The July 31 Ashland/Richland Source article from U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown’s office should have been titled “Cha-Ching, Cha-Ching, Cha-Ching,” not “Infrastructure investment has an impact in Ohio.”
The piece also shows why Democrat Brown should be defeated this November in his bid to be reelected as a U.S. Senator from Ohio.
Brown’s right when writing about the importance of infrastructure and manufacturing.
And he noted “more than 60,000 infrastructure projects are already underway across the country.”
But in typical smoke-and-mirrors Democrat fashion, nowhere in the article did he address how we’re paying for all of the projects, presumably with a lot of federal money.
Brown also failed to explain how we can even afford such undertakings given the enormity of our total national debt. It now tops $35 trillion.
Indeed, a number of financial experts have warned a major economic crisis — like the Great Depression — is looming because of our debt and profligate federal spending.
As much as I want to see Ohio prosper, Washington has no business allocating “routine,” non-emergency funds for us or any other state until federal spending is brought under control. That includes entitlement reform.
The Brown article also attributed our “failing infrastructure” partly to congressional “inaction” and “misguided tax and trade” policies.
Well, gee!
Brown has served in Congress for more than 30 years. How, then, has he not had a hand in Washington’s failings, at least some of them?
I believe it’s time for Brown to retire or find a job in the private sector. Let’s help him do that.
Jeff L. Reed
Ashland