A town of 170 does not support a local economy justifying a $15 million investment like this. And, while bike paths and oversized airports are great, consider where this money comes from: We're borrowing from China. We have no money of our own to spend. We continue to deepen our historic debt.
There are a lot of things I think the government could do for me that would be convenient . . . but we're in such dire fiscal straits that I want the government to do only what is strictly necessary. It would be awesome if the state of Virginia had the money to build a freeway that connected my part of town to the interstate so that I don't have to drive fifteen miles mostly across roads littered with stoplights and traffic, but the state does not have that kind of money and neither does the federal government.
It's not a simple matter of pork, but there is a ton of it and how much of it is necessary when Obama's telling us that we face a $10,000,000,000,000 deficit in the next decade? You can't trim ten tril from cutting out pork, but every bit you cut out is money we don't have to borrow and mortgage our nation's future upon. This is the equivalent of a man with nothing in his bank account and a million dollars in debt trying to secure loans so he can buy a new boat and 60" TV. Why am I the only one who thinks that sounds not just ridiculous, but dangerous? How about we concern ourselves with trying to bring balance to this hideous budget first, and then we can worry about bike paths and freeways?
Unfortunately, our current President has absolutely no fiscal common sense, so the burden of our debt is only going to worsen, and probably to a severe degree. I can only hope it doesn't get irreversibly bad before Americans understand what a disaster this guy is becoming and elect someone, anyone, else with a shred of intelligence and responsibility in 2012. Democrat, Republican, shit, I'll even take a Green if he can show he has the basic ability to balance a god damn checkbook. Obama's sending this country into a telephone pole at 80 MPH. I'd even take Bill Clinton at this point.
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"You cannot spend your way out of recession or borrow your way out of debt"
--Daniel Hannan
There are a lot of things I think the government could do for me that would be convenient . . . but we're in such dire fiscal straits that I want the government to do only what is strictly necessary. It would be awesome if the state of Virginia had the money to build a freeway that connected my part of town to the interstate so that I don't have to drive fifteen miles mostly across roads littered with stoplights and traffic, but the state does not have that kind of money and neither does the federal government.
It's not a simple matter of pork, but there is a ton of it and how much of it is necessary when Obama's telling us that we face a $10,000,000,000,000 deficit in the next decade? You can't trim ten tril from cutting out pork, but every bit you cut out is money we don't have to borrow and mortgage our nation's future upon. This is the equivalent of a man with nothing in his bank account and a million dollars in debt trying to secure loans so he can buy a new boat and 60" TV. Why am I the only one who thinks that sounds not just ridiculous, but dangerous? How about we concern ourselves with trying to bring balance to this hideous budget first, and then we can worry about bike paths and freeways?
Unfortunately, our current President has absolutely no fiscal common sense, so the burden of our debt is only going to worsen, and probably to a severe degree. I can only hope it doesn't get irreversibly bad before Americans understand what a disaster this guy is becoming and elect someone, anyone, else with a shred of intelligence and responsibility in 2012. Democrat, Republican, shit, I'll even take a Green if he can show he has the basic ability to balance a god damn checkbook. Obama's sending this country into a telephone pole at 80 MPH. I'd even take Bill Clinton at this point.
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"You cannot spend your way out of recession or borrow your way out of debt"
--Daniel Hannan
YOU CANNOT HIDE FOREVER
WE STAND AT THE DOOR
WE STAND AT THE DOOR