Earl Ehrhart, Republican, wind bag.

"Look, I am looking forward to cutting 10 percent out of government, unequivocally, unabashedly. I want to do that," said the Georgia State Representative, Earl Ehrhart. "We have the ability to do it, and we need to do it. If it were 20 percent, I wouldn't have a problem."

Earl Blowhart is more like it. Even as Blowhart takes pride in cutting government jobs like State Troopers, Fire Fighters, and Crime Lab Technicians, what else does he look forward to in the next year?

Well, Blowhart wants the state to spend some money in Cobb County, his district. Just ask him. First on his list is funding to allow high school students to have duel enrollment in technical schools. Okay. Fine. That isn't cutting 20 percent or 10 percent out of the budget. And, I have to ask why taxpayers have to fund high school students going to technical college when those same students will get Lottery Funds for tech schools. AKA the HOPE Scholarship.

But, I'm just being mean to kids in Cobb County who don't want to follow the rules in public schools.

Next on the list for Blowhart? A $19 million dollar science lab for Kennesaw State. Wow! There's another surprise cut of 10 to 20 percent.

Who's going to pay for it? People outside of Cobb County.

What does Blowhart say when his District is forced to pay for projects outside of Cobb County? "Pound sand!" Ehrhart said.

The next big ticket item on Blowharts list is $8 million dollars for a charter school at the Aviation Museum in Marietta. Wow! Who ever thought of having a school inside a museum and tourist attraction. Not someone wanting to cut up to 20 percent out of government.

Is there anything else that Blowhart has put on his list? He wants $500,000 in taxpayer dollars that was cut by Perdue. Let me say that more simply. Perdue cut out $250,000 in Ehrhart pork for a Cobb County law enforcement academy in 2007 and 2008. Ehrhart thinks Perdue owes him that money plus another $250,000 this year.

So Ehrhart wants his pork and his cake and he wants to eat it all with no weight gain in the government. And, he wants the State taxpayer to fund it all while in the middle of the greatest economic crisis in a fifty years.

Yup! Another Republican with one of his hands in the cookie jar and his other hand on a bullhorn.

What does the Blowhart want? He wants your tax dollars spent in Cobb County. And, he wants to cut your school budget, your road building, bridge repairs, your fire protection, your law enforcement by as much as it takes to get HIS money NOW.

Like Earl Blowhart said, "It's a spending issue."