The Pork Scorecard
The Club for Growth has released a tally of how each representative voted on the 19 Flake Amendments. Virginia was a collective 9 for 209. We should be so proud. Only three could muster the courage to vote against any of these important projects. Eric Cantor, Jo Ann Davis, and Tom Davis each voted to not fund three of the projects.
BVBL has a post up too. As he points out, these projects may have some merit, but is it the responsibility of the federal government to fund them? No, it is not the necessary and proper role of government to fund museums, aquariums, dairy education, swimming pools, multipurpose facilities (whatever that means), or other pet projects.
The Virginia Science Museum was one of the targets of the Flake amendments. It received $250,000. The fact that it is near where I live means nothing to me. The federal government should absolutely not be funding science museums across the country. If Richmond wants a science museum it should be self supporting. If they can't convince people in the area to support them the taxpayers across the country should not foot the bill.
I'm especially disappointed in my representative, Congressman Cantor, and Virginia Republicans. I suppose Rep. Cantor is in a difficult spot since he is in a leadership position, but how can fiscal conservatives hold out any hope for real government reform and spending restraint when hydroponic tomato production is somehow considered a priority for the federal government? This fiscal conservative finds it disheartening. And before someone says Democrats are the answer, wake up, they aren't.
Donny Baseball crunched the numbers and he ranks Virginia as the number 2 "RINO Breeding Ground". Virginia Republicans in Congress should be ashamed.
BVBL has a post up too. As he points out, these projects may have some merit, but is it the responsibility of the federal government to fund them? No, it is not the necessary and proper role of government to fund museums, aquariums, dairy education, swimming pools, multipurpose facilities (whatever that means), or other pet projects.
The Virginia Science Museum was one of the targets of the Flake amendments. It received $250,000. The fact that it is near where I live means nothing to me. The federal government should absolutely not be funding science museums across the country. If Richmond wants a science museum it should be self supporting. If they can't convince people in the area to support them the taxpayers across the country should not foot the bill.
I'm especially disappointed in my representative, Congressman Cantor, and Virginia Republicans. I suppose Rep. Cantor is in a difficult spot since he is in a leadership position, but how can fiscal conservatives hold out any hope for real government reform and spending restraint when hydroponic tomato production is somehow considered a priority for the federal government? This fiscal conservative finds it disheartening. And before someone says Democrats are the answer, wake up, they aren't.
Donny Baseball crunched the numbers and he ranks Virginia as the number 2 "RINO Breeding Ground". Virginia Republicans in Congress should be ashamed.
posted by Nick Howard at 9:49 AM
2 Comments:
You should feel blessed.
This organization, http://www.shenandoahmuseum.org/, gets $500,000 or stated another way, more than $10,000/week from the Commonwealth.
The irony is that it's basically the estate of a guy worth millions of dollars....shameful when you consider the Commonwealth couldn't find enough money to keep open a local public health facility.
Thanks for the info anon. Looks like a nice place, but to hand them $500,000 a year is ridiculous.
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