Wednesday, May 11, 2011

The fatal attraction of government....

"The fatal attraction of government is that it allows busybodies to impose
decisions on others without paying any price themselves. That enables them to
act as if there were no price, even when there are ruinous prices -- paid by
others."
-- Thomas Sowell
(1930- ) Writer and economist

Friday, May 6, 2011

C.B. Forgotston's Louisiana Misery Index

Lot's of interesting numbers in this list.  Seems to me that this would be a priority for the State government to get some of this fixed.

Misery Index


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Eyes wide shut

I cannot believe this is coming from Republican lawmakers.  Hell, I don't think any Dems are foolish enough to try something like this in the current economy.  Do they not watch the news?  Do they just assume no one is looking?  We can't pay the State's bills now and you want to increase our future obligations?

Even with accumulation of unfunded pension liabilities – $30 billion worth – some state lawmakers have introduced legislation that would expand government employee benefits.


Here's the LINK