Well, of course they did

Why would the Democrats split the pie anywhere near evenly when it is only their supporters they care about helping?

A new analysis of the $157 billion distributed by the American Reinvestment and Recovery act, popularly known as the stimulus bill, shows that the funds were distributed without regard for what states were most in need of jobs.

“You would think that if the stimulus money was actually spent to create jobs, there would be more stimulus money spent in high unemployment states,” said Veronique de Rugy, a scholar at the Mercatus Center who produced the analysis. “But we don’t find any correlation.”

The Mercatus Center at George Mason University in Virginia is one of the nation’s most respected economic and regulatory think tanks and has a Nobel prize-winning economist on staff. The econometric analysis was done using data provided by Recovery.gov — the government website devoted to tracking the stimulus data — as well as a host of other government databases.

Additionally, Mercatus found that stimulus funds were not disbursed geographically with any special regard for low-income Americans. “We find no correlation between economic indicators and stimulus funding. Preliminary results find no statistically significant effect of unemployment, median income or mean income on stimulus funds allocation,” said the report.

The Mercatus Center analysis also found that Democratic congressional districts received on average almost double the funding of Republican congressional districts. Republican congressional districts received on average $232 million in stimulus funds while Democratic districts received $439 million on average.

Washington State, a blue state whose senior Senator just so happens to be head of the transportation committee, is seeing an overly large influx of “stimulus money”.

So much so that the company that built Seattle’s new City Hall and Police Headquarters a couple years back, as well as Qwest Field (where the Seahawks play) before them, has downgraded to going after a number of the repair/update projects along I-5.

Yes, the large projects aren’t quite as large, but they’re still going up. With a decade in the business, I’m finding it a bit strange to get calls from these guys about this or that off-ramp instead of trying to match our truck’s arrival to their crane’s schedule.