Montana state Legislature has jumped off the cliff

[ensho]

http://www.flatheadnewsgroup.com/hungryhorsenews/news/article_5bbc84e4-39f4-11e0-b21a-001cc4c03286.html


Veterans Home on state chopping block


The Montana Veterans Home is an idyllic campus along the Flathead River with an orchard, a hay field, a walking path, historic buildings and a top-notch five-star care rating from Medicaid.

Now the state Legislature is taking a look at closing it down or privatizing its services.

The joint appropriations subcommittee on health and human services recently requested a report on “Alternatives for Funding the Montana Veterans Home.”

The report looks at, among other things, closing the facility down entirely and giving veterans vouchers to live in nursing homes elsewhere.

The report also suggests the Veterans Home could be privatized. The Eastern Montana Veterans Home in Glendive is a contract facility that is owned by the state but run by the hospital in Glendive.

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there you go - privatizing is what they are after - fills their pockets with money


and


http://thinkprogress.org/2011/02/17/montana-global-warming-bill/


Montana Legislator Introduces Bill To Declare Global Warming ‘Natural’ And ‘Beneficial’


A bill has been introduced in the Montana state legislature to declare global warming a “natural occurrence and human activity has not accelerated it,” and that it is “beneficial to the welfare and business climate of Montana.” State Rep. Joe Read (R-MT), a farmer and emergency firefighter who unseated a Democratic incumbent in 2010, introduced HB 549 “to ensure economic development in Montana”:

The legislature finds that to ensure economic development in Montana and the appropriate management of Montana’s natural resources it is necessary to adopt a public policy regarding global warming.

(2) The legislature finds:

(a) global warming is beneficial to the welfare and business climate of Montana;

(b) reasonable amounts of carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere have no verifiable impacts on the environment; and

(c) global warming is a natural occurrence and human activity has not accelerated it.

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Joe needs to be sent home to his kitchen and chained to a chair

aahhh Montana. Montana what have you become

[lame54]

1. Plus they can start an arts and crafts program...

and have all the seniors making goods for market

[tabatha]

2. That is for sure.

(a) global warming is beneficial to the welfare and business climate of Montana;

(b) reasonable amounts of carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere have no verifiable impacts on the environment; and

(c) global warming is a natural occurrence and human activity has not accelerated it.


Where is their proof? Right wingers should be called the party of "making shit up". That is all they ever do.

[HereSince1628]

3. PT Barnum said an idiot is born every minute. Why be surprised

when decades after their birth, some of them get elected to office as Republicans?

[ensho]

4. kicking back to pg. 1

nt