Comments on: ‘Red meat’ calls for budget cuts are fine, as long as someone else wields the knife

By: Oh yeah

Oh yeah — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 02:01:33 +0000

Nice Job Hera. Take it out on the government employees because your beloved private sector spewed chow and left you with a bad attitude. If there had been more government regulation of the mortgage institutions or less reckless loans by the blameless banks you might not be in that house that’s too big with a payment you can’t afford!

By: ChrisS

ChrisS — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 22:12:25 +0000

Bluedogdemocrat has a good take on the budget crisis over at http://leftonlanier.com

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Budget Problems, AGAIN!!!! « Left on Lanier — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 21:39:30 +0000

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By: Jekyll Lover

Jekyll Lover — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 20:59:06 +0000

Don’t forget the $50 million in general obligation bonds (which must be repaid by us taxpayers, with interest) used to support Mercer Reynold’s new resort project on Jekyll Island State Park, as well as all the tax breaks doled out for the project itself, so that this private developer can rake in huge profits from prime real estate on a public island and state park.

By: BPJ

BPJ — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 20:39:28 +0000

Wow, the Fundamentalist Libertarians are really upset by any challenge to their worldview. They know (because their faith tells them so) that we can have lower taxes and all the government services we really care about. There is no sign in any of these posts of anyone having grappled with the actual state budget in any detail. One just says randomly strike one out of four (non public-safety) agencies. Yeah, that’s rational policy making! No one seems to be willing to do the hard work of specifying the precise cuts to be made, and then discussing the likely impacts on quality of life.

By: Hera

Hera — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:29:44 +0000

These Elected Spenders main purpose in life is to keep their jobs with all their perks and power. Then they have to keep the jobs of their friends and family. Kicking back “contracts” and favors to major donors is also a priority. When it comes to “What is best” for us poor old taxpaying voters they are clueless.
What is so hard about NOT SPENDING MONEY? These Elected Spenders don’t even understand the concept. STOP SPENDING MONEY. It is not your money it is MY money and VOTERS MONEY. STOP SPENDING IT as if you won the lottery.
In Georgia only 17% of the private sector now has traditional pensions. Shouldn’t that tell the State of Georgia something? STOP offering pensions for public service employees as of January, 2010. Those currently in the system for more than five years are grandfathered in and the rest get a payout into a 401K. New hires start with a new 401K system just like the rest of us poor old taxpayers who live in the real world.
If the Elected Spenders can not figure out how to STOP SPENDING just take the State of Georgia Yellow Pages and cross out one out of every four agencies/departments that do not effect Police/Fire/Safety. Yes, I know that some people will suffer or be inconvenienced. Yes, I know jobs will be lost. But guess what? All this is MY MONEY. These jobs are not a RIGHT. These services are not a RIGHT.
STOP SPENDING MONEY.
I wish people who run for office would run on the plateform that they WOULD NOT BRING PORK back to their district. That they would NEVER vote for a tax increase. Most of all I wish somebody had the nerve to give me a list of Agencies/Departments they would cut if elected. But of course that would lose votes.
All that is left for us is to keep throwing these Elected Spenders out until you elect people that are fiscally responsible. Good luck to all of us waiting for that to happen.

JBoys comments above are consistant with a person who thinks stopping the use of my tax dollars for any special interest “HATES” those getting the benefit. This is the mentality that does not allow any spending cuts. These people start screaming, “Look at what somebody else is getting”. Next they threaten us that we will suffer if we cut them off from my tax dollars.
No one wants to make the hard decisions. State employees have had it good and if you read my post my plan would grandfather all of their pensions. But even the mere thought that unknown State employees from the future might not get their perks sets JBoy into a tizzy.
Too bad it does the same thing to all our Elected Spenders.

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By: Base

Base — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 15:22:55 +0000

Sonny continues to gore everybody’s ox but his own.Why doesn’t he cut his own staff they are useless. Sonny buys useless jobs with our tax dollars and calls them tax cuts.

By: jboy

jboy — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 14:31:01 +0000

To All State Employee/Agency haters— better be careful about cutting out state Agencies, a lot of Business’s in Georgia depend on SUBSIDIES to operate, the AXE could fall on your job too…..then you better know a little about growin a garden for food. It’s not State Agencies fault for the National Crisis. It’s our elected immoral Officials who don’t feel any of the pain we feel. They have their own retirement & health care in which we (unelected officials) cannot participate in. There won’t ever be a change in Government until they are made to face the same issues the average taxpayer faces each day. So, if you want to change things, join a TEA Party and raise some hell!!

By: Daedalus

Daedalus — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 13:40:12 +0000

I’m all for eliminating unnecessary agencies — start with the State Department of Education — after all we cannot fall much farther than last in education.

By: retiredds

retiredds — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 13:23:07 +0000

When Sonny and the Republicans took over there were celebrations everywhere. A new day had arrived. The Republicans would solve all the problems Democrats had piled up over the prior 130 years. Political nirvana had at last arrived. Today all Georgians bask in the sun light of wise rule of Sonny and friends. All is happiness in red la la land.