How did it come to be that everybody who wants $, contributes to our employees & gets our $. I have to believe that after 50 plus years of handing out tax $ to agri corruption, the damage would be the news as much as the unhealthy food. Healthy food farmers will get a few million while We the fat & unhealthy People paid trillions to billionaires who contributed millions. Pennies on the dollar! One of the reasons our health care costs are so high is because our employees gave trillions of our tax $ to billionaire farmers who raised unhealthy food & sold it for more than we realize because we didn't factor in the subsidies.

Insurance & drug companies, {contributors} have & are making trillions on US on the other end, when we're fat, sick & dying. Our representatives, on our payroll, give tax cuts & incentives every chance they get, we have a $9 trillion debt, & sick as a dog.

Does anybody ever ask why our representatives broke unions & brough in illgeal immigrants? I would think by now it has been proven that poor people don't support the eeconomy as well as middle class people yet governmnet is breaking the middle class.

Government employee unions are the only unions that don't get busted. Why is it that when it comes out of taxpayers pocket, there is always plenty of money?

Why did our representatives pay small family dairy
operations our tax $ to quit milking? 30,000 cow contributors! Why do we hand out billions in subsidies & promote cheap labor as well? Shouldn't they have to pay decent wages if they get our tax $? I would think agri corruption would have a different minimum wage since they get so much of our money.

How much damage has illegal immigration done to the health care system & how has it affected health insurance costs? Meatpacking unions were busted & illegal immigrants brought in only to be abused while contributors who paid off our politicians left US to pay for injuries to illegal immigrants while contributors counted their $.

Why do we as the boss & shareholders in the biggest corporation & largest employer have the worse managment? We need to do as all the corporations who buy our employees do.

How may employees do we have? City, county, state, & federal?
Everyday you read about another company cutting jobs but not the US government. Time for some pay cuts. First the politicians
& then work our way down the ladder. I used to work for state government, I know about all the birthday parties on the clock, & all the other crap you don't see in private industry.

Our government is promoting poverty for the people who fight the wars, do the work, & support this nation while making the greatest sacrifices. Government has it backwards. If a guy makes $7 an hour he pays less in taxes & buys less because he has less then pays less in sale tax.

Our infrastructure is $1.6 trillions behind & with all the growth not getting better any time soon. Developers are making out like a bandit. No kickbacks for our representatives there?

Buying cheap crap from China is making China $, making contributors $, but isn't doing the average American much good.

Otter wants to increase vehicle taxes, registration. If Otter & all the people we pay can't come up with any better ideas than that I'd say we better find somebody who will.

I could find all kinds of ways to cut our costs. If I'm not mistaken we need $ for corrections & a detox center also. Well Butch, if the state weren't paying employees to sell liquor & provide benefits to them too, you might save some money. Let private industry employ the people who sell booze, the booze would still sell with emploees on somebody else's payroll. What about the county garbage business? Let private induistry handle it.

There sure is a lot of money contributed to all these politicians who can't seem to find any money. Maybe we should demand all the $ contributed cover the cost of roads, prisons, schools, hospitals, & all we pay for. Seems fitting that we take advantage of the money rather than politicians like Larry Craig who is using contributions for his legal fees.

Give our representatives points for campaigning, like a card at Albertsons, Fred Myers, or Pauls. Give bonus points/time on TV, radio, & newspapers for $ contributed to their campaigns. A minute air time for every $100,000 they bring in.

Why should we give all our tax $ to contributors & pay for all the roads they use to move their product? Why should we pay politicians who take this money, give our money away, & then don't have the imagination to find $ to pay for all our needs?

That's poor management on our part! We need to do as the corporations that contribute do! Everyone needs to sign on together & demand those contributions go to our needs & not politicians on our payroll, on our time! Any $ brought in is our $, not their money. Every company in the world has a contract to make sure the company is not losing $. Even the Statesman has a contract for paper carriers.

Paper carriers can't undercut the Stratesman so why doesn't the Statesman apply the same rules in reporting campaign contributions? All the people who work for the paper pay taxes, I think. Why aren't they upset that their tax $ goes to some billionaire?

Sooner or later it will catch on & we might have some $ for roads, schools, prisons, detox, & all the other stuff in the news.

Speaking of detox. I've been writing to Otter & the Idaho Tax commissiion about something the Statesman printed the other day. Tracking these DUI arrests. Bars that send more drunks out on the road. Fine them! Bartenders who drink at work are just as impaired as drivers, worse, they send drunk drivers out the door for free drinks. What about all the tax evasion at bars like the torch? can't tell me all that cash is reported. What about the drugs? The after hours escort services like Teagues? He wasn't the only one.

Alcohol makes billions of $ & they contibute millions while we pay billions for jails, police, courts, detox. That is poor management on our part again.

There is a never ending amount of $ for all our needs if We the People start to act like business people, demand it.

www.nextrevolution.net

Stop eating.

