{"id":7116,"date":"2010-09-17T15:39:33","date_gmt":"2010-09-17T19:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=7116"},"modified":"2010-09-17T15:44:42","modified_gmt":"2010-09-17T19:44:42","slug":"washington-d-c-gets-three-times-national-average-in-stimulus-dollars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/7116\/washington-d-c-gets-three-times-national-average-in-stimulus-dollars\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington, D.C. Gets Three Times National Average in “Stimulus” Dollars"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last month, we highlighted the obscene self-serving nature of big government’s growth.\u00a0 In “Why We’re Boiling Over:\u00a0 Federal Salaries Now Twice That of Private Sector,”<\/a> we detailed how federal workers earn double their private sector counterparts, and how incomes fell throughout America last year except in cities with higher concentrations of federal jobs.<\/p>\n

Now, a Wall Street Journal<\/em> study entitled “Washington Firms Soak Up Stimulus”<\/a> reports that President Obama’s failed $814 billion “stimulus” package has awarded nearly $2,000 dollars per every Washington, D.C. resident.\u00a0 That’s three times the national average of $695.95 per person across the rest of the country.\u00a0 It’s not by coincidence, then, that D.C.’s unemployment rate of 6.3% is over three percentage points lower than the nation’s overall 9.6% rate.<\/p>\n

Why is the nation’s fed-up electorate boiling over?\u00a0 The federal “stimulus” trough provides yet another reason.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last month, we highlighted the obscene self-serving nature of big government’s growth.\u00a0 In “Why We’re Boiling Over:\u00a0 Federal Salaries Now Twice That of Private Sector,” we detailed how federal workers earn double their private sector counterparts, and how incomes fell throughout America last year except in cities with higher concentrations of federal jobs. Now, a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[782,19,1854,1783,24,179,28,1853],"class_list":["post-7116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-2010-midterm-elections","tag-economy","tag-mid-term-election","tag-november","tag-obama","tag-stimulus","tag-tea-party","tag-vote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7116"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7120,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7116\/revisions\/7120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}