Virginia's Governor Bob McDonald, speaking in Boston last night, had it right:

"There's a growing sentiment of the citizens of this country that the rate of spending, the rate of growth in spending at every level of government, is unsustainable."

The Obama administration seems intent on bankrupting our grandchildren and Massachusetts state government is chronically running deficits and raising taxes.

In Chatham the Town Manager lets public union compensation keep rising and apparently thinks overrides are the way to solve his overspending.

On top of that, the Town Manager has launched a massive capital spending program for a Big City Sewer that isn't needed to keep Chatham's coastal waters clean and healthy. The challenge could be met for half the cost and in a way that national environmental organizations such as Clean Water Action say is better environmentally. Not only that, these new systems do a better job of removing nitrogen and other contaminants from groundwater with permeable reactive barriers. Hinchey is committing taxpayers to spending about half a billion dollars for a Big City Sewer without (1) questioning the cost, (2) looking objectively at less expensive alternatives or (3) even questioning what the state's scientists say is needed to be done to keep Chatham's waters healthy. Other Cape Cod towns are seeking validation of what the state scientist have come up with through a "peer review" by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS). That's the basic question: What is it that we in fact have to do to make sure Chatham's waters are healthy? Chatham shoujld join with those other towns in the petition to the NAS. That's step one in fiscal prudence.

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