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The Democrats’ government-growth-disguised-as-Keynesian-“stimulus” bill has done anything but stimulate the economy.  Unemployment is at 10.2%, About 3 million jobs have been destroyed in the private sector since the bill became law, and as has been noted, fake jobs have been “created or saved” in places that don’t even exist.  We should be paying attention to where the so-called “created or saved” jobs are.

Thanks to www.recovery.gov, it is possible to find where the dollars and jobs are by both Congressional district and by zip code.  I have looked at both for my home state of Georgia.

First, looking at the money and jobs by Congressional district, over one-third of the dollars awarded and nearly 90% of the jobs are in one district, the 5th District.  The 5th District includes most of the city of Atlanta and southern Fulton County, the largest county by population in the state.  Also in the 5th District are the headquarters for the Georgia State, Fulton County, and Atlanta City Governments.

The trend becomes clearer when looking at zip codes.  The top recipient by dollars is zip code 30303, which is home to both Fulton County and Atlanta City Governments.  This zip code was also responsible for about one-eighth of the state’s stimulus jobs.  The second largest recipent of federal “stimulus” dollars was zip code 30334, which was also responsible for over two-thirds of the jobs reported for the state of Georgia.  What is in 30334 that could produce so many jobs?  Why, I’m glad you asked!  A quick search around the website of the State Senate, State House, and the office of the Governor are all located in 30334.  The state of Georgia received the money, and the state of Georgia reported the jobs.

We all know that the hardest people in the world to fire are government employees.  With all of these “jobs” being reported by government, they are employees that might have been fired (and therefore off the government payroll) without the stimulus money.  Those employees will continue to cost Georgia taxpayers for years to come.

Feel free to repeat my experiment in your state, especially since the mainstream media won’t dig this deep.  The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has not reported this, even though it should have been easy for them.

After all, they are located in zip code 30303.