Here’s one way to push back from insane state cuts

Jay Nixon has been ordered to defend a case, as an attorney, after he continued to slash the public defender’s office budget. What else should one do when an office is so overworked and so understaffed? And this is not just the situation in Missouri.

We simply cannot afford to balance our budget on the backs of people with mental illness

Connecticut is in a budgetary free-fall, but we need to apply the knife verrry carefully. We pay now, or we pay later, particularly when we cut programs for people with mental health issues. Connecticut is a leader in preventing and ending homelessness. Will this budget crisis set us back? Depends on how we make our cuts. I …

Wanna read the President’s budget?

This is a good place to start.

Rep. Paul Ryan and the U.S. Catholic Conference of Bishops

Back in 2012, when Rep. Ryan — former vice presidential candidate and the once and future Speaker of the House — authored a budget that drastically cut money to programs that benefit the poor, the U.S. Catholic Conference of Bishops said the budget failed to meet certain moral criteria. Here.You can read more. And while recently, Rep. …

If something sounds too good to be true…

…then run — don’t walk — the other way. The recent Congressional budget agreement promises to do all kinds of magical things, but mostly? From Robert Greenstein, founder and president of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, the agreement, if approved: would eviscerate substantial parts of the federal government — including parts that have …

A new budget plan, by Jesus:

A Faithful Budget

I wish Nuns on the Bus would come to Connecticut. If they did, I would go throw flowers. Take a look at the Faithful Budget, an answer to Rep. Paul Ryan’s faithless one. I stand with Sis. Simone Campbell (no relation, and that’s my loss) on her interpretation of Catholic social teaching. (You can see …