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The commissioners in Warren County are saying “no, thanks” to some of the federal stimulus money because it’s “bad, filthy money”:

Warren County commissioners say they don’t want more than $2 million in federal stimulus funds offered to the county to pay for transit and “green” projects. 

The county refused to take $373,000 set aside by the Ohio Department of Transportation to purchase three shuttle vans for the county transit program and a computer-based program to schedule rides requested by residents.

“This is bad, filthy money, folks,” Commissioner Mike Kilburn said March 17, when the commissioners voted unanimously not to accept transit dollars. “This is money we don’t have.”

These commissioners are exactly right. They want to see if the money can be used to help defray the huge national debt being run up to pay for this “stimulus.”

While some may attack them for not accepting this “free” money, these commissioners understand the problems with higher government spending. If more politicians were like them we’d have far less wasteful and irresponsible spending than we do today.