NAACP calls on NC lawmakers to convene session

November 27, 2013 at 10:55 am
Norm Kelly says:

Is it required that the press/media cover Barber? For what purpose?

Every time this man opens his mouth, regardless of the nonsense that flows out, the media covers him like he's Elvis incarnate.

The state reduced unemployment benefits because the state, under control of the Demoncrats, borrowed 2.5BILLION dollars from the feds in order to continue to pay unemployment benefits. What was/is the challenge with the Demoncrats having borrowed 2.5BILLION DOLLARS? First, they had no plan to pay it back. Second, since they had no plan for controlling the amount continuing to be spent on unemployment, the Demoncrats would have been required to borrow even more money from the feds to continue the payments.

I've said this before and it's really true. I try to pay attention to politics and the shenanigans that politicians get involved with. But I'm not a policy wonk, my memory is getting old, and I can't remember facts as well as I used to. Isn't the state budget around $21Billion? If this number is realistic, doesn't that mean the single loan from the feds for a single purpose amounted to about 10% of our total state budget? If the Demoncrats had no plan on how this would be paid back, how exactly should the state handle an automatic 10% increase in spending? Mr. Barber wants the state to magically be able to continue to pay these benefits to people. I'm sympathetic to the need for unemployed to have money to continue to live, but isn't there a limit to how much suffering the state puts the rest of us through? How am I supposed to take a 10% increase in taxes, fees, other state implemented 'income' streams? What is Mr. Barber's plan? Whenever Demoncrats/liberals disagree with conservatives, the fist thing they claim is that the conservatives have no plan. Even when conservatives actually DO have a plan, Demoncrats choose to ignore it, lie to their constituents, and claim there is no plan. (i know. every liberal that might stumble across my post just wet their pants from anger. aren't facts fun things!? go look it up, you'll see i'm right on this! just watch a couple of Prince Harry videos for proof.) So now the shoe is on the other foot. Where is the liberal plan for continuing to spend so much money on a single program, pay back the loan from the feds, and not cause injury to the rest of us? No plan? No surprise! That's what deficit spending is for. Just ask a liberal!

How exactly would the state pay for expanding Medicaid? Where would this money come from? And please don't use the sorry story that the feds have promised to pay for the majority of the cost. The feds are BROKE! They can promise to pay for anything, but this will only increase the deficit, the debt, and reduce spending on other programs that the feds are actually supposed to take care of. People who have the ability to think beyond the next minute already know that the feds are NOT going to continue to pay for Medicaid expansion throughout the country for the future. So when medicaid is expanded, people are used to getting free stuff from the government, the state finds they can't afford to pay anymore for this benefit, the providers decide to revolt against the outrageous new taxes & fees, then what? Just look around the world and you'll know what. Take your collective liberal head out of the sand and look around. It's not hard to predict what will happen. Witness Greece. The takers will riot. Or the providers will riot. Or the central planners, at the state and/or federal level, will decide that this is one more good reason for deficit spending. Either way, socialized medicine has it's own death built in. What is Barber's plan for paying for expanded medicaid? What is the liberal plan for paying for expanded health care coverage? Charging me for someone else's benefits only lasts for so long. At some point socialists run out of other people's money to spend. Then what? If Demoncrats/liberals/socialists always claim conservatives have no plan, let's move that shoe to another foot! What is YOUR plan? How do YOU plan to pay for all these benefits? Add 1 caveat to YOUR solution: YOUR plan can NOT force me to go broke and become dependent on the government. Now what are YOU going to do? What is YOUR plan? Once again, no one sees any plan coming from the left. Lefties just like 'feel good' not actual solutions. Next time Mr. Barber decides to demand that the state either expand some program or continue some program, please ask him how he expects this to happen. Why isn't the press doing their job? Why does the liberal press only ask tough questions of conservatives? Isn't the press supposed to get the whole story regardless of who is doing the talking? Isn't it time the press/media does the job they get paid for? Perhaps the N&O is struggling with readership because people choose to get news from news sources. When the N&O starts doing their job, perhaps readership will recover. But it seems they have to prove themselves first.

November 27, 2013 at 12:59 pm
Thayer Jordan says:

I think it's a shame to cut Medicaid. What the heck was Pat the rat thinking? It's obvious that he doesn't care much for the poor people of this state. Perhaps we should get a petition started to Impeach McCrory!