You have got to love this:

"We'll be here until Gov. Walker decides that he wants to talk," said state Sen. Tim Carpenter (D) in an interview with The Huffington Post on Saturday. He added that so far, the governor refuses to meet with them or even return the phone calls from members of the Democratic caucus. -- from HuffPo

But meanwhile a reporter can call the Governor?

www.buffalonews.com/city/politics/article349786.ece

KMA!!

Then there's THIS (please forgive me for the length, it's another of my da's "rants"):

What the HELL's wrong???
WAKE UP AMERICA!!

Tuesday's Daily Bulletin paper, ran two articles on the front page side by side:
1- California's 20 Billion Dollar Budget Deficit
2- The California Supreme Court ruling that ILLEGALS can attend college and get benefits.

Why don't they just deport them when they arrive to register?

3- Last year they ran an article on the yearly costs to California taxpayers from illegals using hospital Emergency Rooms for their general health care -
At just one hospital the cost to tax payers totaled over $25 million a year. Someone please tell me what the HELL's wrong with all the people that run this country!

We're "broke" & can't help our own Seniors, Veterans, Orphans, Homeless etc. BUT

In the last months we have provided aid to Haiti, Chile, and Turkey. And now Pakistan....home of bin Laden. Literally, BILLIONS of DOLLARS!!!

Our retired seniors living on a 'fixed income' receive no aid nor do they get any breaks while our government and religious organizations pour Hundreds of Billions of $$$$$$'s and Tons of Food into Foreign Countries!

They call Social Security and Medicare an entitlement even though most of us have been paying for it all our working lives and now when it’s time for us to collect, the government is running out of money. Why did the government borrow from it in the first place?
We have hundreds of adoptable children who are shoved aside to make room for the adoption of foreign orphans.

AMERICA: a country where we have homeless without shelter, children going to bed hungry, elderly going without 'needed' meds, and mentally ill without treatment, the list just keeps getting longer...

YET
They have a 'Benefit' for the people of Haiti on 12 TV stations, ships and planes lining up with food, water, tents clothes, bedding, doctors and medical supplies.

Imagine if OUR *GOVERNMENT* gave 'US' the same support they give to other countries.

/rant

Those Haitians really got it made....

>> We have hundreds of adoptable children who are shoved aside to make room for the adoption of foreign orphans.

Yeah, but some of those Chinese orphans are cuter.

This is about the coolest thing I've seen in a long time:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZBuYbKgvQI

The Haiti quake might have had its epicenter in Haiti, but it hit the whole island, does no one wonder why the Domiican Republic doesnt need billions in aid to rebuild a shanty town and cure diseases that no one paying the slightest bit of attention to make sure their shit doesnt wind up in their drinking water would contract?

Re: Posting about Hillary as a Fluffy Bunny

The good Colonel of Libya called B.O. his friend (Larry King show?), who should be president for life. You think the comrade in the White House will throw a guy like that under the bus? Sure, he'll try to throw a nominal ally like Israel under the bus, then Moobs of Egypt, but a friend from Libya?

You should all think about money for a little while - and not just with regard to unions and state budgets.

There is "inertia" in consumer spending in the USA, because the public won't buy something which has just jumped up in price. However - and you can look at fuel prices for this - something traded internationally, and on which futures speculation occurs, can change with greater impunity.

There is a fundamental disconnect in how the Dow, or S&P 500, is valued and how the grey/green thing in your wallet is handled. Think about that. Reading this might help.

Oil prices worldwide are calculated in DOLLARS. Now, what do you think the devaluation of the dollar by overprinting, for "bailouts", will do?

This statement is true:

"They call Social Security and Medicare an entitlement even though most of us have been paying for it all our working lives and now when it’s time for us to collect, the government is running out of money."

Because this one is not:

"Our retired seniors living on a 'fixed income' receive no aid nor do they get any breaks ..."

The fact is, the government could do away with all foreign aid, and in fact all discretionary spending whatsoever, and it would never eliminate its deficit - because of entitlements. The GI Generation got back everything it ever paid into Social Security - typically within just one year - and then continued to draw benefits for twenty more years. Silent Gens took more like three to five years to get their money back, but they will still continue to draw benefits for a good fifteen years after getting back what they paid in.

This is why Baby Boomers are finding themselves shocked (shocked, I tell you!) to discover they will not "get back what they paid in." If you spend decades pouring water into a leaking bucket, how can you act all surprised to find no water in the bucket? At least the Xers and Y's understand this.

When Social Security was first set up, it was intended to be a safety net - not a hammock - for only the very elderly and poor. The benefit age was set higher than the average lifespan. So people expected (and it was expected OF them) to work until a) they physically couldn't anymore or b) they had enough of their own money saved up to quit their jobs. NO ONE thought they would get back out of Social Security what they paid into it, because they all understood that most of them wouldn't live long enough.

If you want to quit your job while you are still relatively young and healthy, and then spend the last 25 years of your life enjoying ease and indolence, no one should stop you. But no one else should have to pay for it, either.

The time to reform this was probably ... oh, before I was born. Now we are faced with two choices, and only these:

1) Cut entitlements, or
2) Keep them going via the printing press.

Neither one is going to make the old people happy. Either your check gets cut, or it takes your entire month's worth of benefits to pay the water bill.