Sunday, October 17, 2010
Politicians - Michigan State Representative Marie Donigan (D)
Elected officials clearly have little respect for OUR money...
The Foundry, a Heritage Foundation blog, recently reported this:
"The federal government is footing most of the bill for the Detroit light rail, thanks to 'a nifty Congressional agreement,' as MLive’s Jonathan Oosting describes it. If you see federal dollars as 'nifty' play money that falls from the sky, it doesn’t seem like that bad of a deal, right?
Michigan State Representative Marie Donigan (D), who was interviewed about the train for a Reason.tv video (above), is all for taking the free money. She scoffed at the notion that there is only so much cash to go around:
'So we have a limited pool of money, right? Is that what you’re saying? There’s only so much money in the world ever? Obviously that’s not true.'
Note to Rep. Donigan: Detroit, which has to chip in $55 million for the rail, has a deficit of $85 to $125 million and in April faced a budget deficit of $331 million. Meanwhile, the State of Michigan will see a $1.6 billion budget shortfall next year. It seems there IS a limited supply of money for state and local governments, after all."
