Maybe you voted for the wrong people.

That is irresponsibility on a scale that perplexes me. It is at such a scale that it hurts economic growth. We can no longer afford it. When our senior centers are cutting back hours, please explain to them that it was more important that we spend our money in waste and bank fees. That is the big picture.

What you radical Repubs fail to understand is that there is a bigger picture here than just your ideological focused hang-up about lowering taxes. I’ve addressed that bigger picture, so have you annoni, and so does noman all the time.

As I see it, the GA Repubs have compromised temporarily to keep our state running. That’s good!

All I am saying is that the effort to cut costs and minimize tax increases has to strive for the fair sharing of pain with a progressive approach in mind. This includes an emphasis on preservation of jobs, both in the public and private sector.

For the part that you aim at eliminating waste, like the “$50 checks” and the “difference between a check and a credit card”, who could possibly disagree with you on that. But again, there is a bigger picture!

It is only reality that the Democrats own this. They would not support the Republican compromises. They even voted down a one year sunset. They run the Governors office, the Senate, and the House. They set the agenda. The Republicans only had two choices, extract a sunset which puts this issue back to the voters or just obstruct and shut down the government. I would have done the latter and forced dealing with this crazy waste like it is a fire not with the Noman attitude that we will take care of some of it when we get to it. After 5 years and over a billion dollars, yes I am impatient. We have part of the solution already. BTW I would not put Perry and Noman in the same category. Noman is great entertainment; Perry is actually trying to grapple for answers.

When Republicans controlled the House, taxes went down. As soon as the Democrats control, taxes go up.
If we want to change that, we need to get some good fiscal hawks. If the party leadership won’t find them in their search committees then we must and force primaries. We need to take back these lost seats. My friend there really is a pony under there. We can reverse this. Now there is a clear choice.

My bet is you will figure out some delusional way to give credit to Republicans just like you did in the 1990s.

I’ll repost it where it belongs.

A financial management system is designed to save money not cost more money. This system has literally cost us Billions of dollars. DFMS is Bernie Madoff of financial accounting. The best budget reform legislation that anyone could introduce would be a joint resolution to establish a commission to find a new financial management system. Whenever I hear a hybrid approach being discussed, I get concerned. Let’s study this and see if we can go world class instead of poverty class.