Incredibly Humorous Video of N.J. Governor Chris Christie and the President of the Teachers Union regarding “Death Prayers”
by ilene - November 22nd, 2010 3:19 pm
Mish presents the "Incredibly Humorous Video of N.J. Governor Chris Christie and the President of the Teachers Union regarding ‘Death Prayers‘".
Courtesy of Mish
Governor Chris Christie continues to impress. Please check out this video in which he discusses death wishes by the head of the Bergen County Education Association.
The president of the Teachers Union offered an official apology and Christie invited her to his office to deliver that apology in person.
The video is funny from the start, but gets progressively funnier when Christie describes the meeting with the president of the Teachers’ Union in his office. Play it.
Schwarzenegger: “Terrible Cuts” Needed to Close Deficit
by ilene - May 13th, 2010 12:54 am
Schwarzenegger: "Terrible Cuts" Needed to Close Deficit; Prison System Insanity; Mish Proposals for California
Courtesy of Mish
Now that growth in California’s tax revenue is widely understood to be a mirage, with April wiping out all the gains in the previous 4 months, Schwarzenegger Preps ‘Terrible Cuts’ to Close Deficit.
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger will seek “terrible cuts” to eliminate an $18.6 billion budget deficit facing the most-populous U.S. state through June 2011, his spokesman said.
“We can’t get through this deficit without very terrible cuts,” Schwarzenegger spokesman Aaron McLear told reporters in Sacramento. “We don’t believe that raising taxes right now is the right thing to do.”
Schwarzenegger’s newest plan will revise the proposals introduced in January to account for the tax-collection shortages. In January, the governor said California may have to eliminate entire welfare programs, including the main one that provides cash and job assistance to families below the poverty line, without an influx of cash from the federal government.
Since then, the Democrat-controlled Legislature has made few strides toward closing the budget hole. Legislation adopted during the emergency session ordered by Schwarzenegger knocked about $1.4 billion from the deficit.
Democrats this week introduced a package of bills that would raise as much as $2.9 billion annually by imposing a 10 percent severance tax on oil production in the state, repealing corporate-tax breaks approved last year to spur job growth and assessing commercial property taxes differently.
By the beginning of 2010, Schwarzenegger and the lawmakers had closed a $60 billion deficit partly by slashing spending on schools, temporarily raising taxes and borrowing from local governments.
Prison System Insanity
I do not care for the Greece comparison, but some of the slides in 16 Reasons Why California Is The Next Greece are quite telling.
Slide #7: In 23 years, California erected 23 prisons and ONLY ONE university
"In a recent 23-year period, California erected 23 prisons — one a year, each costing roughly $100 million dollars annually to operate, with both Democratic and Republican governors occupying the statehouse — at the same time that it added just one campus to its vaunted university system, UC Merced."Slide #9: CA spends $859 million per year on imprisoned illegal immigrants
"There are roughly 19,000 illegal immigrants in state prisons, representing 11% of all inmates. That’s costing $970 million during