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I believe in this state it's a felony to photoshop Rick Perry's hair like that. The rest of him, fine. But not the hair!
....and this is the picture that did it.
Cutting the Economy to Ribbons
Rick Perry says a no-new-taxes budget is good for business in Texas – but is it?
I believe in this state it's a felony to photoshop Rick Perry's hair like that. The rest of him, fine. But not the hair!
So they decided to release the photo after all.
Scary.
We've already seen how people reacted when the cuts in property taxes reduced their school budgets and facilities and increased class sizes.
We'll see how they react if and when all these cuts hit the schools harder, close nursing homes, etc, etc.
Let's hope so and vote that bag outta Austin.
I don't think the Republicans and no-tax jackwagons driving this bus realize the storm that is coming up fast behind them.Hundreds of nursing homes could very likely close, for instance, destabilizing that industry across the state. Agencies that provide home health services likely would go out of business as well. The Children’s Health Insurance Program faces deep cuts. Hospitals would take about a $780 million hit; many would have to cut their staffs, and, industry representatives said, a few might have to close. Businesses that in turn are related to those industries could be affected as well.
Perry pooh-poohed the report, telling reporters that he has “lost faith” in the Legislative Budget Board’s abilities. And groups like the Texas Taxpayers Research Association charge that the board’s job loss figures really show the effect of the economic downturn, not the actions of state budgeters.
I, for one, am glad that the "no new taxes" crowd has a state to test their ed theories in. It is, at the same time, sad that it has to be the state I am living in, and trying to raise kids in.
If this kind of bull draconian stupidity continues, I'm honestly not sure I would stay here. Hopefully we can elect some grownups in the next election.
You can bet that the State will be fighting lawsuits out the ass in the coming year over this budget. I wonder how much that will cost?
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Last edited by RandomGuy; 05-11-2011 at 04:43 PM.
In most nursing homes, there are some residents who no longer have family members whose homes they might be moved to.
What she would do if those kinds of patients had to be relocated, Michael said, “is a bridge I haven’t crossed in my thinking. What do I do? Take them to a homeless shelter? A hospital? And who pays? That’s very detrimental to our economy.”
Man, the more I read the angrier I get about this.
Any libertarian want to tell me what the magic private sector solution to this is?
Let's on the "nanny state", fine, but give me a non-goverment solution that doesn't involve literally throwing senior citizens who can't remember what year it is out on the street. If you can't do that, then take your "small goverment" philosophy and shove it up your immoral ass.
Well, California is already the poster child for the 'no taxes' stuff. Remember that the proposition in California that passed about 25 years ago that required a 2/3 majority of the voting public to pass any state tax increase.
Then, of course, they also passed a law that required only a 51% majority to pass spending increases.
So, California, unsurprisingly, is in the worst budget situation of all the states.
Texas, however, is in a very similar boat to that of California, i.e., a huge budget deficit. Texas, however, does it without any voter involvement at all.Texas' governor just screws this state's budget all by himself. It is pretty impressive, in a totally sick kind of way.
in' Perry...how he keeps winning...I have no idea...
Newt Gingrich's plan for 2012 is to make the country more like Texas..
The silence of the board conservatives is deafening.
This is exactly the kind of budget that the Tea Party wants.
*Psst* A board conservative created the thread.
I've really got to learn to pass on the softballs.
Teysha,*Psst* A board conservative created the thread.
I think you have to recognize that relatively few self-described 'board conservatives' herein would agree with a lot of what you posit. I probably a would most of the time, but lots of them just say 'gut the programs for the poor and elderly and young and cut taxes more'.
On the other hand, some of us agree that taxes must be raised in order to have a balanced fiscal program, and that, although en lement programs are in desperate need of reform, a 'slash and burn' approach is not the proper response in a nation as wealthy as ours. Moreover, the notion that education is the place to make up monies in a budget deficit is as short sighted as it is mean.
I virtually despair of many conservatives ever understanding that one of their favorite talking points "throwing money at education' is logically fallacious. They fail to grasp that while money alone is an inadequate solution to the problems of under-performance in our public education system, that money is, nonetheless, required.
In other words, money is a necessary but insufficient causal agent in superb public education. Too often among the far right, the chant that 'we spend so much money and it does no good proves that we should stop throwing money at education".Well, okay, that's a bit long for a chant, but you understand my point.
No offense, but I have never really considered you one of the hard-core conservatives. Probably why the thing with the "mainstream" vs "extremist" website in the other thread threw me for something of a loop.*Psst* A board conservative created the thread.
You aren't a conservative. You might be what conservatives would be if the were actually, you know, conservative, but thats not what the word means anymore in regular American political discourse.*Psst* A board conservative created the thread.
Ah, I was just swinging at the lob you pitched me.
you lie!!!!!
I used to consider myself somewhat conservative (fiscally) and independent as well.
I think the definition of that has drifted since 1995 or so.
I think you can go back earlier than that. You can thank Jerry ing Falwell for the Bataan Death march to the neocon right.
Logic and common sense are two concepts that belong nowhere near the concepts of liberals and conservatives..........as it pertains to today's politics anyway.
I would think more libs would be on board with this. The end game of this is essential a tax on the rich. Any reduction of revenue coming from a nursing home's Medicaid payers will result in a higher rate for the self-payers. You don't really think they are going to close up shop and let 100k's of govt money walk out the door for someone else to snatch up.
I see what you mean, but IMHO it's like religion -- everyone gets to say for himself what he is.
If demagogic nationalists, populists and theocrats have taken the moniker for themselves that hardly means that others may not describe themselves -- with the intellectual/historical consistency you emphasized -- likewise.
Last edited by Winehole23; 05-12-2011 at 12:30 PM.
BigPharma is one of the slimiest, greediest abusers of nursing home residents, in conspiracy with the in-house doctors (who get their cut), to stuff the residents full of expensive drugs paid for by Medicare/Medicaid.
By all means, WH, everyone is allowed to describe themselves how they want but in modern political discourse conservative means a certain type of person and thats not Teysha Blue. Its Wild Cobra.
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