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Re: Tough cases used to save program

surefire247 — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 11:51:18 -0500

The Association for Home and Hospice Care of NC has brought this issue to the Internet. Visit www.savehomecareandhospice.com for more information.

Re: Budget: health and human services

robdarich — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 12:25:36 -0400

Wasn't the fishing pier under HHS?

Good news? Of a sort.....maybe.

domewatcher — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 12:26:14 -0400

This news…. in one way….is very good news!

I must admit I have been having doubts about some of the things happening in Raleigh. I am ashamed to admit that I felt there was something untoward in the matter of the missing emails and the disappearing travel records, Ms. Mary’s job and the loaner car.

But if you can make $300,000,000 errors like this…..then it’s pretty easy to lose some emails and travel records. I’m surprised they didn’t lose the computers, the network and the plans for the pier.

This restorative power of this $300,000,000 error is like an elixir to my soul. This error has restored my faith in my fellow man. After all, if you can make $300,000,000 errors …..well, let’s just say it opens up the field and makes other errors seem petty.

Maybe this error explains away a lot of the other stuff. And, by the way, "I believe it is peace for our time………."

Do we really have a budget deficit ?

domewatcher — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 09:37:19 -0400

If we were to find a half dozen or so of these $300,000,000 errors in our favor, then we would be about $1.8 billion ahead. We would not need a $1.6 billion tax increase.

Maybe we should take the time to check for some errors in our favor. Look in the glove boxes of these state cars to see what we can recover. Look in the trunk. Look in the storage closet at the office. Sell off some of the overstock. Sell those spare parts for equipment we no longer have.

We may be able to handle this budget deficit without a tax increase.

Re: State owes feds $300m for overbilling

domewatcher — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 11:15:19 -0400

I am all for cutting spending!

But I do believe we need to increase spending for DHHS. After reading this article about the $300,000,000 error, I believe we will be faced with a new wave of depressed people. I mean this mess depresses even the most postive of people. I can see a wave of newly diagnosed people when they read about $300,000,000 government billing errors over an eight month period.

And when you thought it could not get worse..........

Re: State owes feds $300m for overbilling

Kingixolib — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 18:54:50 -0400

Career politicians breed corruption and lies. Vote them out or they and their cronies die in office.

Option one...you win
Option two...you lose

Re: State owes feds $300m for overbilling

grinder — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 18:49:06 -0400

A $300m dollar mistake here and a $300m dollar mistake there....and after a while you're talking about real money.

Started in November but now we are on top of it. Doesn't really give me a warm and fuzzy feeling about efficiency.

Hard to imagine mistakes of this magnitude over such a lenghty period of time.

Re: New mental health post on hold

skeptical — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 14:46:14 -0400

Waiting to see who comes up with the biggest "donation" to Dumplin Perdue, I'm sure. Can't wait to see which political hack fills this position.

A Cold Fish

PoliticalJunkie — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:43:16 -0400

Is what we have in the Auditor's office. Beth Wood takes her marching orders from Rand and Basnight. She ain't doin' nuthin' they don't tell her to.

Never thought I'd pine for the return of Ralph Campbell like I'm doing these days.

Re: Wood: 'Cold eye' needed to stop waste

melted — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 12:51:43 -0400

Cheers for State Auditor Beth Wood. Three of the legislators who will not like this are Tony Rand, Marc Basnight and Joe Hackney.

Budget cuts unprecedented, Education at risk

riverrd — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 16:49:21 -0400

It is quite obvious the "free" education offered to mike27513 that was paid for by taxes fairly levied on a society that understands a democracy MUST be paid for by every member was, in his case, a 'USELESS PROGRAM'!

Re: Cansler: Budget cuts unprecedented

domewatcher — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 14:40:19 -0400

The budget cuts are "unprecedented."

But maybe not so much when you consider that we have been spending money like a drunken sailor!

The first step is to admit you have a problem. The second step is to quit writing bad checks. The third step is to marry a rich woman. Since that will be hard for the state to do, I vote for more cuts.

Re: Cansler: Budget cuts unprecedented

mike27513 — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 14:04:20 -0400

Welcome to the 1930's Boys.

And the Great Obama Recession rolls on....

It is expected with high Unemployment [ Didn't Obama predict it wouldn't go above 8%? And what about the Obama 800 BILLION Pork Spending bill that was supposed to stop the high unemployment? ],

People who are losing their jobs and don't pay taxes.

No different than the 1930's

With the Welfare Class [ You know - Democrat National Socialists] demanding "free" homes, cars , health care the money will soon run out from people who work for a living.

Remember this the next time you Vote. Eventually the Democrat Socialists will tax all your money away and spend it on useless programs.

Just Some More - Change We Can Believe In!

Re: Perdue outlines energy plan

wolfpackalum — Thu, 21 May 2009 13:12:42 -0400

So again, her campaign call for a committee to study the merits of off shore drilling were just lip service.

Re: DHHS drops 'swine' from flu

j1c2kp — Sun, 03 May 2009 20:51:53 -0400

CDC traces the origins of the "swine" flu to a farm in NC in 1998.