New Budget Plan: Profiting from Others’ Losses

The state legislature is in the midst of their annual budget debate and a new idea seems to be taking hold: the legalization of table games (poker, blackjack, etc).

• Rep. Bill DeWeese, D-Greene, officially introduced his proposal to legalize table games in PA casinos and Senators Tommy Tomlinson, R-Bucks, and Robert Mellow, D-Lackawanna, plan to introduce a similar bill in the Senate.
• Sen. Joe Scarnati, R-Jefferson, the Senate President Pro Tempore, stated that he is considering them as options.
• Rep. Doug Reichley, R-Lehigh, wants to use table games to support teachers’ pensions.

All of this on top of Governor Rendell’s proposal to legalize video poker machines in bars and taverns around the state to fund secondary education.

Where does the greed end? How many Pennsylvanians will we need to lose money to support all of these plans? Building our budget on the backs of our fellow citizens seems like a pretty foolish idea.

What do you think?

News That Makes Me Sick

I cannot think of anything more chilling to read in the news, but this:

The Philadelphia Women’s Center gave away free abortions Tuesday in honor of Dr. George Tiller, the abortionist who was murdered last week.

Absolutely disgusting. Abortions involve emotional distress, medical risks, etc for the woman involved. To hand them out free as a way to honor someone shows a complete disregard for human life (the lives of both the infant being murdered and of the mother).

Deeply saddening.

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Also disturbing news: An anatomy professor at Temple is confused about gender?

Wow. Glad I didn't spend the money to go to that school for biology. This type of thinking is also being taught to elementary school children in Vermont.

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Lines are being blurred everywhere...