budgets
Nobody Has Any Money, Least Of All The Government, Because We Are All Fat
Problem: we are all fat, and even those of us who aren’t are being forced to pay for things to accommodate the new, larger comforts required of the overweight, such as bigger toilets in hospitals, and bigger seats in public transportation! Conveying our cars across space requires a billion more gallons of gasoline per year [...]
It’s The Trailer For Paul Ryan’s New Movie, ‘Paul Ryan’s FY2013 Budget’
Well howdy doo, that nice Boy Scout from down the street who’s offered to fix America’s finances, Rep. Paul Ryan, is releasing the sequel to last year’s Path to Prosperity next week. The last one was… ehh… don’t take this personally Paul Ryan… the last one could’ve had better sound mixing? Also too, it ended [...]
Bill Kristol Ensures ObamaCare Will Last Beyond 2013
Awful human being Bill Kristol predicted on Fox News yesterday that this health care reform bill will be repealed in 2013 — or “the bulk of it” at least, which probably means repealing the insurance mandate, which will cause premiums to exponentially skyrocket, which will then mean having to repeal the pre-existing condition/lifetime caps/rescission consumer [...]
Republicans Unveil ‘Full’ Plan To Fully Destroy Economy
Let it never be said that the Washington Post‘s Lori Montgomery can’t write a killer first sentence: “After getting blasted last week for presenting a budget plan light on details, House Republicans today unveiled a more complete proposal that would cut taxes for business and the wealthy, freeze most government spending for five years, halt [...]
Stimulus Bill Dismantled, Rebuilt Into Terrifying Cyborg
This poor stimulus bill has been kicked around and blown up a million times, completely dismembered, bathed in acid — basically Robocop, except boring, and with money. So what secret provisions did House and Senate negotiators slip into the bill into order to win the eternal fealty of the lobster queen Susan Collins and the [...]
CALIFORNIA’S TERRIBLE POLITICS, CONDENSED: “California’s budget mess got messier Thursday as Democratic legislators approved a package of tax increases and spending cuts, Republican legislators threatened to sue over the package’s questionable constitutionality and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger made the issue moot by promising to veto it. Democratic legislative leaders then announced lawmakers are going home for [...]
Mayor Cuts Every Program, Gives Self 28% Raise
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