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Should Butler go after Warren County’s stimulus money?
Update: Warren County Commissioner Mike Kilburn made MSNBC host Keith Olbermann’s “World’s Worst Person” list for his stance on giving back federal stimulus money (more on this below). Here’s the video:
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Warren County told the Ohio Department of Transportation to keep $373,000 allocated for transit improvement. In fact, commissioners also are looking for a way to turn down another $1.8 million in stimulus funding available to the county for energy efficiency improvements to government buildings.
“I was critical of Bush when he supported the bank bailout and the fact he didn’t veto a single budget,” said (Warren County Commissioner Mike) Kilburn, a staunch conservative. “The fact is, Obama is the man now. No one should be surprised. He’s never run anything, never done a payroll. I’m singling out actions and fiscal policy that will run this country off a cliff.”
Lucas County commissioner Ben Konop wrote a letter offering to take it:
Konop told the commissioners that high unemployment and foreclosure rates compel his county to welcome every available dollar to put people back to work. He said the stimulus money comes from tax dollars paid by citizens.
“I am confident they want to see that money returned to the community,” Konop wrote.
Kilburn didn’t go for the idea:
“Stop spending money you don’t have and start being accountable to the taxpayers,” Kilburn told Konop. “God only asked for 10 percent, why do the politicians in Washington, D.C. think they deserve more than 40 percent?”
The question: Should Butler County, which is slated to receive millions in stimulus dollars, offer to take the money off its eastern neighbor’s hands? Or do Warren County leaders have the right idea?
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By Carol Reinhart
April 23, 2009 12:59 PM | Link to this
Yes. Areas that reject the simulus dollars(our tax money)will be coming to us to vote for issues for the same things the dollars would have paid.
By Fiscal Conservative
April 24, 2009 9:00 AM | Link to this
Ms. Reinhart - If that’s true, then you may have a point. But, thinking like that is what will keep our federal deficit high as it may be our “tax money” but it’s also our tax bill.
By Carol Reinhart
April 24, 2009 9:36 AM | Link to this
I agree..it is our tax bill and it will be that twice - once for the stimulus and once to support the needed work locally.
By Pornokontac
December 1, 2010 10:28 AM | Link to this
Спасибо понравилось !