Monica Davey wrote this article that appeared in the New York Times on February 16. This was the day before President Obama was to sign the newly passed stimulus bill. It was written, I believe, to show all of us that if we thought the struggle to get the bill passed in the first place was tough, we haven't seen anything yet.
How to dispurse the funds from the stimulus bill is proving to be a seemingly larger obstacle than actually passing the bill. There are struggles between states, between counties, between cities, and even between local municipalities over who gets what out of the stimulus funds. And as if that's not enough, we even see politicians that are right out refusing to accept the so desperately needed funds because of their supposed strong conservative beliefs. I guess those politicians really don't care that even though we don't accept the funds (and therefore don't reap any of the benefits from them) we're still responsible to help pay it back. How fair is that???
