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Open Thread: No Preconditions Edition

by: Jack Mitchell

Tue Dec 02, 2008 at 13:54:23 PM EST
Gov. John Lynch (D-Hopkinton) spoke to reporters after attending a meeting with President-elect Obama and said that he is not depending on money from the federal government to help New Hampshire close its current budget deficit.

"I'm certainly not counting on money from the federal government to deal with our remaining $75 million shortfall, so I'm not counting on that," Lynch said on a conference call with reporters.

Lynch was attending a meeting of the National Governors Association which met with Obama in Philadelphia and said he does not think Obama will give states money that would make the current state budgets worse.

"I believe that President-elect Obama is sensitive to not requiring that states to match investment dollars coming from the federal government because I think he's sensitive to the fact that that would exacerbate the financial challenges that the state is facing and not help," he said. "I also think that he's sensitive to the fact that he doesn't want to offer one time moneys that will just raise the cost of the fix cost infrastructure such that the states will be dealing with a year or two later."

This Lynch fella, is one smart cookie!

Please enjoy this open thread.
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Tweety might be in (0.00 / 0)
538 was pretty sure, until Matthews cried fowl.

http://www.bluenewstribune.com...

OK, I'll bite. Federal revenue sharing is appropriate (0.00 / 0)
when the funds support state programs that accommodate citizens' rights to move, set up residence or seek employment wherever they want.  
That means that some portion of the basic education budget is appropriately funded by federal dollars.  Ditto for transportation and environmental clean-up and remediation costs, etc.
What's not appropriate is for federal funds to be used to exercise control (i.e. as bribes) in areas where the federal government has no jurisdiction.  I have to admit that I'm short on specifics.  But, subsidies to sugar producers and hazmat suits for our police come to mind.
Hannah MUST bash! n/t (4.00 / 1)


Whack-a-mole, anyone?
[ Parent ]
How much money do we lose every year? (0.00 / 0)
For not requiring adults to wear seat belts in cars and helmets on motorcycles?  You can support or oppose those things, but the federal government has no jurisdiction, and the fact that they blackmail the states with funding on so many issues is essentially an admission that it has no jurisdiction.  And yet, it keeps going.

--
Hope 2012

@DougLindner

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DODDMANIA! (4.00 / 1)
Dodd backer Rep. Xavier Becerra offered US Trade Rep post in Obama Admin.

(Full disclosure: I was on a radio show with him once and we traded jokes about Latin in between Doddmania.  I think this tiny casual brush with fame makes me a member of Obama's team now, just once removed!)

birch, finch, beech

Rest in Peace, Odetta (4.00 / 1)
There have been just a few singers I've heard whose voice and presence would command attention. Odetta died last night, joining Johnny Cash and Tommy Makem.
Miriam Makeba 4 March 1932 - 10 November 2008 (4.00 / 1)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M...
Miriam Makeba (4 March 1932 - 10 November 2008)[2] was a South African singer and civil rights activist. The Grammy Award winning artist is often referred to as Mama Afrika.

snip-
n 1959, she performed in the musical King Kong alongside Hugh Masekela, her future husband. Though she was a successful recording artist, she was only receiving a few dollars for each recording session and no provisional royalties, and was keen to go to the US. Her break came when she starred in the anti-apartheid documentary Come Back, Africa in 1959 by independent filmmaker Lionel Rogosin. She attended the premiere of the film at the Venice Film Festival.

[edit] Exile

Makeba then travelled to London where she met Harry Belafonte, who assisted her in gaining entry to and fame in the United States. She released many of her most famous hits there including "Pata Pata", "The Click Song" ("Qongqothwane" in Xhosa), and "Malaika". In 1966, Makeba received the Grammy Award for Best Folk Recording together with Harry Belafonte for An Evening With Belafonte/Makeba. The album dealt with the political plight of black South Africans under apartheid.



for transparency sake ~I represent Union print shops
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No comment on Richardson? (0.00 / 0)
n/t
He's sans-beard (0.00 / 0)
Obama does not approve.

--
Hope 2012

@DougLindner

[ Parent ]
Sometime's Ambinder's (0.00 / 0)
outstanding gift of prose obscures mediocre punditry, but this analysis of the GA-Sen runoff is superb.

birch, finch, beech
Can we get one of these, please (0.00 / 0)
The Ticker has a wicked cool PR feature.
Shea-Porter Urges State Department to Keep Dover Call Center Open
Dec 4 2008

Congressman Paul Hodes Urges Secretary of State Rice to Reconsider Closing Dover Call Center
Dec 4 2008

House re-elects Norelli
Dec 3 2008

Gov. Lynch: State Ready to Assist Workers at Dover Call Center
Dec 3 2008

Hodes, Delahunt File Legislation to Keep Families in Their Homes
Dec 3 2008

I want one, I want one, I want one.

'Cept betterer, so we can put comments up. Like a lil FP box with titles only. Whose got the chops?



Whack-a-mole, anyone?

Spitzer becomes .... (0.00 / 0)
a columnist for Slate.

http://www.bluenewstribune.com...

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