Attitudes

<blockquote>"As long as university and K-12 are trying to get money, we might as well try and get some for ourselves," Keane told the House Appropriations Committee.</blockquote><br />n<br />nWe poor simple tax payers are just a money machine for those with their hand out. This time it's the legislators themselves who <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/01/13/build/state/68-fund-bill.inc" target="_new">want more money</a>. The attitude involved with it really gets me. Everybody else is doing it why can't we? It makes me think of the old example, if everybody else jumped off a bridge would you? <br />n<br />nJust because everybody else has their hand out doesn't make it right to have your hand out too, Sen. Jim Keane. We taxpayers aren't a fountain of money you can tap into whenever you get an itch. Stand on your own two feet and be proud. Montana has a citizen legislature and if you are so interested in doing a better job maybe you should pay for it out of your own pocket. Hell it's probably even tax-deductible if you do it that way. <br />n<br />n<b>All who wish to hand down to their children that happy republican system bequeathed to them by their revolutionary fathers, must now take their stand against this consolidating, corrupting money power, and put it down, or their children will become hewers of wood and drawers of water to this aristocratic ragocracy. Andrew Jackson</b>