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What's On Your Stupid B.S. List?
Before last Wednesday, commuter survival somehow never made it as a political priority, unlike many a bridge to nowhere.
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* Tobacco settlement slush funds.
* The Randy Parton (brother of Dolly) Musical Theatre.
* Bribes.
That's just a little list on my radar screen. I'm sure readers have their own ideas. The point for our liberal friends is to please, spare us the claims of insufficient resources to maintain our nation's infrastructure. The problem has been known for a long time, and ignored in favor of wasteful spending.
Is this too simplistic a perspective? Sen. John McCain doesn't think so, and I doubt his fellow critics of pork would disagree.
The only question left is: Who cares more about "stupid b.s.," politicians or the people who elect them?
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Paul Chesser is executive director for the American Tradition Institute and a senior fellow for the Commonwealth Foundation for Public Policy Alternatives. The views he expresses do not necessarily reflect the views of these organizations.
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