Mark Dayton for President !!!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=222946

Must be the liberals.

 

Thanks for the laughs!

A word on the “projected $5 billion deficit,” That’s the projected deficit in the upcoming biennium, not the previous biennium._ That budget balanced during the Pawlenty administration._ Dayton and his allies are blaming Pawlenty for the upcoming deficit, arguing that he deferred payments and spending to get to the balanced budget in 2009-10._ If so, he did it with a DFL-controlled legislature._ At any rate, the GOP wants to cut spending to eliminate the projected deficit, while Dayton and the DFL want to raise taxes to cover new spending.

And since you're so concerned about spending, Dayton and his DFL legislators demanded a 24% spending hike over two years.

 

This is almost as sad as the NBA/NFL lockouts.

 

But Pawlenty critics have more than a few exhibits in their range of evidence, starting with a 2010 report from the National Conference of State Legislatures showing that Minnesota used one-time budget tricks to close 41 percent of its spending gap in that fiscal year.

Over Pawlenty’s term in office, the state used stimulus funds to patch budget holes, shifted education funding responsibilities from state to local government and cashed out money from a tobacco settlement fund. In 2005, Pawlenty helped work his way out of Minnesota’s last government shutdown by imposing a new tax on cigarettes that he called a “user fee.”

It’s not just Pawlenty’s national critics – or even just Democrats – who say his administration is at fault in this year’s shutdown.

“What we’re seeing now is the culmination of eight years of doing patchwork solutions without fixing the underlying problems. We haven’t addressed a tax system that doesn’t work very well and we haven’t addressed a spending system that doesn’t work very well,” said former gubernatorial candidate Tom Horner, an ex-Republican who ran for governor last year on the Independent Party line.

Former Republican Gov. Arne Carlson, a vocal Pawlenty critic who endorsed Horner in 2010, said Pawlenty was responsible for “everything” about the deficit.

“Of course it’s his fault. You can’t blame the new governor or legislature. They inherited this,” Carlson said. “He would be the classic example of kicking the can to the future.”