George Rebane

USA Today reports ‘Billions in aid go to areas that backed Obama in ’08’, specifically –

Billions of dollars in federal aid delivered directly to the local level to help revive the economy have gone overwhelmingly to places that supported President Obama in last year’s presidential election. (emphasis mine)

The counter argument to all this is that this distribution result was either a coincidence or just normal redistribution of wealth through the usual channels.

That aid — about $17 billion — is the first piece of the administration’s massive stimulus package that can be tracked locally. Much of it has followed a well-worn path to places that regularly collect a bigger share of federal grants and contracts, guided by formulas that have been in place for decades and leave little room for manipulation.

Either way, to me it looks bad.  There either is a payoff for this president’s election, which is due process given the history of these things, or else it’s just recognition that these constituencies have been on the permanent government teat for a very long time, mostly to no avail.  In any case, and with the Peter/Paul Principle in full force, the correct name of the law truly is the American Redistribution and Re-election Act of 2009.  People who will be made to pay the bill should deport accordingly.