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DEL.ICIO.USGeorgia benefits of stimulus package greatest in Republican north metro Atlanta
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The White House this week passed out some stats this week indicating what parts of the country will benefit most from the $787 billion stimulus package signed by President Barack Obama.
My AJC colleague Bob Keefe passed on the Georgia-centric numbers.
Not surprisingly, according to the White House, the stimulus will be the greatest boon in north metro Atlanta congressional districts whose Republican representatives opposed it.
The package will create or save about 9,900 jobs in Georgia’s 7th congressional district, represented by John Linder of Duluth.
Another 9,200 jobs will be created or saved in Georgia’s 6th District, which is represented by Republican Tom Price of Roswell.
Price, as chairman of the Republican Study Committee, has been among the most ardent opponents of the package — damning the package last week by dangling a dead mouse (all right, a cat toy) from the House floor.
Linder hasn’t minced words, either. He says the high costs of the package would start America down the road to “a more pervasive welfare state, the burden of which will be carried by our children and grandchildren.”
In all, the White House estimates the package will create or save 107,000 jobs in Georgia. Republicans, of course, dispute those job numbers.
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By rural
February 18, 2009 1:03 PM | Link to this
You would think that the money would be better served in the rural areas of Georgia instead of the suburbs of metro Atlanta. The same GOP congressmen who stauchly opposed it, their districts are going to get the most bebefit of the stimulus. Damn!
By Just A Grunt
February 18, 2009 1:52 PM | Link to this
How can they at this early stage say for certain what areas or industries or even how many jobs will be “saved/created”? What sort of crystal ball are they looking at to get these prophesies? This is like saying the horse drawn carriage industry will be saved if a stimulus package had been passed after the invention of the automobile. Oh wait, wasn’t that called the New Deal and didn’t it prolong the depression? Our economy is going to be forever changed by this act. Environmental businesses, some of the far lefts best friends, are making out like bandits, while actually contributing little. A lot of work may be created that lasts 3 - 6 months and then what? There is a difference between jobs and work. I guess it will make folks feel better to know that if they ever manage to get a permanent job again that there will be a nice road to drive on, provided of course they can get credit to buy a car. A UAW built car of course that runs on electricity, supplied by what we don’t know since the technology isn’t viable yet, but hey at least they stopped that drilling for oil. Uh somebody got a match? My candle is burning out.
By CMOB
February 18, 2009 2:11 PM | Link to this
is that create jobs as in new jobs OR create jobs as in save? seems the new administration uses new math to say how wonderful things will be under the new stimulus package in these districts. we can all say thank you to Obama for letting us work to pay other’s mortgages. spread the wealth baby spread the wealth…..
By Welfare for the Rich
February 18, 2009 2:19 PM | Link to this
Isakson, Perdue, and Chambliss three little piggies. They oppose the stimulus BUT on the other hand want to benefit from the stimulus what a bunch of porkers.
By Matilda
February 18, 2009 2:28 PM | Link to this
Don’t ask Dr. Price what he REALLY does with that toy mouse when the C-SPAN cameras go off!
By GA VALUES
February 18, 2009 3:48 PM | Link to this
What did Linder say when Dick Cheney said, “Deficits don’t matter”? Or was he too busy chasing his secretary around the desk?
By Maxine Waters McKinney
February 18, 2009 4:28 PM | Link to this
GA VALUES, you fool, it is not the amount of money that is the problem, it is the way it is being spent. I know that your default MO is to blame Bush, Cheney or the rest, but this is Obama’s porkulus bill. 55% of the country hates it and good people on BOTH sides of the aisle have major problems with it. Get you head out of your arse and do some research! You sound like Flip Wilson, Tom GA Hunter, and Will Jones all rolled up in one huge liberal turd.
By He who was against it the most
February 18, 2009 6:50 PM | Link to this
All our wonderful legislatures like John Linder who is rich anyway, that are so opposed to the stimulus package but their districts benefit the best. Go figure. I respect Swhartzenagger of California and Floridas governor, big republican supporters were about begging for the stimulus package, but out pack of IDIOT savants Purdue, Cagle, Richardson, Chambliss, Isakson, Price and Linder were so against it but are going to benefit from it. If they don’t like it so bad they could have always turned the money away. No politician would do that especially a republican.
By Sharyn
February 18, 2009 8:57 PM | Link to this
This is stunning. These representative - who have frankly embarassed this state and their districts over and over - should be ashamed, except of course they don’t experience that emotion. I think that any district represnted by one of the congressmen (any women?) who voted no should not get any money. Then maybe these guys would actully hear from their constituents about whether THEY want the money.
And I think the money should be spent on cities - they are crumbling and are the core of this country. And yes, they’re mostly represented by Democrats, but that’s life and demographics.
By Sharyn
February 18, 2009 8:59 PM | Link to this
This is stunning. These representative - who have frankly embarassed this state and their districts over and over - should be ashamed, except of course they don’t experience that emotion. I think that any district represnted by one of the congressmen (any women?) who voted no should not get any money. Then maybe these guys would actully hear from their constituents about whether THEY want the money.
And I think the money should be spent on cities - they are crumbling and are the core of this country. And yes, they’re mostly represented by Democrats, but that’s life and demographics.
By GA VALUES
February 19, 2009 10:00 AM | Link to this
Georgia’s two Senators and all of the Congressmen from north metro Atlanta voted against the stimulus bill. They said it was a matter of principle, not politics.
So if it was principle, that means they will refuse the money, right?
Ha Ha.
By veronica
February 19, 2009 11:16 AM | Link to this
John Linder and Tom Price are nothing more than obstructionists. They either offer no alternative OR the alternative for ANY issue involves the FairTax. What a sham. Their constituents have voted them in and they should reap the benefits of being represented by morons. They should get NO stimulus money.