This Times story is one of those that prompts campaigns to call reporters "snarky", but it seems a valid observation to point out a company is getting some of the freebies as the GOP blasts the President's recent suggestion that business owners didn't get successful on their own.
Congressional candidate Matt Doheny is critical of corporate welfare, but in a tour of local businesses, visited a Depauville company that got some of free money.
His opponent, Rep. Bill Owens, takes the view that government is a partner in "creation" of jobs.
These days, you cannot get elected by preaching solely about the inexorable forces of the market place, and Mr. Doheny has nuanced his position by talking about carve outs for certain types of business and about government building infrastructure, including the expansion of broadband service to rural areas where economies of scale work against expansion of that kind of infrastructure.
It's the same argument that occured in the FDR era over rural electrification, which is to say the argument over the proper role of government vis a vis business has been debated for a while.
Take the FAA's Essential Air Service subsidies for rural areas. It's a hotly debated bit of government largesse, but if you are a Congressman from a district getting it, you have no choice but to have an epiphany on that type of largesse.
It's what makes purity of thought and deed in politics so difficult.
Watertown Daily Times | Doheny tours Depauville tech company, beneficiary of government intervention
12 comments:
To compete in a global economy, I suppose we have to have government subsidies.
Hmmm...The gov't $$$ comes from taxes that are collected from the rest of us. But, Matt, like Patty signed on with Grover Norquist (No new taxes).
So one has to ask : Were does the new $$$ come from? Will it trickle down somehow from millionaires like Matt? Or does he think we should borrow more from the Chinese, Saudis, and Russians like the Bush administration did; not only to subsidize their corporate friends, but to conduct two unfunded wars.
9:58 taxes don't' come form "the rest of us" they come from half of us. The half that vote for your party don't pay them.
This MSN attack story on Doheny is shameful. They would never look for all the contradiction in Owens policies. For instance he says he doesn't want to cut Medicare yet he voted for nancycare. The biggest cut to Medicare in history.
12:05 you attack the MSM for showing a Doheny contradiction saying it's shameful while repeating the lie that the AHCA cuts Medicare which it doesn't ,it's attempting to slow spending not cut it. Apparently whatever media you watch/read/listen to is just as shameful.Besides Medicare(and Social Security) are socialist programs you would think Conservatives would be happy for cuts.
It's funny in this area so dependent upon "Govt Money" AKA FREE SH-T, The funny thing any candidate on any party Has to bring the Bacon Home, Parades are nice, throwing footballs to the crowd, and having a "band" all are nice, but Matt will have to deliver the same FREE SH-T as everyone else thats been elected to any level of Govt. Be it PattyPlate, AJR(still waiting for her to get some) or any of the others. A Fundraiser for Doheny was held At the TK the owners certainly have gotten their share of FREE SH-T wonder how he feels about them???????
I looked under government programs and I cannot find any mention of Nancycare. 1205 is apparently a unintelligent A--hole who is supporting Doheny..
Ive noticed you all come up with these nicknames on things. You talk of inconsistancy is programs and the people voting for or against them but you never talk much about Dohenys inconsistancy .. He dosnt want health care as it now is.. He did come up with a plan full of hot air and retoric.. He would rather see a private company take care of the medicare care program and social security program.. Then a fat CEO could rake in millions and screw the people out of what is coming to them.. Dealing with the Socail Security administration can be frustrating enough but a private enterprise.. WoW...
Medical should only be allowed for the rich and middle class is Dohenys plan.. Again people can be refused medical attention for little or no reason. Existing sickness woulnt be covered.. In fact the private insurance agency would tell you who to go to and when to go.. Again medicare is hard to deal with but imagine a private insurance company..
Who could you get to fight them.. CAn most affort lawyers .. NO.. People like Doheny know that but it dosnt matter..
Personally I think he should attempt to get some class about his life.
Me personally I will vote for Bill Owens based mostly on the values and class this man has had his entire life not a man who cant control himself in public acts in a very embarrsing way most always when out...
Ms Ritchie was asked how she could back such a man and she said, he paid a lot of money into my campaign and I was encouraged to do so by the GOP leadership.....
Really great non answer from Dosweeney to a very legit question from reporter. That's not what we need in a representative. Maybe if the reporter had been a woman Dosweeney would have been more interested.
Wrong 4:37, I am not a unintelligent A-hole supporting Doheny I am one fighting Owens. Specifically because he is so stoopit and corrupt that he voted for Nancycare.
12:36 your voodoo economics fools no one. Nancycare cuts 500 billion from the cost that the CBO predicts medicare would cost. It does not account for where those savings will be. It takes the money and spend it on Nancycare. And it assumes an annual cost adjustment that has been included in every budget for the last decade will not be included anymore. Thereby making Medicare providers even more scarce than they already are.
Go back and re-read your hufingpost-dot-DKOS-dot-FActcheck-dot-Libtard media and see it for the lie it is.
6:44 - "stoopit" is as "stoopit" does. So you must be really stupid if you can't even spell the word! How do you have any credibility? Doheny can surely afford to hire someone literate to pack this blog with his BS.
Stoopit is a multifaceted literary device, malapropism if you will, with several purposes. The least of which is to evoke the archetype conservative pontificator and point out that even in that simple worldview, the idiocy of Owens’ healthcare vote is self-evident. But also it serves as a landmine of Socratic irony laying in wait for for the one in a million person dumb enough to come along and step on it while mistaking it for an actual blunder. But you are two dumb and humorless too no what you did.
And you don't even know the difference between two, too and to. Get a life.
One thing is for certain given the number of idiotic comments offered up by 6:44pm; I think we can safely conclude that he is both “stoopit” and “stupid” with a healthy dose of absurdity and ignorance thrown in for good measure.
Et tu 12:30?
Oh wait...the odds of there being more than one person so stoopit are one in infinity.
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