Go To: Some Assembly Required

Here we go. This from "Some Assembly Required" -- follow link to original.




Long Haul: Across the nation 40 states have slashed budgets to close a $84 billion cumulative shortfall. Fire stations have been closed, teachers cut, social services eliminated, libraries cut and dog pounds closed. Next year states will face $72 billion in budget shortfalls and in 2013 the gap will be yet another $64 billion – all to be met by cuts and more cuts until nothing’s left. What's the point of the state if it cannot provide essential public services?

Summation: Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi has a long piece on the GOP's Tea Party affiliate which concludes that Tea Partiers are a bunch of pissed-off but irrelevant older white folks who are scared silly of the modern world. Irrelevant, because the Tea Party has been taken over by the BP/Goldmanite powers that already have both major political parties and all the rest of us by the balls anyway. It doesn't matter who wins on Election Day, enjoy the show.