Day: June 19, 2012

Irresponsibility Illustrated In Pennsylvania

Commonwealth Foundation has provided an excellent illustration regarding the irresponsibility of Pennsylvania’s budget deliberations.
It uses the example of someone $500 in your checking account who expects a $400 raise next month but whose credit card payment   increase by $80 next month;  health care premium   by $840;   retirement contribution by $690, and rent  by $135.
The Foundation asks whether this person would spend the $500 in the checking account on a shopping spree today and notes that is basically what  the state legislature proposes doing in budget talks—only with a “million” to each number.
 

A Bad Omen For O In Pa.

Political witch doctors use the primary election “undervote” as a means evaluating a candidate’s health. Undervoters are voters who pass over the button for an uncontested person in the party primary.

An undervote of 10 percent means the candidate has a big problem.
Barack Obama was uncontested in Pennsylvania’s Democrat Primary on April 24. His state-wide undervote was 30 percent, according to Mike Flynn from Breitbart.com.
Flynn says he has never known a candidate with an undervote of 30 percent to win a general election.
The bright side is that the undervote for Obama was 0 in Philadelphia and just 6 percent in Delaware County. It was 9 percent in Chester County just under the danger zone. Of course, everywhere else, well, man the lifeboats.
Pennsylvania has not voted for a Republican for president since 1988.
Hat tip TrueBlueLiberty.com