Daniels to tout balanced budget

[hippiechick]

http://www.wthr.com/Global/story.asp?S=5135399

Indianapolis - Governor Mitch Daniels has a series of appearances scheduled around Indiana Tuesday and Wednesday, where he's expected to announce that the state's budget deficit has been eliminated.

In a brief appearance Monday in Indianapolis with House Republicans, Daniels said the state is out of "the hole."

Last year, Daniels and Republicans enacted a two-year budget projected to erase a $600 million deficit by June 2007, although Daniels pledged to cut costs and find savings in hopes of balancing the books by the end of last month.

Democratic House Minority Leader Patrick Bauer says the current budget is a "sham" that relies almost entirely on property taxes to provide funding increases for public schools.


The question I have is this: now that the state supposedly has all this money from the toll-road thing a majiggy, WTF is little Napoleon going to spend it on? Who's going to get it ? Goddess knows the roads are in shitty shape, as is the state environment, not to mention the skyrocketing crime rate and piss poor education system and graduation rates across the state. So, Mitchy-boy, what're you gonna do with all that chump change you're sportin' ? :shrug:

[Juffo Wup]

1. I-69

It's my understanding that pretty much all the money goes to that worthless project.

[Voltaire]

2. Perhaps I can get a living wage now

Not fucking likely. Mitch IS a BITCH! Fucking bastard.

Did I say how much I hate him today?

[hippiechick]

3. Nope - you work there because you LOVE it.

We all know you'd show up there every day for free ... :P

:hug:

[INdemo]

4. Well if we would take a close look at our state budget.....

the truth is he just shuffled money around to make it look like the State really raked in the money....The status of the BMV after the Governors brilliant makeover...Yes closing all those BMV offices and spending 32 mill on a new computer system that doesn't work and forcing patrons to wait in line for 4 hours .....brilliant...
And I didn't realize Indiana was such an unsafe state to live in with over 8,000 terrorist targets...I guess we just blame everything on the Democrats..

[indypaul]

5. Their "balanced budget" is about as factual

as the "surplus" they announced as of June 30. They simply
counted the cash on hand, ignored the overdue bills and thumped
their breasts that they had all that money on hand. Not unlike
a person who has cash on hand at the end of the month then suddenly
starts getting nasty phone calls and letters about his unpaid bills.
The terminology lacks reality and that's about the best that can be said.