So why are budgets required to be balanced when discussing teachers, firefighters or police (New Jersey is out of money and laying off hundreds of police in Trenton and Newark - areas that desperately need them)..
But when $700,000,000,000.00 was needed to save bankers this was ponied up toot suite. SEVEN HUNDRED BILLION - but we can't afford to teach our kids, patrol our streets, pave our roads, reset our air traffic control.
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Now I GET it. I get that one is at the state level, and one is at the Federal level - but still, as a country WTF? Does not make sense to me.