It’s hardly a rounding error. According to Watchdog.org’s review of the official Recovery.gov database, as much as $6.4 billion in “stimulus” funds went to non-existent Congressional districts across the United States. That would be about 8% of the total funds appropriated to stimulate the economy.

The good news? Apparently our country just added 440 Congressional districts. Maybe we can reduce the influence of the current morons in the House.

Just how big is the stimulus package? Well for one, it has doubled the size of the House of Representatives, according to recovery.gov, which says that funds were distributed to 440 congressional districts that do not exist.

According to data retrieved from recovery.gov, nearly $6.4 billion was used to “create or save” just under 30,000 jobs in these phantom congressional districts–almost $225,000 per job. The web site operates on an $84 million budget and is tasked with monitoring the distribution of the $787 billion stimulus package passed by Congress–which, for the record, counts 435 members–in early 2009.

The site’s monitors, however, are not too savvy about America’s political or geographic landscape. More than $2 million was given to the 99th District of North Dakota, a state which has only one congressional district. In order to qualify for 99 districts, North Dakota would have to have a population of about 60 million people, almost 24 million more people than California.

The stimulus revived 8 recently retired congressional districts. Pennsylvania’s 21st District has received just under $2 million in funds. Mississippi’s 5th District and Oklahoma’s 6th received $1 million from the legislation, respectively. All three were eliminated by the 2000 census.

Many other recipients carried the banner for congressional districts that have been defunct for decades. South Carolina’s 7th took the cake, garnering more than $27 million in stimulus funds, despite being eliminated in 1930. And Virginia’s 12th District may have been written off at the start of the Civil War, but it must carry some sentimental value in Old Dominion–it received more than $2 million, according to recovery.gov.

So we spent $6.4 billion to create 30,000 jobs — or $225,000 per job — in 440 Congressional districts that quite simply don’t exist. But wait. We spent $84 million to track the funds spent in these non-existent areas of our country.

Boy, I feel good about handing over my family’s health care decisions to Washington, don’t you? And hey, while we’re at it, let’s raise taxes on the American people and their employers so the federal government can waste even more money in places that don’t exist.

Hope and change.