Taxpayers are covering the salaries of federal employees who are full time union activists? And some people say there's no place to cut the federal budget. An Associated Press story in the June 5, 2009 edition of The Oregonian about Republican budget cutting proposals noted that the proposals included "...plenty of political proposals, including a move ...to block federal employees who are union activists from being granted time to devote all their work time to union activities". How many of these folks are on the federal payroll anyway? What a racket. And why is a proposal to eliminate these positions "political" and not "common sense"?
See: http://www.oregonlive.com/newsflash/index.ssf?/base/national-3/1244146038132290.xml&storylist=washington
Friday, June 5, 2009
Thursday, May 21, 2009
Oregon's budget is insanity
Insanity.
Despite all the hand-wringing and doom-saying, Oregon’s proposed budget for 2009-11 proposes spending $15.2 billion in general fund and lottery dollars, a 5.3 percent INCREASE over the 2007-2009 budget in a time of supposed fiscal austerity. Justifying this spending level, Democrats claim the budget requires $2 billion in cuts because it would cost $17.2 billion to continue providing state services at their current level. That would have been a $2.8 billion, or a 19.5 percent, increase over the 2007-2009 budget. If the Democrats think that kind of explosive growth in Oregon’s general fund and lottery dollars budget makes sense, look at what the budget would be if you carried that kind of increase through in subsequent budgets:
2011-2013 $20.6 billion
2013-2015 $24.6 billion
2015-2017 $29.4 billion
Somebody’s taxes are going to have to go up to cover this. Just think of what Oregon’s politicians could do with all that money.
On top of all this, don’t forget that the Democrats are proposing $800 million in new tax revenue for the 2009-2011 general fund and lottery dollars budget. The added taxes are intended to deal with the temporary economic downturn, but that taxes will be permanent.
Despite all the hand-wringing and doom-saying, Oregon’s proposed budget for 2009-11 proposes spending $15.2 billion in general fund and lottery dollars, a 5.3 percent INCREASE over the 2007-2009 budget in a time of supposed fiscal austerity. Justifying this spending level, Democrats claim the budget requires $2 billion in cuts because it would cost $17.2 billion to continue providing state services at their current level. That would have been a $2.8 billion, or a 19.5 percent, increase over the 2007-2009 budget. If the Democrats think that kind of explosive growth in Oregon’s general fund and lottery dollars budget makes sense, look at what the budget would be if you carried that kind of increase through in subsequent budgets:
2011-2013 $20.6 billion
2013-2015 $24.6 billion
2015-2017 $29.4 billion
Somebody’s taxes are going to have to go up to cover this. Just think of what Oregon’s politicians could do with all that money.
On top of all this, don’t forget that the Democrats are proposing $800 million in new tax revenue for the 2009-2011 general fund and lottery dollars budget. The added taxes are intended to deal with the temporary economic downturn, but that taxes will be permanent.
Friday, February 20, 2009
1984 is here.
On the radio this morning I heard about how Obama is insisting that we can't have "business as usual". This just days after he signed a so-called Stimulus Bill that was created by the Democrats as a political cornucopia of goodies for the special interests the party depends upon. Then I heard about Obama telling the Canadian Prime Minister that he's against protectionism, when the Stimulus Bill he signed specifically includes Buy American provisions. And to top it all off, Obama has called a summit to focus on the need for budget discipline that will deal with expanding deficits, just when he has raised the US deficit to levels not seen in my lifetime. Obama has truly mastered what is known in 1984's Newspeak as doublethink, the ability to hold two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, while accepting both of them.
On the radio this morning I heard about how Obama is insisting that we can't have "business as usual". This just days after he signed a so-called Stimulus Bill that was created by the Democrats as a political cornucopia of goodies for the special interests the party depends upon. Then I heard about Obama telling the Canadian Prime Minister that he's against protectionism, when the Stimulus Bill he signed specifically includes Buy American provisions. And to top it all off, Obama has called a summit to focus on the need for budget discipline that will deal with expanding deficits, just when he has raised the US deficit to levels not seen in my lifetime. Obama has truly mastered what is known in 1984's Newspeak as doublethink, the ability to hold two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, while accepting both of them.
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