The article "States and Cities in Scramble for Stimulus Cash" was written by Monica Davey for The New York Times. The audience this article is written for is all the people who are curious about how this stimulus package is going to work, and the basic idea of the article is to try and explain some of the ideas and plans. This article was written to explain some ways the government is intending to spend the money, how it will be split, and some of the many problems it may cause.
I don't know how our government thinks this stimulus is going to work because it seems that everyone has a different idea about it. Ms. Davey seems to be fairly neutral; she is just giving the facts about the plans and ideas that some officials have. I think I would have to agree with Mark Sanford because I believe the stimulus package is going to cause a great deal of trouble between U.S. politicians, and I also think it will end up costing us more than we will gain. States will be going against each other to receive more money in a time when we should be uniting to help one another. The last thing we need right now is to stand alone and create more debt for ourselves. How will it be decided who gets what? Each decision will be risky because they will never know if it's the right one until it's too late.
