bunning

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legislate that no state may receive more federal funds than it pays to the federal government.
Surely someone can offer up Kentucky as the model for this approach to balancing the budget.
Of course I doubt that Bunning wants to fix the budget problems enough to actually stop his state from being a hog at the federal expense.

2005 Kentucky received $1.51 in federal funds for each dollar it contributed to the federal government. It received $12 billion more than it contributed. Sounds like cutting off excess payments to Kentucky should make a substantial dent in Bunnings 'we can't do it because we're not funding it'.

Funding solved. Sorry Kentucky but you elected him.

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1. Red State Welfare

KY gets more than it pays in and CA is going broke and it only gets back about 75 cents for each dollar it pays.

The Blue States by enlarge fund all kinds of Red State welfare. Bunghole is probably too stupid to even know that.

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2. I'm sure Bunning knows

but hypocrisy wouldn't slow him down at all.

Honestly, I believe that no state should receive more than it pays. And excess funds should be used to retire the debt and kept for a rainy day. Of course, I believe that the situation right now is a rational use for a rainy day fund.

I'd also like to make sure that when unemployment is egregious like it is right now, that our representatives also have their incomes cut. The idiots in Washington have deliberately built themselves a bubble where they are insulated from the impacts of their actions.