Amazing what a man of sense and courage can accomplish:
Governor Bobby Jindal issued an executive order for a limited hiring freeze for 29 state departments, agencies or budget items for the remainder of the fiscal year as he prepares to tackle an expected $1.3 billion budget shortfall expected in the 2009 fiscal year.
The hiring freeze is ordered for 29 departments, agencies, or budget units in the executive branch, exempting positions specifically related to direct patient care and those critical to the safety of the public, as well as authorizing higher education institutions to implement the freeze.
“This hiring freeze will save money to help us deal with hurricane recovery costs this year and help us be better prepared to control the size and expense of government as we plan next year’s budget,” said Jindal. “This is only one part of what will need to be a very broad approach aimed at cutting costs and reducing state spending, as we face a $1.3 billion budget shortfall.”
That, my friends, is Reaganite music to my ears - nothing about increased taxes (a monumentally stupid thing to do when an economy is faltering), nothing about “we’re all gonna die!” scare tactics to bamboozle the public into accepting tax increases…just a hard nosed, executive decision to take charge of a budget crisis and bring the State out of its troubles as swiftly as possible. Poor America, it’s got The Great Hopenchange; happy Louisiana, it has a Governor.
It is going to be a long four years, boys and girls, but we have the future - its already ours, if we just reach out and take it.
Tags: 2012 Campaign, Bobby Jindal, Louisiana
November 21st, 2008
…then why is there a strong change that Massachusetts might repeal their State income tax?
For one weekend this summer, Massachusetts enjoyed a sales-tax holiday. Instead of driving across the border to sales-tax-free New Hampshire, residents could shop at home without paying sales tax, if only temporarily. But the sales-tax holiday was just a precursor to what could be a much more hopeful development: the potential repeal of the state’s income tax this November.
Thanks to the tenacity of Carla Howell of the Committee for Small Government, voters may be able to eliminate Massachusetts’s income levy through Question 1 of a ballot referendum. In 2002, a similar ballot question asking for the repeal of the income tax earned 45 percent support. Today, with jobs and residents fleeing the economically limping Bay State, the political climate for eliminating the income tax is even more hospitable. Backers also hope that the repeal would force Massachusetts to practice tough fiscal discipline—the income tax constitutes more than 40 percent of state revenue.
If this passes it will be a signal that a conservative economic message can prevail everywhere…and thus no matter what the result on Tuesday, we conservatives are on the right path.
Tags: conservative truth, liberal lies, Massachusetts, taxes
November 1st, 2008
Jennifer Rubin has good piece on The Top Ten Ways Sarah Palin Has Shaken Up the Race:
* The Republican base is now energized and enthusiastic like never before
* Palin offers geographic appeal and help in key swing states
* Palin revived McCain’s maverick, outside the Beltway message
* Expect more attacks on Obama’s own history of accommodation with the Daley machine in Chicago
* The problem with Hillary Clinton’s disaffected voters is back
* Palin has engaged the community of families with special needs children
* Palin will keep the energy issue front and center and pound home the message that the GOP is in favor of an all-out, multi-front effort to develop domestic sources of energy including oil and natural gas
* She dealt a blow, a big blow, to the credibility of the MSM
* Palin has made Joe Biden a greater liability.
* Palin allows many voters to “make history”
These are just 10 of the increasingly numerous ways Sarah Palin has been that “game changer” Republicans sorely needed. Read the whole thing.
Tags: Joe Biden, Sarah Palin
September 8th, 2008
Does it really surprise anyone that Massachusetts would take the initiative in dismantling parental rights?
Tags: Massachusetts, parental rights
November 27th, 2007
