WHAT ME WORRY?

If you are at the end of your rope, you are at the limit of your patience or endurance.

                                                                                                               Some Idiot.

Minnesota is at the end of its rope.

This is a microcosm of what is happening in this country!

Blame w or blame the repubs....what is is, and what is not is not!

We ran out of money!

Not the first time and not the last time.

We were all warned of this back in 2008....actually long before that before the Great Recession hit us. But like war, we might have been warned but were told to go shopping. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfs6wpjlu28

George W. Bush told us to go shopping in 2006 to support our nation in its wars.

But by 2008 we were told that all hell was breaking loose; irregardless of our shopping!

We lost 50% of the value in our homes.

We were told we would lose 10% of our workforce.

We were told we would lose half of our pensions.

We were told that incomes would go down—at least for the middle class.

We were told that employers would leave our country and search for better 'feeds'.

We were told we were fucked!

http://www.pewtrusts.org/our_work_report_detail.aspx?id=58695

So the repubs, lying as usual took over the legislative bodies and the gubernatorial-ships of many states: 

Republicans took control of at least 19 Democratic-controlled state legislatures Tuesday and gained more than 650 seats, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. The last time Republicans saw such victories was in 1994, when they captured control of 20 state legislatures.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/republicans-historic-win-state-legislatures-vote-2010-election/story?id=12049040

So what did these new repub majorities do in state legislaures over the last six months?

Annihilate any chance for abortion in those states.

Annihilate any chance for collective bargaining in those states. 

Annihilate any chance for a poor person to get a sandwich in those states.

Annihilate any chance for a poor person to vote in those states. vote.

Annihilate all of the Bill of Rights (except for the Second Amendment) for anyone making under $250,000.00/year.

Annihilate any chance for someone from the middle class to succeed in those states.

Annihilate any chance for a woman to seek counseling regarding birth control in those states.

Annihilate any chance for folks to receive a minimum wage in those states.

Annihilate any opportunity to receive equal rights examination from some corporate employer in those states.

Annihilate any opportunity to receive medical assistance in those states.

Annihilate any opportunity to receive justice in the courts of those states.

Annihilate the hopes of a majority of the folks in those states to the American Dream.

In Minnesota something really strange occurred.

Remember you oldies, Minnesota was the State of Hubert Humphrey and Gene McCarthy and Donald Frazier and Walter Mondale and Wendell Anderson and Paul Wellstone (excuse me while I shed a tear)

(I gotta add here that Amy Klobuchar and Al Franken still make me proud to be a Minnesotan!)

Well and let us not forget Mark Dayton—Dayton kind of a family name like Rockefeller around these parts.

Well, for some reason my compatriots lost faith in the Democratic party and elected idiots for its legislature but went ahead and voted in Mark Dayton as Governor. If that had not happened all would be lost.

Well the fascists in our legislature; that mirror the fascists in the Wisconsin legistature as well as the Wisconsin Supreme Court, decided to go tete a tete with our Dem Gov. And guess what?

Oh just as an aside, if someone questions me as to whether we have fascists in our Legislature let me remind you that every goddamn piece of legislation that that NAZI government in Wisconsin voted for; our legislators would have asked for more.

One legislator sponsored a law that would make it a felony for any poor person to carry around more than $20.00 in cash at any one time! If I had a baseball bat and this arsehole walked into my apartment.....http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2011/03/22/bill-limits-cash-welfare-recipients-can-withdraw/

We have a microcosm in Minnesota of what is taking place in Washington DC.

Remember that the U.S. House of Representatives is in charge of the budget!

We have similar problems in Minnesota:

http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/shutdown/

Health and human service spending remains a sticking point. But MPR News reporter Tim Pugmire says House Minority Leader Matt Dean offered a brief but upbeat assessment of the talks. "Things are still moving ahead. That's good news."

Courts wills stay open. A judge ruled that due process and other constitutional protections require the courts to continue running.

Don't make a mess. If an environmental crisis hits during the shutdown, it will have to be managed by a "skeleton crew" from the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency. The agency says only about 16 of 900 workers will be running the department in a shutdown, working with private contractors in a crisis.

What's essential? While a judge today ruled the courts must stay open, we're still waiting for another court opinion on what constitutes "essential services" in a shutdown. That will come Wednesday or Thursday.

Without a deal, most state government operations will stop at midnight Thursday.

Help us keep watch on the Minnesota government shutdown. Tell us what you're seeing. Share an insight or story and make us smarter on how the shutdown talk is affecting Minnesota

http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/shutdown/

 AND

Hennepin County officials have been painting a bleak picture of life in a state government shutdown.

This afternoon, they backed a plan that would:

-- close service centers -- offices where citizens get driver's licenses, motor vehicle tabs, passports, and boating and fishing licenses -- on July 5;

-- continue providing services to people with serious and persistent mental illness or who are in chemical dependency treatment;

-- continue providing child protective services;

-- continue all Hennepin County road and bridge projects.

MPR News reporter Brandt Williams writes:

Commissioner Mike Opat says it would be a waste of time and money to keep the county service centers open.

"As much as I would like to think we could stay open, we are an arm of the state and most of those transactions are enough of a share where I think - to keep them open and have people come in only to find out that they can't conduct their business is a bad scenario in a number of ways."

Commissioners also voted to authorize the county attorney to join a current lawsuit designed to protect funding for core services during a shutdown.

The county's sending layoffs to more than 1,300 staff.

http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/shutdown/

Time Magazine's take a week ago:

                         http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2079026,00.html

 I just want people to know at Dagblog that Minnesota citizens are going to be without any State aid whatsover except for essentials. Which means if some person in Minnesota is found in the street runover, the officials that are left will take the fellow to the ER. Following that the fellow is on his own.

That is it!

Food banks, food stamps, monthly chits ($81.00 a month), dental help....anything you can imagine will be gone....I mean gone! No libraries, no road repairpeople, no license offices, no schools, no state colleges, no ....nothing!

Do not tell me that there are two sides to this story.

Because it is pure bullshite. The only difference is that bullshite can be used to help grow crops!

Interim Order regarding definition of Essential Services that must be provided by the State of Minnesota during shutdown. http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2011/06/29/shutdown-ruling/