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One: Small civics lesson. Federal funding bills start in the House of Representatives. Maybe your argument is with Nancy Pelosi?
Two: You say your state is going to receive $2.3 Million dollars and you’re ungrateful because it’s not bigger???
Aside from the fact that sending money to the Federal government and getting it sent back to the states is like getting your oats after they’ve gone through the horse, you might ask yourself, how much of that money came from Wisconsin in the first place, only to come back with Federal strings attached on how you spend the money?

Here’s a thought: Local people decide which local services are important to them and then...they pay for them themselves!
Yeah! Radical, dude! But give it a try!

The other thing would be to campaign for meaningful Federal tax relief, so that there would be more money for Wisconsin (and all the other states) to spend for local programs with more local control.

Take back control of your state and your community, Davinski. Wean yourself from the Federal teat!

Better to have it and not need it than need it and not have it.

Maybe this will slow down the skidoo (how long since you’ve heard that word) speed trap plague in WI.

Not that it would be remotely a bad thing.

[b]Old Tigers are more dangerous when they believe this could be their last hunt.

From , “The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen”
Old tigers, sensing the end,
they’re at their most fierce. 
And they go down fighting.

One: Small civics lesson. Federal funding bills start in the House of Representatives. Maybe your argument is with Nancy Pelosi?

LOL, no doubt I like how Bush is blamed for everything bad in the world and in the USA. Funny if he is so unpopular he has done a good job exposing the Dems weakness. Too bad the Media doesn’t report it.

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Proof, you raise some good points; however, our roads, schools, and many more areas to help maintain our infrastructure depend greatly on the feds. Our standard of living would decline greatly without them helping.
I would much rather see this money of ours go to help folks here in Milwaukee and other cities in the US than throw it down the tube in Iraq.

You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows

Bob Dylan

Davinski: The thing you miss is that all the money comes from the taxpayers, and when it is passed through several layers of govt, all of which take their “cut”, there is less money in the system to create and maintain the needed infrastructure.  Ipso facto, the money should stay local.  Generally speaking, the feds can’t “help” anybody; all they can do is redistribute income, while taking their cut off the top.  The feds only reduce our standard of living, by redistributing our earnings(through taxation and regulation) to themselves.
Without national defense, there is no United States.  The bulk of wasteful fed spending is in the form of unnecessary social engineering programs and entitlements.  What they really do is to buy votes for the political class.
According to the Constitution, national defense is a legitmate govt expenditure, but social engineering is not.

"Give the lefties a pile of money, and they’ll spend it buying votes.” - Rush Limbaugh on the “bailout”.

davi, you Democrat idiots have turned the great state of Wisconsin into a crime ridden hellhole and now you want other states to bail you out. Does that about sum it up?

Perhaps you should strip the money out of excessive social program spending, crack down on criminals instead of dropping charges in so many cases, and slash the salaries and perks of elected and non-elected government officials. Then you would have plenty of money for law enforcement and substantially less crime.

Una Salus Victus Nullam Sperare Salutem

however, our roads, schools, and many more areas to help maintain our infrastructure depend greatly on the feds.

Roads (interstate highways, at least) I would agree with you! There is a national benefit to interstate highways.
Schools...not so much! Local funding of schools means local control.
Besides, you Wisconsinites don’t hate your kids so much you wouldn’t pay for their education, do you?

Better to have it and not need it than need it and not have it.

Davinski, have you ever heard of the “property tax”?  This is a time-honored way that towns, cities, counties, and townships have managed to provide police protection and other essential services for centuries.