Amazing Republican disconnect
The disconnect between the people that represent citizens in Washington and the Republican governors is stunning to me. How is it that even Bonehead R’s like Charlie Crist, Palin and the Action Hero (CA-R) want to pass the recovery package, but people Like Mike Castle don’t?
NEW YORK — Most Republican governors have broken with their GOP colleagues in Congress and are pushing for passage of President Barack Obama’s economic aid plan that would send billions to states for education, public works and health care.
Read the entire article.
The GOP Governors and Dem Governors want a bailout fromt their mistakes.
Take a look at Delaware’s mistakes.
Where Did the Budget Go Wrong In Delaware?
As we face a mounting budget crisis in Delaware one has to ask how and why did it get so bad? Lately, the national economy has been a factor both good and bad but in the end we created a lot of the problems right here at home. Spending has exceeded normal growth needs.
Delaware has a budget based on the General Fund, Bond/Capital, and Grant in Aid. Let’s focus on the first two items because total spending is the focus and grant in aid is relatively low (approx $50 million).
Here are figures from the Governor’s recommended budget request from 2004 to 2008, a total of five budget years. Same Governor, same President.
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Year Total GF+Capital % Growth % Population Inflation Total Diff
2004 $2.82 Bn 4.6% 1.4% 2.7% 4.1% +.5%
2005 $3.15 Bn 10.5% 1.5% 3.4% 4.9% +5.6%
2006 $ 3.37 Bn 6.5% 1.4% 3.2% 4.6% +1.9%
2007 $ 3.69 Bn 8.8% 1.4% 2.8% 4.2% +4.6%
2008 $ 3.81 Bn 2.9% 1.4% 3.8% 5.2% -2.3%
The population and inflation growth numbers are important because the focus for the future should be a limitation on all spending growth to be limited to population growth plus inflation.
Given the previous numbers average total spending went up 2% more than population and inflation over a five year period. Earlier from 1992-2001 budget growth increased 81%.
Here are the raw results if inflation and population growth had been the yardstick to measure budget growth.
if budget amount
Year Budget $ Request had inflation/pop growth extra spending
2005 $3.15 bn $2.93 Bn + $220 million
2006 $3.37 bn $3.06 Bn + $310 million
2007 $3.70 bn $3.18 bn + $520 million
2008 $3.81 bn $ 3.34 bn + $470 million
Here are the sources:
http://inflationdata.com/inflation/Inflation_Rate/CurrentInflation.asp
http://budget.delaware.gov/budget_archive.shtml
http://budget.delaware.gov/fy2010/10_media-financial-overview.pdf
Mike Protack for http://www.rebuildtheDelawareGOP.com
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Mike Castle and Mike Protack are on the same side of this issue.
That should tell you something.
These Governors are wrong, read the article. They want a bailout from their own mistakes.
In the last five years if Delaware had increased the budget by inflation plus population growth there would be no budget shortfall this year-none.
If these GOP Governors are boneheads why do you support or trust what they say on any subject?
Selective facts?
The GOP is tying themselves in knots over this one. Just look at Protack’s entry. He admits we shouldn’t trust GOP governors! Trust us, we don’t!
If these GOP Governors are boneheads why do you support or trust what they say on any subject?
Selective facts?
they are boneheads, but even they know that the GOVERNMENT will need to step in and do something.
How fitting that they realize how dire the situation is so much so that they want the federal government to bail them out of their own stupidity.
seriously? that’s all you got?
“In the last five years if Delaware had increased the budget by inflation plus population growth there would be no budget shortfall this year-none.”
That is a sentence worth heeding.
Take alook around the country, the budget mess in all the states is bi partisan. It is not a matter of D or R although you seem fixated on the R part of the equation.
We should not trust any Governor (R or D) who runs hat in hand to Washington for federal money from problems of their own making.
Go to http://www.rebuildtheDelawareGOP.com under policy blog and look at Delaware’s numbers.
In Delaware under Tom Carper budget growth in eight years was 81%. Gov. Minner spent on average every year 2% above inflation and population growth.
The budget problem acros the country is the worst where there is a Democrat legislature and a Democratic Governor. Take a look at USA Today, they had a great layout last week on the subject.
To Mike Protack; if you are serious about changing the GOP, stop blaming the states for their budget shortfalls, the facts are a real estate bust like we are living through wreaks havoc with state budgets, so does unemployment. Face reality and stop blaming overspending for everything, it makes you look like a moron. You are doing what I call a cut and paste. You have a conclusion you WANT to come to, so you use only the facts that get you to your goal, while ignoring all reason. The american public is becoming wise to your cut and paste style and are just making you and the rest of your party irrelevant.
Most states also have to have balanced budgets by law, so they can’t run debt when times are bad.
Let’s state this simply:
The problem with state budgets is the Bush economy.
To Mike Protack; if you are serious about changing the GOP
Sorry, you lost me there.
Sure, governors are for it: it means more money flowing into state coffers. But that still doesn’t make it a good idea.
It’s a very bad idea, and Mike Castle was right to vote against it. I hope that the GOP has the cojones to filibuster it to death in the Senate.