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[quote="anon-065r"]Th poster was making massive hyperbole and misstatements not supported by actual facts.  They only listed one specific example, the baseball field, and a bunch of unspecified vague ones like unnamed road projects that allegedly failed.  Then they claimed that no one had been held accountable, ignoring the they public dismissal of the Township Engineer involved with the ball field and the near litigation the Township got into with that firm.

As for "liberal mindset," on what basis would you associate alleged fiscal irresponsibility or government waste with the word "liberal"?  Certainly not on any factual basis.  As noted above, wasteful spending and government management is not party-specific.  But to make the generalization that it is "liberal" would imply that overall it is more associated with the liberal party which just isn't the case.  Consistently the conservative party when in power has outspent the liberal party in this country.  The conservative party is responsible for most of our national debt.  Even today a huge chunk of the current increment to the debt is the interest accumulating on the debt created by conservative leaders.

For someone to look at either major US political party or their specific "liberal" or "conservative" policy adoption and call it fiscally responsible is ill-informed.  Just because a group calls itself "fiscally conservative" doesn't mean it is.  It's the hallmark of most political-speak, as so aptly articulated in George Orwell's 1984 to try and own the language by calling yourself the opposite of what you really are.  That's certainly true of the Republican/conservative party calling itself fiscally conservative.  The Democrats are no better, though Clinton was the only recent fiscally conservative President from either party.

That there is massive waste in government spending and that as a society we are spending more than we can afford is unquestionable.  That this has any barring on "liberal" vs "conservative" is ridiculous.  Stop fooling yourself.  If you are serious about responsible spending you would certainly not look toward either major US political party and certainly not to the Tea Party which is really just a social reactionary agenda posing as a fiscal one, though only the truly ignorant still buy that lie.

As how any of this has to do with Cranbury politics, it simply doesn't.  It's silly to impose national political rhetoric on what is happening here because they have nothing to do with each other except in some people's minds.[/quote]

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