President Obama claims to have saved or created hundreds of thousands of jobs, but he isn’t telling the American people about what is arguably his most amazing economic recovery accomplishment yet – He has doubled the size of Congress and it only cost about $6.4 billion!
You only thought Congress has 435 congressional districts. Thanks to the Obama stimulus program, 440 new districts have been created. How? By creating new congressional districts out of thin air, or bringing back old congressional districts long ago left in the dustbin of redistricting history, or …. well, I’ll let Bill McMorris of Watchdog.org tell the tale:
“According to data retrieved from recovery.gov, nearly $6.4 billion was used to “create or save” just under 30,000 jobs in these phantom congressional districts–almost $225,000 per job. The web site operates on an $84 million budget and is tasked with monitoring the distribution of the $787 billion stimulus package passed by Congress–which, for the record, counts 435 members–in early 2009.
“The site’s monitors, however, are not too savvy about America’s political or geographic landscape. More than $2 million was given to the 99th District of North Dakota, a state which has only one congressional district. In order to qualify for 99 districts, North Dakota would have to have a population of almost 60 million, almost 24 million more people than California.”
Go here for the rest of this amazing tale.
