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Week of June 21, 2009 - June 27, 2009

A Modest(y) Proposal


Ah, New Hampshire politicos. We've come a long way from asking for nuclear weapons to deter street protest or plying islands with liquor to leave their families, but there's still a little curmudgeonly behavior being exhibited.
Witness Judd Gregg, senior senator from the Granite State, who fought through the disadvantages of having a father who was governor to success (unlike his former fellow senator John Sununu, whose father was a senator- we like our elected representatives self-made).

He is so tight with a buck- which we like- that those signs announcing your stimulus dollars at work gall him enough to propose legislation to stop this outrageous waste of money.

A terrible waste! Unlike other signs designating the "Judd Gregg Meteorology Institute," funded by $500,000 in federal money to Plymouth State University.  Or  "The Judd Gregg Library" sign, dedicated after Gregg secured $150,000 for the Nashua Policy Athletic League. Or the "Gregg Hall" sign at the University of New Hampshire, dedicated after Gregg secured $266 million in federal funds for the university.
Not that he is alone- Murtha Airport, Kennedy Library (the Ted one, in Mass.)... etc.

So I would like to support his legislation- with one amendment-

"No federally funded program may carry the name of any living member or former member of Congress, or any member of their families, living or dead."

Think of the savings!
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