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Category Archives: Budget
Progress Iowa Corn Feed In Two Weeks!
Let’s show Republicans that we will be a force next year! {editorial comment} 5 minutes Governor Reynolds and her administration aren’t doing Iowans any favors. From her budget crisis caused by massive corporate tax breaks to the closing of four … Continue reading
Posted in 2018 Election Campaign, Blog for Iowa, Budget, Progress Iowa
Tagged budget crisis, Kim Reynolds
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Question
“Question” by the Moody Blues” One of the pieces that seems to be missing in the stories I have been able to find concerning Iowa’s continuing starvation of our education system is how this fits in with the history of … Continue reading
Posted in Blog for Iowa, Budget, Education, Iowa legislature 2017
Tagged budget mismanagement, misplaced priorities
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Branstad Leaves Reynolds Holding The Bag
In what had to be one of the great escapes in recent political history in this state, Terry Branstad royally screwed things up and then left for the relative quiet of China. Branstad has made a very successful career of … Continue reading
Posted in Blog for Iowa, Budget
Tagged busted budget, Kim Reynolds, medicaid privatization, roads
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Branstad, Reynolds, Hogg And Jobs
Remember the bogus numbers the Branstad administration would put out monthly on job creation? Branstad had set a goal of 200.000 jobs in 5 years which was a very lofty goal. Knowing that that would be one number that his … Continue reading
Posted in Blog for Iowa, Branstad, Budget, Jobs, Rob Hogg
Tagged budget mess, Kim Reynolds, real job numbers
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Trump Budget: Immorality In Black And White
Here are a couple of analyses of the Trump agenda. One of the best attributes of the internet is that a citizen can find in depth reviews of issues of the day. This is why we need an open and … Continue reading
Posted in Budget, Republican hypocrisy, Republicn Policy
Tagged inequality
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IPP And Senator Dvorsky On The Budget Shortfall
Last Monday Mike Owen the Executive Director of the Iowa Policy Project and Research Director Peter Fisher gave a presentation at the Moral Monday meeting March 13th. This video is about 40 minutes long. It is all very self-explanatory except … Continue reading
Posted in Branstad, Budget, Iowa legislature 2017, Iowa Policy Project
Tagged budget shortfall, emergency funds, Mike Owen, Peter Fisher, rainy day funds, Senator Dvorsky
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Military Spending Grows While States Struggle To Fund Essential Needs
The atmosphere of fear, distrust, anger, and, for some, celebration, permeates our present and obscures clear thinking. We lose sight of truths that are right in front of our nose. The bipartisan addiction to military spending is one of those … Continue reading
Posted in Budget, war
Tagged military budget, Pentagon Budget
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Contact Your Representatives!
The very most effective action you can take following the liberating experience of standing up to the bully is to now start contacting your national senators and representatives on national issues. But do not forget that the overwhelmingly Republican Iowa … Continue reading
Posted in Budget, Education, Iowa legislature 2017, planned parenthood, Republican hypocrisy, Republicn Policy
Tagged stand your ground
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SILT: How Budget Bill Benefits Iowa Landowners
Update from Sustainable Iowa Land Trust (SILT): The spending bill just signed by President Obama contains a huge benefit for Iowa landowners who want to protect their land to grow healthy food for good. It also creates a permanent IRA … Continue reading
Posted in Budget, Farming
Tagged 2016 budget bill and Iowa, Iowa farm crisis, Iowa land conservation, Sustainable Iowa Land Trust
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Ernst, Grassley Vote To Take Away Health Care
Also vote to gut Planned Parenthood On a Senate vote using the reconciliation process to push a very bad Republican budget bill with amendments to dismantle the ACA (aka Obamacare) and to defund Planned Parenthood, Iowa’s two current Republican senators … Continue reading
Posted in Budget, Charles Grassley, Health Care & Medicare, Joni Ernst, medicaid expansion, planned parenthood
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