New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson used your tax dollars, courtesy of the stimulus package, to crack down on cock fighting. The New Mexico Independent reports, “The Department of Public Safety will get $150,000 to combat illegal cockfighting, dog fighting and animal hoarding. The money will pay for an staff, training and materials.”
MAD isn’t saying that cracking down on cock fighting isn’t a worthy expenditure, but we are wondering why working families in other states have to pick up the tab for New Mexico’s animal control especially when we are broke.
And we aren’t the only ones wondering. The Nanny State Liberation Front wrote:
Basically, Richardson has created a budget for a new police force to do the job of the state’s existing police force. It sort of sounds like the roles the so-called “czars” play in the Obama Administration, doesn’t it?
More bureaucracy. More of taxpayers’ money being wasted to create it. Talk about a ‘pet’ project of a(nother) big government bureaucrat!
So while you work to feed and clothe your children, government continues to spend more of your money.
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