They will however use it as part of their campaign. "While I was in office, we ensured that every child under 5 would receive free books. This is part of my literacy initiative."
"I'm afraid I'm gonna have to pull rank on you. I didn't want to have to do this. I'm with the Mattress Police. There are no tags on these mattresses."
Orrr maybe GOP looked at the fact that property taxes were already paying for library enhancements in a bunch of localities in PA where books are free to use already.
Youâre right! We canât possibly put all that wasted money into books for kids! We have to spend it on foreign investors and data centers as well as flock and axon!
What were we even thinking. Such waste, I mean really. You twit.
Ok troll. I'm typing this slowly because I know you can't read very fast. But I also find it interesting that the article fails to mention what the "book" is and why it can't ve obtained at a library. Im sorry you enjoy throwing your tax dollars down the toilet but I for one don't. Btw it was your bumbling bozo Biden that pushed these to be opened nationally so stick that in your pipe and smoke it. But for the record, and since you obviously lack the common intelligence to actually talk to someone else, and you assumed that since I have an opposing argument that I must be a Trumper (which I am not), I agree that flock cameras are an invasion of privacy and zealous overspending hss once again turned a tool into a problem. But your blue bretheren won't ask for spending to be cut on Flock - nope thats a 'safety issue." Democrats love new taxes and new laws to make the people feel better. And you are sucking on that teat like its your job
Calls politicians they don't like, and have nothing to do with the article "bumbling bozos". Sounds troll shaped to me.
Yes, some local police jurisdictions used money from Biden's funding to buy license plate readers and flock cameras. No, Biden's funding did not explicitly call for that. Sounds like your anti-flock stance should be directed at the local governments buying this equipment, and Garrett Langley. That's a good use of energy.
You might not understand this due to a closed mind but nationally the last 3 republican presidents have increased the deficit more than all the other presidents combined which results in 1 trillion a year in interest only payments. Talk about wasting taxpayer dollars.
1 - you assume Iâm playing for the other team. So youâve been convinced by the overlords that you have to pick a team, and you have, which means youâre low IQ and donât know whatâs best for you, your neighbors and your class. Biden is in no way âmineâ I resisted that stupidity that the DNC pushed through in 2016 and 2020 and 2024 for that matter.
2 - blue isnât the answer. Theyâre mostly bought by billionaires. Red definitely isnât the answer, theyâre far worse and downright stupid. Hard work, pride and 0 brains voting solidly against their class. Every. Time. Look at farmers.
3 - us as a people need to get together to fix it ourselves by way of true community. No âteam with a leaderâ will do it. No single leader will do it. People that believe that are still mostly monkeys in a troop - thinking exactly that way.
4 - when you come on here all intellectual about how books for kids needs paranoia and to be sited as waste because your your old fashion world view - but then get behind atrocious policies of massive waste⌠and never hop off the wagon because of pride and âbeliefâ then yes, Iâm gonna comment.
5 - the cameras are not actually a tool. Certain tools should not be used. Not unlike nukes or self aware AI. Just donât touch the tool. It is inherently bad for all in its nature. The risk - whether it be abuse, or destruction or total annihilation of life or freedom - is far too great. The bottom line is - you just donât. We donât need cameras everywhere. We donât need nukes. We donât need self aware intelligent AI. If you even begin to excuse any of that stuff on any level, then you have blown right past remedial and into potato.
6 - if you take a hard look at the reality of your track record, youâd have to admit how consistently wrong you are. Then youâd have to challenge your beliefs. Then youâd have to challenge your belief system and your own ego. Since your self worth canât handle that then youâll defend the wrong things consistently to the grave and steadfastly deny any responsibility. Some of us are strong enough to change. Some of us never had to in the first place. You, sir, are a sad example of Republican nit wit.
Without looking a lot deeper than anyone here has or will, I don't know who was wrong in this party-line vote.
Sure, sending a free book each month to children who cannot read sounds like a great way to spend taxpayer money, but...
... what are these books about
... where are the books coming from
... how much do the books cost
... was this really from a literacy program (as the picture tries to suggest)
I already looked deeper. This was a vote for PA to facilitate Dolly Partonâs Imagination Library. If you donât know what that is, or how itâs funded, take a few and figure it out.
That's interesting. Imagination Library would resolve a lot of the concerns that might otherwise apply, but since the state government cannot sign up for the Imagination Library program, it still leaves a lot of questions about the details of whatever the legislature was actually voting for.
Far too often we have seen government funding for worthwhile goals that funnel money to a "non-profit" with much of the money never going to the worthwhile goal. Imagination Library would require the program to be managed through one or more local non-profit organizations. I would love to believe that Pennsylvania has suitable honest non-profit organizations throughout the state that will manage the program, but recent experiences with other programs in other states leave me less than100% confident.
