.

[My2Cents]

These are the areas that have the bulk of those who actually produce something for this nation. They should get the lion's share of revenues back from DC.

[ldish]

BFD - the demos have been doing this to us for years when they controlled - I'm sure they are the ones now crying and complaining - boo hoo - poor babies - whiners......

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

CNN is gonna have a field day with this

Why of course dont you know there the most credible news source on the globe! [laughing so hard my stomach hurts ]

....../sarcasm kept on due to temporary insanity and lack of duct tape /

[xrp]

This sort of makes sense since, under the Republicans, the moneys are pretty much being returned to where they're being taken from, right?

[DrDavid]

So, the millions of dollars in Federal gifts David Bonior (D-Mich) got for St. Clair Shores is for a poor urban district?

Hmmm... I'm sure the voters in Macomb County would love to know they are part of a poor urban area...

[Redbob]

This is breaking news?

"In terms of services, for example, that translates into more business loans and farm subsidies, and fewer public housing grants and food stamps."

So the GOP shifted spending from the less-productive to the more-productive sectors.
That's to be applauded, not condemned.

[11th Earl of Mar]

This is good news and should cause every person in Michigan to vote for the GOP. We are tired of sending all of our dollars to support Detroit. Just let it die and be done with it.

[Diddle E. Squat]

Ironically, House leaders proved less adept at directing money toward their own districts, further showing that policy changes — not pork politics — were the driving force behind the spending shift.

As to be expected, the most relevant sentence is buried near the end. The headline is completely misleading. But that's the play to their own constituents. Liberals are about headlines, Conservatives are about the actual details.

[SamAdams76]

Rather than pork barrel projects for new GOP districts, the change was driven mostly by Republican policies that moved spending from poor rural and urban areas to the more affluent suburbs

Great news. I can't wait for the government to remodel my kitchen and build that addition over the garage - I think a billiards table would be just the thing to stick in it. Maybe the government will get me one out of surplus. I already got the cue sticks at a yard sale.

[P8riot]

Should Republicans apologize? HELL no.

If they do it just goes to show that the Dems are not the only party that is totally out of touch with their constituency.

[Amerigomag]

True junk science.

The title could have just as acurately read:

"GOP Shifts Billions to Districts With More Visible Sky".

There are at least 5 other causal corellations that I can quickly see which are just as legitimate as politics and some make much more logical sense.

Reread the article and think about it.

[be131]

Farm subsidies make me sick.

[SteamshipTime]

Proof that Republicans are socialists too.

And proud of it, by gum.

[StoneColdGOP]

File this one under "DUH!"

[Consort]

Yes! Let the Blue Enclaves wither on the vine.