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Juanita says the Legislative Budget Board has more bad news than a Libyan crime report.

Hundreds of thousands of Texas jobs would be lost in the next two years under projected revenue and spending levels in a budget proposal approved by a House committee, according to a new analysis.

The “dynamic economic impact” analysis by the Legislative Budget Board predicts nearly 272,000 fewer jobs in 2012 and 335,000 in 2013. That includes government and private sector jobs.

It’s just simple math – you cannot fire people and expect more jobs to create themselves.

Texas Democratic Rep. Mike Villarreal from San Antonio voted again the Republican budget, and said —

“The voters did not elect us to eliminate hundreds of thousands of jobs. We have to be smarter than this. We can’t grow the Texas economy with a budget that destroys jobs, hurts neighborhood schools, and makes college more expensive.”

To be honest, we haven’t pushed the panic button in Texas yet, but we are having one installed.

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Harold Cook, who is one of the funniest men in Texas, sent around an email today that pointed out … well, come to think of it, Harold’s email pointed up, down, in, and around too … that as much as Republicans in Texas are hollering about voter ID and “ballot security”, they sure ain’t on top of the pile when it comes to insuring that we have motivated people working the polls.

We used to pay poll workers $8.50 an hour.  Republicans want to lower that to $7.00 an hour.  Dairy Queen pays better.  So, you would work from 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. for $84.

So, at least in Juanita’s opinion, that whole voter ID debate was not about ballot security.  Nope, it was about screwing people one more time.

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Well, click right here.

… a big tea party convention in Tampa, FL this weekend — headlined by such conservative favorites as Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX), Fox News Judge Andrew Napolitano, and former GOP Congressman Tom Tancredo — attracted only about 300 people. The Save America Convention’s website lists 25 guest speakers, meaning there was one speaker for every 12 attendees. If one includes the 13 musicians and other performers listed as entertainment, that ratio drops to one for every 7 and a half.

That’s about the same ratio of cows to people in Texas, and after careful consideration we decided not to let cows vote.

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They say what goes ’round, comes ’round and I suspect they are right.

“It’s the 1950’s all over again,” Juanita announces.

And U.S. companies selling doomsday bunkers are seeing sales skyrocket anywhere from 20% to 1,000%.

“I guess that whole crawl under your desk and cover your head thing isn’t working out, because now these bunkers are costing up to $20 million.  Personally, I figure they’re about as good as a paper grocery bag over your head.  Besides, if they don’t work, who are you gonna complain to?  Oh yeah, Bob’s Bunker Builders stand behind their products.  If you can find Bob and he’s standing, you get your money back.  Of course, if your bunker didn’t work, you won’t be in the complaint line, which is a big relief for Bob.”

“Plus,” she continues, “you think the minimum wage workers building these things aren’t leaving a trap door for themselves?”

“Look, she continues, “I heard the other day that to get people to do something, they have to be inspired, scared or mad.  It seems that we’ve given up on inspired since the last Presidential election, the Teabaggers gave mad a bad name, so all we have left is scared.”

“I think we here at The World’s Most Dangerous Beauty Salon, Inc. are gonna start marketing us a Genuine Real Nuclear Invisible Shield, cleverly disguised as a simple baseball cap.  It’ll protect you from nuclear fallout, bunions, annoying paper cuts, a tragic zombie attack.  Just $99.99.  And that’s not all.  If you order within the next three months, you also get this lovely super duper genuine faux pearl necklace that wards off earthquakes, polar ice cap slides, and Mormons.”

Don’t be caught unprepared!

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Okay now they’ve done it.

They have hacked Juanita off.

“You can do a lot of things without angering me.  But you cannot mug Rosie and walk away laughing,” she warns.

Maine Gov. Paul LePage has ordered the removal of a 36-foot mural depicting Maine’s labor history from the lobby of the Department of Labor.

Worker advocates described the move as a “mean-spirited” provocation amid the administration’s high-tension standoff with unions.

According to LePage spokesman Dan Demeritt, the administration felt the mural and the conference room monikers showed “one-sided decor” not in keeping with the department’s pro-business goals.

“It’s called the Department of Labor, Governor. It’s not called the Department of Robber Barons,” Juanita stomps.

Rosie the Riveter is pictured on the mural.  They’re going to paint over her because she’s not pro-business enough.

Juanita also suspect that this Friday, the Republicans will attempt to erase all memory of the 100th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire because it depicts  sweatshops in such an unflattering light.

(Thanks to Deb for the heads-up on this one!)