As I posted last night, the Obama administration has managed to spend huge amounts of “stimulus” money in congressional districts that do not, in fact exist here in the reality-based reality of earth. How bad is the reporting of invented or imagined job creation by the munchkin chorus of the Wizard of O?
How about more than doubling the size of the House of Representatives?
There are 435 actual seats in the House and an additional 440 in the rest of Omerica, apparently.
Just how big is the stimulus package? Well for one, it has doubled the size of the House of Representatives, according to recovery.gov, which says that funds were distributed to 440 congressional districts that do not exist.
According to data retrieved from recovery.gov, nearly $6.4 billion was used to “create or save” just under 30,000 jobs in these phantom congressional districts–almost $225,000 per job. The web site operates on an $84 million budget and is tasked with monitoring the distribution of the $787 billion stimulus package passed by Congress–which, for the record, counts 435 members–in early 2009.
The site’s monitors, however, are not too savvy about America’s political or geographic landscape. More than $2 million was given to the 99th District of North Dakota, a state which has only one congressional district. In order to qualify for 99 districts, North Dakota would have to have a population of about 60 million people, almost 24 million more people than California.
Gee, and that’s not counting the dead vote. In Omerica, the entirely never-existed get great jobs at public expense.
The really great news is that the Crabitat is now the 435th congressional district of Barsoom. We anxiously await our richly deserved $7.32 billion check to create or save 598,247,123.235 jobs.
We are just that good.
Can I be the Senator from Trantor? Can I? Huh? Can I? Can I?
I dunno, you sure you want the lobotomy?
440 districts that don’t exist? only 440? damn, these guys are slackers, even by chicago standards.
Can we get some of that stimulus money here in West Dakota? we could really use it. Things are almost as bad here as in New New Jersey.
So…are you saying you will, or will not, vote for John Carter again? Or will you vote for Dejah Thoris instead?
I gotta go with Dejah – legs like that deserve a vote.
I support the allocation of stimulus funds to Imaginary-Americans! It’s just WRONG to suggest that one needs to exist in order to benefit from gov’t handouts.
Why are we surprised?
Imaginary Americans have been voting democrat for years.
Hey, we need some stimulus money for the 6969th district (FL)!It is the eastern area of Bo Diddly County, and the western parts of James Brown, Marvin Gay, and Sam Cook Counties. And it better be green, too. Not like that silver crap Obama sent last time.
Gaius: You mean I would have to get another one?
Anyone care for a Senator Palpatine?
BTW: There is actually a John Carter in Congress.
But, like many others, I am holding out for Dejah Thoris.
Yup.