The Freedom Foundation Of Minnesota posted a report evaluating the federal government stimulus tracking website report on Minnesota.  The government website reports that 35 jobs have been saved or created as a result of $404,340 in stimulus spending in Minnesota’s 57th congressional district.   According to the government website, in Minnesota’s 27th congressional district 2.5 jobs have been created at a cost of $3,159,657.  In the 13th congressional district 5 jobs were created at a cost of $42,109.  Aside from the obvious high cost of some of those jobs, this sounds like good news, but evidently the government website didn’t bother to fact-check its numbers–the 13th, 27th and 57th congressional districts in Minnesota do not exist,  Minnesota has a total of eight congressional districts.

As concerned citizens we need to keep track of where the stimulus money is going.  Our government should be required to give us accurate information on that subject. 

Just a note–according to the recovery.gov website, only 58% of the stimulus money has been awarded and only 13% actually received.  What are we waiting for?  Why not just give the money back to the taxpayers and let them grow the economy?