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It's more like a knee jerk reaction to the fact that everybody speeds, have a radar and are in a rush, tbh... every time I head to the Rio Grande Valley, the highway says 70, but the cars move at 40... I wanna choke somebody...
BTW......El Nono....the 80's called. They want their speed limits back.
55-65?...Meh.
It's more like a knee jerk reaction to the fact that everybody speeds, have a radar and are in a rush, tbh... every time I head to the Rio Grande Valley, the highway says 70, but the cars move at 40... I wanna choke somebody...
Hilarious considering some of the incredibly stupid, asinine lengths you will go to in order to attempt to 'discredit' any people you deem as 'stupid libs'. Partisan hack. You've no room.
Do you have an example?
Of my 'stupid asinine' length? Or of me trying to discredit someone deemed a 'stupid lib'?
If it's a lie, then it's still trivial.
Oh the Irony....
Now you know how I feel most of the time, when I thumb through the hysterical anti-Obama blizzard of copypasta.
That is pretty much the modus operandi of almost all the "conservative" posters on this, and just about any other, board.
Every day the wonks at Fox "news" sit around deciding what the Outrage of the Day is, then that story gets pushed and the faithful dutifully repeat it ad infinitum, without the slightest fact checking or critical thinking about whether what is being pushed is really a big deal.
That said, this was not really that big a deal, I would agree. Very slightly funny, but not a big deal at all.
That it turns out to be a minor transcription error is not altogether surprising, as that is a much more likely explanation than voter fraud.
http://www.rightwingnews.com/misc/co...ed-for-reagan/
Not a lie, merely a transcription error. Link above has original audio, and an explanation.
I could go to town on examples. You really want to go there?
I might find that biting if I had thought the bogus factoid important enough to comment on. I didn't.
I would love to see... Thank you in advance. FTR My post had nothing to do with the person, but the content. So for someone to attack me with a statement that I attack the messenger is ironic and wrong. I think I do pretty well avoiding attacking the messanger.
In regards to your previous response to me: I agree almost entirely with your view. Except for your fox attack. Seems silly to attack the entire network. People lose credibility when they do this IMO of course.
for many, that's to Scott Walker's credit. it's on you to explain why being for or against the minimum wage is credit/blameworthy.
In red-states fighting for states rights (typically to discriminate, or nullify federal/Cons utional law), we see the power is hypocritically reserved to/stopped at state level, trumping, preempting "city rights", eg, to set their own city-wide minimum wage, etc.
As always, the Repug strategy is to screw (esp poor) citizens (eg, out of higher wages) in order to protect business profits and thereby themselves.
Walker is a Kock Bros puppet, Wisconsin govt is a Kock Bros subsidiary, so Walkers hews to the VRWC/ALEC screw-the-poor/protect business party line.
Walker is an ogre, epitomizing everything horrible about governance by corporotacracy.
thanks for saying that in your own words.
this is a quibble, but cities are subsidiary sovereigns like states, are they not?
IDK. city, county charters, forms of govt very probably vary enormously from state to state.
In the context of the discussion Walker clearly did not say he voted for RR.
Im sure Boutons can/has found so much more on Walker. Both parties are prone to petty mistakes or outright fabrications. And in the context of the discussion, it was not a mock kiddy election either.
Thanks for for finding the audio RG.
they are. cities are subsidiary to the state, the states subsidiary to the federal government.
when there is a conflict, the law of the superior sovereign generally governs.
Another example is red state (NC?) forbidding municipalities from building their own municipal, taxpayer-funded broadband networks, so for-profit cable monopolies can suck wealth free of compe ion.
Happy coincidence, TWC HQ is in Charlotte NC.
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Report: Scott Walker’s Jobs Agency Pouring Money Into Red Districts, Neglecting Others
Wisconsin governor Scott Walker has long been criticized for his state’s poor jobs numbers — but now the potential 2016 presidential candidate is under fire for the locations of the jobs that havebeen created.
In 2011, under Walker, the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation was established as the state’s largest private-sector jobs agency. The WEDC’s purpose is to develop and facilitate economic programs that create new jobs or subsidize already existing ones. Using taxpayer money, the WEDC awards, grants, and loans money to businesses across the state.
According to a Citizen Action of Wisconsin report released in February, however, data reported by the WEDC shows “[jobs] impact concentrated in a handful of legislative districts” – specifically, districts represented by Republicans.
Furthermore, because red districts in the state are benefiting more from the WEDC than other districts are, members of the Republican Assembly who are in leadership positions benefit from a disproportionately increased number of jobs in their districts.
Using numbers reported by the WEDC, the report finds that Republican assembly districts have approximately 86 percent more jobs projected in the first quarter of the 2014 fiscal year than Democratic districts. While there are 453 jobs projected per Democratic district, an overwhelming 842 jobs are projected per Republican district.
