Fisher: Otter Talks Big Re: Bailout $$$

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  Joker on February 24 at 11:51 a.m.

  Of course he should accept the money. That’s a no-brainer. Idaho needs money, badly. Otter would be a fool to turn it down. It’s all politics. Otter and his fellow Republicans can huff and puff all they want. At then end of the day, they’re getting in line like everybody else.

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  misc on February 24 at 11:52 a.m.

  Contrast Otter with Utah’s governor, who basically said the national Republican leadership is so inconsequential that he hasn’t bothered to get to know them.

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  moscow_minidoka on February 24 at 12:41 p.m.

  If he refuses the money and I lose my job because of Idaho’s lack of education funding, I cannot be held responsible for my resulting actions.

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  idawa on February 24 at 12:46 p.m.

  Well, given what I read on this blog, most Idahoan don’t believe in government spending as an effective stimulus, so I think they should reject the money. If you truly are against government expansion as a state, then I applaud those who say no.

  As an aside, it will give some method of testing this bills effectiveness if we can measure the recovery in those states that take stimulus and those that don’t. If those states that forgo money recover slower than those that do, then we have some actual proof of Obama’s economic theory. The study of economics has always craved some sort of way to test this stuff, and now we may have it. However, I fear that in the end, like Joker predicts, these govs will cave and suckle up to the federal government’s teat.

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  Bent on February 24 at 12:47 p.m.

  Fisher nails it… In the end, Otter will take this money. Afterall, everyone gets to share the debt, we had better get to share the potential benefits…

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  idawa on February 24 at 12:52 p.m.

  also, apart from Texas, aren’t those states listed the perienial welfare queen states as it is (ie, states that recieve more federal support than what they pay in)? I’ll need to look this up later unless someone know off the top of their head.

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  Nick_Adams on February 24 at 12:55 p.m.

  idawa: Unfortunately, if you based “what most Idahoans” think on blog postings, you’d also come to the conclusion that they also don’t believe in:

  Climate Change/Global Warming
  Obama is a U.S. citizen
  Our highways and bridges are in terrible shape
  There are racists in Idaho
  Not all hispanics are illegal aliens
  Science

  Kind of sad.

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  idawa on February 24 at 12:58 p.m.

  Well Nick, if you also go by the way Idahoan tend to vote, I think you could make an argument that they don’t believe in a lot of what you posted either. :(

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  Nick_Adams on February 24 at 1:36 p.m.

  That’s my point (poorly made, perhaps). What Idahoans believe is not necessarily reflective of reality. It blows that we could lose out on the benefits of the recovery act because of delusional thinking.

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  Cis on February 24 at 3:03 p.m.

  I have been waiting for local cartoonist to draw a picture of
  Otter, standing with his left hand up in protest of no, thank you to Congress, with his right hand sticking out behind him with his palm turn up to recieve the money.

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  Cabbage Boy on February 24 at 3:50 p.m.

  I hope he follows through. Our country in in the dumps right now because of this attitude that “disagree with it, but I gotta get my share” type of politics. It isn’t free money. Did everyone miss the line,

  “states may not want to meet the conditions that accompany the money or expand programs that will have to be paid for by the state once the stimulus money runs out”

  Once you get in line, you will be stuck there permanently. And you will have given up some freedoms to get yourself stuck there.

  That line is worth repeating.
  “states may not want to meet the conditions that accompany the money or expand programs that will have to be paid for by the state once the stimulus money runs out”

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  Arch_Druid on February 24 at 10:37 p.m.

  For a long time, and this was in a news magazine long ago, Idaho was among those listed as getting more federal $$$ than what it actually paid in. Yes, it is politics, Otter doesn’t want it from a Dem president. Until he does. Either he is pro-business or he isn’t.

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  Arch_Druid on February 24 at 10:40 p.m.

  Oh, and CB, guess you didn’t take note of the fact that the states always expect money from the gvt. But it wasn’t called a stimulus or bail out until now. Money that was set aside for infrastructure repair and etc. until GW started lopping off large chunks of it, among other things to better pay for his war in Iraq.

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