Medicare is just the beginning

[merh]

Barbour, the carpetbagger from D.C., our own prodigal son who has come home to safe our state, learned from the best. Ronald Reagan.

He intends to do to Mississippi what Reagan did to the nation. Cut taxes/no new taxes to pacify the "anti-big government" folks and to give the illusion he is giving back to the people.

Cutting programs, only to privatize the functions, to give to his corporate cronies. Medicare is just the beginning.

The Department of Human Services is next on his agenda. He has been able to have his party stall the funding of the department so that it will be unable to function if an emergency session of the legislature is not called to take up its budget. In the meantime, his appointed head of the agency has told the workers not to pursue the collection of child support (a huge source of revenue for their budget since the law provides that the department be reimbursed for its efforts). So when the emergency session is called the gov and his minions will report that this service is not being provided and the privatization of it is necessary to recoup the losses and provide funding for the agency.

Divide and Privatize -- the GOP love out sourcing. It is only just beginning in Mississippi. (USM has closed its in-house book store so that Books-A-Millions can take over the service. USM has stopped the on campus cafeteria and meal ticket have gone from $5 to $9, again private corps to provide the services.) It is happening all over the state, in every state agency and institution.

[Leprechan29]

1. Be like Reagan?

So hes going to give tax cuts, then increase them a bunch of times, fail to dissolve government offices, create more agencies, and not really reduce the budget. Then again, this guy doesn't have a COld War to deal with either

[merh]

3. He doesn't have to increase them

The local govs will, to have to offset the cut fundings to them from the State and Federal programs. Property taxes will increase because education not adequately funded (even though he is refurbishing the Governors Mansion, has bought a new plane for the office, has gotten legislation passed that give pay increase to his administrative heads and the majority of elected officials). Yes, he is Reaganesque, rob from the poor to give to the rich.

[merh]

2. Forgot to mention

the "judicial scandal" and "civil justice reform". The federal trial that involves Dems and judges is part of the scam to show Mississippians how we need to change the law and allow the all wise and wonderful gov the responsibility of appointing all of our judges.
Thus the reform/control of our judiciary.

Tort reform, help corporations, screw the little guy. Just that obvious.