Big Government

The saying is that "he went to Washington to do good and stayed to do well" and the first name that popped into my mind was Charlie Bass.  C-Bass epitomizes this ruling class cultural maxim.  He promised you term limits then changed his mind.  He became a Main Streeter, moderate fence sitters who abandoned principle for the lure of getting along in a place and a culture with a leftward tilt.  And after he was ousted from office he didn't come back to New Hampshire to help the GOP or to find a way to

It’s simple economics.  Government money comes from taxpayers.  The more government spends the more it relies on taxpayers to pay for its spending.  The less money taxpayers have the smaller the economy will be the fewer jobs there are, which means less income, less taxes, more debt. 

Is Paul Hodes an addict feigning recovery when it comes to big money from big places?  No.  He's just pretending because it's an election year.  But he's happy to pay lip service to the faerie tale that Republicans are the party of big bankers, big business, and big money. 

First up, this lovely graphic from the print edition of The Weekly Standard.  It shows the top twenty wealthiest zip codes in America, and to the right what percentage of political donations these 'rich folk' fork over to each party.   Don't be too surprised.  They overwhelmingly support democrat candidates over Republican ones.  Big money is in league with the democrats. 

A bit of a downer post over at Granite Grok about the proper role of the government in people’s lives.
Do you ever think that the social organizations ever, other then faint lip service, ever really think that getting more money from the taxpayers puts those right on the edge right at risk as well - [...]