I have mixed feelings on who should get the stimulus money and be in charge of it. It seems like we are throwing a band aide on a wound that needs stitches. Yes we need to take care of those in need ie: homeless, hungry etc.  But we do not have to become a country of enablers and co-dependents. Here is an example of someone who shouldn’t be receiving monthly money.  If you live in a city or an area of high rental properties you will understand this.  A woman lives in a 2 family house on our street.  She has a young son.  While in a conversation with a few of our neighbors and myself she introduced herself and I quote "her miracle Baby".  As she explained what the miracle was we all became angry.  This is her miracle she no longer has to work because he has autism and she now receives Social Security for him plus section 8 to cover her rent, food stamps, HEAP, medicare and best of all she doesn’t have to worry about transportation since for $20 a day she calls the medicare transport and they take her any where she needs to go.  All this woman does is drink, drug and boyfriend living with her (who also doesn’t work). This is NY state. This is how our taxes are being spent.  We would be in better shape in this state if this type of behavior was not allowed to continue. This is our time of change and we have to help with this change.  We can not just sit back and allow our money to be wasted or spent the wrong way.  Do what ever you can make phone calls, send emails, get your friends and neighbors together.  Sitting still and not speaking up for 8 years helped to get us in this mess. We voted in this caring , wonderful President so it is up to us to help him in this change.

Yes it should.

Our country failed over the last 8 years under the leadership of a Republican administration. Millions of Americans didn’t vote for Bush, but none the less because we are all citizens of the nation, we rose and fell together as one. The same can be said for individual states. It isn’t fair for constituents of a state where their governor and his/her respective administration misused their monies, must suffer.

Those in these states will now have an opportunity to pay closer attention to what goes on in their state and have a voice in how funding is spent. The argument could be made that they should have been paying attention all along and making sure their Governor was on top of things. But I would argue that is easier said than done. Look at us as a nation, we allowed the President and Vice President of the U.S. to trash our constitution, drag us into two wars, put us in the financial crisis we are in, and we allowed it to happen.

Yes but with some accountability. We can’t forget that some states are having problems because they are so many government mandates that are under funded or not funded at all. States are required to come up with money to implement these programs often undercutting local programs that benefit residents more.
The decisions made in Washington are not one-size fits all for every state but the state or commonwealth governments are required to carry them out.