BELMONT — About 40 people squeezed into the Horn Room at the Belmont Town Hall to hear U.S. Representative Tom Reed, R-Corning, in one of the three “town hall” meetings he held Saturday.
“I’ve been drinking from a fire hose,” trying to absorb information and “getting up to speed,” Mr. Reed told the crowd. “Ninety percent of our day and our time has been looking at spending issues.”
He said that because of issues in Washington and the necessity to operate on continuing resolutions the government could shut down.
“We’re trying to work real hard to avoid that,” he said, “but it’s a reality we have to prepare for.”
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VernonC posted at 12:01 am on Mon, Feb 28, 2011.
Representative Reed again meets with a small group, 40 citizens braved the weather to hear him this time. He says "we're trying real hard" to avoid a shutdown of the government, meaning the assorted miscreants and misftis in the Congress are tyring to avoid something they provided the impetus for through their profligate spending. Spending doesn't seem a big concern for him, his travel expenses don't come out of his pocket, let's see, his travel from Washington to several New York venues, this one in Belmont, to talk about government shutting down seems an unnecessary expense. He'd have been better off acquainting himself with problems that seem to have no resolution, government debt, government debt, and government debt, to say nothing of wars, terrorists, leaky borders, union strikes, unemployment, foreclosures, etc., instead of travel great distances to tell 40 people the government may shut down, when we all know that beast will find a way to feed itself. This speculation is just a ruse to soften the affect raising the debt limit will cause. Obama and Schumer will let him know about that very soon.