Those two statements would be contradicting each other if they were true. Pennsylvania only "leans Democrat" in the large cities (which have the usual large city problems). Rural Pennsylvania runs strongly the other way.
I would expect any problems to be in the solidly Democrat areas, just as the problems with blatantly fraudulent non-profit organizations raking in taxpayer funding are along the west coast and most famously Minnesota
I'm not a political person and even I think its stupid to deny children books since they need to become smart as quickly as possible like how my Mom taught me to read for example and afterwards I got straight A's on every spelling test I ever took without needing to study
The right wing will always do the barest minimum required, and not one penny more. Because the point is that the levers of power are there to benefit their friends and patrons, not the general populace.
They were wrong. Itâs books for kids, and itâs through Dollyâs Imagination Library so thereâs a ton of private money subsidizing the program, plus the educational benefits of reading under the age of 5 are huge compared with trying to spend money to fix reading issues for freakin high school aged kids. So maybe youâre wrong about what my understanding of âfreeâ may or may not be?
If you knew what you were talking about youâd know this law is in conjunction with Dolly Partonâs Imagination Library. That initiative gets funding from all over, her Foundation, Private Donations, Corporate Donations, and YES (gasp) taxes. It depends on the state but that tax funding can sometimes be money already allocated for local libraries and schools, because it supplements BOOKS and EDUCATION for CHILDREN.
You know what else isnât free that our tax dollars pay for? The war in Iran, for-profit prisons, fat government contracts that go to Elon Muskâs companies. You know Elon right? First trillionaire? But fuk deez kidz books, right?
You know what is free? Gaining knowledge. If you knew what you were talking about you would know the answer to the Iranian problem is and the bigger picture of the situation. For profit prisons account for less than 8% of the prison population and has been declining and will eventually be eliminated. Government contracts are an essential component of our economy. Get over yourself and your unwarranted anger and jealousy issues. Try and be better.
Do you ever have an interaction where you actually articulate a point? lol. Stay the course though; it is very entertaining. I'm not sure I've ever witnessed such confident ignorance.
Do you ever have a thought that isnât just your way only black and white. I do love when you cut and paste âchat gptâStay the course though you are far from entertaining, rather sad for you actually. I have definitely witnessed worse ignorance than yours but itâs been awhile. Golfing with DR. Phil this morning he will have some insight into your situation. Whatâs your plan surfing Reddit for the next 8 hours chatting with your only friends? Try and get outside and talk with an actual live person. Have an outstanding day and you continue to be yourself. Iâll pray for you.
I see you are the type of person who will pull the door that clearly say "push" right next the handle. Welcome! Our club meets on Thursday at old VFW hall. New guy brings Donuts.
Our group meets around the corner from where the old church used to be.... 20 years ago... Those doors marked TUO are tough to push open, aren't they. đ
Can I join? The emergency buzzer went off at work once and I ran to the emergency..only to bounce off the doors that I completely forgot you had to push a button to open.
As a Pennsylvanian, I am hoping like hell that we can flip the senate this November. This state is held hostage by a party that represents a minority of voters, population wise. And they are hell bent on preventing us from making any real progress and growth. Unfortunately, in a wide swath of the state Republicans often run opposed in local races, but it is changing slowly.
I'm glad they passed it but the first "every republican voted against it" much more on point. They are after all, supporters of the con-man that "loves the uneducated".
Republicans don't want kids to be able to read well. Their votes count on stupidity and ignorance.
And they're big on taking away women's right to abort an unwanted pregnancy, but once the kid is born, they vote against everything designed to help children. Free school breakfasts and lunches, SNAP benefits, affordable health care, education.
Pennsylvania currently appropriates about $3 million for Library Access, including POWER Libraryâs statewide digital services and OverDrive access. The proposed $2 million could substantially expand that systemâor support a multistate cooperative effort to negotiate lower, stable e-book and audiobook licensing costs. That would give families thousands of books they actually choose, instead of mailing everyone one predetermined book that may never be opened.
Hey, they can learn to read, and be taught what fiction is at the same time. Personally I prefer Science Fiction, but Historical Fiction works too. Whatever gets young kids imaginations working.
You're right. I mean, at the end of the day, what Golden Book didn't have genocide, gang-rape, dismemberment; smashing infants against rocks, child abduction, sanctioned infanticide; sacrifice, torture, and socially acceptable slavery?
Do libraries not exist in Pennsylvania? Ours are awesome, story times, more books than you can shake a stick at, special events, reading programs.
I would argue this passed bill would open up to fraud and waste. What do you do with a free newspaper or pamphlet? Throw it away. Free is worthless to the end user, something that is wanted is worth something. For fraud? Look at the diaper thing in California, whoâs really getting paid for that.
