Vote No to $3 Billion for Mississippi?

I often tell people, all Mississippi needs is the monetary capital to promote new progress to achieve a new business revolution to revitalize this state. However the almighty Governor Haley Barbour is considering NOT accepting the $3 billion from the stimulus package based on...ideological lines? Strings attached?

"Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, a former member of the House, said he would accept the stimulus money but would have voted against the bill if he were still in Congress. Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, a former chairman of the Republican National Committee, said he wasn't sure whether he would accept the approximately $3 billion his state would be in line for.

"Yes, we need some help and we appreciate the help," Barbour said in an interview. "But I don't know about the details and the strings attached to tell you if I'll take all of it or not."

Here is a link to the article http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090201/ap_on_go_co/stimulus_gop_governors

This is why I hate politics. Because people would rather stand around and do nothing just to see the other party fail. Obviously by Mississippi's awesome high school graduation rates and the thousands of new catfish farming jobs being created, Mississippi does not need any financial help. Meanwhile they could potentially file for bankruptcy if they were a business.

I can see the Republican reasoning behind voting no. Of course its a government bailout of all of society. Sure it smacks against your conservative fiscal beliefs.

But these are arbitrary beliefs in the grand scheme of things. Look at the MILLIONS of jobs America is losing. And you want to just let the body die in order to stop from bleeding from the lost of a proverbial leg just to PROVE A IDEOLOGICAL POINT?!

The fact that both Governors from MS and LA both would potentially say No to receiving money their states more than desperately need is tantamount to a dereliction of duty. Instead the states will stop giving money to non-profits, limit health care access, or close a university. Because that makes all the sense. As long as the Governors stand by principle while others suffer, we find them heroes.

Or if only Republicans had power and proposed this. Then it would have been the best thing since sliced bread. See: Bush tax rebates.