Archive for the ‘Budget Bomb’ Category

Earmarks: WAMS PA Budget $66 to $100 million

Saturday, August 21st, 2010

A DEFINING DIFFERENCE: A CLEAR CHOICE NOVEMBER STATE HOUSE AND STATE SENATE ELECTIONS WAMS (EARMARKS) Penna. 2010-2011 Budget   Democratic Senator Jay Costa denies there are EARMARKS, Pennsylvania calls them WAMS, in the 2010-11 Budget. Sen. Costa does acknowledge “discretionary programs” and Republican Majority Appropriations Chair, Republican Sen. Jake Corman, acknowledges WAMs are ...

Where Does it All Go? Mysterious Millions in PA Capital budget

Tuesday, August 10th, 2010

Another installment in never ending series: Getting Rich from Growing Government Pennsylvania’s Bankruptcy Budget - $300,000,000 of mysterious spending.   Did our elected Representatives and Senators read this Appropriations bill before voting to spend our money? $600 Million New Borrowing, which has to be repaid, authorized. Who is going to repay this? ...

MontCo Budget Deficit: Reducing Expenditures – Pension Bond Bad Idea

Monday, August 9th, 2010

Montgomery County faces a $22.5 million revenue shortfall for 2011 budget. Last year, the County Commissioners “robbed” the Capital Budget to fund the Operating Budget. The idea of a Pension Obligation Bond to fund Pensions is a bad idea. It kicks the can down the road and adds huge financing ...

Rep. Sam Rohrer: Budget Out of Balance and Unconstitutional

Saturday, August 7th, 2010

Real Deal Sam Rohrer makes the case that the State Budget is Out of Balance  and ,therefore, Unconstitutional Not only is this budget illegal, it makes no fiscal sense. Expenditures exceeding revenues cannot be sound basis for budgeting.        “On June 30, a truly unconstitutional, out-of-balance $28.04 billion state budget was passed ...

Fiscal Madmen in PA: 2010 Budget Deal Fails to Plan for Future

Thursday, August 5th, 2010

The Defining Differences November 2d in State House, Senate and Gubernatorial elections will be policies on Jobs and The Budget –expenditures exceeding income, Pension Funding, Taxes and the impact of government’s ever increasing takeover of the private, productive economy and small businesses and the hammering The Forgotten Taxpayer. Fiscal madmen ...