Minnesota government shutdown due to Democrat Governor

[redrumloa]

Minnesota government shutdown begins after talks fail

"I deeply regret that the last week of intense negotiations between the Republican legislative leaders and Senator Bakk, Representative Thissen and myself have failed to bridge the divide between us," Dayton said in a speech.

He said his last proposed two-year general fund budget was $35.7 billion, but the differences between his approach and the Republican leaders had not changed since January. The gap between the two sides stood at $1.4 billion, he said.

Republican leaders had asked Dayton to call a special session to approve a temporary extension of funding for 10 days while the budget negotiations were completed, saying that they believed they were close to a budget deal.

Dayton dismissed the offer as "a publicity stunt."

"They have known for two months, I have said consistently, that I would not agree to anything until I agree to everything," Dayton said.

 

[faethor]

Biased title much?
First - It's Democratic Governor.
Second - There are two parties at play here and the Republican's legislature is to blame too. It's both of their jobs to get this done.

Your January date is important here. Why have they not changed since January? January was when the Democratic Gov. Dayton stepped forward and said he'd meet them halfway and reduced the gap from $3Billion down to $1.4Billion. The Republicans have not publically or legislatively moved off their position. (See my Republican Strategy 2008-2012 post for an illustration of Minnesota Republicans at work.)

Some states have rainy-day funds they could fall into and use. The problem here is the previous Democratic legislature and the previous Republican Gov Tim Pawlenty used it up and passed a $5 Billion shortfall to their replacements.

Clearly it's not the fault of 1 party as both have responsibility.

http://minnesotaindependent.com/ -- has some good reads.

 

[faethor]

Red -- Thought you might be interested. Republicans say only Millionaires work hard

(Hey Wayne what am I doing wrong bracket url equals http close bracket seems to dislike me sometimes? Thanks.)

The-Leander -- thanks for the quote item. See I knew it was me broken.

 

[the_leander]

(Hey Wayne what am I doing wrong bracket url equals http close bracket seems to dislike me sometimes? Thanks.)

Hmm, manually and through the menu

Use quotation marks for the <url="http//whatever">your text here</url>

--edit-- when I copy and pasted your url first time it copied the whole link plus text, so do it cleanly purely from the url within another tab.

 

[cecilia]

What history teaches us about the welfare state

 

[the_leander]

What history teaches us about the welfare state

The TL;DR version: The poor won't simply allow themselves to starve to death quietly, they will go after those with resources as a means to survive.

Services such as medicaid/medicare, planned parenthood, public schools are in the long term interests of the US if they are to avoid falling into barbarism.