Bethesda and Congressional District 8 received the lion's share of Maryland's per capita stimulus dollar awards, an analysis shows, despite the fact that the recession in Bethesda was the shortest in the state and District 8 has the highest median income.
The stimulus bill promised "to assist those most impacted by the recession," but Bethesda raked in an average of $8,006 per resident, the highest in the state, while Maryland as a whole received $1,044 per resident and some places received far less than that. Dundalk's average, for example, was just $15.28 per resident, the Capital News Service analysis of figures from Recovery.gov and the census shows.
Areas like Cumberland and Salisbury, which remain in recession according to Moody's analytics because of high jobless rates and falling home prices, received less stimulus money per capita than Bethesda, Rockville, Upper Marlboro, Frederick, Annapolis and Baltimore. Salisbury also received less than Germantown and Towson.
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does this really suprise anyone?
That's our reward for supporting Ehrlich over O'Malley in 2006.
I thought that Norm Conway always took care of us. What happened?
anonymous 9:13, this is the exact problem I have been stating for years. The Shore does NOT have enough Delegates representing our district.
If you'll recall, I stated quite some time ago that if the Western Shore Delegates stated our chicken farmers were the cause of polluting the Bay, Norm and the rest of our Delegates would be fighting a HUGE battle. Considering we have so few Delegates, Norm has enough respect from the rest of the Delegates in the State to express and defend the Shore.
However, (IMHO) when it comes to packages like this one, this is probably the time when we have to sit back and take the punishment, (pay backs) for convincing the others to lay off the Shore.
Its politics at its finest.
Don't forget Pollitt in this. He claims to get all the support from O'Malley and the Dems. So where is the money? With Conway and Pollitt we all should be MILLIONAIRES by way of the Government.
Of course the distribution of funds is all political, as it usually is. Montgomery County, with the highest population in the state, is responsible for putting O'Malley into the governor's office. Prince George County is the other county, but its demographics pretty much guarantee that it will go heavily Democratic, whether they get any stimulus money or not. In the scheme of things, unfortunately, Salisbury and Wicomico County are insignificant politically.
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