Broken verbal contract on the State of PA's part.

You state: "so indicative of how government is intruding more and more into our lives and how we are losing our individual freedoms"

So perhaps the state and federal governments should have just ignored the town decades ago and let them deal, on their own, with the problem they created. Does that solve your concern?

Fact is, they begged for taxpayer dollars to solve their crisis. He who pays the piper calls the tune. As taxpayers, we have a right to no longer subsidize those folks that want to live in a town that should no longer exist. So go ahead, let's pull all state and federal dollars from them even now so we no longer run the risk of "intruding" on their lives. Let's see how long they last when the utilities start to fail and they receive no other support.

I'm not saying that the government isn't reducing our freedoms across the board, on that point I'd generally agree with you, but it does not apply here. The townspeople destroyed their town, wanted the gov to spend millions of taxpayer dollars to fix it, and apparently have done nothing but complain ever since.

the town is on fire jerkwad, jesus you tea partiers are so paranoid