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– California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R), interviewed on This Week, about some Republican governors saying they will not take money from the recently passed economic stimulus package.

The Michigan Democrat appeared on “Fox News Sunday” with three other governors in Washington for their annual meeting, including South Carolina Republican Mark Sanford, …who has said he will decline part of the stimulus money Congress approved this month, including expanded unemployment benefits.

“You better believe I’m going to take every dollar that’s coming to Michigan,” Granholm said. “If my colleagues here in South Carolina and Minnesota don’t use theirs, I’m going to be first in line to say … I’ll take their dollars, too.”

http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090222/POLITICS/902220315/1361

A South Carolina lawmaker responsible for writing and overseeing Gov. Mark Sanford’s office budget has called for a state audit of those operations to explain what happened with thousands of dollars he wanted used for a veterans cemetery project.

State Rep. Brian White said he has tried for weeks to figure out what happened to more than $250,000 he said was supposed to be transferred to the Governor’s Office of Veterans Affairs from the State Budget and Control Board. White said he had notified the Republican governor’s staff that the money was to be spent to help build a facility.

“We want to find out where the money went,” White, R-Anderson, said this week.

Four other legislators, state Reps. Mike Pitts, Jeff Duncan, Liston Barfield and Dwight Loftis, joined White in making the Feb. 11 audit request in a letter to Philip Laughbridge, the chairman of the Legislative Audit Council.

Sanford spokesman Joel Sawyer said he’ll welcome an audit and says White can’t document any of the money was intended for the veterans facility. Rather, he said, the money was in an uncommitted fund that was used in part to pay the governor’s security detail bills.

WHAT HAPPENED TO THE $250,000.00? Where’s the money Sanfraud?

http://www.thestate.com/local-metro/story/690488.html

The stimulus package cost is $800 billion, only 50 billion more than TARP that all went to banks and Wall Street, less than the cost of the Iraq war which is now approaching 1 trillion dollars, and less than the portion of the deficit directly attributable to the Bush tax cuts; and that does not take into consideration any taxes generated by the stimulus effect of the spending. Not even the most ardent honest critics believe the stimulus will not generate tax revenues, and most economists believe the stimulus will generate significant tax revenues significantly reducing the cost.

By the way on a note of fiscal responsibility and open government I note that Obama just banned four accounting gimmicks used by the Republicans to understate the deficit we have incurred over the last 8 years.

You mean like this guy who pays RQ&A:

However, when Blitzer asked him whether South Carolina should “take the money, Graham replied: “I think that, yes, from my point of view, I — you don’t want to be crazy here. I mean, if there’s going to be money on the table that will help my state, but I’ve got a job to do up here, and that is to try to help people and not damn the next generation.”

You’re either an idiot or the biggest hack in the Western Hemisphere. I vote for both.