A brouhaha has developed concerning Bobby Jindal’s critique of the decision to include funds for volcano monitoring in the recent stimulus package. “Surely,” the critics cry, “we need to monitor volcanoes!” And presumably, government does volcano monitoring best.
Of course, this argument suffers from the fact that the private sector got there before the government did. Perhaps the real problem with the Jindal’s discussion of volcano monitoring was that he did not mention that government–the supposed, efficient, all-purpose guarantor of our safety–failed to get in on the act in time.
Moe Lane
Steve Maley
Dan McLaughlin
Neil Stevens
Daniel Horowitz
Jindal was illustrating an example of government waste
CJB68 Thursday, February 26th at 8:32AM EST (link)Of course, the MSM and its masters among the Leftist elites controlling the “Asylum” (as I’ll be calling the federal government and all institutions inside the Beltway from now on) will say or do anything to torpedo Jindal just as they’ve been trying to do with Palin from day one. The sooner we get these (censored)s out of there, the better off we’ll be…
Delusional and Arrogant. The Modern Democratic Philosophy.
How exactly does volcano monitoring fall under economic stimulus
bannedtroll Thursday, February 26th at 3:39PM EST (link)I wonder what leftist west coast/Hawaiian politicians are set to benefit from this pork. If volcano monitoring is such a critical issue, why not bring a volcano monitoring bill to the floor for debate instead of trying to sneak it in to an economic stimulus bill? Are there that many volcanologists out of work? I thought the idea behind this bill was to help your average joe and small business owner?
I’m a banned Democrat who came here to promote the idea that Republicans are racists for disliking Barack Obama.