[from occupied ga]

For anyone who harbors the delusion that Republicans are conservative, here's another bit of reality.

HEY PERDUE! Instead of spending increases HOW ABOUT LOWERING TAXES. LET THE PEOPLE WHO EARNED THE MONEY KEEP IT FOR A CHANGE.

But of course this is not the Republican/Democrat way - plunder from those who work and give it to the state bureaucrats to squander on their idiotic social engineering and buying votes from teachers unions, the illegal immigrants, and the indolent.

[goldstategop]

Its in the nature of politicians to spend. What else did you think they'd do when they got elected - vote themselves out of a job? That's not in human nature.

[backhoe]

Well, I voted for him once- to try to get rid of Barnes, the Human Wurlitzer ( pay to play... )-- but I surely will not do it again.

[Rose of Sharn]

I'm waiting to see how this budget shakes out before I pass judgement, but after two years of budget cuts, the political reality is that he will have to raise spending this year. Revenue projections are up, and he can't justify the cuts on that basis. Overall, I think he has done a good job with what he's had to work with.

[Petronski]

Perdue sounds as 'lost' as his last name implies.

[MamaTexan]

All any politician wants to do is spend, spend, spend!

They always whine about 'shortfalls', 'deficits' and 'underfunded' programs.

BUT... What they don't say is how they actually STILL have plenty of your money while screaming for more.

This is a great site by a retired Air Force Lieutenant Colonel and former Auditor & Federal Accountant, explaining just HOW government plays shell games with OUR money!
cafrman.com

According to him, in 2002 Georgia had $18.76 Billion in surpluses of the taxpayers money....and it's still there!

[swampfox98]

.... Democrats, attacked Perdue for ``a lack of vision, a lack of priorities, a lack of leadership'' in presiding over two years of steep cuts to education and health care, and said Perdue should have focused on the strained state of Georgia families rather than the state of the state.

Democrats always put forth this argument in order to get the elected Republicans to spend the tax payer's money like the proverbial drunken sailor. Then when the next election rolls around, the Democrats will retake the election, as conservatives will have fled the party in disgust. The Democrats may be liars and thieves, but they are dead on in knowing what it takes to roll a Republican.

[Amelia]

plunder from those who work and give it to the state bureaucrats to squander on their idiotic social engineering and buying votes from teachers unions, the illegal immigrants, and the indolent

ummm, HELLO!!! Teachers work too (some of us might even work harder than you do), and we also pay state taxes.

If you'll read carefully, he's proposed increasing our pay by 2% and our health insurance premiums by 13%.

They've also taken the caps off class sizes, so now I can have 30 or so science students in a room built for about 24. It's not the numbers I mind so much as not having room to turn around, and it's hard to keep an eye on everyone during lab.

Zell was the last teacher-friendly governor we've had, but Zell knew what being a teacher was like.

[ConservativeMan55]

Coburn was the lone opponent on this bill here. Coburn Lone Opponent on Spending Bill.

[lugsoul]

"`We don't want a busybody government a boss that butts into our lives every chance it gets to tell us how to work, how to play, where to live and on and on,'' he said."

I guess that's why they passed a statewide smoking ban...

[BikerNYC]

Perdue Proposes $1 Billion Spending Increase

That's a lot of chickens.

[mysterio]

Just proving once again that there's not a dime's worth of difference between the two halves of the redemopublicrat superparty.

Enough small government single issue voters are going to jump ship in 2008 to sink the GOP in many races. And it will be the fault of the neocons.

[Zack Nguyen]

outlining a proposed $1 billion budget increase for next year that will put bulldozers to work on school, road and port construction projects across the state.

Translation: keeping corporations happy with taxpayer dollars.