My State Representative, Danny Bubp, On the "Stimulus" and Budgets

Here are excerpts from the column my State Rep., Iraq War Vet and Great American Danny Bubp wrote two weeks ago.

How Much Is Too Much?
If you are like me you don’t go out and buy something you can’t afford. All of us would like to have nicer cars, bigger houses and more toys. But we don’t buy things we can’t pay for. That is what gives me great concern about this huge “stimulus bill” that our federal government has recently passed and will soon be spending.
The idea of a stimulus package has merit. However, it is my belief that the bill passed by the US Congress last week has put our great nation in financial peril. I remember last year the handwringing over the $5 billion per month deficit spending by the Bush administration due to the war in Iraq. Now with one swoop of President Obama’s pen, the democrats have passed a $787 billion economic stimulus measure which our children and grandchildren will be paying for. A deficit an excess of $1 trillion is too much!

Here in Ohio at the beginning of each General Assembly, the Legislature and the Governor work together to construct the state’s two year operating budget. The state budget designate s how your taxes dollars are to be spent on services and the operation of state government. We are very fortunate to have a constitutional requirement that the state budget must be balanced! In other words, we cannot spend more money than what we bring in.

Over the next few months this column will be devoted to providing information on the
Governor’s proposed budget and how it will impact Ohioans. I look forward to being your fiscally conservative voice here in Columbus during these proceedings.