Tim Walz is one of Minnesota’s Congresscritters. Walz, a Democrat represents Minnesota’s first congressional district which is the South end of the state abutting Iowa. Included in the district are the cities of Rochester, Mankato, Austin (Home of Spam!) and the home of my collegiate Alma Mater, St. Peter.
St. Peter, like many other cities across the country, is having a tough time making ends meet this year. The biggest culprit is the dramatic increase in energy costs that have made things like operating fire trucks, much more expensive than a year ago.
Enter Tim Walz.
Congressman Walz knows just how to fix the problem with the increased fuel costs: give the cities more money from the Federal budget! Walz doesn’t want the cities to have to make difficult choices:
“What we don’t want is, we don’t want our fire fighters making that choice training or fuel. We don’t want to see them out fundraising again just to put fuel in their vehicles.”
Um, Tim? May I call you Timmy?
You’re solution to keep cities from making budget decisions is to just give them more money? Gosh, why didn’t I think of that? Oh Yeah, it’s because that’s a horrible answer!
Timmy, how do you think my family is dealing with the increase in energy costs? Hint: I don’t get paid more just because I have to spend more. Com’ on, I know you can figure this out, you’re a Congressman after all. That’s right, we have to change our budget! We don’t get to spend as much on other things as we used to because we need to spend more on our fuel costs.
I know, you’re going to say that you support increased drilling (I heard you got permission to say that from Nana Pelosi.) You’ll probably even tell me that you have signed on to a “Bipartisan” bill that would do just that. Thanks for playing Timmy, I took that bill apart a couple of days ago here. The only thing that bill would expand would be the noses on the faces of Democrats who try to sell it as a bill that would increase drilling.
Timmy, rather than just printing more money to put a band aid on a problem, how about doing something that would actually bring down fuel costs for everyone? Can you guess what I might be referring to? Yup, sign on to that discharge petition and get a straight up and down vote on expanded drilling!
