Dear Senator Let Them Eat Cake Bunning,

Want to find $10 billion to pay for extending unemployment benefits? How about we start with federal spending in your home state of Kentucky?

Kentucky taxpayers receive more federal funding per dollar of federal taxes paid than the average state. Per dollar of federal tax collected in 2005, Kentucky citizens received approximately $1.51 in the way of federal spending. This ranks the state 9th highest nationally and represents a rise from 1995 when Kentucky received $1.28 per dollar of taxes in federal spending (ranked 13th nationally).

The most recent year I see data for is 2005, when Kentucky received $12 billion more in spending than it paid in federal taxes.

How about we start there, DOUCHEBAG?

Kentucky also got $3 billion out of the ARRA. Hey, that'd be a good downpayment on that $10 billion!