Mary Fallin Complains It's Hard

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"It's hard for us as governors to write a budget," Fallin said in her speech at the National Press Club.



Fallin faults federal fiscal fight in National Press Club speech

Read more from this Tulsa World article at http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=11&articleid=20130110_16_A1_CUTLIN45726

MEANWHILE ON THE LEFT COAST!: Governor Introduces Plan That Eliminates Deficit http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/10/california-budget-surplus-2013_n_2450349.html
"SACRAMENTO, Jan 10 (Reuters) - California's budget deficit is gone after years of financial troubles, Governor Jerry Brown said on Thursday, proposing a plan that raises spending on education and healthcare, boosting total expenditures by 5 percent."

Is Jerry Brown the best Governor in America?

Come on Mary, this ain't no doll house you're managing. Quit whining.

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Editorial: Gov. Fallin delivers wrong message in Washington
By World's Editorials Writers
Published: 1/11/2013  1:52 AM
Last Modified: 1/11/2013  7:03 AM

Gov. Mary Fallin spoke at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., Wednesday and made some good points. Her message, however, rang somewhat hollow considering the state of her own state.

Fallin, who is co-chairwoman of the National Governors Association (Gov. Jack Markell, a Democrat from Delaware, is the chairman), said that it is damaging the nation when Washington politicians lurch from fiscal crisis to fiscal crisis.

She also pointed out that it makes it tough for governors and legislatures to write budgets when they are unsure of federal funding.

Fallin also cautioned that the nation's fiscal problems can't be solved by pushing costs onto state governments.

We agree. But, we are puzzled.

This is the same Fallin who has routinely criticized the federal government for spending too much money. The same governor who by refusing to join the Affordable Care Act has pushed health-care costs onto Oklahomans.

This is also the same governor who continues to campaign for lowering the state income tax, while slashing the budgets of public schools and every other department in the state while relying on those hated federal funds.

Fallin held up Oklahoma as a model state when it came to dealing with the national recession.

Here's what she had to say: "I've got to tell you, it wasn't easy. We did it through prioritizing our spending, making very tough budget decisions, good public policy and we also had to make some shared sacrifices."

That sounds good in a speech in Washington, D.C. But anyone in Oklahoma knows most of it is hooey.

During the oil boom of the early 1980s, there was an advertisement on TV that could make even the oiliest of oilies cringe. It featured an attractive female model in cowboy boots and a hard hat and her message was: "If you don't have an oil well, get one."

That, in reality, is what Fallin's message ought to have been. There were no hard-fought decisions about shared sacrifice. There was no "good public policy."

Oklahoma still has oil and natural gas. As that industry goes, so goes the state. Of course, we still need those federal dollars - we get more back than we pay in - so we do need Congress and the president to get to work. She's right about that.

Read more from this Tulsa World article at http://www.tulsaworld.com/opinion/article.aspx?subjectid=61&articleid=20130111_61_A12_GovMar268510

We have an idiot in the governors mansion....

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JAN BREWER IS MAKING SENSE

http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/jan-brewer-medicaid-money-obamacare-011513

I was wondering who the first prominent Republican governor was going to be who looked at the Medicaid expansion available under the Affordable Care Act and, rather than yelling at the clouds, "You will not crucify our freedom on the cross of convenience!", would proclaim, in the time-honored tradition of local pols everywhere, "Free money! Me some too, yes?!"

Read up Governess Mary Fallin..... our state is really at a disadvantage. We have a leader that seems reluctant to work it....

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Fake Mary Fallin tweeted:

Sometimes I have no clue what the Dept of Commerce is saying. Seriously! I have a hotel mgmt deg. & they use big words like quantitative...