Not Even A Clue How To Pay For It
I just sent the following letter to the editor of the Arlington Sun Gazette:
Dear Editor:
Re: In his letter to the editor (“Moran is Helping to Spend Us into Oblivion,” October 18, 2010), James Campbell faulted U.S. Rep. Jim Moran for saying that Republican candidate Patrick Murray’s “24 years in the U.S. Army were not in the public service” and for “all the earmarks and other spending” Moran has showered on the region.
Mr. Campbell likened it to stealing his granddaughter’s credit card to pay for gifts to Campbell’s wife. Well, it’s worse. Moran doesn’t have a clue how the granddaughter will pay for the credit card bills. I know because Moran told me so.
A month before Congress passed the $787 billion so-called stimulus bill in 2009, formally known as the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Jim Moran brought several of his staffers to Courthouse Plaza to brief the Arlington County Board and other local government poohbahs. I guess Moran wanted to make sure sure their projects were indeed “shovel-ready” when President Obama signed the bill into law.
After the meeting, I made a quick trip to the men’s room. Jim Moran was there. Since we were alone for a minute, I asked Mr. Moran how American taxpayers would be able to pay for the $787 billion Porkulous bill. He rolled his eyes and said, “You know, I ask myself the same question.”
Not only are Americans represented in Congress by people with no intent of abiding by their oaths to the Constitution or know the meaning of patriotism, American taxpayers are represented by economic illiterates.
Regards.
Timothy Wise