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After bankruptcy, California city experiments
with letting voters make budget decisions
Fox News, by Claudia Cowan
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Posted By:PChristopher, 11/13/2012 5:39:31 AM
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| A California city that recently emerged from bankruptcy is taking a new approach to budgeting -- this time, by asking voters how it should spend the taxpayers´ money. The question is being put to residents in Vallejo, Calif., a blue-collar port city of 116,000 people. Under a pilot program, Vallejo is using what is known as "participatory budgeting" to figure out where to spend a $3.2 million portion of Measure B, a city tax initiative approved last year. At public assemblies throughout the next few weeks, involved residents are brainstorming ideas -- from youth centers to after school programs
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So, you want to try a different means of fiscal suicide. You´d better worry about stabilizing your condition and dealing with essential services and infrastructure and forget about the You´f Centers. Don´t go to idiots for budgetary advice.
In my day, ´youth centers´ were called ´home´ and ´after school programs´ were called ´homework´. God forbid they should study instead of having a bracing game of Knockout.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Chuzzles, 11/13/2012 7:02:39 AM (No. 9010568)
Letting the taxpayers who foot the bill have budget input?? Congress better not hear about this. Could cause some trouble.s/o
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
laotzu, 11/13/2012 7:50:20 AM (No. 9010660)
Hysterical. They decide to tax. Then they decide how to spend it. Anyone in California ever heard of a municipal budget?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
laotzu, 11/13/2012 7:55:09 AM (No. 9010671)
"When you give people a chance to meaningfully participate and actually solve problems, they really step up, and they really make great decisions," Browne said.
No, when you give Californians (i.e. Dems) the chance, they vote for more free stuff.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
spahrkl, 11/13/2012 8:15:15 AM (No. 9010730)
Don´t you see, if the decision is made by the public, who is there to blame when an unsuccessful plan fails? Not the elected.
No, the public. Pretty smart, don´t you think.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
skedaddle, 11/13/2012 8:56:24 AM (No. 9010836)
If the people paid the taxes, why shouldn´t they vote on what they want the money spent on? If they decide on frivolous stuff and their houses burn for lack of a fire department, they´ll learn a lesson the hard way. Maybe they´ll be better citizens then.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
mickturn, 11/13/2012 9:06:06 AM (No. 9010863)
Now we go from NIMBY (not in my back yard) to IMBY (in my back yard)...this will result in everyone voting for the project that directly impacts them, i.e. CHAOS!
Isn´t it better to let the crooked politicians screw everyone and do the projects that buy them the most political power? What are these idiots thinking? ...this with a major /S
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Rumblehog, 11/13/2012 10:30:42 AM (No. 9011147)
I thought that´s the purpose of a "representative" form of government?
The company I work for does this all the time. The executives make all kinds of money and massive bonuses to be the smartest people on earth, but won´t make decisions. Instead, they "empower" employees to make the tough decisions leaders should make, and then, if something goes wrong, they can blame someone else for the mistake.
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Obama thanks Putin
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Foreign Policy, by Josh Rogin
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Laura Nowacki rushed to help the shooting victims at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. As a first responder, the pediatrician was stunned at the horror she encountered. Four months later, she hurried out of Boston with her husband and four children, anxious to keep them safe after the deadly explosions near the finish line of the historic marathon she had just completed. "That really scared us," she said Tuesday. "My daughter was really upset, so we needed to be a family first and get back home."
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Senate still looking for votes
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USA Today, by Gregory Korte
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Senate Democrats scrambled Tuesday to shore up support for a heralded bipartisan deal on background checks for gun sales as it became clear they do not have enough votes to pass it. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said the effort to pass gun-control legislation has "significant momentum." Tuesday night, he scheduled votes on background checks and eight other amendments for Wednesday afternoon. Each amendment will require 60 votes. It was unclear where supporters would find the 60 votes to stop a filibuster on background checks.
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DHS Orders Bagpipes?
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The sequester has been a major topic of discussion ever since Obama started using scare tactics to try and get his agenda passed. And since the sequester went into effect, we haven’t heard the end of it. White house tours were cancelled, even though the money saved from that is pocket change. (Snip) Yesterday DHS ordered a new supply of musical instruments including bagpipes and drums.
