Show Me The Money

Not satisfied to fleece everything they can from the people of Minnesota, the Minnesota Legislature has decided to reach into the pocketbooks of the rest of the American people.

Show me the money!

That could be the motto for the Democratic-Farmer-Labor majorities in the Minnesota Legislature this year.

House and Senate DFL leaders announced Monday that their top priority for the 2009 session is to get all the federal money they can from President-elect Barack Obama's planned economic stimulus program.

While other states are doing the responsible thing and cutting spending, the Minnesota Legislature has bellied up to the federal trough. The same people who were opposed to bailing out the irresponsible management at Northwest Airlines back in the day are now lining up to get bailed out themselves.

So I will ask the Minnesota Legislature the same thing that they asked the Northwest CEO Doug Steenland back in 2001 - why should the citizens of Utah reward you for your mismanagement of your state? Hmmmmm??????