Arizona: Pam Gorman

by David Safier
This is a must read. Senate Majority Whip Pam Gorman lets it fly on the Fox Forum.

Gorman says she's worried because we've created an entitlement class of fat, lazy people who live happily live off the sweat of other people's brows.

Today, as we find ourselves in the worst economic downturn in state history, people are worried.  I’m worried too.  We’re faced with the reality that government has created a dependent class of people.

That growing class has become accustomed to receiving ever increasing amounts of taxpayer dollars, regardless of the taxpayers’ ability to pay.  The entitlement class is scared, motivated, and loud.

Apparently, being thoroughly out of power has only served to strip the Reps of what little civility they may have ever had, allowing them to give free rein to the rankest pettiness...

...From Roll Call -
According to an HOH [Note - "HOH" is an acronym for "Heard On the Hill", a feature in Roll Call] tipster who witnessed the scene, the Louisiana Republican arrived Thursday evening at his United Airlines gate 20 minutes before the plane was scheduled to depart, only to find the gate had already been closed. Undeterred, Vitter opened the door, setting off a security alarm and prompting an airline worker to warn him that entering the gate was forbidden.

Republican senators lashed out Tuesday at the Department of Economic Security, saying the agency is purposely cutting high-profile programs for political purposes.

Working poor to lose child care subsidies

DES employees required to take furloughs

The legislators noted that, in enacting a revised budget for the coming year, each agency was given an opportunity to decide, in general, where to slash spending. In the case of DES, officials were told to find nearly $61.7 million anywhere in the budget, plus cut employee expenses another $5.1 million.

The result was the agency producing a laundry list of services late last week that would be affected, ranging from subsidies for low-income parents of 20,000 children and eliminating temporary cash assistance for more than 38,000 to reducing homeless shelter capacity by 1,100 individuals and eliminating assisted living services for about 450 individuals age 60 and older.