Hat in hand, governor Lynch is looking for the feds to bail him out of the accumulated disaster of his administration. On the matter of extending federal unemployment benefits (from this morning’s Union Leader) the governor was emphatic.
Failure to do so (to extend federal benefits) will jeopardize the economic progress we’ve been making, Lynch said, warning that roughly 20,000 people in the state could run out of benefits in the next four months. Next week alone, 938 people will lose their benefits, he said.
Progress?
You have so mismanaged your stewardship of the state budget, been so beholden to years of irresponsible legislative spending and grossly inaccurate revenue projections, that we are incapable of finding even a few million dollars anywhere in our own state of New Hampshire to resolve any problem without further flights of legislative fancy or begging an even more bankrupt federal government for another handout.
You put us here John Lynch. You created this monster.
Rep Hodes echoed Lynch’s incompetence with his own. (from the same article)
In the current crisis, when we have a need for emergency spending to help unemployed people who have been clobbered and are struggling through no fault of their own, you’ve got to do that and spend that money because it’s an emergency,"; he said.
You’ve got the "no fault of their own part right." It is your fault. You and your party tripled the deficit in one year, then spent trillions more on your precious agenda, on fabricated emergencies instead of anticipating the needs of the people (and actual emergencies) during what your own party called the worst recession in history. But instead of stimulating growth, you propped up your union buddies and tried to buy up or buy off the private sector.
Rather than relieving uncertainty and tax pressure on the real engine of job creation you knee-capped it with massive new federal entitlements, the promise of reams of new regulations and bureaucratic hurdles, and billions in new job and growth killing taxes.
Am I beating around the bush too much here. The democrats sold their twisted little souls to the left wing agenda salting the fields of prosperity in your wake. How’s that?
Now you answer to this conundrum–both in New Hampshire, and the nation–is to continue to make the same mistakes, while whining about anyone who tries to stop the infection before it kills the host.
You are followers when what we need is leaders. You are legislatively lazy, ideologically selfish, irresponsible, unmitigated electoral disasters, more prepared to lay blame and take the easy way out rather than recognize your failures, stand up to your own party, and correct them. You have fiddled while Rome burned, played away your summer, and saved nothing for the long cold winter.
You can only kick the can down the road so far before you run out of road.
You have run out of road.
