Please feel free to insert examples from your area into the following commentary and forward to others as you see fit...

So you say you are against big government spending? Recently CIBOR, are research facility at Wichita State University, grew bone in a mammal for the first time without the body rejecting it. It's a break through that could potentially help soldiers and crash victims among others. This same technology can be used to improve the structure and weight of emergency equipment like stretchers and surgical equipment. The University has collaborated with area suppliers to develop the technology yet much of its start up funding came from government sources. CIBOR is an example of a joint effort between the government and the private sector that can change lives and launch entirely new industries that otherwise wouldn't have been financially feasible for the foreseeable future.

So you say you are against big government spending? The you must be willing to let Hawker leave Kansas. Keeping them here will require local and state officials to put together an attractive financial package the may include funds given to the state by Washington for business development and worker training. For your stance to logically work you must be against such government intervention otherwise your flip flopping and we wouldn't want that would we.

So you say you are against big government spending? Where do you stand on the $27 million in state bonds issued by the State of Kansas to build the Learjet 85 in Wichita? The funding for which came from The Economic and Recovery Act of 2009. How would you have voted on the bailout of the US automakers? Are you against that but for this?

So you say you are against big government spending? Has your business received tax incentives, money for employee training, or bonds from local, state or federal agencies? Does the day care facility your children attend receive government funds. What about the agencies that oversee them so that they are safe and clean?

Like it or not, the government in its many forms can be a useful tool in growing the private sector and in creating and retaining jobs. If you are against big government spending than in order for your argument to work you must oppose these kinds of partnerships too and what a tragedy it would be to let these important partnerships fail.

During the upcoming election cycle it is important for us to critically and question those loud and boisterous politician wanna-bes that rail against such things without giving any details about what programs they want to cut and by what amount. Don't let them speak in generalities. Hold them accountable! Ask tough questions! Stir the pot! Then ask yourself how their answer might affect you, your family or your friends before you vote.

Vote wisely my friends.