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THE WEIRS TIMES, Thursday, January 7, 2010
ma g i c a l le g i s l a t i n g sY n d r O m e
posed, voted upon, and as our legislator’s) right rights. What has become would be some $358 bil-
approved in the midnight to self protection while on of ‘live free or die’?” lion to the better, boosting
hours of the last session, State House property is ******** its long-term solvency.
without any public input. a new low….do they fear Writing about Nebraska But the government then
Now, in the final days be- their own citizens that Democrat Senator Ben takes that $358 billion
fore this tax is enacted, much? I must admit they Nelson, James Pethok- and uses it to pay for
our state is again trying to have done much to anger oukis - Money & Poli- increased, non-Medicare
limit input.” our citizenry. tics columnist for Reu- healthcare spending —
by niel Young
Here are the last two “I have been a ‘concealed ters Breakingviews: “The leaving $358 billion worth
Advocates Columnist hearings: January 7, 6pm carrier’ for 30 years. I Patient Protection and of IOUs in the Medicare
at Hyde Hall, Plymouth often work late at the Affordable Care Act prom- trust fund. If not for that
In NH Senate District 16 State University and Jan- State House and have to ises to cut the federal bud- $358 billion shift, the act
Rep. David Boutin and uary 9, 10am at Kennett walk several blocks to get deficit by $132 billion would worsen the deficit
former Rep. Terry Pfaff High School Auditorium, the remote and very dark over the next decade, ac- by $226 billion over the
will face off in a primary Conway. parking garage down by cording to the Congressio- next ten years.”
on Jan. 12. I find myself ******** the interstate. I have lost nal Budget Office. That’s This from radio col-
in a group that even sur- Rep. Fran Wendelboe, my right to protect myself not a huge amount given league Ken Gorrell: “Nel-
prises me where I support who has my support because a handful of leg- that healthcare spending son the type who suffers
Dave Boutin - but when it should she seek a seat islators got upset because drives the government’s from ‘magical legislating
is time to choose a can- in the NH Senate, tells some upset citizens hol- long-term fiscal woes, but syndrome.’ This is worse
didate I do what is most me on the decision to ban lered at them from the gal- it’s something. Indeed, than the ‘magical think-
beneficial for the conser- firearms from the State lery. With the way THEY at first glance the tab for ing’ that afflicts so many
vative cause. House, the Legislative over-react, THEY are the expanded health insur- individuals, leading them
******** Office Building, or the only ones who shouldn’t ance coverage appears to believe in the ability
More fallout on this move Upham Walker House: “I be allowed to have guns. more than met through of the mind to affect the
by the Democrats (John just don’t understand the “And now they want to a mix of Medicare spend- physical world (‘hope and
Lynch, House, and Sen- democrats. They claim to hire a bunch of security ing cuts and payroll tax change-types’), and who
ate) to add a 5% increase believe in ‘transparency’ people and metal detec- increases. mistake correlation for
taxing LLCs. The DRA in government and then tors and storage boxes. I “Yet this minor bit of causation. This is even
in their wisdom sched- hold meetings with no hope they remember that fiscal prudence is a mi- worse than the ‘cargo cult
uled - more like packed advance notice of agenda when they complain about rage. The act would re- science,’ described by
- a few public hearings in and pass controversial some social program that duce Medicare spending Richard Feynman, when
northern NH and simply restrictions on our citi- had to be cut so the fat on hospital stays by $245 scientists may ‘fool them-
ignored the Manchester/ zens’ rights? Just as they cat anti second amend- billion from 2010-2019, selves’ into believing that
Nashua area. Chris Wil- did with the middle of the ment legislators can have while increasing tax rev- insignificant results are
liams, president and CEO night new taxes and fees a very false sense of se- enue by $113 billion. So significant - often under
of the Greater Nashua C of in the budget. But setting curity. And the people’s on paper, Medicare’s hos- political / peer influence
C: “The LLC tax was pro- aside our citizen’s (as well house becomes the for- pital insurance trust fund
tress against the people’s
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