Election results

[elfs]

The citizens of the State of Washington have elected to defund the State of Washington.

Ah, well. It was a nice state while it lasted.

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[solarbird]

I'm having an all-too-typically data-free discussion trying to get specifics out of cambler over on lj:Seattle. It's like pulling teeth.

[elfs.livejournal.com]

"I don't have time to write an essay."

If he really cared, he'd have the facts at hand.

If he cared just a little bit, he'd be able to paste "the facts" from some teabagger email.

CA <--> WA

[psi-star-psi.livejournal.com]

Wow. My sympathies. It looks like we managed finally to shake off that particular brand of idiocy today in California. It's a pity our example wasn't more apparent.

Fortunately, we have a huge backlog of idiocy remaining, so our reputation is secure.

[shunra.livejournal.com]

Damn.

So, what will a state bankruptcy look like? I don't mean the run-up to the bankruptcy, when there are no services and the roads go bad and the ferries start sinking and stuff. I mean when we run out of state funds to spend and still have to do stuff like pay the cops.

[omahas.livejournal.com]

Pay cops? That's a joke, right? Apparently, only the cops in "your" are supposed to be paid. Fuck your neighbors. >:

[shunra.livejournal.com]

I find myself concerned about people who have been positioning themselves for the last decade or so to be warlords - working with/for Blackwater, staging training grounds for para- and regular military organizations, etc.

In my neighborhood, this sort of thing.

Guns for hire have a problem - they can be hired by anyone with money. :-(

[omahas.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but they clearly are targeting bank and banking related customers and the like, not just anyone.

I guess my biggest anger is this wave of entitlement that is becoming so palpable over the past 15 years...this attitude that each person seems to be emanating that they are entitled to everything, but no one else is, and that they shouldn't have to work for what they get (i.e. pay taxes for it or be responsible in any way).

It sometimes makes me physically sick to my stomach.

[shunra.livejournal.com]

They're also targeting the county courthouse, which is where the sheriff's office has a convenient station.

In Monty Python's immortal words: "It seems a bit daft for me to have to guard him, him being a guard."

[http://users.livejournal.com/_candide_/]

i hear ya, Omaha. Here in NY State, our former governor, David Patterson, started sounding the warning bells 2 years ago. Before our state's main revenue source, the big Manhattan investment banks, all started to tank. As the economy started collapsing, Patterson began repeatedly telling the state senate and assembly, "We will not have as much revenue next year as in past years. Therefore, we cannot spend as much. We all have to do some belt-tightening. Everyone."

What did he get for it? Nationally mocked on SNL for 2 years. What did we, the residents of NY State get for it? A gap between what NYS spends and what NYS collects in taxes of at least 2 billion dollars. (I heard a figure of 20 billion more recently, but am not so sure about its correctness.)

Cuomo's gonna have a rough ride ahead of him, since he seems determined to continue what Patterson began…

[pixel39.livejournal.com]

We've got a gubernatorial recount on the way here in MN. *sigh*