Comments on: The Budget Crunch [updated]

By: Ken in Eastman

Ken in Eastman — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 08:52:17 +0000

That would be great if they were getting an adequate education. For the most part they are not.

The family has to provide the basis for education. Without family support teachers don’t have much of a chance at providing an adequate education.

By: Ken in Eastman

Ken in Eastman — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 08:45:52 +0000

Hmmm. More beer or more government? Is that a trick question? It’s just too easy.

By: Mad Dog

Mad Dog — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 16:55:39 +0000

LOL!

His azz makes a damn good printing press.

By: benevolus

benevolus — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 21:37:04 +0000

Glenn Richardson WAS printing it, but I don’t know where it will come from now.

By: Mad Dog

Mad Dog — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 21:01:07 +0000

ByteMe,

Sorry I didn’t make it clear. The total state spending …. is what I meant.

The state plans on spending $40 billion in 2010. Only 47% will be from the general fund.

Where’s the rest from?

By: ByteMe

ByteMe — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 19:00:05 +0000

Not half. 7+ billion is from general funds, 2 billion from the Feds. At least according to the budget that’s published.

By: Mad Dog

Mad Dog — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 18:51:02 +0000

Education spending needs a look see. But half of the money, more than half of the money comes from outside the state.

No personal attack but most of the posters and 99% of legislature don’t know the total spending by the State or the source of funds.

In 2008 or 2009, the General Fund provided ONLY 47% of spent funds.

Ask one of your GOP heroes where they get the other 53% ….

By: ieee

ieee — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 16:58:46 +0000

Yeah, I love that character. He’s hilarious.

But the reality is – from what I did to get Registered, to the punishment for it, to the harassment and punishments that the Criminal State of Georgia has added year after year (along with the feds and thousands of other governments), to my growing response to it – it’s just a very, very long line of stupid. In reality, it’s ugly, hateful, and there isn’t the slightest bit of it that is funny.

Georgia’s Sex Offender laws have led to children being murdered (exactly as experts warned Georgia’s legislators would occur). They’ve been negligibly useful and have caused a huge amount of harm to Georgia’s citizens. I only see that increasing. There is nothing funny about it.

By: ByteMe

ByteMe — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 15:43:34 +0000

The vast majority of DoE appropriations are for money transfers to poor counties so that students there can get an adequate education. If you cut off that money, the number of freshmen will decrease at UGA in future years.

By: legaldriver

legaldriver — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 15:28:16 +0000

Georgia’s forecast is for a $1 BILLION shortfall in its upcoming annual budget. Presumptive Speaker David Ralston says taxes won’t go up to solve this crunch; obviously he intends to make-up a $1 BILLION budget shortfall primarily by reducing expenses and/or increasing revenues. Great news but approving Sunday liquor sales in one Georgia city won’t cut it! Experienced budgeteers know that when you’re looking for a BILLION BUCKS, you HAVE to look at a SINGLE ACTIVITY THAT TAKES-UP OVER 1/2 OF GEORGIA’S ANNUAL BUDGETS.

That ‘activity’ is PUBLIC EDUCATION! And it’s way past time that elected local/state politicians started to take a long, hard look at what Georgia students/taxpayers get in return for a generous level of government mandated funding.

A hard look doesn’t mean just accepting wishy-washy fairy tales or untruths as reason to continue or increase the present level of funding. An example of the Mother-of-all-fairy tales was told by a spokeswoman for the largest public school system in Georgia (the Gwinnett County Public School System) regarding one of the worst commercial/residential building periods the County has encountered since the Great Depression, namely: “[t]he system will also see more principal posts open due to a BUILDING BOOM that CONTINUES TO ADD MORE THAN A HALF-DOZEN SCHOOLS EACH YEAR.” (emphasis added) And this bald-faced quote came on the heels of GCPS again recording still FEWER students than in previous years or than it forecasted to justify its current SPLOST funded school building program!

By: Andre

Andre — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 14:27:05 +0000

Don’t forget the extended pinky finger to the lips a la Dr. Evil from Austin Powers’ fame.

By: ByteMe

ByteMe — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 14:23:44 +0000

You forgot to add the hearty “Bwaaaaa-hahahahahahaha!”

By: ieee

ieee — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 14:21:44 +0000

The Criminal Regime of Snellville passed a “Sex Offender” Banishment ordinance in 2006 (it overrode the Criminal State of Georgia’s Banishment distance from 1,000 feet to 2,500 feet). Because of Snellville’s criminal, anti-reality, anti-American, enemy-neighbor, NIBMY actions, I haven’t spent a dime in their city since then. I don’t care if they sell liquor on Sunday or not, they won’t be selling anything to me. The morons probably think that has made them safer.

Back in 2006, I cancelled plans for two developments projects that were to be within the city limits and one that was near there. I had options so I simply chose to go elsewhere.

Snellville City Councilman Bruce Garraway was the criminal who dreamed up the Banishment ordinance and got it inflicted upon Snellville. When he ran for Mayor of Snellville in their last election, I played a significant role to get him defeated. I did it all behind the scenes, without a single mention of the laws, with not a single person’s knowledge that I was Registered or that my motivation was Garraway’s criminal “Sex Offender” laws.

That is how I will continue to attack people who support these laws. I will align with their enemies and hurt them any way that I can. They constantly attack my spouse and children so I do not have to limit my attacks to politics. Anything that is legal is fair game. There is rarely a week that goes by without some action taken. That is the real impact of Georgia’s “Sex Offender” laws. The laws protect no one and I will continue to do everything that I can that I believe people who support these laws would like for me not to do. Of course that includes being around random children very often (which in reality, unlike how the morons who blindly support these laws like to lie, doesn’t matter at all). That is what the laws deserve.

Happy Holidays to everyone.

By: Buzzfan

Buzzfan — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 02:13:48 +0000

Sounds like the good folk of Snellville need better time management skills.

Hugs and Kisses,

Sonny

By: sonofliberty

sonofliberty — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 01:46:30 +0000

…..ahhh….thanks for the clarification….

By: btpull

btpull — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 01:43:22 +0000

Could prevent a few traffic accidents/death as half-drunk people won’t have to rush to the liquor store on Saturday night to get booze for Sunday’s big game.

By: Three Jack

Three Jack — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 01:12:04 +0000

“More traffic deaths? More broken families? More wasted lives?”

are you predicting the effects of sunday sales or reporting a normal month in the state legislature?

By: Mad Dog

Mad Dog — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 00:52:54 +0000

For FY2007, the alcoholic beverages tax generated revenue of $181,560,133.

If Sunday sales increased revenues by 14%, you happy drunks will give the State another $25 million.

Hell of a way to fund the government. Great freaken idea. I’ll drink to that.

Rofl. Wish I could solve all my budget woes with a few more drinks.

($65 million in sales taxes … huh?)

By: Mad Dog

Mad Dog — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 00:41:02 +0000

You rock.

By: Captain_Phatbeard

Captain_Phatbeard — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 00:13:51 +0000

Gwinnett County doesn’t have enough Superior Court judges (the only ones who can grant TROs) to go around, so they often designate magistrate judges to essentially become “acting” Superior Court judges. Mark Lewis has been designated as such before and I assume that is what happened in this case.