Broken Compass: Nieves Says Accepting $189M in Education Funding as Immoral as Stealing TVs

Sen. Brian Nieves (R-Washington) joins Sen. Jim Lembke (R-Lemay) and Sen. Jason Crowell (R-Cape Girardeau) in the insane effort to reject $189 million in federal education funds that have already been allocated by Congress -- funds that will be sent to other states if Missouri doesn't accept them.

Nieves posted a similar message on his personal Facebook page last night, where he equated using the already-allocated money to pay teachers to stealing televisions.  From his Facebook conversation :

Bottom line... The Feds simply do not have any money to give us. Every time a state holds out it's hand for Federal dollars that had to be barrowed from China, we directly contribute to our children being strapped with more debt!...

I can honestly see and somewhat understand the argument that says "Hey Brian, if we in Mo. don't take it they'll just give it to someone else." ... I admit that's a tuff argument to counter but I'll try: If I'm walking down the street and find a line of people taking stuff out of a damaged store front and I know that if I don't grab that 42 inch LCD TV, the guy behind me is going to anyway.... Doing something that is wrong is still wrong even if every body else is doing it! Kind of sounds like something our Mothers likely told us. The federal government has NO business in our schools anyway!

Super-awesome capitalization and punctuation are authentic.