Additionally, while over 6,000 jobs are projected to be created in just one GOP assembly district alone, 14 districts have zero jobs projected, which calls the WEDC’s methods of distributing funds and impacting job creation into question.
“There’s a real question about what’s actually being done with public money, and whether or not the resources are being distributed fairly across the state,” says Robert Kraig, the executive director of Citizen Action of Wisconsin.
http://www.nationalmemo.com/report-s...ing-districts/
Looks like Walker is not Governor of Wisconsin, but Governor of/for Wisconsin Repugs
Governor Walker's Train Gaffe Costing Wisconsin Big Time
It didn't get a lot of press — two Milwaukee bloggers noted it — but Talgo, the Spain- and U.S.-based train manufacturer, closed its factory on Milwaukee's north side last week and moved the last of its train sets out of town. They will probably be sold to Michigan.
The irony is that here was a manufacturing company that was enticed to Wisconsin thanks to a bundle of federal dollars but was chased away by a new governor who professed his main interest was creating jobs and making Wisconsin friendly to business. Yes, go figure.
Instead, he kissed goodbye several hundred jobs that would have been created in one of Milwaukee's poorer neighborhoods and gave the federal government back $810 million that was to pay for expanding passenger rail service from Milwaukee to Madison and create roughly 4,000 construction jobs to boot.
It is not only one of the biggest financial blunders in the state's history, but ranks high for its utter cluelessness. And its says volumes about the governor's judgment.
Talgo is now suing the state for $65 million for the state's reneging on its Talgo contract, and
Wisconsin has to foot the bill for a multimillion-dollar maintenance facility and handicap accessibility upgrade at the Milwaukee station, all of which would have been covered by the $810 million federal grant.
These expenditures would have covered dozens of years of the supposed $6 million annual maintenance cost Gov. Scott Walker used as an excuse to scuttle the rail upgrade. As is the case for so many of his claims, that $6 million was inflated by a factor of 10. The actual cost to the state would have been more like $600,000.But there's a reason Walker routinely gets "pants on fire" ratings from the fact-checking PolitiFact.
So here we are with a robust passenger rail service restricted between Milwaukee and Chicago and a one-train-a-day Amtrak whose only big-city stops in Wisconsin are in Milwaukee and La Crosse.
Perhaps that wouldn't be so bad if it weren't for the trends that are taking hold in the country, apparently unbeknown to those who run our state.
Newspapers around the country devoted nearly a full page to the topic last Sunday under a headline that read: "A love affair on fumes?" The Associated Press story was referring to the fact that America is driving a lot less these days, and where once 16-year-olds couldn't wait to get their hands on the family car, less than 70 percent of 19-year-olds now have a driver's license.
Some of the decline — 10 percent since 2004 — is attributed to greater reliance on bicycles, but there's been an enormous increase in the use of commuter and passenger rail as an alternative to owning cars.
Further, according to the research group WISPIRG, many young people are opting to find jobs where they can get to work without owning a car.
But, no, we'd rather build more highways, spend a billion bucks on Milwaukee's zoo interchange, and borrow money to pay for it.
That, folks, is a pretty poor plan.
https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/06/08-2
Walker is Kock Bros puppet, a proxy for Kocks' dark shenanigans.
The VRWC strategy?
Block any attempts by govt to improve life for Human-Americans, while emasculating govt as source of power so that only private capital has ALL the power.
motif?
http://www.wispolitics.com/index.iml?Article=325853Robert Monroe, a 50-year-old Shorewood health insurance executive, was charged Friday with 13 felonies related to his voting a dozen times in five elections between 2011 and 2012 using his own name as well as that of his son and his girlfriend's son.
"During 2011 and 2012, the defendant, Robert Monroe, became especially focused upon political issues and causes, including especially the recall elections," the complaint asserts in its introduction.
According to those records, Monroe was considered by investigators to be the most prolific multiple voter in memory. He was a supporter of Gov. Scott Walker and state Sen. Alberta Darling, both Republicans, and allegedly cast five ballots in the June 2012 election in which Walker survived a recall challenge.
voter impersonation fraud is exceedingly rare; the irony, accordingly delicious.
Wisconsin to Skip Debt Payments to Make Up for Walker’s Tax Cuts
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, facing a $283 million deficit that needs to be closed by the end of June, will skip more than $100 million in debt payments to balance the books thrown into disarray by his tax cuts.
The move comes as Walker, 47, mounts a 2016 bid for the Republican presidential nomination, and while his state is under stress from a projected shortfall that could exceed $2 billion in the two-year budget beginning in July.
Delaying the $108 million principal payment due in May on short-term debt would free funds. The move doesn’t require legislative approval, the nonpartisan Legislative Fiscal Bureau said in a Feb. 13 memorandum. The terms of the debt sale allow Wisconsin to defer the payment in any given year, a procedure known as a restructuring, without defaulting.
http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/ar...uts?cmpid=yhoo
Americans TRUST the Repugs more on the economy!
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