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There is only one reason the United States cannot become, in short order, a nation totally self-sufficient in energy use and production. There is only one reason we cannot clean our air, build new industries and provide a better, brighter future for the next generation to come along. There is only one reason the United States cannot create millions of news jobs and that reason is that you and I no longer control our own government. Big Oil does. And until we take control back from the industrialists we will forever be at their mercy. [...]
Nan Hayworth and her Tea Party base frequently talk about freedom in abstract and grandiloquent terms. But what do their ideas and policies mean in practice? Hayworth's party line vote for the latest House Republican continuing res… [...]
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(I agree with the NRA: You can’t ever trust a yuppie. I hear they tend to get angry and come after you with an organic, locally grown bean sprout and as bean oil is near impossible to remove from camo outerwear, shooting them is your only defense.) [...]
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In the 2007 budget year, the Putnam County Department of Consumer Affairs generated $540,530 on licenses and fees from general contractors, plumbers and electricians and spent $0 supporting those professions. That’s half a million dollars pulled from the economy (around $46,000 in what could have been generated sales taxes) through forced taxation (they call it a “Fee”) with no recourse for those living here who wish to work here. How many professions have to pay the county a “fee” just for the right to work? I should mention here that in the same budget year the Department paid out $407,357 in salaries and another $163,599 in benefits. [...]
Well, that didn’t take long, did it? Nan Hayworth, who defeated John Hall for his seat in NY’s 19th Congressional district this fall buoyed by support from local and national Tea Party organizations, has dumped the far right to join a centrist Congre… [...]
Hayworth among House members seeking to block standards to reduce toxic pollution, NRDC says
WASHINGTON – A total of 123 House members from 35 states, including Congresswoman Nan Hayworth (NY-19) are co-sponsoring legislation that would block EPA standards to reduce toxic, smog and soot pollution from industrial plants and other sources, according to the Natural Resources Defense Council. Carbon Dioxide pollution increases the risk of heat stress, promotes the spread of infectious diseases and makes it more difficult to reduce smog pollution, which threatens the health of asthma sufferers and others with respiratory problems, the group said.
The NRDC’s director of the Climate Control Center, Dan Lashoff, said four bills would attack implementation and enforcement of the Clean Air Act.
“Our elected representatives should hold big polluters accountable, not help them block the strong safeguards that would protect our health and quality of life,” he said. “Unfortunately these bad air boosters, who have collectively taken over $27 million in campaign contributions from big polluters during their careers, are choosing to standing up for the polluters instead of public health.”
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By Henry Goldman and Martin Z. Braun – Jan 27, 2011 12:01 AM ET
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Governor Andrew Cuomo prepares to reduce state spending for the first time since 1995. Photographer: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg
A New York oversight board’s takeover of finances in Nassau County, the wealthiest outside New York City, may make it harder for the chief executive to promote the anti-tax agenda that helped get him elected.
The Nassau County Interim Finance Authority’s action repudiated the stewardship of County ExecutiveEdward Mangano, who campaigned with Tea Party support. Mangano’s first official act repealed a heating-oil sales tax that cost the county about $40 million at a time when the longest recession since World War II was draining county receipts.
That, combined with rising labor and debt-service costs, left Mangano with an inherited deficit of about $133 million in the $2.6 billion county-funded portion of his 2010 budget. This year, he proposed $100 million in spending cuts and $60 million of increased fees and fines even as Governor Andrew Cuomo prepares to reduce state spending for the first time since 1995.
“You can promise to cut taxes all you want, but once you’re in, you can’t spend more than [...]
And while we’re down there, guess who is trying to get the state to do his road widening work for him on Route 6? You guessed it! Mike Griffin! Nah, Paul Camarda is, that’s who. And is anyone surprised? Why are we spending county tax dollars doing the business for an out-of-state developer with deeper pockets than the county? Why are we spending any man-hours at all on this? [...]
Democrats are calling out Congresswoman-elect Nan Hayworth (NY-19) for already reneging on her commitment to fiscal responsibility and by joining the House Republican Conference in approving Congressman Hal Rogers as Chair the House Appropriations Comm… [...]
And, seeing that he has come to us as a Vice President of Exceed Development and his temporary Chief of Staff is the president of that development corporation, how far away are we from simply handing the county to Paul Camarda? Right now Mr. C. has to go through the appearance of formality but as we’ve seen in Carmel and Patterson, where corrupt town boards are in his pocket, those formalities are only paper thin. [...]
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Nan Hayworth dumps the Tea Party
Well, that didn’t take long, did it? Nan Hayworth, who defeated John Hall for his seat in NY’s 19th Congressional district this fall buoyed by support from local and national Tea Party organizations, has dumped the far right to join a centrist Congre… [...]