Prostitute yourself out to government/campaign finance/taxes.

but you can't make it appreciate the Grateful Dead.

With that attitude you'll soon be one. Is it the drugs? Sounds like the kind of guy who stops by for a cool one from time to time.

When you get over your macho jingoist venting, I'll see you later.

We're ALL grumpy like that lately, Pearl Harbor or not.

My dad was a Seabee, one of my uncles an Air Force mechanic for many years and I had at least one uncle serve in Vietnam.

John Ogburn died in Iraq and was my co-worker once.

I tire of such nonsense.

regards, FO

EVERYBODY HAS LOST SOMEBODY IN BATTLE. None of us disrespect the deceased.

Nov, 11 or 12-07 Time mag.: Farm Subs.
Statesman, 12-10-07: Farm subs.
Statesman, 12-10-07: Risch & Larocco expensive race.
Statesman, 12-9-07: Alaska lawmaker gets six years.

Sorry buddy but it was never about you. Go back to the beginning & take notes if you can't keep up. Ask & someone will be with you shortly should you not understand. Try to play games & people play games on you.

Your representatives aren't representing you, they're representing contributors & themselves at your expense. They're playing games on you.

Be the boss, a shareholder in the largest corporation in the world, America. Do the shareholders of the corporations which buy your representation allow their ceo & boardmembers to accept $ from outside influnce while costing their shareholders $? Why would you?

If we all told our representatives the campaign contributions would no longer be for their camapign but used for schools, health care, & so on & they would be allowed so many minutes on pubic TV for every $100,000 contributed to them, wouldn't We pay less taxes?

Corporations used to pay 50% of taxes, they now pay 10% & you pay the rest. Why? Campaign contributions. America has a $9 trillion debt. Why? Campaign contributions. Every America owes $30K to this $9 trillion debt. Are you paying into Social Security, going to get anything from it? Add it to the $30K. You can do something about it, unless you would rather pay for it all.

I put up, Everybody wants the $, but at what costs? You reacted with jibberish. Now you're upset. Relax pal, don't let it ruin your day. You might do better to understand & correct the misrepresentation costing you so much $ while your relatives fight in wars like Vietnam which was a lie just like Iraq.

Is it an Idaho thing? Can't be, everybody in the nation is complaining about property taxes, fuel costs, war, Social Security, $ for education, $9 trillion debt, & a list perpetual yet when I offer an idea to make corporate America pay their share, you bulk, you fight it.

If you want to pay all the taxes you can pay mine too. Fights over? I don't get it. Like to be taken advantage of, bend over, & take it like a man? Why do you blog if it gets you so uptight?
You have your say but can't stand it if anyone else does? You all about something one minute than contradict yourself the next. What big white truck, where did that come from? If you have any more of that stuff, would you share? I can't afford to go anywhere but feel like a trip.

An expert without an opinion who can't stand it when someone has a solution or makes suggestions to get working class people out from under the man?

It's called blogging. I missed the rules saying just commentary, not making poilcy. Don't realize being a lifelong resident unables one to accept change or have some say in government. You pay taxes, you vote, you have kids? Do something for them if not yourself.

Your kids will ask you twenty years from now why you didn't do something about this mess & all you'll be able to say is. Some guy had all these ideas & I was confused. I was too busy paying all corporate unAmerica's taxes to worry about you kids. Then they can tell their kids, {your grandkids} they can't go to college because grandpa was confused & now dad is confused, & you'll be confused too son. Have locals been so beaten down they can't think or stand up for themselves? You sound like you want to get mad, have at it. I have four older brothers, it won't bother me. Knock yourself out.

Be a shareholder, be the boss. It's easy. Make your representatives do the job you pay them for just like your boss makes you. It's not about me doing better, it's about US taxpayers! All of US, United, a union, you know, We the People.
It's 2007, you're on a computer, it's the 21st century. Never mind, I'm beating a dead horse. Government loves a guy like you.

Mistaking blogs for actual 'out-there' journalism.

It's an opinion with pro and con followups and despite the WW and W it's not all that visible unless you are freaky or semi-famous and have cool friends.

There are about 15 people in Idaho Radio News, for instance (I'm being facetious but). I dare say I've met most of them.

You guys are about as anonymous as what was in the stuff I had for dinner last Tuesday. Hopefully that isn't so offline.

Go forth and do whatcha do and don't skid going home. You are needed.

Hey, Kimbill, where's Arnaold? Freak! It's Christmas, show some respect you damn foooool. Any posimum left? Did you eat all the tree rat?

Skid marks are in yer shorts, laundry day tomorrow?

Load the vinegar gun, 1st mate. Sounds like back to being 'astounding' again.

You ask a valid question about why the fresh, healthy foods cost so much more than the over-processed, over-salted, over-sugared boxed crap.

I've heard people complain about foodstamp users getting fat off the government. Ain't hard to do when all you can afford to feed your kids is mac 'n cheese and potatoes.

