Steve has a most important post up today where he brings up that Jeanne Shaheen, regardless of her campaign ads or sound bytes, is not really interested in the people of NH (but gets it very slightly wrong). Emphasis mine, a bit of reformatting:
I can’t say it often enough. We need to elect Senators and congress-people who are less interested in taking credit for getting some fraction of our money back and more interested in making sure it never leaves New Hampshire in the first place. We send them to DC to ensure that we, as a state, have the most opportunity to decide our own destiny, be it roads and bridges, health care, education, property rights, or the defense of our natural rights. But Democrats go to DC to do exactly the opposite. They consistently vote to bring more money through DC, to make more decisions in the US capitol, and to keep our tax dollar running through that offshore-bankrupt District of Columbia instead of in Concord or your home town.
This vote is just one more example of who Democrats like Jeanne Shaheen really represent; lobbyists, politicians, and bureaucrats. Preferably, as far away from us as possible.
Steve is EXACTLY right – the money that is made in NH (which IS earned private property), the wealth that created, should stay in NH and not taken from us. The Founders, with their sense of Federalism that put the States first, would approve of his outlook – me, too. The best control is when local people have it – and not when it is translated to far away. He is right in that Democrats get elected “to make more decisions in the US capitol” than at the State level if elected to the national level. They also do it at the State level – to paraphrase Steve, “to make more decisions in the State capitol, Concord” than at local level if elected to the State level. Correspondingly, it also works at the City or town level than by individual or families make their own decisions.
Where I slightly disagree with him is
