At his send-off at the National Institutes of Health, he tells his agency heads that they are "giants" of medical research and reminds them that he helped deliver massive spending increases.
"We doubled the budget," he tells them. "You didn't know whether or not a non-doctor, a non-scientist, the governor of a rural state like Wisconsin would be very supportive of you."
Wednesday, January 19, 2005
Wisconsin's budgetary woes
If you wonder why Wisconsin has landed in the the long term budgetary mess we're in with higher taxes, let me just point out that it's not just the Democrats' fault. The former governor and outgoing HHS Secretary Tommy G(overnment) Thompson reminds us again of bigger spending, bigger taxing days:
