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U.S. Republicans governors are split over whether to accept all of the money their states stand to receive from a $787 billion economic stimulus plan which President Barack Obama signed last week.
Three governors of southern states have come out against taking part of the money designated to extend unemployment benefits and perhaps for other programs. A handful of others are considering follow suit…
“There is some (stimulus money) we will not take in Mississippi. If we were to take the unemployment insurance reform package that they have, it would cause us to raise taxes on employment when the money runs out, and the money will run out in a couple of years,” said Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford and Louisiana’s Bobby Jindal, who has often been mentioned as a potential Republican presidential candidate in 2012, have also said they would reject the unemployment funds, which make up a small proportion of the overall package…
Later, speaking to reporters at a National Governors’ Association meeting in Washington, Sanford listed some other monies he did not want, possibly including $42 million for retrofitting state buildings to be more energy efficient.
Isn’t it great to see Republicans admit to being Republicans?
Smart Governors. Taking this portion of money would force states to broaden who gets this benefit in future years making it a new mandatory entitlement without any additional federal dollars to support it. Only dumbasses that dont work and/or pay taxes would agree to this. At least we have a couple of smart governors…
Yeah I have to say this shouldn’t be seen as a landmark or example of good Republican ethos or anything.
They’re still taking bail out money, just specifically nothing for unemployment appropriations. So they’re not saying “We don’t believe in the bailout/stimulus/porkulus (pick whatever term you want) so we’re not taking a dime”, they’re saying “Well as long as you’re offering free money, we’ll take all of this but not this specific bit that’s meant to help the poor folk that are out of work. Fuck them.”
It’s petty, and kind of viciously cruel. I suppose it is “Republican” in that the right has been pretty anti-wellfare for the past, well, ever. But still – low blow, man. Low blow.
I’m with the Governator – send that shit to California, where they need it.
#33 Alex
Yeah, fuck the poor out of work. Nice way to look at it but you’d be wrong. They don’t want to accept the money for unemployment benefits since it would turn into an unfunded federal mandate in a couple three years then the state would be on the hook for it.
I would send a dime to Kalifornia until they do something to resolve their own damn problem which, through their liberal policies they have brought upon themselves. Boo hoo, too damn bad for them.
Got to love Jindal. Born Again, UFO see-ing, God speaking-to-me, anti-immigrant, Creationist believer, homophobe, abstinence preaching .. need I go on?
Nice to see he stands up to his values, sad that he wants to impose them on everybody in his state and beyond.
Thank you Jesus for this insufferable prick.
dumbassliberals — # 32
Do you actually read or just listen to Rush and vomit up his regurgitation?
Totally false assertion. There’s no mandate for states to continue to do ANYTHING should they accept funding.
Novel idea — try READING the ACTUAL text for the funding … get educated then comment.
In Jindal’s words: http://www.breitbart.tv/?p=283773&widget=1
Sorry, try this instead: http://tinyurl.com/c3v2xc
For those who are posting and have, of course, read the law in question…
‘‘(1) is entitled to receive unemployment insurance as a
result of the establishment by the worker of a new benefit year under State law, based in whole or in part upon part time or short-term employment in which the worker engaged after the worker’s most recent total separation from adversely affected employment;”
When will any of you partisan suck-ups realize that the Government is a single monster with two heads? One head looks like an Elephant and the other a Donkey.
Pointing out the hypocrisy of the other party solves NOTHING!
#40, Agreed.
And while people are arguing about the money, they have forgotten it shouldn’t have been approved in the first place.
Yep, that Obama sure is smart, keeping people’s minds off the real problem.
This blame game between parties is the biggest con of them all. There is only one fundemental problem, and it is that the Federal Government, and Wall Street money fabricators (two heads, same people), are too big, and have too much power, which only leads to more and more corruption.
LORD God Obama has declared that any governor who refuses the heaven-sent stimulus funding is hereby a heretic and a racist. What the LORD hath given, the people must receive so they may worship LORD Obama for the omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent deity that he is.
43,
That has got to be one of the stupidest things I have read today. Say something about what you find bad in the law, say something about why the govenors are justified in their position (personally, I think they are idiotic hypocritical assholes, but that’s me), or anything els that actuall,y provides intelligent feedback.
