About-Face: More States Accept Stimulus Funds

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Remember all those governors who objected to taking $7 billion in stimulus money set aside to help the unemployed? Many of them changed their minds. Now, more than half the states are getting the federal stimulus.

As the down economy drags on, some of the most conservative states have updated their laws so they, too, could get their share. Others are still holding out.

Several southern states were among the first to say they did not want to take federal stimulus funds to help the unemployed. Republican governors from Georgia to Louisiana, Texas to South Carolina were outspoken opponents of expanding unemployment benefits.

Gov. Mark Sanford of South Carolina in 2009 said, "I was against the stimulus. I've consistently stood against the stimulus. If you take all this stimulus money and you spend it all, over the long run there will be less economic activity in South Carolina rather than more."

But last week, without much fanfare, the Labor Department released $97 million to South Carolina after state legislators modernized the unemployment insurance program and Sanford signed the bill into law.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129246074

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1. More hypocritical Welfare Queen governors......

nt

[BeFree]

2. Huh?

There have been claims the stimulus hasn't worked, but they haven't yet released all the stimulus money?

How can the stimulus work if they don't use the money?

It is the same old story... repukes do every thing they can to see that government doesn't work as planned by the democrats. Here they don't want to see the stimulus work as planned by the democrats. It is just anti-American bullshit they use to keep their power.