Daily Archives: March 4, 2011
Priorities – Walker’s Budget Slashes Medicaid, While Increasing Funeral Assistance For Destitute Who Die
Wisconsin’s Tea Bagging Governor Scott Walker isn’t just out to take the rights away from public workers.
No, he’s got more in mind. Give him credit though, he’s at least thought this one through. He’s cutting Medicaid benefits to his citizens, BUT he’s increasing the amount of funeral expense money given to the indigent.
So, in “compassionate conservative” terms, you can go broke trying to stay alive – and the GOP won’t lift a finger to help with that – but when you die destitute, they’ll help get you buried and out of public view lickety split.
Rick Perry’s Juarez gaffe
Once again, the combination of Republican hatred of education and the Texas Governor collides in yet another bout of stupidity.
Traitor Rick, gubner of the sovereign quasi-independent state of Texas, is concerned about all the Mexicans getting killed in Juarez in the drug wars. This is a highly commendable stance. People should not be shot just for where they live.
However, his concern seems to lie not in the abstract belief that life in sacred. No, he is concerned that Juarez lies in Texas and that he might be held accountable for those deaths.
Idiot.