NA: Idaho Grabs Road Stimulus Share

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  Aliasjax on May 18 at 2:39 p.m.

  No, not really. That people protest the federal confiscation of their money and then seek to reclaim that money in the form of federal spending after it is taken is not hypocritical. In fact it makes sense. It’s our money, for pete’s sakes. Why would wanting some, or all, or more of it back in whatever form available be hypocritical???

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  Nick_Adams on May 18 at 2:56 p.m.

  Idaho is a welfare state. For years we’ve been getting more from the feds than we pay out. Grabbing federal dollars (mostly from big blue states like CA and NY) whilst passing blowhard resolutions telling the feds to “get off our lawn” is hypocrisy. But, it keeps getting GOPers elected so I don’t expect it to stop any time soon.

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  Cabbage Boy on May 18 at 2:57 p.m.

  As much as the original post is merely flame bait, I disagree AliasJ.

  Until states are willing to wean themselves off the federal dollar, the cycle will continue. Getting dollars “back” comes at a terribly high cost. More Federal control and the bureaucrats get more than their share before the trickle makes it back to us.

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  Sisyphus on May 18 at 3:01 p.m.

  So again the Republican answer is to just say ‘No!’, eh Cabbage? ;-)

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  Nick_Adams on May 18 at 3:04 p.m.

  @CB: While I may disagree with your views on spending policies, I admire your consistency to principle.

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  toadman on May 18 at 3:15 p.m.

  Nick, you have to respect consistency, and CB is definitely that.

  As for me, I say take the money, man… because, hey, its just a false construct to which we’ve assigned imaginary value…it’s essentially meaningless bits of paper (or more likely, numbers on a page…even less real). Therefore, since we’ve designed this imaginary value and construct around the concept of “money,” and it can be traded for tangible concrete valuable things like roads, schools, and the like, then it sounds like a good trade to me. Trading a concept for something real is always good, in my book.

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  Aliasjax on May 18 at 3:23 p.m.

  I don’t disagree with you Cabbage. The cycle will continue, but that wasn’t the question…hypocricy was. As far as Nick’s comment about welfare state goes, he’s right too, but that still doesn’t make it hypocricy. So what if Idaho gets back more than is taken? Shouldn’t Idahoans be compensated for not being able to decide how their own money is spent? Seems to me that that amount above what is taken is merely compensation for losing the ability to decide how your own money is spent.

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  Cabbage Boy on May 18 at 3:23 p.m.

  Thanks Nick and Toad. Nothing irks me more than supposed conservatives or small government proponents that still want to get our “share” of the federal dollar.

  It’s like a cocaine snorting doctor complaining about everyone {else’s} drug habits.

  Hypocritical and of all people, he should know better.

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  Cabbage Boy on May 18 at 3:25 p.m.

  Oh and it isn’t free either. I am sure the stuffed suits in D.C. from the “loser” states like CA and NY are willing to sacrifice some of their constituents $$s for political expediency.

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