Posted on 11/04/2010 9:50:03 PM PDT by dangus
Beware the lame duck.
NO MORE BAILOUTS
We’re number one!
We’re number one!
(Too bad this isn’t NCAA basketball. :-( )
One of the talk shows had that Commie Duby lady talking about how “new taxes are needed”. Taxes couldn’t even dent the CT deficit, particularly since the wealthy own two houses (one out of state) and could bolt five seconds after the tax bill was passed.
(your proposal for bailout penalties)
Excellent post—that is the kind of “out of the box” thinking we need.
My proposal—any state that requests a bailout shall be declared a “criminal enterprise” and the governor and their cabinet shall be hauled off to jail for the balance of their term. The request would then be denied.
Then the next governor can decide if they want to renew the request. :-)
With the politicians cut out of their sweetheart redistricting deals, average citizens can draw lines that actually hold politicians accountable.
We’ll choose them instead of their choosing us to guarantee their perpetual re-election in “safe” seats.
That is how democracy is supposed to work as we all learned in our civic books in school. Our vote should actually be able to affect them at election time.
I doubt that we will find “average citizens” on the panel.
Instead, they will be carefully selected by the same darn politicians that have abused the process for years.
How are you liking Colorado? Nice to see ya around here! :-)
Allow me to extend the pun...
Schwarz(enegger).
Schwarz is German for “black.”
Great... the last few years I’ve lived here.
The panel is admittedly flawed. But I doubt we have anything better and the selection process is supposed to be open and the hearings are supposed to be public and the maps compiled according to objective, non-partisan criteria. Its still better than letting the politicians abuse us behind closed doors.
I hope you do get competitive elections (finally) there. That is my prayer.
That map is a favorite of the left. It’s also bulls—t. It counts as federal “spending” Medicare and Social Security payments, so when a Northerner moves south as he retires to avoid the crushing state taxes (or simply the cold weather), the map makes it look like the South is getting money from the North!
After Social Security and medicare, the next largest source of federal spending is military: And guess who is fighting our wars?
not a bad idea.
Very interesting. Food for thought!
Sort of like those mismanaged, corrupt little California cities that are deciding to unincorporate?
If a city goes bankrupt, it should disincorporate, and the county should take over. If you’re talking about Bell, all those little neighboring towns like Bell Gardens, Maywood, Cudahy, Vernon and Pico Rivera should end up disincorporated, and the county can merge them into something that might work.
I live in New York and I am telling you clearly. The only way to save this state is NO BAILOUT, NONE. Let Cuomo and the fat slobs at the legislature fire people. Let them cut benefits. Let them close down schools. People will wake up real fast. Many will move out. But the ones on the dole will be pissed at those doing the cutting and it has to be Cuomo and his gang...
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