Most times when someone says I wrote the book on that it’s just an expression. Me? I’ve got a few. But this one isn’t what you’re thinking.

It was more than 20 years ago, I wrote what I guess was my first book, a published version of my senior honors thesis at Binghamton University. Like a young John F. Kennedy I turned my school project into something a little more, perhaps not gaining the traction of JFK’s Why England Slept but it made its mark in Binghamton in 2003.

I called the book While Federalism Slept, I thought a clever play on Kennedy’s book and a description of my own theses: that the federal Community Development Block Grant program begun in the 1970s was in fact harmful to the communities it supposedly helped and should be eliminated.

Fell on deaf ears at the local and national level.

Fast-forward 22 years, and imagine my surprise that one Donald J. Trump, president of this fine nation, is proposing elimination of the CDBG program.

A part of me is a little disappointed I’m not getting any recognition in this, but like most school projects, I’m not in it for the glory or the money, just happy to help.

And getting to say I told’ja so.