I live in a state where the governer, in order to maintain his moral and ethical high ground, must refuse any stimulus package money whatsoever.
I also live in a state that just accepted piles of stimulus money to start up a number of shovel-ready projects. If my calculations are correct, this money will tranlate into about 3,000 over the next six months to a year. (Very very rough guess.)
Mark Sanford is the Republican governor of South Carolina. That governor almost got away with misusing the stimulus funds. But ….
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Unfortunately ethics gets forced out the window, because the Feds will still put the enormous bill for this juggernaut on his state’s citizens (now and in the future).