Senator Kay Hagan Lectures Nation on Fiscal Responsibility

When Senator Kay Hagan speaks on fiscal responsibility, the nation listens.  The great conservative from North Carolina pontificated on our nation’s financial obligations and how disastrous it would be for congress not to raise the country’s debt ceiling:

Hagan, a Greensboro Democrat, is an honorary co-leader of Third Way, a Democratic-leaning, business-friendly think tank in Washington. She was a guest at a Third Way breakfast Tuesday moderated by Bill Schneider, a senior political analyst at CNN who also is a scholar at the think tank

She indicated support for raising the debt ceiling, saying it would be "disastrous" for the United States to default on loans.

She also said the business community must get the message to Republicans as well.

"The business leaders in this nation have got to come out stronger about how disastrous it would be."

Notice the concern that Senator Hagan has for the well being of our country.  Surely, she would’ve done everything in her power to alleviate the millstone that has been hung around this great nation’s neck.  But in reviewing her record, she has done just the opposite.  She voted for expanding the government bureaucracy every chance she had, including Obamacare.  Now, let’s look at how much money she raided from the taxpayers in the year 2009, as per her own government funded website:

· 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)

Does this look like a fiscally responsible person to you?  And yet she has the audacity to lecture us on the ramifications of not raising the debt ceiling.  Unbelievable! 

Source:
 http://www.newsobserver.com/2011/05/18/1205554/hagan-says-us-must-raise-debt.html#ixzz1NPt5vvRa