Old Weird Ward
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Sunday, July 13, 2003
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From the San Jose Mercury News (July 13, 2003) (Excerpted and arranged by OWW himself)
As the budget stalemate enters its third week, Senate leader John Burton (Dem - SF) is holding out for an annual cost-of-living boost in monthly aid payments to the poor.
"If I take away something from you that's entitled by law, that's a cut,'' the San Francisco Democrat said last week. "We're not giving them anything new.''
To Burton, taking away a planned increase in payments to the poor is unquestionably a cut.
But to GOP Sen. Dick Ackerman of Tustin, when Democrats "start calling withholding increases `cuts,' that's just playing games with words and I think California voters aren't buying it.''
...The [Gov. Gray Davis - Dem] governor's budget blueprint eliminates an annual increase in public school funding that accounts for the cost of inflation. School officials consider this a cut because they will have the same amount of money to spend on each student, even though the cost of educating them -- keeping the lights on and paying for textbooks -- will be higher.
/RANT ON
Listen up, you blunt-brains, and start thinking in English, instead of "Politician". A cut is something that happens when something is removed. NOT when an increase is denied. Sen. Ackerman is quite correct. We, the voters, are watching you clowns screw up the works, and we, the voters, are seriously displeased.
Sen. Burton, you spent too much time admiring Clinton's evasion act over word definitions.
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