Idaho Gets 4 Times More Stimulus Money in Contracts Than Louisiana

[Louisiana1976]

Idaho has received nearly four times as much money in federal stimulus contracts than hurricane-ravaged Louisiana. And Louisiana has three times as many residents.

According to data released Thursday on the government-run Web site Recovery.gov, sparsely populated Idaho has received $478 million in federal stimulus contracts resulting from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). Federal recovery contracts there have gone to build a new water treatment facility in the city of Lava Hot Springs and to lay down a fresh layer of asphalt on remote roads in Clearwater National Forest.

Louisiana, by contrast, has received just $116 million in federal stimulus contracts. And most of the biggest contracts have gone to companies headquartered outside the state, including a $29 million contract to repair dikes along the Mississippi River in Plaquemines Parish (which went to a Texas company), and a $14 million plan to repair and rebuild a new airstrip at the Joint Reserve Base Naval Air Station in New Orleans (which went to a South Carolina firm).

According to Recovery.gov, only four of the 30,383 jobs created by stimulus contracts nationwide have gone to residents of New Orleans. Louisiana has benefited from a total of 563 jobs.

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[virgogal]

1. Why am I not surprised that the government screwed up?

[MadLinguist]

2. But didnt Little Governor Bobby disdainfully refuse a portion of the stimulus?

In fact, in the very article you post, it cites Jindal's role:

Republican Governor Bobby Jindal, who opposed the stimulus package and publicly refused to take some of the funds, which were to be used to prop up social programs.


A lot of those Ass-hat GOP Guvs were making a big show of turning their backs on that upstart guy in the White House handing out the money, but from Louisiana, it was a shock even to the die-hard kool-aiders in the SE parishes.


What really gets me though, apart from the way the money is still clogged in the pipelines though is the fact that there is nothing in place to ensure that the contracts go to local businesses and workers. When the job is over, they roll up and go back home, end of story. What the hell happened to micromanaging?