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Patricia Schroeder: “I figure if they want to spend money with no strings attached, they ought to raise the money. Why in the world are we…”

On the recordMarch 16, 1995
I figure if they want to spend money with no strings attached, they ought to raise the money. Why in the world are we going through this system and then going up and down the elevator? I think if we are raising the money here and we are giving it to localities to spend, we should be saying there should be nutritional guidelines. We should be saying to farmers who get subsidies from us that they ought to have a buy crop insurance rather than wait and if there is a disaster, the Federal Government bails them out. If the State and local government want total say in how they spend money, then they have the right to go raise that money and they are on their own. So I found that really amazing. I also wanted to point out to him, he was citing Governor Engler of Michigan. And on the wire service at this moment there is a story about Governor Engler saying that conservative micromanagement is just as bad as liberal micromanagement.
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Patricia Schroeder
Colorado
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Discussing federal funding and local government spending during a debate.

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