re: #78 Cato the Elder

Among other things, non-essential services like police and firefighting.

Not to worry… Obama is asking for 50 billion more in stimulus funds to pay for more services like firefighters, police and teacher. Of course, he gave a ton of money away last year for those same services, to cities and states all over the country, and yet, if you do some googling you will find that the cities and states went right on cutting those departments. What happened to the money?

Want to bet it wound up in the “pockets” of the administration layers of these departments, moved around to politicians favorite projects and a slew of other buckets where the money was deposited… and never getting to the places it was intended for?

Wanna bet? Can you say kleptocrats? I can.