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As much as I didnt like Gary Locke, he was a genius compared to this twat in office!!
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She signed off on it, she used and abused the funds left by Locke. Seriously fuckface, I would love to meet you just to break your stupid fucking jaw!! Your assumptions of me and your retarded comments towards me are seriously puting your face in serious harms way.DeathFrogg wrote:I don't understand how this is Gregoire's fault. She didn't write this budget. She really didn't have anything to do with it.
What else would you do?
Oh, thats right, privatize all the schools and the fire/police departments, close the libraries and sell off the BPA to Enron.
Thats certainly Einmans solution. But he isn't intelligent enough to hold public office. He knows he can make a LOT more money just jackassing from the sidelines.
This State budget is funded by sales taxes. This is called regressive taxation because it affects the lower incomes much more than it does the wealthy who can afford them, as well as being more heavily affected by swings in the economy. When the economy is doing well, and people are spending money, that means a lot of money flows into the States coffers. When the economy takes a dump, as it started to do in 2007, that reduces the money available to the State very quickly. Gary Locke had the advantage of being Governor when money was flowing out of the banks like water, and people were spending money like crazy on all sorts of things.How's this for a solution, cut out all waste! Start from the top on down the line!! How is it that Locke left this state with a budget surplus and this cunt come in and spend us into a huge fucking debt? 2008 Gregoire's words " we are not in a deficit we have a rainy day fund!" guess what, the new year hit and we are fucking swimming in debt and her solution is to tax the fuck out of us citizens!!!
http://www.theolympian.com/2010/04/10/1 ... ested.htmlDeathFrogg wrote:Um, the people busted in Olympia were Anarchists from the UO in Eugene Oregon. Most of the folks at the WTO party in 98(?) who were doing damage were out of state folks.
Incidentally, McKenna's little lawsuit against the health insurance reform law is going to probably cost the State around $15 - $20 million to fight, all on the taxpayers dime, and Gregoire is against the lawsuit. He's posturing to the teabaggers for his run for governor in '12.
The bike lane issue needs to be done. The mass transit issue needs to be done, while we can afford to use the fuel for the construction projects. Right now, the conservatives are treating gasoline like it is an unlimited resource, and it isn't. You can ask anyone I've had this conversation with over the years. I was predicting gas to be around $5 a gallon about 8 years ago, and it almost hit that here in Washington, and topped over that in California and Oregon back in '07. In ten years gasoline will be around 9 or 10 dollars a gallon, and everyone who cant afford it will be riding bikes as must as possible, or taking the bus or light rail. Because its sure a shit not going to get cheaper the longer we wait, and wages are not keeping up with inflation at all, and haven't in 20 years.
What this state needs is an across the board income tax, scaled as to income level, and reduced sales taxes on everything. That would stabilize the States income somewhat, and reduce the pressure on the lower income folks who are most affected by the nearly 10% sales tax we have here. Gregoire campaigned on that, and still would like to see it happen. Even Bill Gates and Paul Allen support that. but, of course, the Blethens oppose it, as do the McCaws and the other billionaire teabag party financiers. Eyman and his gang of anarchist millionares oppose ALL government, they take their entire platform right out of Ayn Rands fiction. And she was a sociopath who considered the US Constitution to be "quaint" and wrong. She openly spoke of her disdain for it many times.
Adremelech wrote:I think roundabouts are great as long as everyone in and approaching it knows how to properly use it. Unfortunately, that happens maybe 4/10 times.
Bellingham's first Roundabout (Cordata and Kellogg) is near a whole lot of old people (retirement homes and geezer condos). I have seen, on several occasions now, some random old fart driving clockwise through the roundabout to make a left turn. Cracks me up every time.
they do work when idiots figure out how to drive through them. thats the big problem though, no one knows wtf to do around here when they approach them.DeathFrogg wrote:To me, roundabouts work great, it takes a little getting used to but they smooth the flow of traffic quite a bit when the majority of folks in the intersection understand how they work. I was trying to find a decent picture of the roundabout at the Arc de Triomph in Paris France, but alas, could not. It is twelve lanes wide, and they drive in fourteen of them, at around 35 mph. It works pretty well considering the level of traffic it handles. And traffic is always flowing. Thats what traffic circles are all about, it saves on stops and starts, and smooths things out.
Of course, the French mostly drive little Beamers and Citroens and Renaults, and a Parisians car looks a little like its been rolled in a cement mixer after only a couple years.