Despite the federal government’s role in helping Mississippi shore up the state budget, Gov. Haley Barbour touted the GOP’s promise to cut $100 billion out of the federal budget on the “Early Show” this morning.
The “Early Show” reported that Mississippi has received more than $2.6 billion in federal stimulus funds from the Obama administration’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, of which $1 billion was allocated to helping balance the state budget.
Barbour, who has criticized the stimulus package and encouraged school districts to hold off on spending the money until next fiscal year, used his airtime to criticize Obama’s spending policies.
“The American people do not like Obama’s policies,” Barbour told CBS anchor Harry Smith. “They don’t like all of this outrageous spending. They don’t like running up the deficits. They don’t like piling trillions of dollars of debt on our children and grandchildren, and they don’t think it works. They think it’s been bad for the economy, that it has made it harder to create jobs.”
Using data from the state Legislative Budget Committee, CBS reported that Mississippi has lost about 700 teachers, nearly 800 teacher’s assistants, 164 administrators and 402 support staff from 2009-2010 budget cuts.
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“The American people do not like Obama’s policies…They don’t like all of this outrageous spending. They don’t like running up the deficits. They don’t like piling trillions of dollars of debt on our children and grandchildren, and they don’t think it works. They think it’s been bad for the economy, that it has made it harder to create jobs.” -Haley Barbour “Mississippi has lost about 700 teachers, nearly 800 teacher’s assistants, 164 administrators and 402 support staff from 2009-2010 budget cuts.” Someone please help me to understand the logic behind these two quotes. I hear this all the time from so-called “conservatives” that you cannot spend “your way out of a recession” and “Obama has not created any jobs”. Yet, the budget cuts will result in people losing jobs, and when people don’t have money, they cannot purchase anything, and this is really “bad for business”. How can Barbour get on national TV, spew this rhetoric and people not be amazed at how little sense his stance makes?
#160635 | Author: Renaldo Bryant | Date: Nov 1 2010
@ Blackwatch – it’s the way he sends the message, he speaks in anti-obama qoute on qoute legalese, that doesn’t make sense to some of us, but makes perfect sense to someone who is making $30,000, driving a pick-up truck, waving the confederate flag, living in one of our surrounding suburbs. As long as blacks in Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, Arkansas, Tennessee, Georgia and Florida vote Democratic/liberal policies – a majority of whites are going to vote in the opposite direction, because they see the black vote as entitlement seekers – when in actuality I think we are voting with the interest of our wallets and pocketbooks. The Govenror knows that and has played it well – so as long as these people down here are buying it, we are going to keep seeing the sales pitch from Republican candidates for many years to come, until the masses wake up and finally get tired of it.
#160636 | Author: Duan C. | Date: Nov 1 2010
The day Obama took office, the deficit was $1.4 trillion. If you break it down by president, the debt has fallen under Democratic administrations and risen dramatically under Republican administrations. If you really don’t like “piling trillions of dollars of debt” on future generations, the last thing you should do is vote for a Republican.
#160639 | Author: Brian C Johnson | Date: Nov 1 2010
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