Minnesota Republicans campaigned on fixing our budget deficit ($5B) without raising taxes and creating jobs. They've done neither. They've used fantasyland numbers to create their budgets and today they're budget came up $1.2 billion short. They've been too busy with their wacky and psycho social agenda to create any jobs.
One of the craziest of the Republican legislators is Rep. Steve Drazkowski (R-Mazeppa). He's proposed to log our forests for some cash, eliminate pay equity for women, require pee testing welfare recipients and AZ-style immigration laws. He's an energizer bunny of intolerance, bigotry and Teh Stew Pud.
But he may have outdone himself...
-- cross-posted from MN Progressive Project, home of the Michele Bachmann Bizarro World --
Drazkowski is proposing eliminating the monitoring of patients at hospitals and replacing human beings with baby monitors. Thousands of health aides will be laid off.
According to AFSCME, this Health and Human Services bill in which his provision is included would lay of 20,000 people. That's 20,000 people filing for unemployment.
But at least he's protecting liberty!
The stew pud, it hurts. Make it stop.
-- UPDATE --
Apparently, this affects nurses, too. Truly insane.