Take the money....NO!

So, some Dems are up in arms that some GO Governors are rejecting some of the bailout money that their states will be receiving.

Deomocrats:
State Democratic Party chairwoman Carol Fowler: "He's (Sanford) so ideological," Fowler said. "He would rather South Carolina do without jobs than take that money, and I think he's looking for a way not to take it."

Republicans:
A spokesman said Sanford, the new head of the Republican Governors Association, is looking at the stimulus bill to figure out how much of it he can control.

"We're going through a 1,200-page bill to determine what our options are," Spokesman Joel Sawyer said. "From there, we'll make decisions."

The issue here is interesting. These are the people elected to run their states. Let them do it. If they dont want the money, its not a political power move, and it's not ideological. This bill was created and passed without ANY republican involvement. How is that bi-partisan?

"Idaho, Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter said he wasn't interested in stimulus money that would expand programs and boost the state's costs in future years when the federal dollars disappear"

This is an excellent point. What do we expect? This money to be happening all the time? These people are trying it their way. They dont want a handout. Thanks Dad, but I dont need a loan. Sure it will be tough, but we'll get by. I am curious as to how much of this money will be gobbled up by the bureaucracy? It's as if the Governors Association is being yelled at for even reading it.

Democrats of America need to figure it out that the American populous doesnt want a handout. They want a real job. It seems that many of the "jobs" created from this will be working on the infrastructure of America. The skills learned on these jobs, outside of the engineering, are low skill jobs. There is no vertical line to the next level. We are setting ourselves up for this again. We should start an intensive training program for the out of work americans. Training to use their brains, not their bodies.

What we need to do is invest much of this into NASA. Think I am nuts? During the space race of the 1960's, NASA was funded with 1% of the GDP of the US. In 2007 it's less than 1% of 1%.
Think of all the amazing things that have come out of the space program. Computers, cell phones, cable tv, sattelites, velcro, the list goes on and on. This site is awful, but the info is not.