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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (554554)	3/11/2010 4:49:48 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572325

Most of the stimulus money went to the states who used it to plug holes. And this was bad.....why? And it wasn't most.

To: Jim McMannis who wrote (554554)	3/11/2010 6:20:16 PM
From: J_F_Shepard	Respond to of 1572325

About 280 billion went to tax cuts also. Some state money when to the schools which saved a lot of staff positions and ed. programs....

To: Jim McMannis who wrote (554554)	3/11/2010 7:33:07 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1572325

Self-Made GM Rebuilding Blue Jays DUNEDIN, Fla. -- It was February 2002, and Omar Minaya was pulling into the spring training complex in Jupiter, Fla., for the first time. Minaya had just been hired as general manager of the Montreal Expos, who were under Major League Baseball's stewardship because MLB allowed owner Jeffrey Loria to buy the Marlins instead -- and take most of the Expos staff with him. When Minaya pulled into the parking lot in Jupiter at 5:30 a.m., a 24-year-old was waiting for him. "I get out of my car," Minaya recalled recently, "and he ... came up to me and told me pretty much that he would do anything to work. I looked at him -- and Alex has a great passion and a way about him. I said, 'Well, come upstairs. I don't know what job I have for you. Just come upstairs.' "[Alex] started making sure that all the scouts had phones. And that's how it started. We got him a little room. And he built from there. He took off from there." Eight years later, Alex Anthopoulos is general manager of the Blue Jays. And his plan to rebuild Toronto's team stems from his experiences while working his way up from fan-mail sorter to GM. read more....... mlb.fanhouse.com