Real Minnesotans will be protesting Dayton’s Medicare boondoggle – committing Minnesota to $200 million a year in permanent in entitlement spending in exchange for a one-time (maybe) shot of money from other taxpayers around the country.
Meet at 9AM at (at last word) Room 125 in the Rotunda. The actual protest will be at 9:30 in the Governor’s lobby, where the boondoggle will be signed.
Wish I could be there.
Only the legislature has the right to pass spending. Dayton’s move appears to be unconstitutional.
I think you mean “Medicaid” rather than “Medicare” but I’ll be with them in spirit.
KSTP is airing a clip that shows his reception room is full of protesters. We can’t be there, but we can help them…Call Gov. JimBeam’s office and leave him a message.
Mitch wrote : “committing Minnesota to $200 million a year in permanent in entitlement spending ”
Permanent? How many terms in office are you predicting for Dayton? An executive order can be rescinded at any time…
Good for Governor Dayton (ahhhhh that sounds so much better than Governor Emmer) for using these funds to benefit all these REAL Minnesotans – other than benefitting only wealthy Minnesotans – for a change. Sorry, Mitch, but you don’t get to define ‘real Minnesotans’.
Real conservatives……maybe you get to define those. Maybe.
I think I’ll take Swiftee’s suggestion and call Governor Dayton’s office, to indicate my approval.
Once you start a gov’t entitlement, it is extremely hard to stop it. What’s interesting about this, I don’t think the Republicans did a good job in explaning this (unless they did and MSM filters weren’t reporting it correctly). I didn’t realize how short term the Fed’l portion is, and how soon and how much the state is responsible for.
Doggie, name one entitlement that has been repealed. Just one.
As for “REAL Minnesotans”, where do you draw your arbitrary, class warfare line? Sorry, Dog, but you don’t get to define ‘real Minnesotans’.
Dog Gone said:
“Good for Governor Dayton (ahhhhh that sounds so much better than Governor Emmer)”
Wow. You must be the best constituent money can buy, Dog Gone.
“Real Minnesotans” have differing opinions about the merits of this dunderheaded action that Governor Kombucha is undertaking, Mrs. Teasdale. And what Kermit said about defining “real Minnesotans” by class lines.
I think I’ll take Swiftee’s suggestion and call Governor Dayton’s office, to indicate my approval.
I’m sure Gov. JimBeam would love to hear from another drunk. You two should get together and share a jug sometime, dear!
Kerm, Dog is a leftist. When she says “REAL Minnesotan’s” she means people that didn’t get cut to ribbbons in-utero….REAL, you know, as opposed to wads of cells that just look like a human being.
Doggone, I believe that the way the health insurance deform act is written, once a governor accepts the money and the obligations, it is more or less a permanent requirement. Hence my comment; it’s an unconstitutional end run around the legislatures of the states.
Oh, the “real” Minnesotans will pay for this. The wealthy will leave if you raise their taxes. Corporations and businesses that can leave will leave as well. Those businesses that can’t leave will pass the increased cost of doing business in MN on to their customers or go belly up.
Look for an increase in the sales tax, fees, and other regressive “revenue enhancements”.
Permanent? How many terms in office are you predicting for Dayton? An executive order can be rescinded at any time…
Either you’re being willfully obtuse or you, perhaps, genuinely don’t follow these things. Entitlements that generate dependents are exceptionally hard to roll back.
for using these funds to benefit all these REAL Minnesotans
Well, no. These funds serve only to move some low-income Minnesotans from one insurance pool to another, and shift the burden (temporarilly) from one group of taxpayers to another.
– other than benefitting only wealthy Minnesotans – for a change.
I’m going to hazard a guess and say I don’t think even you know what you mean by this.
Sorry, Mitch, but you don’t get to define ‘real Minnesotans’.
I most certainly do. Real Minnesotans are those that work for a living, and pay the taxes, and will be the ones that Governor Fauntelroy will need to fleece to pay for his union-and-entitlement-fluffing agenda.
It’s a much nicer term than “victims”, and less insider-y than “Atlas”.
By the way, DG – where does Minnesota rank among the states in terms of percentage of the population insured? And what percentage was insured before today, and what percentage will be after today?
I’ll bet I know where you get your “information”…
I’ll bet I know where you get your “information”…
A place utterly bereft of sunlight.
A place utterly bereft of sunlight.
Please give my regards to AC while you’re up in there, dog.
Thanks, dear.
“How many terms in office are you predicting for Dayton?”
My prediction is Mad Mark will serve one (or less).