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paedraggaidin in talk_politics

The Doughnuts of Doom

Jun 02, 2011 00:40

So, I'd like to take a little break from the federal budget wank and show y'all what great things state governments are doing these days, in the face of their own budget dilemmas. Back in my ancestral homeland of Kansas, the state Department of Health and Environment is tackling important issues and solving thorny problems that affect the daily ( Read more... )

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soliloquy76 June 2 2011, 15:14:34 UTC

Here's a recent one, for starters:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2011/06/02/136884455/drug-tests-for-welfare-recipients-state-workers-ignites-debate-in-florida

Basically, anything that Rick Scott has gotten his hands on instantly becomes stupid.

anfalicious June 3 2011, 01:12:24 UTC

Why do you only hear of policies that require massive intrusion into the lives and privacy of the poor from small government types?

devil_ad_vocate June 2 2011, 16:26:24 UTC

The Texas legislature can beat yours at passing stupid laws... any day of the week.

paedraggaidin June 2 2011, 16:55:53 UTC

I've never been to Texas, so no comment. :P

anfalicious June 3 2011, 00:59:56 UTC

If the market is being promoted as being for local grown produce then I don't see what the problem is. It's not like they're being banned from stores. This kinda like going to a vegetarian restaurant and getting upset because they wont cook you a steak.

My great state of Victoria anfalicious June 3 2011, 01:10:59 UTC

Has recently introduced legislation that makes it legal to discriminate on the grounds of religion, sexuality, gender, marital status and parental status for religious institutions only. It's basically so the Catholics and Fundies can legally fire the gays and single mums. Mind you, the law outlawing such activities is only a few years old. The funny part comes when the law didn't pass because 5 MPs missed the vote (an MP from the same party missed another vote 2 nights ago because she was asleep in her office ( ... )

Re: My great state of Victoria anfalicious June 3 2011, 01:21:59 UTC

Worthwhile update RE: the discrimination bill.

So once a bill is defeated here it can't be re-introduced. That is, of course, unless you suspend the standing orders of parliament and do it anyway. Which is what they're doing. Undemocratically forcing through an undemocratic law.

Some of the things this bill will allow: firing a woman for having a child whilst unmarried and refusing to treat patients because they are an atheist.