Posted on 04/01/2011 9:20:06 AM PDT by Nachum
CONCORD, N.H. -- Amid chants from the gallery and thousands of demonstrators in the Statehouse plaza, New Hampshire's Republican-dominated House approved a $10.2 billion budget yesterday that makes deep cuts to social programs and strips public unions of much of their bargaining power. The House debated the budget for five hours before Republicans pushed it through, 243-124.
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There is a lot of crap raining down on us in WI from the same kind of action . . . but it is all worth it to see other states having the courage to do the same. Thank you NH!!
“After hearing all of the opposition statements, you could have come to the conclusion that half of the population of New Hampshire would be dead from the spending cuts”
Yet still they vote. Go figure.
Bless you guys. The union is only 12% of the population, so they can't be every where at the same time. You good folks are keeping them busy in WI so other states can be freed. Believe me, Walker and you fine people will be the real heroes in the end.
The skinny last November was that the NH unions made a major effort to get down here to MA to turn the tide here (and help defeat the sales tax rollback question so that MA’ers keep going to buy in NH). Well, they succeeded in that effort unfortunately for us in MA... along with a lib sweep; and perhaps focusing that much effort in MA was fortunate for republicans sweeping in NH.
Now, as a long-term citizen of New Hampshire, I am also proud of this home state!
The big question, of course, is, will the legislature be able to overrule the RAT Governor Lynch's certain veto?
They should change “Live Free or Die” to “I’m calling the shop steward on you! Just as soon as I get my government phone card”
The big question, of course, is, will the legislature be able to overrule the RAT Governor Lynch’s certain veto?
That is a big challenge. Best of luck!!
The Republicans “pushed it through”? It lost by nearly half!
What kind of jobs do these people have that they can take a day off and go to the statehouse?
What kind of jobs do these people have that they can take a day off and go to the statehouse?
O’m surprised that a state with 1,324,575 people has 367 representatives in the house. Someone do the math, I’m too lazy.
That's why the next bill needs to be Voter ID.
Wow, I thought PA was bad with overload of congress critters.
We have 202 in the house with about 12 Million folks.
In NH the number is 367 house members and 1,300,000 folks {1 rep for 3,542 people, while PA has 1 rep for 59,406 people}.
I was at a town hall meeting and someone said we have too many congress critters and my local critter {a new pubbie, just 2 months} said that he had introduced a bill to reduce the house size by 50 critters.
Let me guess. Government union members living off the tax payers.
Did I win?
The author of the article is showing their bias. They say the Republicans “Pushed” the bill through. With a 2-1 margin it doesn’t look like it had to be “pushed” too hard.
GOVERNMENT JOBS! (& union hired protestors)
Keep in mind that being a NH Rep. is not a fulltime paying job.
It pays $100/year plus mileage expense.
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