Throwing good money after bad - updated
I couldn’t help but notice this in a piece on pork that Fighting29th linked to:
Here’s a short list of how tax dollars would have been spent this year (had there not been earmark reform), but now won’t be.
- $750,000 bucks for the Erie Canal (which is already funded by Thruway dollars.)
- $1 million to pave the roads around Xerox in Webster.
- $1 million for the Monroe County Water Authority.
Yes, that’s the same water authority that paid itself $500,000 in unearned bonuses, according to a recent audit. Should they really be getting any money from the federal government? Isn’t that really just a sophisticated form of money laundering?
The article has this nice quote from Congressman Jim Walsh too:
He said, “This money makes a big difference. In simple terms, you have four members of congress at the trough getting their share. Now this money won’t be there.”
There’s nothing voters like better than hearing their Congressmen compare themselves to pigs at a trough.
Update: btp here. Breaking in because I can’t let a post involving dysfunction at the County Leg go by. Ok, RT readers– Who sets up the WA board? That’s right, the GOP prez of the county leg. But don’t worry, the WA board is bipartisan! Both Republicans AND Conservatives are on it. Kind of like in the Blues Brothers where the lady says “We’ve got both kinds of music– country, AND western!”
Exile, excellent post.
Wow, nice catch. We need to connect as many of the dots as possible. Follow the freakin money.