How the stimulus plan really works

The Hill today reports on exactly how the federal stimulus plan works:

Nearly $6 million in stimulus money was paid to two firms run by Mark Penn, Hillary Clinton’s pollster in 2008.

Federal records show that $5.97 million from the $787 billion stimulus helped preserve three jobs at Burson-Marsteller, the global public-relations and communications firm headed by [Mark] Penn.

Whatever happened to the old fashioned notion that looters should be shot on sight?

Update on Tuesday, January 5, 2010 at 04:16PM by hb

And what was the balance of debt owed by Hillary Clinton's campaign to Penn's nexus?