{"id":1361,"date":"2009-11-17T07:01:20","date_gmt":"2009-11-17T07:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1361"},"modified":"2009-11-17T07:01:20","modified_gmt":"2009-11-17T07:01:20","slug":"the_government_website_on_stim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1361","title":{"rendered":"The Government Website On Stimulus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freedomfoundationofminnesota.com\/content\/stimjob.php\">The Freedom Foundation Of Minnesota<\/a>&nbsp;posted a report evaluating the federal government stimulus tracking website report on Minnesota.&nbsp; The government website reports that 35 jobs have been saved or created as a result of $404,340 in stimulus spending in Minnesota&#8217;s 57th congressional district.&nbsp;&nbsp; According to the government website, in Minnesota&#8217;s 27th congressional district 2.5 jobs have been created at a cost of $3,159,657.&nbsp; In the&nbsp;13th congressional district 5 jobs were created at a cost of $42,109.&nbsp; Aside from the obvious high cost of some of those jobs, this sounds like good news, but evidently the government website didn&#8217;t bother to fact-check its numbers&#8211;the 13th, 27th and 57th congressional districts in Minnesota do not exist,&nbsp; Minnesota has a total of eight congressional districts.<\/p>\n<p>As concerned citizens we need to keep track of where the stimulus money is going.&nbsp; Our government should be required to give us accurate information on that subject.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Just a note&#8211;according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.recovery.gov\/Pages\/home.aspx\">recovery.gov<\/a>&nbsp;website, only 58% of the stimulus money has been awarded and only 13% actually received.&nbsp; What are we waiting for?&nbsp; Why not just give the money back to the taxpayers and let them grow the economy?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Freedom Foundation Of Minnesota&nbsp;posted a report evaluating the federal government stimulus tracking website report on Minnesota.&nbsp; The government website reports that 35 jobs have been saved or created as a result of $404,340 in stimulus spending in Minnesota&#8217;s 57th &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1361\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}