Posted on 07/02/2011 9:59:00 AM PDT by KantianBurke
ST. PAUL, Minn. — The blind are losing reading services. A help line for the elderly has gone silent. And poor families are scrambling after the state stopped child-care subsidies.
Hours after a political impasse forced a widespread government shutdown, Minnesota’s most vulnerable residents and about 22,000 laid-off state employees began feeling the effects on Friday. With no immediate end in sight to a dispute over taxes and spending, political leaders spent the day blaming each other for their failure to pass a budget that solves the state’s $5-billion deficit.
In the absence of talks between Democratic Gov. Mark Dayton and GOP legislative leaders, the shutdown was rippling into the lives of people like Sonya Mills, a 39-year-old mother of eight facing the loss of about $3,600 a month in state child-care subsidies.
"It’s like you are still in the wind of the tornado," said Mills, who works at a temp agency. After the shutdown, she had to care for her six youngest children, ages three through 14, because she lost state funding for their daycare and other programs.
(Excerpt) Read more at thechronicleherald.ca ...
I read (maybe in the above article elsewhere) that volunteers are being turned away from several locations because the facility is closed.
Dayton won in a 3-way race; the damned Ventura “independence” party siphoned votes from the GOP candidate, Tom Emmer. The RATS can always assemble 44 percent of the vote in Minnesota, even for a brain-dead drunk like Dayton.
The electorate concurrently turned control of both houses of the legislature to GOP hands.
I feel no remorse at all for all of the welfare leaches out there. For every one person that truly needs help there are a thousand that are just gaming the system.
Live on your feet or die on your knees. I'm tired of carrying you...
Get ready to drown in boo-hoo treacle. The floodgate of sob stories is about to be opened ...
“Minnesotans feeling pinch of decades of wildly irresponsible government spending” would be a more accurate headline.
While he was mostly a joke as governor, Jesse Ventura sometime ten-fifteen years ago, when in a town-hall type forum was asked by a young woman who identified herself as a single mom and complained of the inadequate level of state support for her to raise her child, told her that he didn't know why the Minnesota taxpayer had to be responsible when a woman didn't know enough to keep her knees together.
Likely a combination of the following; they're in prison, they're dead, they're waiting for Maury to get the test results back to see if they're actually the baby daddy, and they're baby daddies for ten other kids from ten other moms who all have to divvy up the child support which isn't very much because baby daddy can't find a job.
There really is no need to comment on anything. This quote says it all.
And before long there will be eight more people voting for Democrats.
This is what we conservative Minnesotans are constantly fighting - a bunch of bleeding heart liberals in the news media who always bring up hardship cases to advocate for more government spending.
If the stupid RINO’s in this state had stayed out of last year’s gubernatorial election, we would have had a very good governor, Tom Emmer, to go along with the considerable conservative majories we elected (finally) in our House and Senate. Bot, NO! They ran a RINO candidate on the Independence Party and siphoned off votes which would have likely gone (the majority) to Emmer.
Mark Dayton won entirely on his name recognition. The DFL (Democrats in Minnesota) party did not actually want him as their candidate, so he skipped the endorsement process and ran against the endorsed candidate in the primary election and won. Then he managed to eke through the general election by about 8,000 votes. He is constantly looking bewildered and glassy eyed. He is on tranquilizers, a fact that most Minnesotans are not aware of. (That is why the Dems who know MD did not really want him for their candidate.)
I’m going on vacation next week. I was planning to make a few stops on my way through Minnesota. Not anymore. Going to my back up plan. Sorry Minnesota, maybe next year.
You could at least get a book review from Oprah's Book Club and then you wouldn't be so shocked and upset!!!
“I suppose an ‘enlightened’ reaction would be simply to pay her $1400 a month to take care of her children, thus saving the taxpayers $2200 a month.”
The current system promotes idiocracy. I guaran-damn-tee you that woman has at best an average IQ and her studs a better physique than brain. Meanwhile, hard-working people who refuse to put their kids and family on AFDC simply don’t have them. I know you were funnin’, but to me, an enlightened reaction would be to stop paying her altogether. Then the taxpayers who were ponying up that $2200 a month could afford to have and feed their own kids.
I'm not looking for government paid babysitting, there has got to be some relative of hers who can babysit these kids for no money, just out of the kindness of their heart. My mother babysat the kids when they were little - no government was involved - no food stamps, no free phone, no subsidized rent, no free medical, no government what's so ever, I'm fed up with paying for everyone else!
The Blind are losing Reading Services?
Not sure I see what they are missing....
That was what I said in the same paragraph that you chopped the sentence out of. :)
“Sorry, 8 kids, even better.”
... or worse. ;-)
This country has gone insane. Why is it the government’s responsibility to take care of the elderly or anyone else? Those in need used to turn to their families, churches, or private charity. Now everyone looks to Big Brother to take care of them. Truly, we have lost our independence and our sense.
Did Pawlenty have a friendly legislature while gov., too?
If he did and left the job with MN broke, he must be a talking conservative—not a doing conservative. On that record alone he does not measure up to the fixing America challenge.
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