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They received more money, but this is called a “cut”. Riiiiiiight.

Some of the posters here should try asking for a 220% increase for their next raise and let us know the results.

Just because a request is made to the government does not mean it should be funded. Sadly very few people in Government get that idea, and that is why the USofA is over 60 trillion in debt (yes, it is that high, and yes both parties are to blame).

But hey, if it will help get the dude with the (D) instead of the dude with the (R) into the White House let’s just mess with words and twist reality a bit.

Palin cut funding for Alaska Special Olympics.

… Because she’s a reformer!

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We know that business pays taxes from profits and individuals pay taxes from the wages earned by working for business.

We know that for a country, state or local community or household to grow they need more cash. More cash has to come in than goes out or that entity is going broke. Small town America, with fewer jobs, is spending more beyond its borders than taking in and is shrinking at 1% per year. States and Cities without a vibrant business community are also doing poorly. Hence the ads on TV asking “build your business here”.

What are earmarks? Instead of deciding and voting individually on what money government will send back to which state or organizaion or buy, our representatives in congress and senate, have got stuck with lumping a lot of spending proposals together allowing “small” unpopular spending projects to be attached to large popular spending projects. Voting for one, votes for all. Thus using fear as a tactic to garner votes, voting no because of an earmark or two can be sold in elections like this as voting against the main and popular title.

Small projects, when added together represents a huge number of our tax dollars. Making keeping track of misguided earmarks important to our national budget.

US government is tasked to fund projects that are in the interest of most of the people in the US. Earmarks, misguided earmarks, are a way to circumvent that intention. Some would say introducing an earmark is of questionable integrity because the earmark can be in other than our national interest. The persons introducing these earmarks are hoping to hide their request for funding behind an important project. Major projects are often laced with earmark projects because of that feature. Wouldn’t it be news worthy to know who introduces which earmark, who voted for them and their individual running total?

Is there a clear cut conclusion when we say this state or organization received earmarks? I think, to know that answer we need to look at how that state or organization used the funds to be sure that funding was used in our national interest. Bringing up, of course, accountability issues.

Where there is money, there is a good chance of corruption. City after city in the United States have in their history stories of corruption, using public money for non-public benefit.

Corruption exists primarily because of mob mentality, that is going with the crowd and not investigating for yourself. We vote and we need to use that vote wisely. We need to do our own research. If corruption exists it exists because we the people have not kept our eye on the ball, instead went with the mob mentalitiy.

Recent events, admitted bias http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/09/AR2008090900956.html, in a our news industry have made it very difficult to use output of the news industry as an information gathering resource. In my opinion the news industry is gracefully moving towards mob mentality in search of increasing profits. When there are as many news outlets as we have today there is extreme competition for our attention and thus advertising dollars. Good news has a history of not selling to the public. When good news does not sell the news business, to survive by attracting advertising, needs bad news to sell its products and the news industry has the resources to find bad news. In the end the good news for the news industry is when advertiser pay them for time or space which is a direct result of how their news sells.

Now read this article or any other and ask yourself is the information intended to attract readers? In that vain does this article feed the mob mentality?

Jim

We need to have the name of the person authoring the article because in the future that person’s credibility may be a deciding factor on whether the article is worthing of our precious time. I have noticed that certain news organizations use vague terms and phrases verses specific information to color their reports of the news.

Recent events, admitted bias http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/09/AR2008090900956.html, in a our news industry have made it very difficult to use output of the news industry as an information gathering resource. In my opinion the news industry is gracefully moving towards mob mentality in search of increasing profits. When there are as many news outlets as we have today there is extreme competition for our attention and thus advertising dollars. Good news has a history of not selling to the public. When good news does not sell the news business, to survive by attracting advertising, needs bad news to sell its products and the news industry has the resources to find bad news. In the end the good news for the news industry is when advertiser pay them for time or space which is a direct result of how their news sells.

Now read this article or any other and ask yourself is the information intended to attract readers? In that vain does this article feed the mob mentality?

Jim

Just like she would cut funding for Social Security and ALL entitlement programs.

Wake up seniors… vote for your interest not against skin color or for embryos.

Senior citizens love the idea of “the stork” and can’t understand the science behind what could…you know…help them, because God loves them and all in his empty ways. Lets face it, because there isn’t a black and white movie with easy talking actors explaining this stuff, it goes right over their heads.

So with Sarah Dumb Dumb, then have the next best thing: the cute next door girl politician saying she’ll save them and their imaginary beneficiary. All the while making sure grandma and grandpa have a smile when they vote for the shortbread ticket. Because old people think change…any “change” is the devil and his armies knocking on the pearly gates to the retirement center to take nap time, driver’s licenses and all you can eat pudding away forever.

All this information is useless unless it it somehow conveyed to the conservative/republicans who are not in the top 1% of the population. So, the question is, how do we do this.