Who will pay for it?
I see where Misty Medvin takes me to task for criticizing Mike Thompson for the Hidden Valley Lake solar panels.
Ms. Medvin notes that “solar panels are a good thing.”
Indeed they are.
But then, so are shoelaces and bean burritos. And, all of these are even better things if you can get someone else, like a non-voting 2-year-old, to pay for them. According to Wednesday”s New York Times, www.nytimes.com/2011/01/27/us/politics/27spend.html, the Congressional Budget Office has just estimated this year”s federal deficit spending at 1.5 trillion dollars. At approximately 300 million Americans, that works out to $5,000 of deficit spending for every man, woman and child in America. And, that is only the current year. According to the New York Times, www.nytimes.com/2011/01/21/us/politics/21spend.html?_r=1&ref=nationaldebtus, the already existing federal debt is 14 trillion dollars, which is approximately $46,700 per person.
That money will have to be paid back, someday, long after Mike Thompson has fled the scene of the crime ? oops ? I mean stimulus.
So I will concede Ms. Medvin”s point and I will raise her one. Solar panels are a good thing. How about piling still more debt onto the back of two-year-olds? Is that also a good thing?
Mark Cabaniss
Kelseyville
