explode. that is one bucket of it. the other is every time you ask republicans about it, they say wait for us. they say we re bringing out the months. then we ll show you how to balance everything, how to deal with entitlements so there has been a bit of a wait-and-see approach. on the state level where the budgets are already coming out we have waited and we are seeing and they do not look good. they look like an enormous amount of tax cuts that are being paid for on the backs of in many cases the poor. what is interesting, too, is that republicans also get credit for being super anti-tax but in many of these republican states that are giving away these huge budget busting tax cuts to corporations and to the wealthy, for example, with the state taxes, we are also seeing republican legislatures and republican governors proposing raising taxes on the poor. in georgia they are proposing raising taxes on blind people. in michigan they are raising taxes specifically on the elderly and th
of doing that outside the u.s. which really doesn t want to do it? yes and no. it is fundamentally a question of political order. we think of politics as different from force and war, but in fact, the power of the state over its citizens, the police are not soldiers, they re police, but they have the power of the state behind them. the establishment of some quasi political movement on the ground, that was the big problem in iraq. who would supply chaos. we didn t supply public order, it devolved into a mess. in lib, the real question will be can you generate some kind of local political order, or can it be provided from the outside in a relatively benign way with international forces, with nonviolent means. we ll see. this is a big experiment. the idea this was basically decide last week in a couple of meetings in between other things without any kind of domestic participation, it is mind
managed to actually balance the budget or republicans under george w. bush managed to explode. that is one bucket of it. the other is every time you ask republicans about it, they say wait for us. they say we re bringing out the. then we ll show you how to balance everything, how to deal with entitlements so there has been a bit of a wait-and-see approach. on the state level where the budgets are already coming out we have waited and we are seeing and they do not look good. they look like an enormous amount of tax cuts that are being paid for on the backs of in many cases the poor. what is interesting, too, is that republicans also get credit for being super anti-tax but in many of these republican states that are giving away these huge budget busting tax cuts to corporations and to the wealthy, for example, with the state taxes, we are also seeing republican legislatures and republican governors proposing raising taxes on the poor. in georgia they are proposing raising taxes on blin
wait, what? this is the sort of thing that s happening all around the country. it is like finding out your family finances are in trouble, and asking your boss to lower your salary. ohio makes nearly $230 million from state-run liquor stores. governor kasich, pleading poverty, says the state should take that money and instead give it away to businesses. i feel like the politics around what s going on with republicans in the states right now is being conducted in english and reported in another language. i do not understand why the national reporting on this continues to be so back ass wards. john kasich in ohio, rick snyder in michigan, all the republican governors and legislators keep pleading poverty, saying how broke the states are. then the proposed solutions to the problem of how broke they are is to make the state more
worse than it was does not count as you fixing the budget, unless you mean fixing the budget the way you mean fixing your pet cat. we will enlist no actual cats, but instead the astonishing governor of ohio to show how everybody keeps getting this story exactly wrong. that s when we come back. first, one more thing about the u.s. operation in libya. as you can see on this map, the pentagon has divided the world into regional responsibilities. north com is north america, south com is south america. north ease is cent com. africa, where is the africom headed? in germany. naturally, it s there.