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Connecticut gun-maker to
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The New York Observer, by Drew Grant
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This just goes to show that even the best music in the world can turn ugly if sung too many times by your drunken boyfriend at his birthday party. A 23-year-old Colorado woman named Samantha Malson was arrested this weekend after she choked out her boyfriend for singing “Thrift Shop” by Macklemore over and over, even when she asked “25 times” for him to stop. Unfortunately, it was her lover’s 26th birthday that evening and the victim was wasted (as birthday boys tend to get), leading to an unfortunate altercation
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Why isn´t human nature ever considered
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Fox News, by Cal Thomas
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Patrick administration refuses to
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Boston Herald, by Chris Cassidy*
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The Patrick administration clamped down the lid yesterday on Herald requests for details of Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s government benefits, citing the dead terror mastermind’s right to privacy. Across the board, state agencies flatly refused to provide information about the taxpayer-funded lifestyle for the 26-year-old man and his brother and accused accomplice Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19. On EBT card status or spending, state welfare spokesman Alec Loftus would only say Tamerlan Tsarnaev, his wife and 3-year-old daughter received benefits that ended in 2012. He declined further comment.
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Obama's Hubris Problem
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Tuesday morning, a peculiar announcement trickled out of the White House press office: President Barack Obama would be holding a moment of silence for the victims of the Boston bombings. At the White House. By himself. No press or other intruders allowed. That Obama assumed Americans would want an iconic photo of him privately mourning the victims of the bombings was emblematic of a kind of hubris that has enveloped the president and his White House as the president commences his second term.
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College’s husky dog logo
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Daily Caller, by Robby Soave
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The new logo for the University of Connecticut’s sports teams is a terrifying husky dog that calls to mind images of sexual assault, says one student. The new logo was unveiled last week, receiving mixed-to-negative reviews from UConn fans who preferred the older, cuter husky dog. But one student went much further, criticizing the new, meaner logo for being a pro-rape symbol. In an open letter to UC President Susan Herbst, self-described feminist student Carolyn Luby wrote that the redesigned team logo will intimidate women and empower rape culture. UConn basketball coach Geno Auriemma said the logo
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Mediaite, by Andrew Kirell
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Progressive publication Mother Jones has revealed yet another secretly-recorded video of a Republican saying something newsworthy. This time, it’s of GOP pollster and frequent Fox News analyst Frank Luntz remarking that Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin, and other right-wing talk radio hosts are “problematic” for the Republican Party’s efforts to reach out to other demographics and to fight the polarization of politics. The video was recorded on an iPhone while Luntz delivered a College Republicans-sponsored speech at the University of Pennsylvania earlier this week. Most of his speech reportedly consisted of his thoughts on how words matter — for
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Against the ‘New Normal’
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Weekly Standard, by William Kristol
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/26/2013 5:30:34 AM
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Are you alarmed by the counterterrorism failures increasingly evident as we learn more about the Boston terror attack? Don’t be. Former CIA director Michael Hayden has helpfully explained, “This tragedy is the new normal.” Are you surprised that a whole city was ordered to “shelter in place” as one “knockoff jihadi,” in Vice President Biden’s term, roamed the streets? Don’t be. It’s the new normal. Are you shocked by the Obama administration’s dissembling in response to terror attacks in Benghazi? Don’t be naïve. It’s the new normal. Are you worried that the president proclaims “red lines” to deter dictators
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Congress, Fearing ´Brain Drain,´
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Forbes, by Avik Roy
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Posted By: NorthernDog- 4/25/2013 1:59:47 PM
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As Obamacare was winding its way through the Senate in 2009, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) slipped in an amendment requiring that members of Congress, and their staff, enroll in Obamacare’s health insurance exchanges. The idea was simple: that if Congress was going to impose Obamacare upon the country, it should have to experience what it is imposing firsthand. But now, word comes that Congress is quietly seeking to rescind that provision of the law, because members fear that staffers who face higher insurance costs will leave the Hill. The news has sparked outrage
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NBC´s Gregory Declares: Bush´s
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NewsBusters, by Kyle Drennen
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 4/26/2013 11:00:26 AM
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On the eve of the dedication of George W. Bush´s presidential library, NBC´s Meet the Press moderator David Gregory appeared on Wednesday´s Nightly News to tear down the former president´s legacy, beginning the report by remarking that it was "difficult to remember" Bush´s popularity after the September 11th attacks. [Listen to the audio or watch the video after the jump] Gregory described how Iraq War intelligence failures "formed the backdrop to criticism that the President underestimated the challenges he faced....And grew stubborn in the face of mounting setbacks." Gregory further proclaimed: "What grew into a reputation
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Sins Of The Fourth Estate (Part I)
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Irish Examiner USA, by Alicia Colon
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Posted By: toledo- 4/25/2013 6:33:30 AM
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The one clear thing that came out of last week´s chaotic activity in Boston, Massachusetts is that real reporters were missing. For that matter, they´ve been missing since last year´s attack in Benghazi. From Benghazi, the Gosnell abortion trial, gun control debates, immigration and then the Boston Marathon bombings, television news reporting has become positively painful to watch. The First Amendment to the Constitution grants freedom of the press but this was supposed to endow it with a responsibility to be the people´s watchdog. The modern Fourth Estate represented by the mainstream media has made a mockery of this privilege.
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