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Posted on 07/07/2011 9:33:25 AM PDT by WOBBLY BOB
When Minnesota state parks and highway rest stops were closed suddenly along with other government services, the neighboring state to the east was the obvious beneficiary as Minnesotans scrambled to alter their holiday weekend plans. Others that stood to benefit included Minnesota's private campgrounds, city and county parks, amusement destinations, museums, and gas stations and fast-food establishments near closed rest stops.
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Wisconsin projected to have a budget surplus..and I didn't see old and infirmed in the ditches starving on my drive there and back to get fireworks.
HINT to Marx Dayton: if they state gubmint is doing something the private sector already does, The State probably shouldn't be in the 'business' of doing it.
The State of Mississippi at the Veterinary college has a spay and neuter bus subsidized by the taxpayers. Consider a tenured professor’s salary, the cost of the surgical bus and the upkeep, the retirement and insurance of the professors and staff associated with the bus, and many other costs associated with this endeavor. I wonder if it wouldn’t be cheaper for private veterinarians to do the job and have the State reimburse the individuals. It would be cheaper but someone somewhere would find a way to pervert the system and cost the State dearly.
Word is that Dayton’s shrink is working over-time...
he lost his mind the other day. Wants to hike the tax on a pack of smokes by a buck.
Poor hit hardest.
Let me see now, government shuts down, private business goes up, revenue go’s up. Hmmmmm. What to do?
Let’s shut down DC for about a month. Think how fast the debt will be habdled.
From what I read that fund is by donations only. I was born in MS and there are many small towns and communities that just can not support any kind of vet service so this helps out. I do not even know if my hometown has a vet anymore.
Proving once again that government is not the solution...it’s the problem.
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