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PA GOP: Congressional Update - 11.20.2009

Friday, November 20, 2009

PA GOP
Newsletter

 

Robert Gleason, Chairman                                          Joyce Conklin Haas, Vice Chairman  

Imaginary Spending

 

 

 

In February, Pennsylvania’s Republican Congressional Delegation stood together in strong opposition against the Obama administration’s failed stimulus package. Americans have learned over the last few months that Republicans were right to oppose this massive wasteful spending that has helped contribute to our current $12 trillion in debt.

 

With unemployment rates rising to double-digits and our nation losing over 3 million jobs this year alone, Pennsylvanians are wondering, “Where are the jobs President Obama?”  Well, we think we found one reason why the stimulus has been such a tremendous failure. The Obama administration was spending taxpayer dollars in congressional districts that don’t even exist!

Pennsylvania has 19 congressional districts numbered sequentially, 1-19. Here is a list of the money spent, listed at the government site recovery.gov, on the Obama administration’s non-existent congressional districts. Too bad the very real money spent in these imaginary districts came straight out of the pockets of hardworking American taxpayers: 

 

· 00th Congressional District - $6,729,345 

· 96th Congressional District - $1,960,179 

· 21st Congressional District - $1,952,810  

· 23rd Congressional District - $1,487,259 

· 65th Congressional District - $474,83      

 

It seems that the Obama administration claims to have spent $12.6 million on non-existent congressional districts. With no constituents for these districts to speak of, you can only help but wonder if each of Cinderella’s seven dwarves and the tooth fairy benefited from the alleged 32.2 jobs those funds created. Those living in the 00th Congressional District can be proud that President Obama, Senator Specter and Democratic congressional members for 'creating' jobs.

 

U.S. Representative Bill Shuster had this to say about the bureaucratic mess that is the stimulus, “With national unemployment at 10.2 percent and rising, the American people and many of my own constituents are wondering where the jobs are and I don’t blame them. It’s only right for the people who paid for the trillion dollar stimulus to see what they got for their money.  I went to the recovery.gov website to find out and what I found was simply amazing.”

 

The Pennsylvania Republican Congressional Delegation knew that a $1 trillion spending account was too great of a responsibility for a Democratic President and the Democratic Congress to handle responsibly. With a 10.2 percent unemployment rate and an obscene amount of spending for fictitious districts, it has become painfully clear that the Republicans in Congress were right and that the Obama administration has utterly failed at a time when the United States was in need of a true leader on the economy. 

 

 

 

 

Rep. Joe Pitts 

 

Rep. Charlie Dent

 

Rep. Jim Gerlach

 

Rep. Tim Murphy

  

Rep. Todd Platts

 

Rep. Bill Shuster

 

Rep. Glenn Thompson

 

 

 

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