This is another Muth's Truth that geographically about the great State of Nevada, but this reality is being played out coast-to-coast on a daily basis. The truth in this column seems to be: Politicians lie; mindless media syncophants repeat their lies unchallenged and/or make up their own.
At any rate, it is more proof this govt is no longer working for the people. Trash it. Rich Martin MUTH'S TRUTHS - Worshipping the Obamessiah from <[email protected]> Posted: 18 Jan 2009 01:12 PM CST A Las Vegas teacher was invited to go on President-elect Barack Obama's train ride to Washington yesterday and was mentioned by name in an Obama speech in Baltimore. To which Rosa Mendoza had this to say: "I felt like the clouds opened up and the angels just poured bliss over me." Oh, brother. Is this cult-like worship or what? But it's what Obama actually said that I found particularly interesting in this life-changing experience: "I will be thinking of middle-school teachers like Rosa Mendoza, who is giving her students the chance to fulfill their God-given potential." What's interesting is the fact that Ms. Mendoza is giving her students the chance to fulfill their God-given potential, not in a traditional public school, but in a CHARTER school. The kind of charter school the Nevada State Board of Education put a moratorium on a year ago (since lifted). The kind of charter school the teachers union regularly opposes as a threat to their monopoly on educational mediocrity. I wonder where all the children of Nevada's elected officials who oppose school choice send THEIR kids? Old Habits Die Hard Posted: 18 Jan 2009 01:12 PM CST The funniest thing to come out of the frothing reactions to Gov. Jim Gibbons' budget proposal has been the continued attacks on him for rigidly adhering to his "no new taxes" pledge. Why, just this morning the Las Vegas Sun editorialized that higher education "must not be decimated just because one governor backed himself into a corner with a foolish campaign promise not to raise a single tax or fee." Hello? News flash: Gov. Gibbons proposed a gig-enormous $292 MILLION tax hike in his budget. It was in all the papers. Including the Sun. You could look it up. Democrats and the Left are so used to slamming Jim Gibbons for his tax pledge that they can't even stop slamming him for his tax pledge after he did what they've been demanding he do for months and broke it. You just can't please some people. The Devil's in the Details Posted: 18 Jan 2009 01:11 PM CST The running line in Nevada's current budget war is that Gov. Gibbons is slashing the budget 34 percent and cutting spending by some $2 billion. As Jon Ralston points out in his column today, Gibbons himself has been fueling these figures, including a claim in his State of the State Address that his proposed budget "is $2.2 billion smaller than the one we submitted just two years ago." But according to Mr. Ralston, the budget Gibbons submitted two years ago was $6.8 billion and the one he just submitted is $6.1 billion. Now, I went to publik skool for a few years, so maybe my math is off…but that would appear to me to be a spending reduction of just $700 million, almost half of which is being made up by Gibbons' proposed $300 million tax hike. So if these numbers are even remotely accurate, it appears the government only needs to tighten its belt by about $400 million. So what's all the whining and kvetching about? Subscribe to the feed version of MUTH'S TRUTHS in a feed reader. write to: MUTH'S TRUTHS, c/o FeedBurner, 20 W Kinzie, 9th Floor, Chicago IL USA 60610 Or email <[email protected]> to subscribe --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "APFN" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/APFN?hl=en APFN-1 YahooGroups: Subscribe: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/apfn-1/join Unsubscribe: [email protected] APFN MSG BOARD: `In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.' http://disc.server.com/Indices/234999.html APFN CONTENTS PAGE: http://www.apfn.org/old/apfncont.htm "RADIO YOUR WAY" APFN POGO NETWORK (( WOW!! )) "All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent" -- Thomas Jefferson http://www.apfn.net/POGO.HTM Find elected officials, including the president, members of Congress, governors, state legislators, local officials, and more. http://congress.org/congressorg/dbq/officials/ APFN, PMB 206, 7549 W. CACTUS RD. #104, PEORIA, AZ 85381 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
