Blue South defends Dalton spending bills

Submitted by ryanteaguebeckwith on May 30, 2008 - 11:10am.
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Walter DaltonA BlueNC blogger is defending Sen. Walter Dalton's spending bills.

Noting the recent attack by the N.C. Republican Party on Dalton's $277 million in requested appropriations, BlueNC blogger Blue South writes that only the $14 million for the Cleveland Correctional Center is directed at his own district:

Now Linda Daves has attacked Dalton for Pork spending, but if you look of the 277 million, only 14 million would directly benifit Dalton's district, while many would benefit his along with every other rural district in the state. And there is of course no gurantee that bill will get passed or folded into the budget.

Blue South also writes that the bills would benefit "education, jobs and biofuels."

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Re: Blue South defends Dalton spending bills

Submitted by ryanteaguebeckwith on June 1, 2008 - 9:58am.

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 

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Re: Blue South defends Dalton spending bills

Submitted by tangoz on May 31, 2008 - 11:10pm.

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.

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Re: Blue South defends Dalton spending bills

Submitted by danbesse on May 30, 2008 - 6:00pm.

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.

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Re: Blue South defends Dalton spending bills

Submitted by Senate on May 30, 2008 - 2:12pm.

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.

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You missed the best quote....

Submitted by momoaizo on May 30, 2008 - 1:55pm.

"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?"

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