Jens 'n' Frens
Idle thoughts of a relatively libertarian Republican in Cambridge, MA, and whomever he invites. Mostly political.
"A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures." -- Daniel Webster
Thursday, January 16, 2003 :::
The new governor has taken office in Illinois with a significant budget deficit — not atypical of states today, really — and there was a discussion on TV the other night of how to handle it. One participant suggested an increase in public works projects, because the federal government provides matching funds for those. We can suppose he meant to suggest that we do those projects for which federal matching funds are available instead of those for which they aren't, but what he actually said was just so amazingly dumb I felt I had to share it.