... and that's not far from the truth. Recently, Nancy Pelosi suggested that some of the enormous stimulus package they plan to enact after Barack Obama is sworn in will go to help states that are in financial distress. States like California where the deficit is supposed to be about $28B.
First off, how does a state manage to get $28B in the hole? How on Earth can a state spend that much money? $28B would buy you a complete aircraft carrier battlegroup. It's madness. In any case, some of that money does indeed go to drugs for addicts as a part of California's drug treatment programs. And a drug treatment program is exactly what Nancy Pelosi is offering states like California.
California has been mismanaged by the Democrats for years with recent help from the Governator though they hardly needed it. They spend and spend and spend and here we are with a preposterous deficit. That deficit, like a hangover or the DTs, might prod even the Democrats into some kind of spending restraint. Nancy Pelosi stepping in and handing them more heroin and booze in the form of billions of dollars of "stimulus" isn't going to help.
Meanwhile, states that have been thrifty and prudent will get ... nothing.
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Minnesota hasn't been exactly thrifty or prudent. But we have a balanced budget requirement in our constitution.
Nice, we get to flip the bill for the land of the fruits and nuts.
I used to worry that the US would collapse and break up in to smaller countries. Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, and the Dakotas. Maybe Illinois and Nebraska?
Now, I think it'd be a good thing.
Oh, that obviously only works if Al Franken doesn't stay.
Let's see, how does that quote go?
"Giving money and power to politicians, is like giving whiskey and the car keys to teenage boys."
Tim, you're a PJ O'Rourke fan? Wonderful!
Mostly I agree with you.
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