On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 3:41 PM, Larry C. Lyons <[email protected]>wrote:
> > Got to hand it to them, they're past masters at do as I say, not as i do. > > > http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/17/AR2010101701810.html > > Republicans, Democrats who criticized stimulus wrote letters seeking funds > By John Solomon and Aaron Mehta > Center for Public Integrity > Monday, October 18, 2010; 12:21 AM > > Rep. Pete Sessions, the firebrand conservative from Texas, has > relentlessly assailed the Democratic stimulus efforts as a package of > wasteful "trillion-dollar spending sprees" that was "more about > stimulating the government and rewarding political allies than growing > the economy and creating jobs." > > But that didn't stop the Republican lawmaker from seeking stimulus > money behind the scenes for the Dallas suburb of Carrollton after the > GOP campaign against the 2009 stimulus law quieted down. > So let's get this straight. The federal government, much to the chagrin of Republicans and many taxpayers, decided to spend $800 billion dollars of our money. According to the writers' logic, because Republicans opposed this massive government seizure of our money, they should now be forbidden from asking that part of* *that money, which of course is in part their own constituents' money,* *be returned to them in the form of stimulus spending. Personally, I would like my Congressman to vote against such a plan (which he did), but if the money is going to be spent, I want him to go and ask for some of it, because that money is ultimately coming out of my pocket. Get it? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:329329 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
