Wisconsin recall spending topped $125 million.
NY AG says mortgage task force won't rule out prosecuting big banks.
Pentagon to law enforcement: No more spare weapons until you find the ones we gave you before.
Congressman Issa jumps all over AG Holder over Fast and Furious gun program.
California tax on cigarette ban narrows gap as vote count continues.
House panel suggests TSA stop patting down people like Rumsfeld and Kissinger.
Wal-Mart employee suspected shoplifted busted for alleged methamphetamine lab inside store. (Thanks, @Jeffrey Brenan for the update.)
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When do you suppose they will be impeaching Walker? How will he ever repay all that money to the people he borrowed 125 million from? Will he be asking the people who voted for him to pay for it? By the time he starts trying to repay this money, the State will be broke. Did he actually sell the State of Wisconsin to the highest bidders? Time to move Wisconites, you can go back after Walker walks out of that State leaving the citizens holding the bag of chit.
So public employees are no longer due a reasonable living? I understand the workers in California will pay some 30% of their income in pension contributions? How could someone in California live on that? Do they begrudge veterans their pensions too?
I don't know how it works in other states, but here in IL, a condition of public pensions is that they don't pay into or receive social security benefits. With an average public pension benefit of $26K, that will be a tough slog for those who are supposed to be enjoying their retirement. I imagine those at the high end of the spectrum will do just fine unless the governor has his way with pension "reform." But those at the low end of the spectrum can expect to spend their retirement years just barely getting by.
Maybe Californians should also vote for Gov. Brown's tax increases to help offset the various budget cuts. No, wait, not maybe; they need to.
You want nice things? You need to pay for them.
But confused California can't even get behind a tax on an unnecessary evil. Looks like their get-the-vote-out efforts got out the smokers who didn't want to pay more for their habit. Isn't the increased chance of numerous health diseases a high enough price? Apparently, it is.
No more pat-downs for Rumsfeld or Kissinger? Well, I guess. When you're performing "security theater", why waste time screening war criminals when there are so many pregnant women and children to inspect?
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Why won't the Fed and/or the Obama Admin. do a direct stimulus to the States or better yet directly to every County in the country? Hundreds of billion$ to the banks and Wall St. and yet California and others are cutting every kind of Public service there is because of the housing loan/derivative debacle!!
Maybe you could get Ezra to weigh in on this?
A big portion of the ARRA - Stimulus - was exactly that - money directly to States. These funds supported the jobs of lots of teachers, police, firefighters etc.
Republican Governors start off refusing the money then quietly take it. The trouble is the state's do not use the money as intended, after all a republican is a republican.
Mountain biking (MTBing) goes much higher--but love it! :)
House GOP + Global Threat Reduction Initiative = ?
In this case, good news for once.
http://pogoblog.typepad.com/pogo/2012/06/energy-dept-transfers-17-million-from-reverse-field-of-dreams-to-program-that-makes-americans-safer.html
Please, let's just privatize everything and get it over with. And, oh, by the way, moms and dads out there--I hope you have the dough to send your kids to private schools. Think you are taxed enough already? Wait until you are "tuitioned" enough already.
#sorry #crabbythisfriday
Oh and by the way unless you want your kids taught in a parochial school where belief outweighs fact then you might want to send them to Europe.
The best way to get an education is to go out there and learn it all yourself free of charge. If you were brought up with no hopes of ever going to college you educate yourself. Who could teach you any better than yourself. You just have to keep searching for the answers, and never stop asking why?
Try to get a job on a degree from the University of I Taught myself!
Try to get a job on a degree.
Angel#77--you missed the point. I was referring to K-12 education. Yes, they call fees "tuition" at private schools at the K-12 level. Try to get a job that pays the bills without a high school degree or equivalent. Plus, I don't think we really want to go down the road of corporately run schools. If people don't like the government setting agendas, just wait until profit reigns over student productivity.
By the way, I know that locally, when one is trying to find a job and having a tough time, a degree can seem like a wasted investment. (Try finding a full-time teaching job with a PhD, because you actually love teaching. It's tough in the adjunct-loving world of academia.) But the fact remains that the unemployment rate among those with a Bachelor's degree or higher is around 4% or less. The same cannot be said for those with a HS diploma or less.
Don't get jaded. It'll wear you down. And make you crabby on Fridays. #takeitfromsomeonewhoknows
Actually, it wasn't an employee who got busted for making meth in the Walmart. It was a customer caught shoplifting who made the meth while being detained and waiting for police.
Thanks! You're so right.
I watch the Maddow Show every morning, so am always watching a day late -- this post refers to yesterday's opening monologue about Romney's repeated lies and lack of shame. I would really love to hear Steve Schmidt discuss this shift wherein the Republican party seeming to have officially embraced these low morals. Arguments can be made for what has happened unofficially regarding truth and lies and morals, but no one can disagree that the shift from McCain as a nominee to Romney is stark. I'd be interested to hear Schmidt's thoughts.
If Mario Gutierrez wins the triple crown tomorrow I wonder if he would still be hassled in Arizona over the show me papers law, but then again if he does win he will have bunches of money, and isn't that what all this is really about. Money always seems to break the racial barriers. So after what happened in Wisconsin I strongly advise the next generation of Hispanics that they better find a way to make a lot of money or else they are screwed.