New England is counting on getting another infusion of OPM to fill in the crater their Legislatures are calling budgets.

Good Luck with that!

The 2010 elections are going to eliminate that option.

Job Woes Hit Blue States Hardest, Spelling Trouble for Democrats

States that voted for President Obama in 2008 are now among the worst hit by the recession, which could spell trouble for Democrats who were hoping to ride his coattails in 2010.

This is not surprising news! Every one of these states have high cost social programs, which they keep raising taxes to fund while the tax base shrinks. Residents are leaving these locales for friendlier tax states.

The result is CA, NV, NY, MI, IL, NJ and MA with black hole budgets vacuuming up tax revenues faster than their economy can produce them. They have unemployment woes to match.

But the employment picture varies wildly across the 50 states, with unemployment rates ranging from 4 to 15 percent, according to the latest-available October figures. And eight of the 10 states with the highest unemployment rate went for Obama in 2008. With job woes prompting a potential backlash against incumbents, normally Democratic territory could be hanging in the balance. [snip]

Here’s the first Socialist heaven where the Dems/Progs have controlled the political system for ages.

The state that has been hit hardest by the recession is Michigan, which has been economically depressed for years. But with a whopping 15.1 percent unemployment rate, it makes the departure of term-limited Gov. Jennifer Granholm all the more precarious for the Democrats. [snip]

The next-worst state, Nevada, has a jobless rate of 13 percent — a number that surely causes headaches for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. He has consistently faced stiff competition from the Republican candidates vying to take his seat.

A new Mason-Dixon poll showed Reid trailing Sue Lowden, former state GOP chairwoman, by 10 points. It showed him trailing businessman Danny Tarkanian by 6 points. [snip]

Another hard-hit battleground is Illinois, where unemployment is 11 percent and where Democratic Sen. Roland Burris does not plan to run in 2010. Polling shows Republican candidate Rep. Mark Kirk in a close race with top Democratic candidate Alexi Giannoulias, the state treasurer. An October Rasmussen poll showed them tied at 41 percent. [snip]

Jobs are also a big issue in Democrat-heavy California, where the jobless rate is 12.5 percent and where Sen. Barbara Boxer is fending off a challenge from Republican candidates. So far, she’s maintained her lead; a recent Rasmussen poll showed her leading former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina by 9 points. But Boxer’s businesswoman challenger is not shy about hammering the long-time senator over jobs. [snip]

When the Moonbats tip over, the thud they make hitting the floor is quite sodden. It sounds as if I dropped putrefying brains from 10 storeys up on to concrete.

Where would I get these brains?

Right here at “Leahy Lunacy” courtesy
of Powerline. This pas de deux between
Holder and Leahy brings new meaning
to interpreting the Bill of Rights correctly.

I wonder what  the sane portion of the country thinks about New England’s mental capacity? Leahy is representative of the senatorial voltage of most ensconced poltroons sent to DC.

Why should any sane Republican helm any “Progressive” ship of State?

For years, the Progs/Socialists excoriated anyone trying to steer a judicious course as insensitive, uncaring of the children or robber barons.

In Vermont, by dint of veto override, the Progs/Donkeys/Socialists claim to have the seaman skills, let them have the helm. This blow is more than a winter nor’easter and they’re not heading to safe port.

[snip]
And people wonder why Governor Douglas has chosen not to run for re-election.

The Vermont State Employees Association (VSEA) made a final offer that would have involved four furlough days, four unpaid holidays and the elimination of a wellness incentive plan to save the money. The Douglas administration has long objected to furlough days – unpaid days off – to make up the budget gap caused by declining state revenues because they represent one-time savings while the weak revenue picture is likely to continue for several years, officials said.

Jes Kraus, head of the state workers’ union, disagreed.

Jes Kraus can disagree all he wants! The only businesses left in Vermont will be non-profit engaged in CO₂ reduction.
Carbon savings is going to kick this state in the butt so hard, everyone will have charcoal briquettes in their shorts.

The Coming Reset in State Government

My fellow governors and I are likely facing a permanent reduction in tax revenues.

