SENATOR KAY HAGAN FISCALLY CONSERVATIVE?

Senator Kay Hagan described herself as a fiscally conservative democrat in an article by the Greensboro News and Record, dated 12/27/09, which is posted on her website. After going through her press releases, also posted on her website, it becomes quite apparent that she is anything but fiscally responsible. Its astonishing the amount of money she has appropriated for businesses, municipalities, and various special interest groups in the false premise of stimulating North Carolina’s economy; particularly for specious projects such as “green energy”.

Senator Hagan is obviously a Keynesian. What she doesn’t understand is that in order to fund all of these projects, she is taking money out of the pockets of her constituents, sending it through the federal bureaucracies that take a huge cut, and recycling it back through the local communities. What is really offensive is that SHE gets to pick and choose which supplicants is worthy of our money, instead of citizens through the processes of the free market.

It is quite evident that Senator Hagan is a fervent believer in the global warming/climate change hoax, and is forcing her flawed ideology on the rest of us at great expense. It seems that she is also an advocate for the flawed policies of FDR and the New Deal, which becomes apparent through all of the government projects that she has advocated through grants to local municipalities and select businesses.

Here is a list of projects that she lauds on her website with the corresponding dates of publication:

· 02/26/09 $5.2 million – 2009 omnibus appropriations bill (includes 13 programs requested by Dole)
· 02/24/09 $3,010,000 – DOT grant money for the Piedmont Triad Airport
· 03/05/09 $103 million – Transit funding-some monies going to purchase hybrid buses or bus repairs.
· 06/19/09 $52 million – grants to reduce energy cost (weatherizing homes & light bulbs)
· 05/18/09 $11.2 million – expand community health services throughout the state
· 07/10/09 $1 million – infrastructure for a future hospital Harnett County
· 06/10/09 $2 million – for a minority credit union
· 06/29/09 $20 million – health care infrastructure
· 06/26/09 $796,322 – Pitt County Airport
· 06/26/09 $30 million – energy efficiency and renewable energy projects
· 06/24/09 $906,840 – Cleveland County Community College
· 08/05/09 $49.2 million – Celgard (a private company) to develop and produce batteries
· 08/04/09 $1 million – human nutrition center
· 08/04/09 $4,750,000 – Lumbee Tribe for housing projects, grants and loans for community facilities project.
· 08/03/09 Extends clash for clunkers program.
· 07/31/09 $5.4 million – grants to Greensboro Transit Authority for maintenance and operations
· 07/30/09 $6.4 million – water projects
· 07/29/09 $30 million – local law enforcement 100% funding for 3 years.
· 07/29/09 $79.1 million – memorial and crime victim grants
· 07/29/09 $3.9 million – Winston Salem for hybrid buses and other equipment
· 07/07/09 $1.3 million – Raleigh-Durham Airport
· 07/21/09 $15 million – research facility at UNC Wilmington
· 08/31/09 $100 million – green energy and affordable housing projects
· 08/27/09 $991,722 – Tar River Transit System Rocky Mount
· 08/10/09 $17.5 million – renewable energy research facility UNC Chapel Hill
· 08/10/09 $2.3 million – grant for NC A&T to monitor weather and climate change
· 08/05/09 $28.4 million – Chemetall Foote Corp (a private company) grant to construct lithium material for batteries
· 09/25/09 $400,000 – victims of domestic violence
· 09/24/09 $600,000 – waste water infrastructure in Ahoskie and Greenville
· 09/23/09 $3 million – hybrid buses for Charlotte
· 09/23/09 $3.5 million – triangle youth mentoring program
· 09/18/09 $21 million – lower energy use, reduce greenhouse emissions, and create green jobs
· 09/18/09 $100,000 – clean energy in western NC
· 09/17/09 $24 million – Charlotte rail system
· 09/15/09 $693,334 – Iredell County drug enforcement
· 09/15/09 $248,325 – domestic violence in western NC
· 09/10/09 $5 million – green energy to Davidson County, City of Durham, Town of Huntersville, and Wake County
· 09/04/09 $125,000 – combat substance abuse Cherokee County
· 10/15/09 $475,000 – COPS grants for Cumberland and Person Counties
· 10/14/09 $500,000 – reopen Cape Lookout lighthouse
· 10/06/09 $1.9 million – expand electronic records in Greene County
· 10/05/09 $2 million – NC rural broadband expansion
· 09/29/09 $8 million – construction of fire stations
· 09/28/09 $1.2 million – energy efficiency projects in Cary, NC
· 09/09/09 $2 million – NC law enforcement of which 1 million goes to a firing range
· 10/27/09 $400 million – to Duke Energy & Progress Energy (private companies) for a smart grid
· 10/21/09 $1 million – Taylorsville for waste water infrastructure improvements
· 11/23/09 $139,249 – Piedmont Bio-fuels Industrial (private company)
· 11/18/09 $946,034 – Employment Security Commission for propaganda purposes
· 11/18/09 $100,000 – Telamon non-for-profit organization for migrant workers (illegal aliens)

Senator Kay Hagan has been in office for a year and look at the amount of money that has been spent! Who does she think is going to pay for all of this? Every dollar she has earmarked for her pet projects is one less dollar taken from the private sector. Government does not create wealth; government redistributes it.

If our “fiscally conservative” senator is this irresponsible, I would hate to find out what the others have spent.

Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state lives at the expense of everyone else.—Frederic Bastiat.