Yesterday in the blog, while discussing the holes I suspect we’ll see in Governor Dayton’s budget to be released this morning, commenter “MyGovIsNuts” proposed a bit of a game to figure out what the Governor will do in his budget:
#1: Blame Pawlenty
#2: NOT blame the previous House and Senate (in DFL control)
#3: Protect LGA for his buddies in Minneapols, St. Paul, and Duluth
#4: Raise income taxes on at least one bracket
#5: Open sales taxes to other items
#6: Blame Pawlenty again
#7: Refuse to defund or reduce one labor position in state government
To that, I’ll add:
- Propose the new 10-11% bracket for “the rich” – couples making over $130K
- “Cut contractors” – which will, inevitably, mean more union government permanent
- All day kindergarten, more “early childhood ed”…
- Lots of talk about “jobs” – for AFSCME, SEIU, MFT and Teamsters workers.
Your predictions?
Threaten police and firefighters.
And if we have such a budget problem, why are public libraries open on Sunday?
why are public libraries open on Sunday?
Demand — my wife works for the Henco library system and they have tons of people in on Sundays. If they were to close to save hours and money, it would make more sense to do it during the week.
I predict at least one mention of Wendell Anderson.
I’ll just add to my list:
#8 Bail out the bloated teacher and public employee union pensions with taxpayer dollars
#9 Increase funding to MnCare, including decreasing the requirements to ensure more people enroll (call this one Dayton’s Self Fulfilling Health Insurance machine…a colder version of Obamacare)
Public subsidy to Jim Beam distillery; jobs, jobs, jobs.
Instead of measuring the deficit in dollars, Dayton is going to begin measuring it in Renoirs.
>> Kick the can down the road, veto veto veto, blame the GOP.
And if we have such a budget problem, why are public libraries open on Sunday?
Lightbulb!
Let’s have libraries sell liquor on Sundays. That will pay for the cost of the library being open, and all those cranky liquor store owners wont have to give up their day off.
Better yet, Dave Thul, Libraries selling liquor on Sundays on-sale!
There is a fine tradition of literary bottle-men (and bottle-women).
When these bookish types think Poe, they think absinthe, Hemingway, wine (pre-ww2) or anything with grain alcohol (post ww2). Faulkner, whiskey (neat), Fitzgerald, gin.
A library card would double not only as an ID, but could record drinking habits so the “patron” could be pointed to the drink that best suits his or her reading, or vice-versa.
I hate to break the news, but libraries aren’t all that big on books these days. They are more focused on free Internet access and computer stations. The history sections at Rockford Road and Golden Valley are pathetically slim. You have to go online and put in requests for specific volumes.
I can do more at home than I can at a library. And I pay off-sale prices for my libation.
“A library card would double not only as an ID, but could record drinking habits so the “patron” could be pointed to the drink that best suits his or her reading, or vice-versa.”
“Good afternoon, Governor Dayton! Your sterno is right over there, and we just recieved the latest edition of Spider Man.”
As a young person I lived in both North & South Minneapolis, Swiftee.
Back in the day, on Sunday’s the alcy’s used to by lysol spray, empty the can into the cap and drink the liquid that remained.
Dayton is probably out of Sterno territory, but he might drink grain alcohol on the theory that he could pass the odor off as aftershave.
“Spiderman” is spot on, though. The angst-filled hero, a nebbish in the eyes of the world, got picked on by the other kids at summer camp, etc, but running through his veins, baby, he’s got that radioactive spider-blood!