Helping the Neediest Among Us -- Hightower

[Donnachaidh]

http://www.truth-out.org/helping-neediest-among-us/1305119849

To be fair to lawmakers, it's not easy making the tough spending choices in these dire times of rising public need and inadequate tax revenues. Legislators in my state of Texas, for example, are trying to make $27 billion in cuts to balance an already miserly budget.

So, assume you're a member of the Texas house. What needy constituency would you try to spare from the budget ax: school kids, poor people, old folks in nursing homes ... or yacht buyers?

Yes, yachts. Not you run-of-the-mill yachts, but big ones -- those costing more than $250,000. You might not be surprised to learn that the Republicans, who have a supermajority in the House, went with yacht buyers.

Some days when you read the news, you don't know whether to go crazy, go bowling or go very deep into the woods and weep -- and this was one of those days.

More at the link --

[SpiralHawk]

1. "A rising tide lifts all yachts." - RepubliBaggers (R)

"You American proles can just STFU and go help bail out the chowderheads living along the Mississippi River. Sneer."

- RepubliBaggers (R)

[bvar22]

2. Always a K&R for Jim Hightower!

...an Old Style Pro-Working Class Democrat!
"Centrist" = 1/2 Republican!


"The only thing in the Middle of the Road
are Yellow Stripes and Dead Armadillos."--Jim Hightower

[sabrina 1]

3. Love Hightower also.

That's a great saying, and pic btw ~