Posted on 12/16/2008 7:07:27 AM PST by pabianice
Per Fox News a minute ago... 30 states have emptied their unemployment insurance funds by spending it on liberal social programs.
This seems huge; as many more people lose their jobs, there is no money to pay them the unemployment insurance they and their employers paid into the system every week. The states obviously will demand a bailout from Congress -- we're talking hundreds of billions of dollars here in total -- with the disastrous results that entails.
Welcome to Obama's America.
not only is MD spending hundreds of millions on “park land”, the state is buying that land from O’Malley cronies (most lawyers or developers who set up faux trusts) who bought that land cheap just before or just after O’Malley was elected
Look at who is getting rich “to save the environment”
State comptroller Peter Franchot has been a voice in the wilderness
The fixation of so-called economic conservatives on "pork spending", in the face of these enormous entitlement and structural problems, is almost farcical.
C’mon down to Texas ya’ll...as you can see by following that link and reading the article—we’re doing fine! In fact, they couldn’t even get Texas on the chart as projected to have a deficit in 2010!
We’ve got lots of room down here—in fact, if the US GUBMINT tries to come and take some of our money to bail out anybody, I will not be surprised to see the secession talk turn from the ‘radical’ idea it has always seemed to be, to the primary goal of the Texas state legislature.
(Also, Alaska was not on the list either—but it’s just too stinking cold up there for me, sorry Sarah.)
Per Fox News a minute ago.
Thanks but I did not see live anywhere.
“And states who “won” their tobacco lawsuits (like mine) have been spending that money on everything but the healthcare they said it would be used for....”
I live in AZ. I am also an OB nurse. When the illegal aliens come in to deliver their babies, it is either paid for by the State Tobacco Tax, or Emergency AHCCCS (state indigent health program).
I only see 50 there. What about the other 3?
I wish someone would make a simple flash (.swf) that would show chicken coming home to roost. More and more chickens, forming a gigantic pile of chickens.
It just seems appropriate in so very many ways.
I wonder when the level of disenfranchisement gets to the breaking point. If the economy really tanks hard, it probably won’t be long.
If people keep losing jobs and health insurance, foreclosing and can’t get unemployment insurance after paying into the system, it could get real ugly.
Some people believe living within a budget. Go Texas.
All those states’ leaders to jail! It’s time to act!
Hey! I see you, too, had a rifmatick teacher who used the “Chicago Math” meffudd? ;)
I think one day the government is going to wake up to a surprise that we are just fed up.
The IRS, for example, contracts out some elements of "enforcement" to third-party collectors. There are more takers than givers across America, so to the unasked question, "how many divisions does the IRS have", the answer is 'plenty', with a standing army which can be bolstered at moment's notice. And our assets are the "fixed fortifications" in this battle - Patton knew what to think about that sort of arrangement.
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