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Balancing State Budgets the Easy Way

Bruce Webb | February 20, 2011 4:42 am

Nevada Seeks to Cut Funds for Treating Gambling Addiction Snark? No it is too sad for that, somehow we have gotten to Reagan’s promised Land, Government is the Problem. Always. Still. But welcome to Vegas!

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  • Mattt Fitzgerald says:
    February 20, 2011 at 9:08 am

    Maybe someone could suggest that states receive more from the federal govt than they pay in go first with reductions. When that is equalized then everyone can take a haircut.

  • jeff in indy says:
    February 20, 2011 at 10:51 am

    little too much vino last nite, eh?  that’d be the only way i could see how reagan and gambling came out of the same thought pattern.

  • coberly says:
    February 20, 2011 at 1:37 pm

    nah, jeff,

    it’s all part of the Mammon is God religion that the people have been happily believing in, forever really, but more obviously since Reagan taught in the Temple.

  • jeff in indy says:
    February 20, 2011 at 6:08 pm

    he obviously wasn’t successful at throwing the money-changers out…

  • HispanicPundit says:
    March 22, 2011 at 12:55 am

    Of course your post assumes that treating government addiction, uh, works. If it doesn’t – which my suspicions would lead me to believe – then this is a good thing. Cutting waste.

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