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(Michele) Bachmann requested federal stimulus money for district projects
twincities.com ^ | Jason Hoppin

Posted on 10/19/2010 6:51:19 AM PDT by ejdrapes

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To: princeofdarkness
Doubt it but I don't care if Bachman request a quarter to bail out a lemonade stand she does not have the authority to redistribute our wealth from all to a few even if it was a quarter.
61 posted on 10/19/2010 8:20:18 AM PDT by Gipper08 (a real conservative for Congress... travishankins.com)
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To: lady lawyer
She is saying that we should not have passed the stimulus, and should never pass another.

And if they did pass another stimulus then Bachmann would be there again with her hand out. As she would with a third or a fourth. She wants to have her cake and eat it too.

62 posted on 10/19/2010 8:20:45 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur (Hey mo-joe! Here's another one for your collection.)
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To: Gipper08

The funds were requested, none were funded.

Read the whole article all the way to the bottom.

The State was denied the funds.

They will fund pig stench projects and bridges to nowhere, but not projects in Bachman’s State?


63 posted on 10/19/2010 8:21:42 AM PDT by EBH (We have lost our heritage of "making money.")
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To: Walts Ice Pick

if getting to Twins games is critical to national defense, then yes.

NORTHSTAR RAIL IS A MONEY SUCK

First, the Star Tribune reported this that Northstar has missed its ridership projections and is running about 3% below what was expected.
http://www.startribune.com/local/north/102670934.html
While missing the target by 3% may not seem to be an issue, the problem becomes apparent when weekday commuter riders are compared to weekend leisure riders heading down to Target Field to take in a Twins game.
It turns out that there are nearly as many people taking the train to see a game as there are taking the train into Minneapolis for work each day.
Take this past July, for example. That month, the average daily commuter ridership was 2,530. On a Saturday when the Twins were playing at home, average leisure ridership was 2,373.
So, there nearly as many people taking the train to catch a game as there are taking the train to work on a weekday.
Remember when the $317 million train was sold to the taxpayers as a transportation option for commuters? It turns out that an argument can be made that Northstar is little more than a taxpayer-subsidized tool catering to baseball fans looking for a ride to a taxpayer-subsidized baseball yard.
Perhaps the most shocking and disappointing statistic is that taxpayers subsidize a whopping 83% of the cost of every Northstar ride, while the rider only covers 17% (called the “fare box recovery”).
It breaks down like this:
Each one-way trip costs on average $22.37
Each rider pays an average one-way trip cost of $3.74
The taxpayers pony up the difference for each and every trip.
Through July 31st, taxpayers have subsidized Northstar’s operations to the tune of over $7.5 million!


64 posted on 10/19/2010 8:24:20 AM PDT by WOBBLY BOB ( "I don't want the majority if we don't stand for something"- Jim Demint)
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To: Non-Sequitur
Couldn't all the other congressmen who accepted stimulus funds make the same claims? And suppose she could show that it did generate the intended results, then doesn't she have to admit that the stimulus was a success? At least where she was concerned?

And this scares you how? If the projects produced results while democrat projects failed...her wisdom of how to appropriately manage the public funds would be apparent. But, since they were denied funding...for many public projects like bridges and roads...I guess we'll never know.

65 posted on 10/19/2010 8:26:01 AM PDT by EBH (We have lost our heritage of "making money.")
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To: princeofdarkness

I don’t think anything is as big a turd as the Big Pig.

Look, she’s my Congresscritter.I like her. I’ve met her and contributed.But she can error, too. Being right most of the time is better than most of our critters.

Northstar IS a money suck.


66 posted on 10/19/2010 8:28:55 AM PDT by WOBBLY BOB ( "I don't want the majority if we don't stand for something"- Jim Demint)
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To: WOBBLY BOB
During a national security crisis, it may be necessary to evacuate people to the stadium. Or, maybe it will become necessary to quickly move private militia patriots to resist Federal oppression.

She would never have supported the project if she didn't feel it was vital to our best interests as a people.

67 posted on 10/19/2010 8:33:07 AM PDT by Walts Ice Pick
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To: Walts Ice Pick

If Northstar can be construed as national security, supporters pimping rail would have claimed it here...not even Willie Green would attempt that stretch.

It would be cheaper to issue us all Humvees,gasmasks and Faraday cages in Anoka county .


