From the Washington Post:
Republicans scuttle negotiations with Obama
A picture is worth a thousand words. Cantor might want to jump ‘ship’ and go back to being a normal Republican.
From the Washington Post:
Republicans scuttle negotiations with Obama
A picture is worth a thousand words. Cantor might want to jump ‘ship’ and go back to being a normal Republican.
Governor McDonnell squawked loudly for Virginia and crowed about lower unemployment numbers and Virginia’s growth. VRS compares very favorably to most other pension plans but needs some tweaking to stay solvent, according to McDonnell.
McDonnell needs to be reminded that the VRS is not the state’s personal ATM. It was very solvent for many years, since 1908 to be exact. Funny how the Republicans discover its woes after all these years. Could it be that Mrs. Cantor wants to shift the burden of payment off the state and and the localities? Isn’t that the Republican way? Maybe the state should keep paying and the employee chip in a little more. That would should good faith. I sure don’t want to hear the Republicans chest thumping about how much money they saved the state in a few years.
A BILL
To express the sense of the Senate on shared sacrifice in resolving the budget deficit.
Section 1: SENSE OF THE SENATE ON SHARED SACRIFICE.
Yea 51 Nay 49
Harry Reid needed 60 votes to pass this resolution. He didn’t have it. What he did get was 49 Republicans saying no to millionaires having any sense of responsibility towards making a more meaningful contribution to help reduce the budget deficit. Who is to say what ‘meaningful contribution’ means. It could mean each of them paying $100 more a year towards budget reduction. The wording was vague. Yet all 49 of the Republican Senators voted NO.
The vote speaks volumes and will continue to speak volumes for many years. Republicans need to rethink their protection of the very rich.