Personally, I agree with most everything you said. We are currently seeing the results of Reagonomics- deregulation of banks and insurance companies, the destruction of Roosevelt's New Deal policies by the Republican party, the ruin of antitrust laws.

The Farm Bill was always meant to keep food affordable, but it now has been so manipulated it's no longer even fufilling that need. I don't know what's in that bill this time around, but if groups of farmers are against it, it must be seriously misdirected.

Unfortunately, I think we have gone too far, and I don’t believe that repair is even possible. We are currently unable to get out of a war that is bleeding us dry, we’ve lost so many jobs, etc. etc.

I don't even think I'm going to bother to vote anymore, after all the idiots are running this asylum.

Corporate welfare makes it too easy to do nothing. In the case of corporate welfare it's an investment in which we pay all the taxes, representatives, their health care, retirement, which we lose more of everyday. In the 1940's corporations paid 50% of taxes & today they pay 10%. What they used to pay in taxes they contribute in 2007 & get billions in return. Pennies on the dollar, it's business we as taxpayers better learn to use in running America. Confiscate the contributions as a tax to offset the $9 trillon debt we're stuck with because of it!

That is why I suggest taxing campaign contributions. Tax contributions given to politicians not yet on our payroll & take as taxes, contributions given to politicians on our payroll. Hold those companies to the same or equivilent $ amount every year to all they contribute as it obviously pays off for them while costing US taxpayers. They contribute a million to one party & $750K to the other party for a reason, so their horse can't lose. You can't swing a dead cat without hitting another tax or tax hike. Property, auto registraion, fuel, & yet contributors are getting tax cuts? Craig uses contributions for personal legal fees, use it to pay for schools.

I contradict myself by suggesting a tax on alcohol but it is at the center of so many problems it is costing US taxpayers a fortune so it can't be ignored. Let the people & corporations making the money pay to fix the problems it creates.

It's time the American people take a look at why we have all the problems we have. Act like shareholders & evaluate your company. Where are you making or losing $. That is how & why corporations pay CEOs, board members, & lobbyist millions & contribute millions to our representatives. They get billions in tax cuts & incentives in return, your tax $. If they can't make $ the same way taxpayers do, through hard work, why would we give them tax cuts.

Baseball , basketball, football players, musicians, & everyone under the sun is ripped off by crooked accountants/managers & we're being ripped off by our representatives & contributors!

Illegal immigration: Agri corruption & meatpacking have contributed & our misrepresentatives have helped break unions & promoted illegal immigration for fifty years. Look at all the problems that come with illegal immigration. Not just in the past but the future. Look at all the jobs lost by Americans who used to do those jobs for a living wage 30 years ago. It's just beginning, representatives promoted it & now they can't or won't fix it. Illegal immigrants have more representation that citizens who along with family have paid millions in taxes only to make less per hour & lose health care today then 30 years ago.

Health care, crime, prisons, courts, police, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Homeland Security, & it all comes back to what our representatives do while on our payroll, handing out our tax $ to contributors to get & keep them in office. They aren't going to fix it or accept responsibility. It's up to the people & when they won't do anything but vote in the next big spender who accepted the most through campaign finance we lose.

Sign on together & numbers will make politicians take action or be proven misrepresentatives. That is why I started www.nextrevolution.net
My boss was stealing federal excess military property & more while politicians in Nebraska tried harder to cover up than stop the stealing or end a program that outlived it's original concept years earlier. Politicians & the state were siphoning too much federal $ from the FEPP program to just let it go. US Senator Chuck Hagel told me ten years ago that these federal programs get started & never end.

Too bad US soldiers are dying without equipment while representatives try harder to cover up the waste & theft. Even worse the taxpayers who bought the military equipment the first time & used it to defend America were being ripped off by the state of Nebraska for labor never done on 6x6 trucks they leased & never received title to. Now their kids & grandkids are dying in Iraq in a war based on lies because they don't have equipment?

The American taxpayer is being taken in the biggest scam the world has ever seen. CAMPAIGN FINANCE! They have taken US for $9 trillion to date in the national debt alone. Add in all the problems associated with it, like health care costs & it is unbelieveable. You going to buy into another four years of the same under a different name but the same coprorate $? Yep!

How does Arnold like that 1997 home entertainment center? I bet he's watching porn, pig is just about ready for dinner.

I don't think I've ever heard that idea before, but maybe its really a good idea. I still think the simplest and the fairest plan is tax payer financing- each one gets the same amount of money and the same amount of air time. Nobody gets to buy the election.

As for people acting like "shareholders" the problem is most of us feel that we have no say and no control. We feel powerless

I don't believe it and I don't care. You got what you planted and you need to burn the fields but you won't because it would take the "land" out of use too long for your liking.

Artificial boundaries and self-imposed constraints become a system after a while.

Stop blogging and start doing.

and it's back to waiting for the crucifixion again.