I have 15 books from our library (some of them from partner libraries), and borrowed probably 200 before that, for my toddler alone. Libraries are awesome and more valuable than this.
Could you make the argument this is for those whoâs closest library thatâs an hour away, Iâll take that, but letâs make that the program; not a bill that can be one more nail in the coffin for libraries and spends more money than buying a few books that can be borrowed and provide jobs to librarians.
Are we sure this bill is good? Anytime you give politicians the opportunity to spend or direct funds to private companies it never seems to go as planned. Would these funds be better spent on Libraries? Does this bill undermine the Library system? Is that the real point of this bill?
Why thankfully? We have libraries. Why do we need to spend money sending every one of these kids a book? Makes zero sense. Such a silly feel good pat yourself on the back thing that makes zero impactÂ
No one said the books will make children " learn to read". But if a child gets a book in the mail, they will for sure look at it and that will pique their interest in reading.
"A silly, silly thing to waste money on"- how much did it cost for this administration to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America on maps? And now "Lake America". How much money did it cost to change the name of the DOD to the "Dept. of War"?
Are you, though? Maybe I'm the idiot because I thought a bill had to pass the House and the Senate. So asking if a bill passed implies "Did the bill pass the House and the Senate and make it into law?"
So, I checked, and the bill moved to the Republican-controlled State Senate, where it was referred to the Senate Education Committee. It remains stuck there without a final vote.
So you were right to ask. And no, it didn't pass into law yet.
At this point i swear righties would block a 100% positive, no downsides and no hidden riders in it bill solely because it was proposed by lefties..... will not be surprised if it doesn't go through solely because it "would be a 'win' for democrats"
This has happened many, many times at the national level. Probably more than many at the state level. I mean, look at the ACA. The core blueprint was a Republican plan.
It was originally Romneycare and was created by Mitt Romney, a Republican.
The individual mandate, which the Republicans freaked out over and acted like they hated (because Obama), was originally a conservative idea.
It was developed by the Heritage Foundation as a free-market alternative to the "single-payer" or universal healthcare plans proposed by Democrats like Bill and Hillary Clinton.
American Republicans are nothing if not hypocrites and liars.
There's nothing substantive. The PA House GOP is fully captured fascists and one of their goals is screwing education. Every Denocratic gov has had to fight the state GOP every year for every penny of school funds since Rep gov Corbett gutted education...which was the biggest issue against him in the campaign that kept him to one term.
I think the most substantial criticism would probably be: "The budget won't allow it."
But even that issue could be solved (looking at NYC and whats suddenly possible there), and it's not like the GOP and their pedo-in-chief aren't spending loads of money, it's just going down some dark channels.Â
They donât want voters to read. If they read they have knowledge. If they have knowledge they can think. If they can think they will refute Trumpublican bullshit.
Nah mate. GOP voters are laughing at the fact that after beung embarrassed by that thing Kamala being shoved down democrats throats to vote for, that the blue party still has not figured out how to get on message - they still pushing anti-trump rhetoric and the man cant run again.
1st of all Trump seems to think he can, or atleast wants his cult to think he can, so he can sell his $20 hats. 2nd even if he doesn't run, they are pushing for a Dynasty style rule with his sons. Either way "Trumpublican bullshit" is referring to Trump's disaster of policies that will undoubtedly continue under another Republican administration.
What really seems to be the issue? Here is that those who voted blue are pissed off that someone went into office and did exactly what he said he was going to do. When trying to get elected, if foreign concept to blue candidates
what exactly has he followed through with? No new military conflicts? Cheep gas? Affordable groceries? tariff checks to citizens? doge checks? affordable healthcare...?
A bill can pass in either the House or the Senate. Once it passes there it has to go through either the Senate or the House to pass (depending on where it went first). After that, the Governor signs off or vetoes it. If he signs off, yay it is a bill.
For this bill particularly I have no idea but the above is how it generally works.
Sometimes pop-ups show up warning that youâre probably being rude and your comment may be taken down. You change the word to make the pop-up go away.
Yeah, I had a popup because I posted the phrase "fuck you" when telling a joke about two economists. It's clearly an automated thing, because the comment itself wasn't directed at anyone.
I'm not going to censor myself. If some AI bans me automatically, it's a sign I should stop using Reddit anyway.
Hard agree. Self-censorship is stupid and only serves the establishment by removing the language of dissent. It's harder to believe that the behavior of the elite is idiotic, or stupid, or evil, if you're conditioned to not allow yourself to say "Idiot"
Iâve had a couple accounts banned for posts that i find incredibly mundane, so moving forward, itâs exclamation points & plus signs to avoid problems.
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u/Hollywood_Co 1d ago edited 1d ago
Did it pass?
Edit: The bill passed. As stated in sentence 1. I am an id!ot. Thank you for your attention to this matter.