QOTD

by: Dean Barker

Mon Aug 23, 2010 at 19:47:08 PM EDT

Along with no income stream that's broad-based - like an income or sales tax - going to state coffers, there is also the fact the state's budget is kept at, as Rep. Margie Smith, the House finance chair, calls it, at a "structural deficit." This means that the Legislature approves projects that it has no ability to pay for when you add up the collective price tag.

So before anyone takes a look at the next budget and the liabilities, there is no way state revenues can pay for them all. The discussion begins with where do we cut versus what can we grow or what can we sustain.

-James Pindell

QOTD: This is America

by: Dean Barker

Fri Aug 13, 2010 at 21:37:36 PM EDT

"...I believe that Muslims have the same right to practice their religion as anyone else in this country. That includes the right to build a place of worship and a community center on private property in lower Manhattan, in accordance with local laws and ordinances. This is America, and our commitment to religious freedom must be unshakeable. The principle that people of all faiths are welcome in this country, and will not be treated differently by their government, is essential to who we are. The writ of our Founders must endure."

- President Barack Obama

Remind them of this when they come a-knocking on our primary doors.

QOTD

by: Dean Barker

Tue Aug 10, 2010 at 11:04:54 AM EDT

"Kelly Ayotte has proven time and time again that she will stand with the extreme right instead of the people of New Hampshire," said Hodes. "The Kelly Ayotte and Sarah Palin team would trample on the rights of Americans simply to score political points. I will not support any proposal to weaken, rewrite, or repeal the 14th Amendment of our Constitution. New Hampshire needs an independent fighter in the United States Senate who will stand with all of New Hampshire's middle-class families, not a right-wing politician who is only interested in standing up for the far-right special interests."

- Paul Hodes, from a statement released today.

QOTD

by: Dean Barker

Sat Aug 07, 2010 at 08:01:41 AM EDT

When my income goes down, so does my income tax. When I lose my job, my property tax remains the same, or as in today's conditions, may even go up.

QOTD

by: Dean Barker

Mon Jul 05, 2010 at 07:01:25 AM EDT

"I have one message," [Rep. Timothy] Robertson said. "Our state is not in an overspending problem. It's in an under-funding problem," and that's because too many politicians, especially candidates for the governor's office, take The Pledge.

..."Republicans and Democrats have been locked into this position so tightly it is not even worth asking anymore," he said. "They don't even explain why. It's a knee-jerk reaction ... a negative promise ... that we won't equitably fund our schools, our government and our services."

QOTD

by: Dean Barker

Wed Jun 30, 2010 at 18:29:03 PM EDT

"Congratulating a student on their graduation from high school is a crime, but verbal assaults against single mothers, gays, and lesbians [in front of high schoolers] are perfectly fine?"

(Full release below the fold...)

QOTD

by: Dean Barker

Fri Jun 18, 2010 at 21:49:47 PM EDT

"In America, many self-described deficit hawks are hypocrites, pure and simple: They're eager to slash benefits for those in need, but their concerns for red ink vanish when it comes to tax breaks for the wealthy." - Some hippie.

QOTD

by: Dean Barker

Wed Jun 16, 2010 at 18:41:14 PM EDT

"Analogy: The liberal, progressive, socialist Democrats have finally done it. We are overcome by a society of gorillas, chimps and orangutans (my apologies to the apes) as in the movie, who lobotomize us with Obamacare, cap and tax, FCC regs, FTC regs, new taxes and fees, threats to confiscate our retirement savings, insurmountable national debt, crippling energy restrictions and 35 czars to circumvent our elected representatives when they want to. Are we on another planet, really, as the crew in "Planet of the Apes" thought they were?