posted on August 4, 2007 04:25:50 PM new
No, YOU try reading it again. Maybe something in it BESIDES the ONE statement about the Governor says. READ what they whole article is saying.....try and remove the ONE statement from your full concentration. LOLO
The whole op-ed is totally critical of the 'special groups' lol who don't want their taxes raised for all the reasons listed in the article.
Avoiding the whole article where he's WHINING about those 'tight fisted' ones....lol....complaining about money not being spent on schools...etc....etc...
YOU'RE missing THOSE.
And yesterday, I was reading that it's almost CHEAPER and IS sometime cheaper to send our children/grandchildren to PRIVATE schools vs public schools because the costs are just about the same per pupil.
The liberals have been given NOTHING but more and more money for our schools, and even HUGE increases from this administration and our children are still failing. The system is broken. Putting more money into it ISN'T the answer.
Just as throwing billions and billions of dollars into these bridge is like trying to make up for all the money that's been taken OUT of our SS accounts. Spent....when it was MEANT to be saved, collecting interest for our retirements. But no, the politicians just couldn't keep their hands off it it.
So, the liberal answer to all these problems? Spend, spend, spend. NOT just make different choices on how the money they're give IS spent. NOPE....GET MORE....RAISE THOSE TAXES.
posted on August 4, 2007 04:30:32 PM new
Here's but ONE example.
"A product of low-tax/no-tax attempts by narrow interest groups to persuade our citizens that we can run our government "on the cheap." We can't."
On the CHEAP? Heck, American's are working from Jan 1 through almost the END of JULY each year to pay all their taxes we are required to pay.
Is THAT "cheap" to you? It's NOT to me.
It's money that's being spent in un-necessary ways and NOT where it should be....like on safety issues for us.
The 'bridge to no where' is but ONE example. There are millions.
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And THIS isn't blaming the gov. for his veto when there was a $2.1 billion dollar SURPLUS?
How well do YOU read and comprehend?
"But when the Legislature tried to raise it a few cents, the low-tax/no-tax folks lobbied the governor to veto."
After all he DID veto it. That's a FACT.
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"antitax special-interest groups are leading our state down a road of decline. We simply cannot run a progressive, enlightened, competitive state on the cheap"
So, just WHO, in YOUR opinion are these 'groups'? You don't think he's talking about how republicans have ALWAYS been for tax REDUCTIONS....while liberals ALWAYS want to RAISE taxes, huh?
Liberals CAN'T run an 'enlightened' anything. They can't spend money properly....with any control....nor a good sense of setting important priorities over nonsense garbage.
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And another
"A similar decline has taken place in our economic status. Recent statistics show a decline in vital areas such as personal income and unemployment rates. This is all contrary to the failed claims made by the governor and his low-tax/no-tax ideologues."
Failed claims???? That STATS verify haven't failed? And who do YOU think he's blaming there? Liberals? lol lol lol
Maybe in YOUR liberal world...down is up and right is left. But this whole op-ed did nothing but blame the republican party....the tax REDUCERS.
But there's that liberal denial. You're all so great at it. Just pretend something...and that, in your minds, makes it so.
posted on August 4, 2007 06:55:59 PM new
"As other articles have pointed out even IF gasoline taxes HAD been raised....it doesn't mean/quarantee that they would have been spent on a bridge that was NOT found to be 'unsafe'."
You are so busy hurling insults at us liberals that you did not even notice that it was liberal posters who posted these articles; articles which stated the last bid for a gas tax hike would not have prevented the collapse; articles which stated this is a long standing, non-partisan problem; articles which pointed out that over a billion was spent on a stadium, but bridge maintenance was inadequate. The problem is more where the money is spent than how much tax is collected.
You said the bridge was not found to be unsafe. Great point--the bridge that was not found to be unsafe collapsed.
posted on August 4, 2007 07:30:44 PM new
Hurling insults at liberals here who can't READ what the op-ed was saying...who they were blaming for NOT funding this problem and other problems.
And on your last comment...lol...aren't you the clever one. NO. You missed the point entirely.
But that's what I would expect of one who doesn't bother to notice that it was an op-ed slamming those of us who don't believe the answer to EVERYTHING is to raise taxes....spend more money - like it is with liberals - who TAX TAX TAX. But rather to set better priorities.
It's a shame that you deny what's right there before your eyes. But again, it's a liberal thing.
And there's hundreds and hundreds more op-eds on the internet...just like this one. Blaming the right....blaming President Bush...blaming the governor. Using the War....etc as the reason these issues have been ignored.
There's NO denying that. Not by any reasonable person, that is. And this op-ed is no different.
posted on August 4, 2007 07:36:21 PM new
Another ignorant statement:
"If low taxes were a driving force for business development, I would assume Mississippi would be garnering a vast inflow of companies. It is not."
Just the opposite has happened. As the liberals in the CA legislature continued raising taxes on companies/businesses....the quicker they RAN out of CA to other places that were more friendly to business. It was NOT considered to be business friendly.
This idiot [Myles Spicer, Minnetonka, is a retired ad agency owner] has no clue about anything that's he's stated. But he sure is a tax and spend liberal. No doubt about that.
And that he's also wrong about our economy and our un-employment rates....speaks that even MORE strongly.
Just another mis-informed liberal. And a whining one at that.
On the 'cheap'. Yea...being taxed from Jan to July is sure 'cheap'. lol lol lol
posted on August 6, 2007 09:41:58 AM newEarlier in the day, U.S. Rep. James Oberstar, D-Minn., said state officials should have better used money made available in the 2005 federal highway bill, which increased federal funds to Minnesota by 46 percent."
This is a very mis-leading statement. Yes funding was increased. However, it is being used for rebuilding projects that were deamed more in need of repair, like the un-weave the weave project or the crosstown/35W project. Both of these area's were in much worse condition than the 35W bridge. And don't forget that the bridge was cleared to be safe for traffic.
Oberstar really don't have a clue when it comes to the metro area. He is from the far north where indoor plumming is still an option.
Fact is, there was no way that anyone could have predicted what happened. The inspections showed some issues, and those issues had been repaired. Could have something happened between inspections? That apparently is a no brainer. Of course it did.
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If it's called common sense, why do so few Demomorons have it?
Are YOU a Bunghole?