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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
 Posted - 02/22/2009 : 14:07:42
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A number of despicable and especially reactionary Republican governors, including Sarah Palin, are brazenly placing their right-wing ideologies ahead of their own suffering constituents. By refusing to pass on Federal money to extend unemployment insurance benefits for their states' jobless, they are putting their states' working poor where their own big mouths are. (CNN) -- Though they support some federal action to help their states recover from the recession, several Republican governors said Sunday they plan to turn down a portion of what's offered in the stimulus bill that President Obama signed last week.
"If we were to take the unemployment reform package that they have, it would cause us to raise taxes on employment when the money runs out -- and the money will run out in a couple of years," Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour told CNN's "State of the Union" on Sunday.
The Republican governors of Idaho [Butch Otter], Alaska [Sarah Palin], Texas [Rick Perry], South Carolina [Mark Sanford] and Louisiana [Bobby Jindal] have expressed similar concerns. But one of their colleagues, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, had a message for them Sunday on ABC's "This Week."
When asked about broader complaints from lawmakers such as South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford about the debt that the stimulus package will lead to, Schwarzenegger responded, "I am more than happy to take his money or [that of] any other governor in this country that doesn't want to take this money. I take it because I think California needs it."
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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Edited by - HalfMooner on 02/22/2009 16:53:37
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
Posted - 02/22/2009 : 14:22:22 [Permalink]
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Dont'cha just love watching them slit their own throats? I hope to be kneed-deep in neoconservative blood before too much longer. A pity it'll only be figurative......
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
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Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 02/22/2009 : 14:51:27 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by filthy
Dont'cha just love watching them slit their own throats? I hope to be kneed-deep in neoconservative blood before too much longer. A pity it'll only be figurative......
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It might not be figurative. Some desperate unemployed worker in one of their gun-loving red states might just might decide to get some personal "justice."
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
13476 Posts |
Posted - 02/22/2009 : 16:31:38 [Permalink]
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| Good old Arnold. No, I won't vote for him, but as Republicans go, we could have done much worse. |
Uncertainty may make you uncomfortable. Certainty makes you ridiculous.
Why not question something for a change?
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 02/22/2009 : 16:52:10 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Kil
Good old Arnold. No, I won't vote for him, but as Republicans go, we could have done much worse. |
Yup, a middle-of-the-roader (by California standards) on most issues.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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Dude
SFN Die Hard
USA
6891 Posts |
Posted - 02/22/2009 : 22:52:01 [Permalink]
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He just calls himself Republican, he doesn't match up to their current leadership on most of their positions.
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Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson
"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin
Hope, n.
The handmaiden of desperation; the opiate of despair; the illegible signpost on the road to perdition. ~~ da filth |
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moakley
SFN Regular
USA
1888 Posts |
Posted - 02/26/2009 : 10:46:43 [Permalink]
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May not be a popular opinion, but as far as Bobby Jindal is concerned he has a hole in the southern part of his state that he wants and expects the federal government to continue pouring money into. And a lot of other politicians as well.
The federal government has devoted more than $175 billion to the region since Katrina ripped through New Orleans in 2005, and billions remain unspent. It's unclear how much more money will be needed, but nearly everyone agrees the federal government should continue investing heavily in the region's levees and other infrastructure to prevent a repeat of Katrina's devastation.
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It's a hole that continues to get deeper surrounded by 2 major bodies of water and a river. It's not a matter of if, but when it floods again. I know a lot of people live in and love this city, but if Bobby wants the federal government to get control over its spending then he should refuse the money for this bailout as well. |
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chaloobi
SFN Regular
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Posted - 02/26/2009 : 11:15:42 [Permalink]
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Send the money to Michigan. We're screwed.
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-Chaloobi
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GOP Governors to deny Fed aid to their jobless
