Recently Gov Christie in NJ put the cabash on a tunnel running from Jersey to New York. It cost too much and was expected to have a budget overrun of $5 billion. Taxpayers simply can not afford that he said.
Wait, say his critics that project would create 6,000 jobs and take cars off the road. Besides, the cost overrun is exaggerated, the number is ONLY $1 billion and that’s years in the future (why worry about that now- so is your retirement, but hey, why worry about that now either?).
See, you really can afford anything if you come up with enough reasons to spend that money, except of course a flu shot, for that you need health insurance to pay it all.
The political mind is a thing to behold.
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