Recent Comments

1. over 11 years ago on Mike Luckovich

   I put this question out to the gun enthusiasts out there:Why is an Assult Rifle considered an “Arms” and therefore cannot be regualted, but a Surface-to-Air missile not an “Arm” (since that is regulated)?

2. about 13 years ago on Chan Lowe

   Um, motive if he ran on ‘run government like a business”, then he is doing the right thing. Business do massive layoffs to increase the price of their stock, because business investors like companies that reduce overhead. (what they bring in as profit or loss is not as important as having a perceived low operating cost).

   So the stock price for Fla should have jumped up significantly on the markets.

3. about 13 years ago on Jeff Danziger

   josefw (and others), it was not a dereliction of duty, as they were doing what to could do to allow debate on the bill. If they didn’t leave, it would have been passed just as quickly as this non-monetary bill.

   Unless your opinion is the the democrats are supposed to just rubber-stamp what the governor and the republicans want.

   Sigh. Listen I think Walker does have some valid points, and the collective bargaining does need reform. But putting all the restrictions on (mostly democratic leading) unions has gone way to far.

   On the part where there has to be a vote every year in order to maintain as a union, where if 50% do not vote yes is idiotic. That would be like a every property owner in a city having to vote every year to stay as a city and have your city property taxes go directly to your city. If you don’t get your 50%, then each property owner will have to work with the county boards and state to work on how they will get services they want.

   On the part where any raises beyond inflation is and to sole discretion of the voters, that is like any raise you would get in a company beyond inflation would be and the sole discretion of the stock holders of the company. Are the stock holders going to look at how the company is doing in general? Are they going to look at each individual employee to determine what they deserve? And the real question is are they going to look at long term goal of retaining people that are (potentially) effective and take a hit on the stock price (because as labor costs go up, stock prices go down), or are they going to look at short term gains of keeping salaries down (by not giving raises and eleminating expensive people and hiring them with fresh and cheaper employees)?