Mr. Daniels, a Republican, is the governor of Indiana.
State government finances are a wreck. The drop in tax receipts is the worst in a half century. Fewer than 10 states ended the last fiscal year with significant reserves, and three-fourths have deficits exceeding 10% of their budgets. Only an emergency infusion of printed federal funny money is keeping most state boats afloat right now. [snip]

The coming state government reset will be particularly wrenching after the happy binge that preceded this recession. During the last decade, states increased their spending by an average of 6% per year, gusting to 8% during 2007-08. Much of the government institutions built up in those years will now have to be dismantled. [snip] (emphasis added)

The “progressive” states that built their enormous public burdens by soaking the wealthy will hit the wall first and hardest. California, which extracts more than half its income taxes from a fraction of 1% of its citizens, is extreme but hardly alone in its overreliance on a few, highly mobile taxpayers. Both individuals and businesses are fleeing soak-the-rich states already.

Those who remain in high-tax states will be making few if any capital gains tax payments in the years to come. Even if the stock market comes roaring back to life, the best it could do is speed the deduction of recent losses.

Sadly, the political impulse to protect government largess leads many states to aggravate their dilemma. Already more than half have raised taxes, often on businesses, serving only to chase them and their tax payments away and into the open arms of states like Indiana. Our traffic flow of interested investors is as heavy as it was in 2007. Since January we have welcomed the consolidation of more than 30 firms that closed up shop elsewhere and chose us as the low-cost, enterprise-friendly environment among their current locations.

Indiana was near bankruptcy five years ago but is relatively solvent today because we have spent the intervening years making hard choices. We have reformed state procurement, contracted out some jobs, cut costs, and relentlessly scrutinized expenditures in pushing for annual improvement in departments large and small. We’ve also reduced the number of state employees by some 5,000 from the 2004 level. [snip]

New England, brace yourselves, the real world arrives in 2011.

Where are the craven liberal bloggers damning and condemning this outrage by the Massachusetts Congressional delegation against the unemployed workers? How about the rest of the New England States also?

The neighboring states of Massachusetts and Vermont fought hard to be the best at ruining the holidays for their states’ workers.

Massachusetts was UNANIMOUS in the Congress just ended in favoring higher importations of foreign workers and in tying up millions of U.S. jobs with illegal foreign workers. Sanders broke the solidarity in Vermont by voting against some of the Democrat amnesty sweet deals.
Massachusetts is able to keep its unspoiled anti-American-worker record even though it has 12 Members in its delegation to keep in line.

140,000 NEW foreign workers enter each month even as a half-million American workers have been losing jobs monthly. In fact, Massachusetts, your delegation constantly worked to bring in MORE than 140,000 a month. Nice guys! Discipline such as this is redolent of the Comintern. What a sense of solidarity, not one elected Member of Congress from Massachusetts dares break with the rest by speaking up for the interests of the rising tide of unemployed “rezident proles.”

Vermont does well on it’s own in killing businesses with a hostile environment. With Leahy and Welch voting as they do, Vermont will sound like Venezuela with snow. We have enough illegals using the schools, social programs and the hospitals to increase the deficit beyond the serious condition the Legislature did on its own.

Connecticut had one Congressman vote to stop this idiocy; the NUTmegs fired him. Smart bunch down there too. They’re busy screwing the taxpayers while shoring up the economies of Central America.

Rhode Island, you fit right in with the moonbat class. The Delegation voting record is as bad as having four Kennedys serving. You have one disgrace to start.

Maine is lost and New Hampshire goes down the tube this year.

Only two good things are coming of this:

1. It is really screwing the Millenenials whose self-esteem causes them to think they are irreplaceable. They are finding out differently.
2. Consumer driven liberal twits are finding their life in the credit lane painfully vaporizing; the 201(k) is heading for the 101(k) and soon you’ll be renting upstairs in a tent.

Obama isn’t going to put gas in your car nor pay your rent. As for Gov Patrick, he thinks you’re good for one thing, more taxes, and Barney Frank doesn’t like you.

Now compete with Jose for the lawn mowing job.

The un-PC definitions of entitlement have the ring of truth to them while the PC versions bestow goodness on the recipients for accepting the largess.

I don’t make this stuff up; I just drag it out to cause the liberals pain. It’s a rotten job but somebody has to do it.

