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!
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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