What is the state of your state?

[cali]

I wonder if we can get a DUers assessment of how things are from state to state. What are the unemployment figures in your state? What's been going on in education? What has your legislature been up to?

[trumad]

1. Florida

Nuff Said.

[cali]

4. yep. I guess that does say it all.

[Motown_Johnny]

2. Michigan

Nuff Said

[HereSince1628]

3. I think I'm in a State of Crisis...Wisconsin where recall isn't memory

We're still looking for less cowbell and more progress.

[bluedave]

5. Illinois

Glad I took SS at 62 and done working for the man

[Warren Stupidity]

6. NH

Total Teabagnut Goat Fuck.

[cali]

9. goat fuck?

:rofl:

[fredamae]

7. Oregon

More than 31 bills were written to remove Medcanna laws and protections.
Abortion bills introduced by 25 republicans which are amongst the most restrictive invasive bills introduced in the country.

$93,000,000.00 in business tax benefits were granted and school budgets slashed, social services and property tax benefits for the elderly cut.
Fees and fines increased for "the little people" and apparently forgiveness to business is granted and or waived.

Unions are quietly being attacked, but certainly not at the level they are in the mid-west.

They also seek the impede voter registration.

A lot of back door legislation here seeks to remove and restrict our rights, but in a most fragmented way. We have an evenly "split house" and a Dem Senate majority along with a third term Dem Governor.

I have not reviewed all of the bills, yet.

[cali]

8. wow. I had no idea all that was going on in Oregon

thanks for the info.

[fredamae]

10. What remains to be seen of course

is how many of these bills will be signed into law. We do still have a Dem Gov.

The $93,000,000.00 has been signed at this point.

[Old Codger]

11. They did

Grant an extension to unemployment for the 99er's for six weeks more payments.

[PBS Poll-435]

12. Education isn't a word we take kindly to, around here.

We have a Governor that doesn't live in the Governor's Mansion.

Our legislature is made up of complete morons, and our Congressional delegation isn't much better. (Actually it is much, much worse. Ever hear of Joe Barton or Screwy Louis Gohmert?)

Unemployment numbers are picked by a game of darts and a few rounds of shots.

[w8liftinglady]

13. Now, Now- we lead the nation

Study: Texas leads nation in number of uninsured children

http://www.bizjournals.com/houston/stories/2008/10/27/daily49.html

Texas Leads Nation In Teen Births

http://www.kwtx.com/home/headlines/8701952.html

Uninsured adults

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/health/5968063.html


awww....and some more
http://www.texastribune.org/texas-legislature/texas-legislature/texas-is-on-the-brink-legislative-study-group-says/

At the bottom:

— Tax expenditures per capita (47th)

— Percent of population 25 and older with a high school diploma (50th)

— Percent of poor people covered by Medicaid (49th)

— Percent of population with employer-based health insurance (48th)

— Per capita spending on mental health (50th)

— Per capita spending on Medicaid (49th)

— Percent of non-elderly women with health insurance (50th)

— Percent of women receiving prenatal care in first trimester (50th)

— Average credit score (49th)

— Workers' compensation coverage (50th)

Near the top:

— Number of executions (1st)

— Public school enrollment (2nd)

— Percent of uninsured children (1st)

— Percent of children living in poverty (4th)

— Percent of population uninsured (1st)

— Percent of population living below poverty (4th)

— Percent of population with food insecurity (2nd)

— Overall birth rate (2nd)

— Amount of carbon dioxide emissions (1st)

— Amount of toxic chemicals released into water (1st)

— Amount of hazardous waste generated (1st)

[Zax2me]

14. Georgia is about to ADD a gas tax.

Great timing, huh?!

[PJPhreak]

15. Kansas...

We sent a Moran to the Senate,Yes a Moran,Jerry Moran.

I am Represented by a Moran.



I think that 'splains it well enough.

[Dread Pirate Roberts]

16. PA-The State of my state is stupid!

I live on the frontier. If I go 5 miles west,its the land of yahoos and skinheads. If I go five miles east there's civilization. Muhlenberg College, Lehigh, Lafayette and smart people.

[socialist_n_TN]

17. Tennessee. It's always been conservative, but

in the past it's been "moderate" conservative, not totally nutz conservative whether Democrats or Republicans elected. That seems to be holding up, although we do have a LOT of the nuts in the Legislature and in the Lt. Governor position now.

There are issues that I worry about of course. There are a lot of laws that are being proposed that are FAR, FAR out in right field. The more "moderate" (VERY relative term) Republican governor is, so far, holding out for LESS radical laws. We'll see if he caves. The "Sharia" law has been modified to include ANY group that they designate as "terrorist" and that's a pretty slippery slope. Downright ice covered as far as I'm concerned. Teachers and all public employees organizing rights are under constant attack. But overall our Republicans (at least the ones with the final sayso) are more "moderate" than AZ or the midwest governors or so it seems.

There's still WAY enough to continously fight though.