Lynch wants more money–anyone surprised?

In a article from the Nashua Telegraph Gov. Lynch is requesting additional Home heating assistance from the Federal Government for the upcoming winter.  He’s begging for 50 million from the Feds instead of our usual 25 million dollar allotment of tax payer funded assistance.   I’m sure this will tie in nicely in the years to come as his executive decision to anchor New Hampshire to the Regional Green House Gas initiative, a local Cap and Trade scam, drives all of our energy prices ever higher.  Are we going to ask for federal assistance for that too?

Over at Jeanne Shaheen’s web site she’s running on a policy of energy independence.  We could burn wood-chip ethanol, or install giant windmills across the North-Country-I’m sure that would attract more tourists, while covering about 4% of our actual energy needs.  Or maybe John Lynch and New Hampshire could actually set an example for everyone else by weaning itself off the Federal dole.   Of course we would have to mange our budget so that instead of the State government burning money, we could afford our own in-state heating assistance so that the poor folks could burn whatever it is you Democrats are telling us will be replacing oil just about any day now.  Then we wouldn’t have to go beggin to the Federal government for help.

Live Free or Die, you know?

Souter gets a room all his own. Too bad it isn’t padded.

Supreme Court Justice David Souter attended a ceremony at the New Hampshire Supreme Court today, where a conference room was dedicated to him.  It was not padded, nor do I beleive did it have metal bars.  Pity.

 

“I don’t think David ever has forgotten that no matter how esoteric and macro the issue, sooner or later it intercedes and interacts with real persons living their real lives,” said Tom Rath, a former state attorney general and friend

Tom Rath must of drank too much Kool-Aid.   Tell that happy story to the people who lost KELO v. New London.  Those living persons saw their real lives get the shaft thanks to Justice Souter, who joined the 5-4 majority in approving one of the most blatant disregards for personal property rights to come down from the high court in my lifetime.

That doesn’t mean he isn’t a great guy.   I just hope you didn’t have a ceremonial prayer before the dedication.  That would look bad.

Walls of Seperation

It is quite evident that the Left prefers centralized authority.  You are, after all, what you vote for.  And when we examine their policies every one of them moves most or all of the decision making process to Washington.  This kind of top-down governance erodes local control.  It abrogates the opportunity for the more personal relationship one might otherwise have—or feel inclined to exercise—with those in charge.  It makes the process of seeking a redress of grievances not just difficult but almost impossible.  It builds a political “wall of separation” between the rulers and the ruled protecting the whimsy of the rulers from  the unwashed masses.   This is, ironically enough, the very thing our constitution was enacted to prevent.  But the left will do anything to convince us it is not.

The left favors the wall of separation.  They use it to separate us into races, classes, religions, and genders.   They then define these differences through policy, and insist on legislation that calcifies our differences into the law of the land so that there can be no denying that these differences exist.  They erect another wall based on income, separating good labor from bad, defining what profits are best left to those whose labors bore them out, and whose must be sacrificed to their legislative priorities.   They redistribute the product of that labor  to shore up their social engineering, to buttress the walls they have erected to separate us, always in favor of the classes who just happen to vote for them more often than against them.  They spend it on policies that centralize power and separate people, and are comfortable supporting polices that collect more.  And as long as we are separated by them, they can continue to use our money to centralize power.  It is what they want.  It is what they do.