Posted on 07/30/2010 12:55:58 AM PDT by dennisw
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I don't believe it. I want video.
I’m really surprised that my state (NY) isn’t running a close second to CA. It sure feels like it with no end in sight.
The insanity is still shocking to witness.
I agree. Reads like BS.
Fire Marshall might have something to say about that sort of classroom loading.
Also, that list has my state, Georgia, in worse shape than NY. I don’t buy it.
Gov Beebe (Democrat):
This week, I submitted a balanced-budget proposal to the joint houses of the General Assembly, in preparation for the upcoming legislative session. Arkansas is known for its history of fiscal restraint, as our Constitution prohibits deficit spending and requires the State budget to be balanced. My budget recommendations reflect this spirit in their conservative approach – an approach I believe is especially necessary in the face of the ongoing financial crisis and an uncertain economic
Providing meaningful tax relief to working families is another essential feature of this budget proposal – it’s a promise I made to the people of Arkansas, and one I intend to keep. In 2007, we enacted the largest tax reduction in Arkansas history by cutting the grocery tax in half; but I promised it would not end there. I’ve asked the Legislature to cut an additional penny from the sales tax on groceries this year. While economic times are tight and tough decisions must be made with regard to spending, I believe the greater harm would be to go back on my word to the people of Arkansas. Middle-class, working families are the heart of State and of our economy, and they deserve this help.
I call shenanigans.
prisoner6
“On a sunny morning, 70 middle school students hop off the school bus...”
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One thing school districts can do is get rid of a large chunk of the school buses. Where I live, they bus the darlings distances where the kids could walk. I know because as a lass, there were no school buses and I walked to and from school. Since the Obamas are so worried about childhood obesity, walking to and from school might give the little mites some much needed exercise.
Iowa: No oil, just ethanol.
Nebraska: No. 20 in oil production. (has ethanol, too, and a big natural gas play in the offing out west.)
Montana: No. 13 in oil production. Coal, too.
North Dakota: No. 4 in oil production, coal mining, gassification and electricity exporter.
Texas: No 1 in oil production.
Pennsyvania: No. 19 in oil production, with the Marcellus shale Gas play too.
Utah: No. 12 in oil production, despite federal lease revocations.
New Mexico: No. 7 in oil production.
South Dakota: no 24 in oil production.
West Virginia: No 21 in oil production, vast coal reserves.
Source: EIA
While California is number three in oil production and Alaska is number two, (not sure why Alaska is so badly off in this study), policy may account for that, especially in California's case.
Only the throttling of the extractive industries, those which take a patch of dirt and make something of it, can kill economic recovery. Farming and ranching are two industries which make something from sweat and dirt, but do not forget the tremendous amount of fuel used. Killing the oil industry will negatively impact 11 of the top 12 states directly, and indirectly as agricultural industries there take a hit, too. Shutting down coal mining will do much to complete the task.
Anyone wonder why the EPA is pushing the AGW line so hard? Why they want to shut down anything burning 'fossil fuels'?
To complete the job they started with the bank bailouts--the complete destruction of the American Economy--and every bit of looting that can be accomplished by Obama, his backers, and their cronies before the final push to make this a totalitarian state.
My daughter’s school wanted the town to vote for a new school. They had a teacher arrive with a video camera one lunchtime and herded two classes of children into one classroom. Some kids were even lined up along the windows.
This video was presented at a schoolboard meeting.
Well, well, there was my little girl in the video. Next day I asked her about that picture.......ha ha ha.......she told me exactly what happened. They were taken out of the cafeteria and told to sit at the desks, some two to a desk for the ‘movie’.
The manipulation by those in power is revolting especially because they’re making plans for spending OUR money.
This is from PEW. They are pro amnesty. You'll notice that there is no mention of illegals among CA's woes.
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Abolishing the EPA would go a long way to helping the economy.
We're generally a long way from the days when rivers caught fire because they had that much crap in them.
Since then, the agency has just kept environmental standards a moving target, and that hasn't helped industry here at all.
Many of the refining and manufacturing facillities were dismantled and shipped overseas when they could no longer comply and make a profit.
Imho, the agency has outlived its usefulness, and the jobs lost there could be readily made up for by industrial expansion. Regulation should occur at the State level, anyway, where the balance between clean and industry is in the back yards of the people who live there. Interstate compacts could handle shared interests as well as any Federal Agency, problably better.
Glen Beck predicts we are going to have deflation followed by mega-inflation as they monetize the debt.
He may be right. When the prices crash, the trick will be to have enough to get what you need to survive or even hedge your assets against the inflation. At some point the dollar won’t be worth squat unless the other currencies in the world do the same. That leaves beans, bullets, bullion, and land...
He seems to be ahead of the rest who are in denial. I think the Fed is losing the ability to create inflation. Scary. We are in for it next year.
All the ARMS from 2006 are going to re-set. This will cause total chaos.
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