This pathetic attempt at humor is not only a ridiculous hyperbolic screed attempting to reinforce the straw-man argument of Obama the celebrity, it says nothing of substance.
A more intelligent jibe would somehow tie in your issues with the bill. Something like, “so the GREAT and GRAND states of Bumf*ck and A$$land refuse federal funds, I guess they must have had a bumper crop of crystal meth this year”.
..and to bring race into this is below reprehensible. Dickhead.
@paddy-o
# 28 grog said, “c’mon paddy, you gotta know i don’t care if they take it or not”
The # and tenor of your posts on this thread belie your claim.
great way to avoid addressing the contents of my post. FAIL
#43 – I don’t think Barry thinks he’s God. He does think he the Kwisatz Haderach though.
# 46 grog said, “great way to avoid addressing the contents of my post.”
I see you’re back posting on a thread that you don’t care about. ROFL!
#7 – What is so fair about inheritance tax?
#20, smitty,
The point is that media and academia (excluding hard sciences, math, biology, et al) and the left (I know redundant to say) strive to brainwash based on ideological lines rather than their primary purpose which is to clarify the world at large.
Yet, in your undying wisdom of truth, justice, and the wing-nut way have made even the mud seem clear to all those who have drank the right wing kool-aid and are totally above baffling with bullshit to, in effect, say nothing at all except through in a dig at a part of the political spectrum you happen to disagree with, by all indications, quite verbosely.
You get a myopic and third grade level of understanding the world to the degree that you can say literally contradictory things from one week to the next and nobody notices.
Such as working with the Democrats to craft a bill, then voting against it, then taking credit for it?
So what should be demanded is that these entities stick to their original purpose which is to explain and clarify the world and events, rather than attempt to transform the world (politically) along ideological lines or its left wing (or even right wing) values.
So allow me to ask again, what the eff are you talking about?
Why not try again when you learn how to talk like an adult.
#48, Cow-Patty,
I see you’re back posting on a thread that you don’t care about. ROFL!
And the rest of us see you are still trolling.
You are such an effen tool. And that is NOT a compliment.
#49, Richard,
#7 – What is so fair about inheritance tax?
Because it introduces so many inheritors to the wonderful world of paying taxes for the first time in their pampered lives.
And the State of Washington began spending their Job Creation stimulus money by sending out $1 checks to 250,000 food stamp recipients.
http://bit.ly/NVh75
# 46 grog said, “great way to avoid addressing the contents of my post.”
I see you’re back posting on a thread that you don’t care about. ROFL
and i see you still haven’t addressed the fact that republican governors listed above take in more federal money than they pay into the system and that makes their political stunt laughably transparent and kinda cynical.
but you can continue to make this about me if that’s all you can do.
you used to be more fun.
To all republicans,
If you’re real about your party and don’t want that extra money Obama singed bill, Please deposit the money in my paypal account.
# 51 Mr. Fusion said, “You are such an effen tool. ”
Being owned so often is making you testy.
# 54 grog said, “and i see you still haven’t addressed the fact that republican governors listed above take in more federal money than they pay ”
Umm, I addressed it on post #26. Read much?
I’d love for state governors to ignore the stimulus package with regards to its rollback of welfare reform.
#52:
The inheritance tax makes upward mobility difficult. There’s nothing wrong with a family accumulating wealth over generations – the first couple of generations laboring and saving so that the grandchildren can go to college – this is a natural and healthy process.
The inheritance tax resets every generation to zero, and forces people to rely on gov’t handouts for things like college tuition. There is some sick attitude taking hold here that equates inheritance with cheating.
#59–brm==thats funny. Are you that stupid, uninformed, twisted, indoctrinated or what?
College Tuition in the main is paid by parents/the kiddies during their life times—has absolutely nothing to do with inheritance tax.
The initial estate exemption from the tax is currently 3.5 million. Even if you plan on sending your kiddies to college after you die, you still have to leave more than 3.5 million before the tax even applies.
That is “back to nothing” in your book? Wow. Must be nice to be that insanely rich, or stupid.
# 60 bobbo said, “College Tuition in the main is paid by parents/the kiddies during their life times”
Right, because the inheritance tax took the grandparents and great grand parents money. Thanks for proving the point.