68 posted on 10/19/2010 8:39:01 AM PDT by WOBBLY BOB ( "I don't want the majority if we don't stand for something"- Jim Demint)
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To: Non-Sequitur

If you think the projects she requested are not wise expendatures of money, vote against her.


69 posted on 10/19/2010 8:41:25 AM PDT by Anitius Severinus Boethius
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To: ejdrapes
There's nothing hypocritical at all about playing the game by the new rules; the hypocrite is the one who changes the rules to benefit himself, and then complains when others play by them, too. Dems do the latter all the time.

It's like someone taking Social Security although he opposes it in principle. If you don't take what your taxes have already paid for, you are placing yourself at a disadvantage, and may be a fool. This is just another liberal smokescreen.

70 posted on 10/19/2010 10:26:33 AM PDT by Hunton Peck ("Pork: The Other White Meat!" De facto motto of the late Robert Byrd)
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To: Anitius Severinus Boethius
If you think the projects she requested are not wise expendatures of money, vote against her.

I don't live in her district and I'm not a recipient of her pork so all I can do is point out her hypocrisy. As I would also do for my own Congressman if he condemned the stimulus and then put in for stimulus money. But Moore was solidly in favor of the whole thing.

71 posted on 10/19/2010 10:27:01 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur (Hey mo-joe! Here's another one for your collection.)
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To: Non-Sequitur

Do you take tax deductions?


72 posted on 10/19/2010 10:37:30 AM PDT by Anitius Severinus Boethius
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To: Non-Sequitur

I’ve explained it numerous times. She would not want another stimulus. She wants Minnesota money to stay in Minnesota, not to be confiscated by the federal government and then — maybe — handed back to Minnesotans at the pleasure of he feds. But, once the confiscation takes place and there’s nothing she can do about it, what possible point is there in standing on “principle,” and not trying to get it back to its rightful owners? To do otherwise is to say, “Well, alright. Take Minnesota’s money and redistribute it somewhere else.” That is not principled, it is stupid.


73 posted on 10/19/2010 10:40:47 AM PDT by lady lawyer
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To: Anitius Severinus Boethius

Good question!


74 posted on 10/19/2010 10:44:08 AM PDT by ejdrapes (I like leaders that don't need teleprompters or notes written on their hand....)
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To: Anitius Severinus Boethius
Do you take tax deductions?

I do. But I don't take them and then complain that they should be done away with.

75 posted on 10/19/2010 10:49:14 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur (Hey mo-joe! Here's another one for your collection.)
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To: Non-Sequitur

I bet you are in favor of the flat tax or the FAIR tax, though, aren’t you?


76 posted on 10/19/2010 10:54:28 AM PDT by Anitius Severinus Boethius
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To: Anitius Severinus Boethius
I bet you are in favor of the flat tax or the FAIR tax, though, aren’t you?

I'm in favor of a fairer, more effective tax. I find the idea of the flat tax interesting, but most of the flat tax proposals and the FAIR tax seem unworkable to me. So I'd have to see a concrete proposal before I'd sign on to either one.

77 posted on 10/19/2010 11:02:56 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur (Hey mo-joe! Here's another one for your collection.)
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To: lady lawyer
She would not want another stimulus.

But if one were passed she'd also be there with her hand out.

That is not principled, it is stupid.

No, it's hypocritical. If I say I am against abortion but pay for my daughter to get one then I'm a hypocrite. Obama claims he's for a balanced budgt, but blows it all out of proportion; he's a hypocrite. Bachmann claims the stimulus is evil and claims her opponent would have voted for it all the while taking stimulus money; she's a hypocrite as well.

78 posted on 10/19/2010 11:07:08 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur (Hey mo-joe! Here's another one for your collection.)
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To: ejdrapes

I don’t believe this for a moment. She is not an idiot. She did not take one dime of this money. She is a principled person not like idiots who voted against this and then accept the welfare.....SHE WOULD NEVER DO THIS. This is a slam against her because she is conservative.


79 posted on 10/19/2010 11:26:16 AM PDT by napscoordinator
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To: Non-Sequitur

One of the prime components of all of those taxes is the removal of tax deductions.

But as long as tax deductions are legal, you will take them, right?

Even as you hope for a system that doesn’t have them?

Not hypocrisy (an often misused word), but living in reality.

Bachmann holding her breath and stomping her feet after the vote wasn’t going to save one penny of taxpayer money. She took the deductions even as she works to get rid of them.


80 posted on 10/19/2010 12:44:15 PM PDT by Anitius Severinus Boethius
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