No sooner had the Louisiana Senate Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations rejected legislation last week to require the state to accept $98 million in stimulus funds that Gov. Bobby Jindal had rejected, than Sen. David Vitter, R-La., introduced legislation that would direct stimulus funds rejected by state governors and local municipalities to go toward paying down the national debt. "Many local and state governments, including in my home state of Louisiana, recognize the future burdens attached to many of those bloated stimulus projects," Vitter said. "Congress should use the returned money based on fiscal decisions by those who better understand their own needs -- the local and state government officials -- to pay down our ever-growing national debt."
