Presumably the Port of Charleston makes money. If not, shut it down.
If so, maybe the money should be redirected to harbor facility maintenance and upgrade. That’s how you run a business. You save money off to maintain and upgrade and calculate that as part of the operations expenses.
You’re not supposed spend it buying votes.
Even the TEA Party has'em...porkers.
It's OK if it's my earmark.
These earmarks create jobs, they are good earmarks, it's your earmarks that are wasteful spending.
This is one reason it's so damn hard to change the culture in DC.
It make me want to shower when a TEA Party person is so screwed up.
for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings;
This is a clearly specified, enumerated power of Congress and as such is not an "earmark". This Freshman Congresscritter needs a whomp upside his head with a souvenier copy of the Constitution.
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Gee I don't know, maybe sell a Bond or GASP actually charge the people and companies who'll use this harbor what it actually costs to upgrade it?
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If a city wants a park or whatever , let them hold a bake sale!
Leave my tax monies alone!
I work all up and down the east coast and the new fad in tax payer dollars is harbor dredging. Supposedly renovations to the Panama Canal is going to bring much larger ships to American ports so harbors are begging for tax dollars to renovate American harbors. Where are the private sector owners of these facilities?
This is like the NFL team owners who suck on the taxpayer teet to build their new stadiums and then charge those tax payers so much for a ticket that a working guy can’t afford to take his kid to a ball game. Stop welfare of every kind.
Tim if it would make money the private sector would do it, so put up sign that says harbor for rent.