We had a visitor here at the Daily Times yesterday. And we decided to use the technology we are now swimming in to bring him to you as well.
New Pennsylvania U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey was in the county, and he managed to squeeze in a session with our editorial board, which we live-streamed on our website. If you missed it you can catch the replay here. Toomey was no his way back to D.C. for votes on the Patrio Act, but stopped in Primos along the way.
Toomey has been making news in Washington, and for a very familiar reason. He believes our government’s spendthrift ways areleading us on the path to a financial Armageddon. And he did not need Rev. Camping to tell him that.
For Toomey, the Rapture is all about our national debt and the government’s inability to curb its appetite for spending and running up massive deficits.
Toomey even rubbed a few folks in his own party the wrong way when he rolled out his own budget resolution last week.
I have to admit I never thought I’d see the day when Pat Toomey, the man who took on Arlen Specter because he said the Republican senator was not conservative enough, was being criticized from within his own party as not being far enough right on the budget.
The fire was coming from those backing the plan put out by U.S. Rep.
Paul Ryan, R-Wis., which would balance the budget in 20 years, inlcuding an overhaul of the Medicare system.
Toomey wants to do it in 10, but believes Medicare should be handled after that, in the second decade. For that he got a fairly heaping portion of conservative scorn.
I have to admit I like Toomey. The guy knows what he’s talking about, especially when it comes to economics.
And he knows that the country is on the road to ruin, at least financially. Now he needs to get the rest of Washington to listen to what he’s saying.
Comments