Ah, just kidding;
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Gov. Mike Rounds said Monday he will propose a state budget that focuses nearly all spending increases on providing medical services to residents who have lost their jobs during the recession.
The governor said he will ask the South Dakota Legislature to approve $52 million in additional spending in state general funds, with nearly all of it for the state-federal Medicaid program that pays the medical expenses of poor people.
What?! I thought Republican rule was bringing us all kinds of economic development to our state, how could people be struggling?
“We’re taking care of the very basic needs of people who really are down and out because of the national recession,” he said.
A recession that was caused by that jackass GW Dush and continued to get worse under Obama’s appointment of Geithner.
More than 22,000 people are now unemployed in South Dakota, while 110,000 people are in the Medicaid program, he said.
Rounds said since he became governor in 2003, 51 percent of increased spending has gone to Medicaid and other programs that care for the needy.
You heard right, almost 1 in 7 people in South Dakota are on Medicaid. Pathetic. This is the kind of leadership we have come to expect out of the Republicans, yet we continue to re-elect them to the Governor’s office. Unfcknblvable.