"Hardest Hit" Funds Apparently Hard for Government to Spend

``now... in an audit released last Tuesday, the Office of the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (SIGTARP) named eight of those 19 states -- Alabama, Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Michigan, and Mississippi -- for spending less than 22% of their funds on homeowner assistance. Not that the SIGTARP, or anyone else at Treasury or within the federal government for that matter have the slightest idea where the money should be spent to stop foreclosures.  But it must be nice to for Treasury to be able to point fingers at someone else for a change.''