budget

Originally posted at ydnc.org.

Funding a new Voter ID law is not as high of a priority for North Carolina voters as saving teacher assistants according to a Public Policy Polling poll commissioned by the Young Democrats of North Carolina.

This afternoon, Mecklenburg Dems were treated to an informative presentation about the (short) history of the US budget deficit from Congressman Mel Watt (NC12).

We learned a lot, but most of all we (re)learned that facts have a well-know Liberal bias.

Follow the link for images, commentary, and the facts.

Why the rush towards fracking? To pass it before the public learns the negative consequences.

Legislature overrides three Perdue vetoes
The Associated PressMonday, July 2, 2012

RALEIGH – The N.C. General Assembly on Monday voted to override three of Gov. Bev Perdue’s vetoes.

Republican legislative leaders were able to find the votes to cancel the Democratic governor’s votoes of the 2012 budget adjustment bill, legislation to legalize fracking and an overhaul of the Racial Justice Act.
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The gas-drilling process known as “fracking” will be authorized in North Carolina now that the General Assembly has overridden Perdue’s veto of a bill that sets rules and regulations for the form of shale gas production.

"class warfare". Link here. I guess that phrase tested well for the republicans in the budget debates. Every time Obama or another progressive mentions raising taxes on the poor ole rich people, a hoard of conservative talking heads squawk "class warfare", like life sized Ken dolls in Armani suits with pull strings coming out of their backsides.
They don't know the first thing about class warfare. Now Czar Nicholas and the rest of the Romanovs, they know class warfare.

By now you have heard that President Obama has chosen to throw Social Security and the Medicare and Medicaid Programs over the side of his proverbial fishing boat as bait to see if he can get Republicans to give him another really lousy compromise, much as he did last December when he gave up billions upon billions of deficit reduction in order to help Republicans preserve tax cuts for billionaires.

And it looks like the President doesn’t really lose if you or I get hurt here: in fact, it seems that, in his eyes, it’s to his advantage to fight against his own base as he seeks to be “the adult in the room” in the runup to the ’12 election.

So we’re going to have to find a way to put The Fear on this guy – and I think I’ve got a plan to force this President to listen.

And it works like this: if this President ain’t gonna be moved by our message…we do it by holding the rest of his Party hostage.

From our e-mail:

We are saddened by the implications of this budget. You know the statistics: 30,000 jobs lost, 12-13,000 in education alone. North Carolina’s recovery will be hindered by this budget, and our generation will have to live with the consequences.

However, in a strange way, tonight was the night that our faith in the Democratic Party was vindicated. This moment proved that our efforts in 2008 and 2010 were well worth it. We will remember this night as we work across our state to reelect our Governor and take back the General Assembly in 2012.

Take a look at this video. It was put up at WFMY at 6:25PM and taken down before midnight. bunch of cowards. Found it at Montgomery County School System site:

http://www.montgomery.k12.nc.us/montgomerycounty/cwp/view.asp?A=3&Q=311447

Outstanding piece, and there will be calls for this guy's head. Write him at:

dale.ellis@montgomery.k12.nc.us

We need to run this guy for House.

It must suck to have someone you live with disagree with you, Rep Stone.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20069530-503544.html?tag=stack

A North Carolina lawmaker doesn't think it was right for his daughter and her third-grade class to write to him and other elected officials protesting possible cuts in state education spending.

Republican state Rep. Mike Stone says his daughter asked in her note to "please raise the budget, dad" and help keep two teacher assistants employed.

Stone told WRAL-TV: "As I read through this (letter), anger completely shot through me, and I was trying to hold myself together. (It's unconscionable) to know any education system would use a daughter against her father."

He went a step further on Twitter, blaming the entire political opposition, when he wrote in response to WRAL's story: "The NCAE, Democrat Party & Bev Perdue have hit a new low."

From a Facebook post by Dan Besse:

Please join in urging Gov. Perdue to veto the terrible budget just passed by the short-sighted GOP legislature. It would slash our public schools, community colleges, and universities, cut off critical health care for the poorest North Carolinians, and tear down our structure of air and water pollution control. Please call Gov. Perdue's office on Monday during the day, 800-662-7952 or 919-733-2391. Thanks!

Make the call. It's quick and it's easy. Just say, "Hi, I'm calling to encourage the Governor to veto the terrible budget just passed by the GOP legislature. Thank you." It's that simple.

Throughout the history of this country, popular movements have always been fueled by anger at a government that is trying to restrict our rights and strip our pockets. The Republican education agenda does exactly those two things: it restricts North Carolinians' rights to a sound basic education and cut into the pocketbooks of almost everyone who interacts with our educational system.

To me, that's just not ok.