Federal Government Ambassador to New Hampshire Jeanne Shaheen (or is the more proper term, the older version of Satrap?) used her perch in the US Senate to override local voters and reverse the fiscal decisions of their duly elected representatives.
Sidenote: note how often (snark) she discusses the almost $35 Trillion national debt that she has helped to run up with her Morally Superior sense of “largess by other peoples’ money”?
She seems to believe that by showering people with Federal dollars, she makes herself the female version of Santa Claus, coming down from the Senate version of Mt Olympus to “save” the mortals so far beneath her (yes, I’m mixing metaphors here, but stay with me). As the NH Journal pointed out back in March, she spent $2.5 million in tax money that we would have spent of our own volition (reformatted, emphasis mine):
Shaheen’s Tax Splash: Sinks $2.5M in Kayak Park Rejected by Voters
When Congress passed the $1.2 trillion spending package in the dark of night on Friday, Fox News noted some of the pork barrel projects inevitably included in these omnibus (or in this case “minibus”) budget bills.
One spending shoutout went to $2.5 million for a “new kayaking facility in New Hampshire.”
In this case, it’s a proposed whitewater park in downtown Franklin, N.H. — a project local taxpayers overwhelmingly rejected when asked to fund it themselves last year. So, why are America’s taxpayers paying for it now?
Just ask Sen. Jeanne Shaheen…That’s what Shaheen did, according to Franklin City Manager Judith Milner. Shaheen asked her political friends in Franklin if they wanted some “free” money from the federal government.
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Shaheen declined to respond to questions about the funding from NHJournal.
As if it was really a gift or even the Federal Government’s. A mere cuppa coffee. As I used to say when I was on my hamlet’s Budget Committee, every time someone came in looking for more spending, it was always justified as “it’s only th price of a cup of coffee a day” for everyone. They were never happy when I said:
“I’m already pulling two tankers worth of coffee behind me – why don’t you get together with your friends, fund it, and then gift it (and the required maintenance for it) yourselves if it’s such a hot idea?”
They always thought I was being rude until I pointed out that they were being more rude in demanding citizens give them money to make themselves feel better about themselves. Was that rudest?
No, it wasn’t. Jeanne Shaheen didn’t have a vote on spending this money. She didn’t bother to accept that Franklin voters didn’t think the idea was worth it—she just blithely overrode their votes, just like any normal Authoritarian (but with a grandmother’s smile).
About questions from NH Journal – what were they thinking as she NEVER does? When the Executive Council funded community health centers but not baby abbatoirs, she immediately directed the Federal DHHS to fund them. So much for local control, eh, Jeanne? So much for respecting local elected officials, eh witch (rhymes with…well, y’all know I don’t use that kind of language)?
The interest the US is now paying on its National Debt is over $1 trillion a year. With higher interest rates by the Federal Reserve, that will rise. And remember, that is more money spent (much of which does not fall into Constitutional Powers) on our national defense.
She has nothing but scorn for us all.
