Governors’ Fight Over Stimulus May Define G.O.P. - NYTimes.com

“There is some we will not take in Mississippi,” Governor Barbour told CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday. “We want more jobs. You don’t get more jobs by putting an extra tax on creating jobs.”

So the governors of Mississippi and Louisiana might not take the stimulus money because they need to stick to an ideological belief that has never served their states well. According to the Census Bureau Mississippi and Louisiana rank highest and third to highest respectively in rates of poverty, well above the national average. Its a shame that these GOP governors would let their states suffer to further a failed ideology.