I wish I had more enthusiastic news to report for the State of Mississippi, but apparently Governor Haley Barbour is wary of the "strings attached" to the federal stimulus package. This news even shocked the Speaker of the state's House Billy McCoy, a Democrat in the R+13 state.
"It makes every bit as much sense for the federal government, with all its power and might, to be involved in assisting the nation as a whole -- states, counties communities and individuals -- in this terrible economic disaster just as much as it did in the physical disaster in Katrina,..."
"...I didn't see anybody who wanted to turn any money down then, and I can't understand the leader of a state having any kind of negative thought about accepting the proceeds of this congressional effort."
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