state spending worse than drunken sailors
NJ faces $2B budget shortfall, but Christie holds out hope
With six months left in the fiscal year, New Jersey needs a nearly 12 percent growth spurt in tax collections to stave off possible cuts in education aid, property tax relief or the public employee pension fund.
(John Reitmeyer; The Record)
I always hesitate to compare government spending to drunken sailors.
Drunken sailors are limited to spending the amount of money in their pocket PLUS whatever they can borrow from their fellow soldiers.
Government borrows and spends substantially more than that. MUCH MORE.
They borrow from the future.
Seems to me drunken sailors are models of fiscal responsibility.
Please stop picking on them.
What next….calling politicians whores? Don’t get me started on that one.