Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Thursday, April 21, 2011
The List: Five Things to Know About the Republican's Budget
Five Things to Know About the Republican's Budget
Minnesota Edition
5. State Economist Stinson has said that an all-cuts budget would be worse for business than an increase on the richest of the rich.
4. The GOP budget slashes 30,000 jobs, mostly in the private sector, threatening Minnesota's fragile economic recovery.
3. Cuts funding for internet safety programs that keep kids safe from online predators.
2. Take the food out of the mouths of seniors. The Republicans first proposed cuts to take meals away from 3,700 meals-on-wheels seniors each year
2. Take the food out of the mouths of seniors. The Republicans first proposed cuts to take meals away from 3,700 meals-on-wheels seniors each year
1. No matter what kind of Enron-accounting the GOP uses, their budget is still $1.2 billion short.
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Ask D.F.L. Q&A via Twitter
Everyone is invited to participate in "Ask D.F.L." on Twitter tomorrow at Noon. This is your opportunity to chat directly with the State Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party's Chair Ken Martin. Just type your question using the hash tag #askdfl
When: Thursday, April 21st
Noon
Where: On Twitter
Who: Everyone is invited to participate!
Interact with State DFL Chair Ken Martin.
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Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Onward to Health Care Reform III
The Republicans at the Federal and State levels are trying to privatize public health insurance programs. They see the increasing costs of these programs as major reasons for our government deficits. This is part of their agenda to solve all our problems with competition and the "free market". The "free market" has brought us to a government run by large corporations through their money buying elections.
They also conveniently forget how Wall Street created our current mess, not the public health insurance and other social programs.
Here in Minnesota the Republicans have put forward a privatization plan to change existing state public health insurance plans to a voucher system. Low-income Minnesotans would use vouchers to buy coverage in the private marketplace. The StarTribune has an article on how this would work, http://www.startribune.com/politics/statelocal/119371774.html.
The voucher system is complex and works fine as long as a person doesn't get sick. But the whole purpose of health insurance is to protect you when you do get sick!
If the Republicans were open to creative ideas they would embrace the Minnesota Health Plan (MHP), which covers everybody and cost less.
(c)2011 Senate District 25 DFL / Steve & Joan Janusz. All rights reserved.
Note: Opinions expressed in this article are that of the authors and do not neccessarly reflect the views of the Senate District 25 DFL or DFL in general.
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