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    Who are the NERD fund donors Mr Snyder?

    Raise the curtain.

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    House GOP unveiling plan to balance budget with GIANT reforms, cuts... and we've got a copy! | 26 comments (26 topical, 0 hidden)
    Still conning? (none / 0) (#37)
    by stevenstmason on Sat Jul 25, 2009 at 11:46:17 PM EST
    Executive Budget numbers are proposed budgets. They're not the budgets adopted by the House and Senate and put into law. If you can manage to pull up those numbers, you can find the actual budget numbers. Let's try real numbers from the Senate Fiscal Agency.

    Federal Funds
    2004-05 12,855.5
    2008-09 17,798.2

    A $5 billion dollar increase that mirrors the increase in the overall state budget. You're two-faced because you cry about the lack of federal funding and turn around and cry about the increase of the state budget total which is due to additional federal funds. You can't have it both ways.

    I know that dishonesty is the SOP for Republicans in Lansing but the facts are always going to trip you up. Is that why you wouldn't put up the numbers on the areas I called out? State revenue sharing? Higher Ed? Community Colleges? State Parks? How about some numbers to show that state spending is up in those areas as Republicans want voters to believe?

    If you had the numbers to demonstrate I was wrong in calling out the Republicans on their budget gimmicks, why didn't you show them? What's wrong, the facts getting in the way of the Republican spin? Does the silence mean you endorse the Republican cuts in Veteran Affairs and State Police, resulting in trooper layoffs? More money for prisons, less money for schools? Is that the Republican message? The numbers tell the story.

    House GOP unveiling plan to balance budget with GIANT reforms, cuts... and we've got a copy! | 26 comments (26 topical, 0 hidden)
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