NC state GOP going to cut budget by 15%... all at once

[kick-ass-bob]

http://www.wral.com/news/local/politics/story/8572173/


And some people are such idiots. For all the people they will have to lay off, they are now your competition for all the jobs that you can't find.

Fucking idiots. :mad:

[Fresh_Start]

1. I assume the legislators have all agreed to work gratis? nt

nt

[kick-ass-bob]

2. well, their salary is about 15k for the job.

So it probably would fit right in their plans and give them fake PR, since they most likely get more from the per diem than that salary.

[Confusious]

3. Well, i sort of feel sorry for them

But people have to learn that elections have consequences, and it's not a game.

Maybe they'll think twice in the future.

Probably not.

[John Commonsense]

4. Do you feel sorry for somebody that walks/cycles out into oncomming traffic?

:shrug:

Voting should be no different.


There should be a certain level of personal responsibility that you have to possess once you reach a certain age.

I'm a progressive, but at a certain point I expect others to be able to be self aware; just as I am.

[Confusious]

6. Like I said, I sort of feel sorry for them

Mostly because they were stupid enough to put these dorks back into power, and a person's intelligence is something out of their control. :)

I feel a whole |---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| shitload worse for the rest of us.

[John Commonsense]

12. Strangely, I don't feel all that bad yet.

I don't feel sorry for those who voted to cut their nose to spite their face.

If enough of the electorate is so fickle that they will vote a different way every two years then I can't feel pity for them.

[Confusious]

13. I think it was more of the regulars for the Rupugs that came out

Our voters stayed home because they're disillusioned. I know how they feel.

After two years of bullshit, he still says compromise. That word would have left my vocabulary after 3 months of this shit.

[Autumn]

5. God I feel sorry for

the Democrats, the others, ehh fuck em.

[nc4bo]

7. Crappy times: straight ahead.

I had to walk past these a-holes while going to vote. The stoopid in them so strong you could see it as clearly as a psychic sees auras.

I wish me and mine had a safe place where we can take refuge.

[Confusious]

8. Were your feet getting smashed by knuckles and hit by drool?

:)

[nc4bo]

9. They had Palin eyes. Even the fellows. Sickening.

[nc4bo]

11. You know what else I found unnerving...

I actually felt a slight+ negative racial undertone. Mom and I were black, the Dem rep. was black too. Even she seemed really nervous and out of place. I felt sorry for her as the Burr/Teabaggers outnumbered her by around 8 to 1 and you could tell the majority of voters were R's just by the way they joked and laughed with the R reps..

Sigh...

[nadinbrzezinski]

10. Hold it, I thought that if the GOP was given the power back

jobs would magically appear!

You mean they LIED?

Who'd THUNK!

[dsc]

14. I wonder if the state employees are sorry they did this

http://hamptonroads.com/2010/10/nc-employees-stay-mostly-election-sidelines

The one place they did spend money got people talking.

SEIU budgeted $200,000 to attempt to defeat House Majority Leader Hugh Holliman, D-Davidson, a chairman of the Legislature's health plan oversight panel. They ran ads accusing Holliman of crafting a state budget that took money from mental health programs and put more violent mentally ill patients in adult care homes.

The decision only worsened SEANC's sour relationship with state Democratic leaders.

Historically, most of the money from SEANC's political action committee, and more recently from the Service Employees International Union, has gone to bolstering Democrats. SEANC is now a chapter of the union. The SEIU's political committee alone gave $1.1 million to the state Democratic Party in the final month of the 2008 campaign to help Gov. Beverly Perdue and others.

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Teachers, who also haven't gotten raises in 2 years, didn't stay on the sidelines but will take the brunt of this.

[gratuitous]

15. Well, that's their grandiose plan

Which, when it falls apart in a couple of months, nobody will remember or hold it against them. And all these cretins will run again on their failed promise to cut the state budget that "the libruls" stopped them from enacting. Will North Carolinians fall for it?

[kick-ass-bob]

16. That's not how it works here in NC.

The republicans haven't held both houses of the state legislature since the 19th century. They simply used the extra money to put up candidates in 167 of the 170 districts, to make the Dem money split too many ways.

They have never fallen for such shit on the state level before, and I doubt they'd do it again, especially when there really isn't much to stop them.