Ka-Boom Goes the Tip Line – Carney’s 10% Across the Board Budget Cut, Police held harmless?
This is an unconfirmed tip, but if true, reveals the depth of Carney’s perfidy.
Carney’s budget director has–this past week–sent out a notice to ALL state departments to send in budget plans based on both a 5% and 10% cut for the next year, along with a statement of the impact on services. Law enforcement is using its clout to be held harmless. District Superintendents are pushing to have one if not two complete branches of DOE eliminated in order to avoid the 5 to 10% budget cuts to public education. Carney is being duplicitous at saying there is no money to improve education funding when his own staff is saying that there’s not even money to keep the current level of services intact.
We’ve got our own Chris Christie.
Taking marching orders from his GOP masters.
Knowing this was in the works, taking tax increases off the table (for the very wealthy corporations and individuals who have enjoyed ALL of the economic gains of the past 25 years) was just STUPID. Do we have our own Christie or our own Trump?
I’ve determined that referring to Carney as a squid is an insult to squid. Squid while spineless actually have guts. (Shiokara is delicious, by the way.)
Need to come up with a better label.
Bannonite. He clearly favors allowing poor people to starve in the streets in favor of anarcho-capitalism.
After many years of doing nothing under Markell with the budget mess , its time to pay the piper! Jack really stuck it to Carney—again!!
Nice picture addition whoever added it.
Caption: Can you spot the Democratic Governor in this picture?
..And one more thing, what a joke Carney’s “budget reset” meetings are. I mean, we already knew they were a joke, but this lays their fraudulence bare.
So, does this mean that the Joint Finance Committee hearings were a waste of time? One more week to go and–they have to start over again with new proposals?
If this is true, and if Carney hadn’t notified departments and agencies until this week, it’s gubernatorial malpractice of gargantuan proportions.
Yes…Sounds like one big cluster you know what!!
ES: Might explain why JFC hearings are actually NOT done. Several agencies, including the colleges, have not yet presented and have not been rescheduled after earlier postponements. Schedule is blank.
The fact that this site dislikes Governor Carney, somehow makes me like him even more. You can be 100% sure that if delaware liberal is against you, you are probably doing something right.
So, if Carney is and was so evil and bad. How come Democrats keep voting for him?
Republicans will have basically the same policies as Carney, plus a few worse ones.
– Repubs will give us the right-to-work-for-less.
– Repubs will accelerate the degrading of public education, already hanging by a thread.
– Repub control will open the floodgates to a whole range of deplorable social policies.
– Repubs will gleefully fund tax cuts for the rich by cutting support for the most vulnerable (Carney will do that too, just not as much).
@CinqueB, that is the million-dollar question isn’t it.
Oh, and I left out: Repubs will gleefully gut the Coastal Zone Act. (but Carney might do that too, in his desperation to avoid tax increases).
– Repubs will accelerate the degrading of public education, already hanging by a thread.
Public education was destroyed by Democrats, no one else
– Repub control will open the floodgates to a whole range of deplorable social policies.
what policies would that be?
– Repubs will gleefully fund tax cuts for the rich by cutting support for the most vulnerable (Carney will do that too, just not as much).
You don’ fund tax cuts with cutting support to anyone, Delaware has government costs and layers which are way too expensive and in the end HURT those who need the help…….taxes are necessary but should be about savings, growth and investment
“Public education was destroyed by Democrats, no one else”
Partly true.
Democrats diminished public education until it is now weak enough for Republicans to drown it in a bathtub.
When the courts forced us to include minority and special-ed students in the public schools, both parties turned away from public schools and collaborated to deny those populations the support needed for success. During the “choice” buildout of charters and magnets in the 1990s and early 2000s, both parties refused to tax our booming banks enough to pay for educating our newly included school populations.
The apartheid charter law was sponsored by Dave Sokola and signed by Tom Carper, and cheered by middle and upper-middle class parents.