Writes Morrison:
Red-state voters, in the main, depend on blue-state voters to keep them afloat when it comes to federal money. ... This imbalance in the balance sheets constitutes the down-to-dollars facts that underlie part of the story of the expanding American frontier, that people did it all by themselves. Without question, it takes tough types of people to gut it out and cut it in the desert and the mountains and the plains -- but the huge amounts of federal money that went into massive water and reclamation projects, soil and agriculture projects, bridges and highways, built the framework and underpinnings that helped to make the settlement and growth possible. ...
Miller is being laudably consistent with his political policies and priorities when he says this; the question is, will his fellow Alaskans, who have benefited from and even been proud of the big take-home checks from Washington, be able to live on the budget Miller suggests?
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