Entitlement

Urban dictionary definition

1) Someone who thinks something is owed to them by life in general; or because they are who they are.
I had a friend who would never work on her birthday, and throw hissy fits when things didn’t go her way- what a brat- had a huge sense of entitlement

2) A freebie promised to women, poofters, Mexicans, and guys of color to get them to vote for you. If you win, you tax the pants off all honest, hard working decent people to pay for these entitlements.
Ah wants me some o dem entitlement! Ah’s gwine to vote fo Hillary! Yassuh!

3) Entitlement: something of which all North American females have a massive sense.
“If I sleep with a banana, it is empowering, if I sleep with you it is empowering, if I sleep with a woman it is empowering, if I dump you it is empowering, if I am mean to you it is empowering…oh, and if I am nice to you and stay with you it is not empowering.”

4) When someone thinks they are owed something by life; they should get things just because they are who (sic) they are.
I still can’t get over the hissy fit she threw over having to drive herself to the party- what a sense of entitlement- her ego is hunormous (sic).

5) Believing you are automatically owed something by society thanks to lies from Democrats, Socialists and Liberals. Usually comes in the form of handouts: universal healthcare, the redistribution of wealth, reparations for blacks, reverse discrimination against whites to benefit blacks, politicans (sic) voting themselves a payraise in the middle of the night, athletes getting paid $200 million for their “talent”, affirmative action, welfare, social security, etc.

Entitlement has taght (sic) Generation-X and Generation-Y that they can have a lavish lifestyle of materialism that it took their parents YEARS to achieve. Young people (under 30) now have record debt as a result, and are buying homes they can’t afford, cars they can’t pay for and credit cards they can’t pay off. Entitlement has led them to having to live with mommy and daddy ‘til things improve financially.

Entitlement is the biggest problem with America today and is the soul (sic) cause of materialism. Entitlement has taght (sic) Generation-X and Generation-Y that they can have a lavish lifestyle of materialism that it took their parentst (sic) YEARS to achieve. Young people (under 30) now have record debt as a result, and are buying homes they can’t afford, cars they can’t pay for and credit cards they can’t pay off. Entitlement has led them to having to live with mommy and daddy ‘til (sic) things improve financially.

Entitlement

Dictionary definition

The right to guaranteed benefits under a government program, as Social Security or unemployment compensation.
In clinical psychology and psychiatry, an unrealistic, exaggerated, or rigidly held sense of entitlement may be considered a symptom of Narcissistic Personality Disorder.

In unemployment.  Michigan and Rhode Island are tied for first place with an unemployment rate of 9.3%.  For those who want to find a correlation between unemployment and political leanings, here’s the data.  California is in third place with state unemployment at 8.2%.  Governor Testosterone has been whipped into shape by the Missus.

From Careers of Danger and Daring (1903) by Cleveland Moffett.  Moffett recounts stories told to him by deep sea divers while aboard a wrecking tug in the East River, at the turn of the 20th century.

Last of all they told the story of old Captain Conkling and the Holyoke Dam, a story known to every diver. It seems there was a leak in this dam, and the water was rushing through with so strong a suction that it seemed near certain death for a diver to go near enough to stop the leak. Yet it was extremely important that the leak be stopped - in fact, the saving of the dam depended on it. So Captain Conkling, who was in charge of the job, induced one of his divers to go down, and reluctantly the man put on his suit, but insisted on having an extra rope, and a very strong one, tied around his waist.     “What’s that for?” asked Conkling.
     “That’s to get my body out, if the life-line breaks,” said the diver.
     “Go on and do your work,” replied Conkling, who had little use for sentiment.
It happened exactly as the diver feared. He was drawn into the suction of the hole, and when they tried to pull him up both hose and life-line parted, and the man was drowned, but they managed to rescue his body with the heavy line, just as he had planned.
Then Conkling called for another diver, but not a man responded. They said they weren’t that kind of fools.
     “All right,” said the captain, in his businesslike way; “then I’ll go down myself and stop that hole.” And he called the men to dress him.
At this time, Captain Conkling was seventy-five years old, and had retired long since from active diving. But he was as strong as a horse still, and no man had every questioned his courage.
In vain they tried to dissuade him. “I’ll stop that hole,” said he, “and I don’t want any extra rope, either”.
He kept his word. He went down, and he stopped the hole, but it was with his dead body, and today somewhere in the Holyoke Dam lie the bones of brave old Captain Conkling, incased in full diving-dress, helmet and hose and life-line, buried in that mass of masonry. No man ever dared to go down after his body.