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"State budget victims cannot be forgotten"-Sen. Hassan

by: JonnyBBad

Thu Jun 30, 2011 at 07:55:21 AM EDT

( - promoted by William Tucker)

Thank you Senator for standing up for the voiceless.
You ask us to have a conscience, something that the other team seems to have not. This budget and the Speaker who pushed it and passed it are mean and extreme.

http://www.concordmonitor.com/...
State budget victims cannot be forgotten
By Maggie Hassan / For the Monitor
June 29, 2011
Last week, New Hampshire House Finance Chairman Ken Weyler said the shortcomings in the state budget are like minor annoyances in a new car that disappoint at first but in a month, we "forget about them."

But for thousands of Granite Staters there is nothing forgettable about this budget - a budget that gives more money to tobacco companies while cutting half the state contribution to the university system, eliminating private- and public-sector jobs, hurting our economy and devastating the lives of our most vulnerable.

And it's not just what they want you to forget - it's what they want you to believe. According to Speaker Bill O'Brien, those who need services should turn first to their families and churches for help, as if families, churches and charities don't already play an important role and as if the things cut in this budget were unnecessary in the first place.

As the mother of an adult son with severe disabilities, I know that no one is forgettable. As a part of a family that has worked for two decades to include our son in our home and in the community, I know that the services he has received have been necessary and effective. And as a state senator, I learned from hundreds of our state's citizens that families, churches and charities cannot by themselves provide the kind of sustained and specialized help that some of our friends and neighbors need.

full article at link
http://www.concordmonitor.com/...

"...no one is forgettable." A hurt to one is a hurt to all.

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"State budget victims cannot be forgotten"-Sen. Hassan | 5 comments

thanks Tuck (4.00 / 2)

Thank you Senator Hassan for sharing your personal family story and for your continued commitment to the community.
I hope we see you back in the State House in 2012.

For my own two cents...Weyler is the one I would like to forget; a two faced cretin who supports cutting Collective Bargaining rights for others-public employees, while he personally maintains memberships in two pilots Unions.

note to close readers: this might be sarcastic so think twice before reading to candidates for use in their attacks on each other

by: JonnyBBad @ Thu Jun 30, 2011 at 14:27:56 PM UTC

Excellent Commentary... (4.00 / 2)

...by someone who would make a great Governor. Heart-felt thoughts about a budget that was assembled in parts by the heart-less.

by: Rep. Jim Splaine @ Thu Jun 30, 2011 at 14:45:02 PM UTC

Sorta Like (4.00 / 1)

Let them eat cake

by: tchair @ Thu Jun 30, 2011 at 21:51:29 PM UTC

While it's true that the President compared the (0.00 / 0)

Republican handling of the economy to driving a car into the ditch, people are not like cars and their deprivation is not something to overlook or get used to. At least not if the person has normal human sensibilities. Thinking of people as if they were things, fungible and disposable, defines the materialist. Conservatives calling themselves idealists doesn't mean they are.

by: hannah @ Thu Jun 30, 2011 at 22:37:21 PM UTC

The victims should not be forgotten and neither (4.00 / 1)

The victims should not be forgotten and neither should those who voted for this budget. Reminding the voters of who created this reckless budget is our job now.

Have you told a stranger today about Bill O'Brien and his Tea Party agenda? The people of NH deserve to hear about O'Brien and his majority committed to destroying New Hampshire and remaking it into a armed survivalist preserve.

by: Ray Buckley @ Fri Jul 01, 2011 at 03:00:53 AM UTC

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