About-Face: More States Accept Stimulus Funds

[Brewman_Jax]

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129246074

From the article: Remember all those governors who objected to taking $7 billion in stimulus money set aside to help the unemployed?

It turns out many of them changed their minds.

Now, more than half the states are getting the federal stimulus.

As the down economy drags on, some of the most conservative states have updated their laws so they too could get their share.

Others are still holding out.

Several southern states were among the first to say they did not want to take federal stimulus funds to help the unemployed. Republican governors from Georgia to Louisiana, Texas and South Carolina were outspoken opponents of expanding unemployment benefits.

Gov. Mark Sanford of South Carolina said this in 2009: "I was against the stimulus. I've consistently stood against the stimulus. If you take all this stimulus money and you spend it all, over the long run there will be less economic activity in South Carolina rather than more."

But last week without much fanfare, the Labor Department released $97 million to South Carolina after state legislators modernized the unemployment insurance program and Sanford signed the bill into law.
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It is incredible that those repub governors were so callous to put politics ahead of their constituents, esp. during these economic conditions.

The GOP--the party of no ideas, no solutions, no caring.

[xchrom]

1. Sanford sucking off the Breast of the Democratic Party to stay alive.

Hmmmmph.

Now there's something for Gibbs to
Squeeeeel about.

[ThomWV]

3. I believe that's where the phrase "suckling pig" came from.

[xchrom]

5. lol! nt

[spanone]

2. and i highly doubt that the democrats will point this out to anyone.

[Brewman_Jax]

4. And it's free publicity

served on silver platter...and you're probably right. :(