"WASHINGTON (AP) — Counties suffering the most from job losses stand
to receive the least help from President Barack Obama's plan to spend
billions of stimulus dollars on roads and bridges, an Associated Press
analysis has found.

Although the intent of the money is to put people back to work, AP's
review of more than 5,500 planned transportation projects nationwide
reveals that states are planning to spend the stimulus in communities
where jobless rates are already lower.

One result among many: Elk County, Pa., isn't receiving any road money
despite its 13.8 percent unemployment rate. Yet the military and
college community of Riley County, Kan., with its 3.4 percent
unemployment, will benefit from about $56 million to build a highway,
improve an intersection and restore a historic farmhouse.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/...Iwh1wD983T6D00

Of note:

"Altogether, the government is set to spend 50 percent more per person
in areas with the lowest unemployment than it will in communities with
the highest."

.....residents of Perry County, Tenn., will have to wait. County Mayor
John Carroll said he's disappointed his community, which suffers from
25.4 percent unemployment, won't receive a dime any time soon for its
road needs."

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Hmmm - one has to wonder if...well no other way to put it, Union
contractors had anything to do with this?

Nah...