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Re: Watt sought $180m in earmarks

Hillwalker — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 16:22:30 -0400

"* Widen Interstate 85 in Davidson and Rowan counties, $10 million."

A worthy use of Federal funding given that stretch of interstate has become a major bottleneck. And, after redistricting in 2012, could increase the size of his district in those counties since it is only the width of the Interstate through that part of the state.

Re: Blue South defends Dalton spending bills

ryanteaguebeckwith — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 10:58:17 -0400

Gosh. When I quote conservatives, liberals cry foul. When I quote liberals, conservatives cry foul.

Guess I'll just quote Munger from now on.

— RTB

Re: Blue South defends Dalton spending bills

tangoz — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 00:10:03 -0400

You are quoting someone from BlueNC? Ryan, your kidding right?
My opinion aside they have a reputation as being extreme, radical, and downright mean-spirited.

Re: Blue South defends Dalton spending bills

danbesse — Fri, 30 May 2008 19:00:05 -0400

Typical "conservative" thinking. The commenter says "paving roads" is a legitimate function of government, but public transit apparently doesn't make the list. "Public safety" (presumably police and fire) is on the list, but no doubt environmental protection is not. I imagine that regulation of the stock market would find its way onto his approved government function list--but oversight of health insurance? Horrors! In other words, if it subsidizes his activities, it's a legitimate government function. If it helps poorer folks, it's not.

Re: Blue South defends Dalton spending bills

Senate — Fri, 30 May 2008 15:12:09 -0400

I think the question is: What should the scope of Government be?

Dalton's answer is it should be in every possilbe pore of our bodies - typical liberal thinking.

Sure we should provide top flight education to our citizens, pave roads, and provide for the public safety.

But is it Goverment's function to subsidize Biofuels and through some haphazard process, randomly choose companies to subsidize for "creating" jobs for North Carolinians?

I say no. And I believe we could do a lot better job with government's core functions if we weren't wasting time and money on expensive porkbarrell projects that have nothing to do with educating our kids, paving our roads and providing for the public's safety.

You missed the best quote....

momoaizo — Fri, 30 May 2008 14:55:19 -0400

"The question now is, if Education, Jobs and Biofuels are irresponsible, just what would Linda Daves and Robert Pittenger like our state to look like?"

Re: Cowell seeks $76m in state spending

mickiep — Fri, 30 May 2008 08:46:35 -0400

Alot of these programs sound like overlaps of existing programs and others sound just plain wasteful. As a small business owner I would love to expand some of the aspects of my business and give my employees a 7% raise, however, I have to budget within my means unlike the state. But it's great to see my representative and her fellow Democrats going on a spending spree. I'll take Bill Daughtridge's approach to state spending over Cowell's any day.