This is for the children too

Vermont’s newest office, the Progressive Office for Sustainability, declared that all of the increase will go toward Whirligigs and rooftop hotplates. Oh yeah, and subsidies too.

Vt’s Largest Electric Utility Seeks To Raise Rates
CVPS Wants 5.9 Percent Rate Hike
RUTLAND, Vt. — Vermont’s largest electric utility is asking for permission to raise its rates by 5.91 percent.
Central [...]

Uncivil Engineering

All photos by J. Kirk Edwards-courtesy of the Eagle newspaper, Addison County- All rights reserved
I thank Mr. Edwards for sending these photos of the Crown Point (Champlain) Bridge to me and graciously allowing their use.

The ominous heavy flapping of gallinaceous wings bodes ill for the remnants of Vermont taxpayers.

Scrawny starved AOT chickens coming to [...]

Of BIG interest to Vermont!

I feel safe here in Vermont knowing our fiscal leaders, like Sens. Ancel, Bartlett and Ayer have a solid grip on reality.
Of course they do, that’s why Vermont’s shortfall isn’t $300,000,000.00 and growing.
We’re so lucky to have them!

New Mexico faces Medicaid Cuts!
Nearly one-in-four New Mexicans receives health care assistance from the state or federal government, [...]

FDIC, the rules

Of course, in Vermont, anyone accumulating a quarter million in any account is suspected of insensitive and cruel activity.
Just don’t advertise!
Effective May 20, 2009, deposits at FDIC-insured institutions are now insured up to at least $250,000 per depositor through December 31, 2013.
On January 1, 2014, the standard insurance amount will return to $100,000 per depositor [...]

Forecast for the Dynamic Duo of Shummy & Shap

Warning over US cash-for-clunkers scheme
The popular US cash-for-clunkers programme may be drawing money from other consumer purchases and could also undermine future car sales, US economists have warned.
Add these payments to the monthly budget and we see how retail spending shapes up for the next 1½ years.
Layoffs, foreclosures and bankruptcies are rising still and forecast [...]

Report card for Leahy

The simple Senator comes to Vermont to tell you bibbed overall wearing fools how he’s working for you.
Meanwhile he’s voting YOUR tax dollars to pay for every illegal’s dream of free everything on your dime including ObamaCare.
The only NO vote cast on health care was for him to join the mess.
Here’s how he votes [...]

Congressman Welch sticks it to taxpaying Vermonters

Congressman Welch voted so that ANY illegal that can get here has FREE health care! You have to pay for theirs and yours too.
Nice of him to spend your tax dollars that way.
It is clear that the Democratic leadership is keen to pass H.R. 3200 as written because it will allow illegal aliens to access [...]

Doing business the Obama way

It’s July in Burlington, raining, and businesses are troubled. Tough times are afoot; everybody is in debt. Credit is the order of the day.
Suddenly, the door to City Hall opens, a DC administrative swell walks in, lays a 100 dollar bill on the Mayor’s desk, announces he’s inspecting the town for Political Correctness. [...]

FLOTUS will now pick the arugula

The Office of Thrift Supervision, a misnamed division of the Treasury will save the government money in numerous ways. The Vermont Tiger, posting on this subject pointed out several areas of egregious waste such as unused e-mail addresses, the Army stacking more soldiers onto R&R flights and the best of all, the Forest Service will [...]

You wonder why we’re in trouble

Joe Biden: ‘We Have to Go Spend Money to Keep From Going Bankrupt’

Vice President Joe Biden told people attending an AARP town hall meeting that unless the Democrat-supported health care plan becomes law the nation will go bankrupt and that the only way to avoid that fate is for the government to spend more money. [...]