STATE'S SHARE OF STIMULUS AID SETS OFF GRUMBLING

I found this article most interesting...The states hit the hardest, like Florida are at the bottom of the totem pole when it comes to Stimulus money...I'd like to know how the Dem Congress and Obama team decided how the money was to be distributed and why Rhode Island and DC are at the top of their recipient list? Alaska was a surprise too...this state showed up as one of the least distressed in other comparisons...New York, no surprise there...with Clinton at the helm...same for Vermont...little Howard Dean obviously paid off for them...goes a long way...The best part is not ONE of these states (and one that is not a state DC) are the big winners...Duh? I bet old Illinois and the state that helped Obama make it to the top is not happy to see these results...hmmm - guess they didn't help as much as they should have.

STATE'S SHARE OF STIMULUS AID SETS OFF GRUMBLING
Florida was hit hard by recession, but its cut is among lowest
http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20090316/BLOG46/303169991/0/APS

PER CAPITA STIMULUS

The Top 5 recipients, measured by per capita share of the $787 billion stimulus:
Washington, D.C. - $2,598
Rhode Island - $2,272
Alaska - $2,190
New York - $2,181
Vermont - $2,163
The five states receiving the lowest per capita share:
Utah - $1,372
Colorado - $1,452
Virginia - $1,526
Texas - $1,533
Florida - $1,545.47

Source: Center for American Progress, U.S. Census Bureau

Each month the Kaiser Family Foundation, a private nonprofit group, measures economic distress through a combination of home foreclosures, unemployment rates and food stamp participation. Here are the five most distressed states, and the five least.

Most distressed
Nevada
Florida
California
Georgia
Arizona

Least distressed
North Dakota
West Virginia
Wyoming
Nebraska
Louisiana
Sources: The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation (Statehealthfacts.org)
Click here to read the rest of the story...http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20090316/BLOG46/303169991/0/APS

BOSTON TEA PARTY 2009 - READ A COMEDY I WROTE IN 1994 - "WITHOUT THE LAW" PROTESTORS ABOLISHING THE IRS

Want to read a funny screen play about the takedown of the IRS? If so, click the link above...I wrote this script in 1994 - it was my firsr...I never would have imagined the Boston Tea Party protests starting March 28 thru April 15th nationwide would have spurred the American people to rise up and say, "No More!"

http://nikki4senate.homestead.com/WITHOUTTHELAW.html


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Samuel Tilden's Biography - A Book Every Historian, Voter and Politician Should Own

Samuel Tilden's Biography - A Book Every Historian, Voters and Politician Should Own

Samuel Tilden Reform Statements For Politicians and Judges

These are just a few of the statements Samuel Tilden made regarding reform in government...because he spoke 19th century English I've added some definitions.

Reforms must come from plain people and not from above...
All history shows that reforms in government must not be expected from those who sit serenely on the social mountain tops enjoying the benefits of the existing order of things.

I appeal particularly to the poor man, whose home is fixed and difficult of change. He is concerned in matters of government more virally than the rich man who, removing his residence with comparative ease can escape the oppressions of a government that he regards as intolerable.

It is rarely if ever possible for a party in office to reform itself by the internal force of its best elements. We must have a better state of things in national, state and municipal governments, and a higher standard in the public mind by which official men will be tried. They should refer their silent mediation's in their actions, if we are to preserve anything of value in in our political systems.

A reformed judiciary is an essential of good government.

A reform in the administration was not only inimically (defined:having the disposition of an enemy : hostile) the most important but was a measure without which every other reform would prove nugatory (inconsequential.)