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Nofsdad


Joined: 06 Jul 2003
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Location: Central CA
Posted: Sun May 31, 2009 11:51 pm    Post subject: Dumbassed Quote Of The Day:  
Actor Craig T. Nelson during an anti-tax tirade on Glenn Beck's show:
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"I've been on welfare and food stamps...did anyone help me?"

Well... yeah dumbass. They gave you welfare and food stamps.

Do any of these people EVER stop to think about what they're saying?
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Magnolia


Joined: 26 Aug 2005
Posts: 1707
Posted: Mon Jun 01, 2009 2:02 am    Post subject:  
A M A Z I N G.

I wonder if he votes republican. ??
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Nofsdad


Joined: 06 Jul 2003
Posts: 8380
Location: Central CA
Posted: Mon Jun 01, 2009 2:05 am    Post subject:  
Oh yeah. You don't get on Beck's show if you're not a Republican.

Coach's whole screed centers around the fact that it pisses him off when the government spends HIS money to help someone else. He's even threatening not to pay his income taxes.

Then... with the statement above... he admits that HE wasn't above asking for a little help before he became a C list TV actor and part of the lesser nobility.

Maybe the hypocrite sonofabitch should take this opportunity to pay back everything he was given back then. Plus interest.
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Nofsdad


Joined: 06 Jul 2003
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Location: Central CA
Posted: Mon Jun 08, 2009 7:26 pm    Post subject:  
Actually have two today but they're from the same person and interconnected. And this is the person who has half the Republican party hanging off his rear end. Rolling Eyes

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Then Rush noted that Judge Sonia Sotomayor "has broken her ankle. She fractured her ankle in an airport. She stumbled in the airport on her way to Senate meetings. Now the question is, would a white male judge have fractured his ankle in the same circumstances at the same airport on the way to Senate meetings?"


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After another break, Rush came back with another knee-slapper about Sotomayor's broken ankle that sounded suspiciously familiar: "Given Sotomayor's preference for Latinas in every walk of life, I hope she can find a wise Latina doctor to set that ankle as opposed to an average white doctor, because the wise Latina doctor has a much richer experience with broken ankles, probably do a much better job of setting that ankle than an average white doctor who has not lived the rich experiences of the Latina med student and resident."


The sad part of it is that while some will take these as profound and meaningful political discourse, many of those that know better will be touting them as examples of Limbaugh's unparalleled comedic talents.

Either way...
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mdovell


Joined: 22 Dec 2007
Posts: 461
Posted: Mon Jun 08, 2009 9:34 pm    Post subject:  
I'm thinking he might have been on these systems before the reforms. Food stamps right now is an electronic card (EBT). This way it tracks purchases and can be turned off if it isn't really going to food. Under clinton welfare turned into workfare. Generally giving a time period of two years to find a job and gradually as someone earned more the benifits were cut.

PBS had a decent Frontline episode years ago of people trying to surivive and get off the system. Most did but not all cases were typical.
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Nofsdad


Joined: 06 Jul 2003
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Location: Central CA
Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2009 12:39 am    Post subject:  
One of the programs getting Arnie's axe is Cal Works, our version of workfare. This was one of the few state programs that paid real dividends.

In other Terminator news, it's looking as if he and the minority party are hell bent on using the budget to exact a measure of revenge from anyone who has stood up against them. This from David Dayen at Calitics:
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Late last week I received a statement from an anonymous state employee working at the Employment Development Department, which included some pretty stunning allegations about how Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Legislature are dealing with state workers. For example, the Governor would reduce all state employee salaries by 5%, including ones not paid out of the General Fund but through other dedicated resources, including federal dollars. Our budget deficit is a General Fund crisis, not a crisis of those other resources, and so there is absolutely no necessity to reduce those salaries.

So why does the guv feel the need to chop these people off if they aren't being paid by the state? Read on:
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In addition, the Governor has proposed furloughing such workers, an illegal action since state law excludes Special Fund workers from these types of job reductions. The State Compensation Insurance Fund just successfully sued the Governor over this matter.

Again, having lost in his last battle over the same thing, why is he doing it again?
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Perhaps worst of all, the Governor and the Legislature have in recent years used special fund money to balance the budget.

This is what the {failed} Props. 1D and 1E would have done... move dedicated funds into the General Fund and they were soundly rejected. And yet the Governor and a compliant legislature go right ahead and does it anyway when the funds at risk are more murky and have lower-profile champions.

In other words, the voters made it clear they didn't want it done by rejecting his two pet initiatives and yet he does it anyway... some suspect as punishment for hose who told him to keep his damned hands off.
He's also defying the will of the voters by establishing a spending cap although he does it in a rather sneaker manner:
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This parallels the Governor, despite failing with Prop. 1A, budgeting a $4.5 billion dollar reserve for the upcoming fiscal year, despite the "rainy day" we're currently facing, essentially moving forward in violation of the will of the voters with a spending cap.

In other words, he's supposed to set aside 4.5 billion for a "rainy day" while the rest of us are battling against a flipping flood already.

Don't get caught up in the way the MSM is choosing to interpret the vote here in CA last month. Some of the initiatives that the minority party is touting as a "victory" or a "mandate"... and an indication that the majority of the people in this state want what THEY want... actually got a majority vote, some as high as 10 percentage points. They fell prey only to the obscene 2/3 majority requirement that should never have been there in the first place.

All we have here is once again, the rich and idle in Southern California have looted and pillaged the rest of the state. Hell, they're already lining up to buy land all around some of the parks that are being closed and no doubt would dearly love to have some of the parks themselves for commercial development.
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mdovell


Joined: 22 Dec 2007
Posts: 461
Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2009 12:50 pm    Post subject:  
Where I am there's also been some odd stuff. We have a county with some of it's own holidays. It's just two days. Ok fine a county can do that if they want. However the state employees in that county also get those holidays...paid.
The vote was close but they are staying...this costs five million dollars...and yet we are cutting other programs or raising taxes. It's stupid for some to suggest that the state is trying at this point. There's not even a lobbiest firm that is for these holidays. Little amounts add up. We have redemption laws on bottles and cans here. Unclaimed amounts apparently the state keeps in some fund and it's around 30 million!

There's also some rumblings that the casino in RI might ask for a bailout! Apparently they spent around half a billion on an expansion and no one showed up.
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