16 Districts Represented by Tea Partiers Received More than $1 Billion from DC

[Toro]

Sixty House members backed by the Tea Party, whose opposition to federal spending helped bring on an impasse over raising the U.S. debt ceiling, represent districts that last year received $43 billion in government contracts.

In 16 of those constituencies, spending exceeded $1 billion each -- more than twice the median amount for all House districts, Bloomberg Government reported today. ...

In all, the federal government spent $532 billion on federal contracts last fiscal year, with 8.1 percent of it, or $43 billion, in Tea Party Caucus members’ districts. The median was $449 million for all 435 House districts, Bloomberg data show.

The median value of federal contracts in Tea Party- represented districts was $409 million, 8.7 percent less than the national average. The median for the 194 Democratic districts was $502 million, compared with $422 million for all 241 Republican districts. ...

Representative Michele Bachmann, the House Tea Party Caucus chairwoman who is running for the Republican presidential nomination, was near the bottom with $71 million spent in her district in the suburbs of Minneapolis.

Tea Partiers Against Debt Deal Gain From District Spending - Bloomberg

 

[Neotrotsky]

Pretty shocking to see people stand on their beliefs
and be willing to cut gov't spending even in their own districts

 

[Truthmatters]

and you think these tea party voters even know their districts get this money?


"keep your government hands off my medicare" comes to mind.

 

[Avorysuds]

Pretty shocking to see people stand on their beliefs
and be willing to cut gov't spending even in their own districts

Agree.

 

[Avorysuds]

and you think these tea party voters even know their districts get this money?


"keep your government hands off my medicare" comes to mind.

We need a Government so big it can drown it's non public subsidized/welfare/employed citizens in a bath tub! That would be real power.

TM approved!