More than $2.7 billion of stimulus aid for struggling parts of rural America has gone to the nation's biggest metropolitan areas. That's nearly a quarter of the $12 billion in rural assistance the government has paid out so far under President Obama's economic stimulus package, a USA TODAY review shows. It went to small, far-flung suburbs in metropolitan areas with more than a million residents, including growing towns around Atlanta and Phoenix. The spending reignites a longstanding debate over what "rural" really means in an increasingly urban nation. To Rep. Adrian Smith, R-Neb., co-chairman of the Congressional Rural Caucus, the question is arguable only up to a point. "Ask Nebraskans to define rural and they'll have different ideas," he says, "but clearly Phoenix and Atlanta are not rural at all."...read more
The whole stimulus package is just another Uncle Sam Scam. Let'em waste it in town.
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