Monday, December 28, 2009

The Right Wing Secret Strategy: Ignore Reality

From one of the most caustic of the right wingers, Peter DiGaudio, griping about paying for the services he receives, comes this:

That’s exactly why Scott Walker refused porkulus money for Milwaukee County earlier this year. There is no such thing as a temporary government program. It exists in perpetuity.

Had Walker taken that money, the County Board and bureaucracy would have been used for start-ups like KRM or light rail that the taxpayer would have been stuck with paying for when the “free” money from Uncle Sam Barack ran out.

There is no such thing as free money from the federal government. It comes with strings attached as well as an obligation for local taxpayers to continue to pay for whatever it wrought once the “free” federal money runs out.

I needn't remind the gentle reader, but after Walker got done flip-flopping like a fish out of water on the whole stimulus issue, finally embraced it with both arms.

How does one argue with such a disturbed mind, that they are so effectively able to ignore reality?

3 comments:

  1. Fish growing arms also proves evolution.

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  2. Specifically Walker accepted stimulus funds for new buses, that just like light-rail or KRM will have long term operational and maintenance costs.

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  3. Peter DiGaudio clearly has a tenuous grasp on reality.

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