The article States and Cities in Scramble for Stimulus Cash by Monica Davey from New York Times is basically talking about states and major cities trying to recover from these 8 years from a horrible economy, Missouri for example; the Department of Transportation says that within 180 days of Obama’s signing the legislation it is prepared to begin 34 transportation projects, costing $510 million and with the promise of 14,000 jobs. and when President Obama sign this big stimulus bill in Denver this will be the biggest flux of the feds money since the times of former president Lyndon B. Johnson's Great Society program and this bill will help out millions of jobless citzens in america.
But some are guessing was this a good idea, Gov. Mark Sanford of S.C. is against the bill, saying that it as pork-barrel spending and bad policy and vowing to the anger and chagrin of the Democratic members of the state’s Congressional delegation not to take any of the money from Washington. Alot of senators, and governors do not think signing this bill is putting us in bigger debt than ever, but i feel that this going to be the begining of the end of this economy suffering, but wanting to put money towards the war that should of been over, doesn't make any sense to me at all, instead of trying to put Obama down and making him into a bad president, we should try to help him.
The reason why this article was written, is because these senators and governors want to make a statement saying why they do approve of this bill being passed and what it should really be put towards to. This is pointed towards the President, because they are giving him a hard time with this bill. The basic argument that the arthor is trying to make is about this bill being passed, talking bout state budgets and why some say that this bill could destory are nation.
