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Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2010 2:08 pm
by derek666
http://www.theolympian.com/2010/04/13/1 ... eases.html

http://www.theolympian.com/2010/04/13/1 ... sland.html

As much as I didnt like Gary Locke, he was a genius compared to this twat in office!! :machine:

Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2010 3:34 pm
by DeathFrogg
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.

Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2010 9:15 pm
by Project Undead Vish
Ugh... Anything that Tim Eyman submits for a vote always gets voted down by me.

Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2010 11:11 pm
by Adremelech
Project Undead Vish wrote:Ugh... Anything that Tim Eyman submits for a vote always gets voted down by me.
Even the 30 dollar car tabs? I liked that one!

Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2010 12:32 am
by derek666
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.
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.

Where did I say "privatize all schools and the rest of the horse shit that falls out of your cunt mouth?!?

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!!!

Close a Juvenilefacility that cost's $6 million annually to pay $16 million to move and re-house them??? makes perfect sense to me. McNeil Island's new facility was finished in 2006, 14 years old, and they are shutting it down since it costs too much to operate?? Oh thats right, she wasted more money to build new prison's in Aberdeen, Larch Mountain, oh yeah the civil commitment center on the island also that are all filled up. Where the fuck are they going to house them now? Oh wait, she is paying the first 6 month's rent for sex offenders and other violent offenders to get released to re-offend and or rape a kid again. Makes perfect sense.

If you would take your socialist head out of Obama's asshole and pay attention to what the fuck is happening here in this shithole state, you would know what that bitch has done. by the way, I bet you knew the idiots here in Oly that were throwing rocks threw windows of the evil privately owned businesses here, tossing rocks at the cops, causing havok all in the name of peace love and anti corporate greed don't you!! all from the ultra liberal Evergreen State College.

by the way, Tim EYMAN not Einman, is a fucking idiot!! the $30 car tab was a goodone, too bad it was never put to use for some reason my tabs have always been $90 or more since then?? makes no sense to me.

Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2010 7:19 am
by DeathFrogg
Jesus, you really are a prime example of a teabagger. Dumber'n dogshit and just itchin' fur someone to beat up.

So, despite it obviously being a total waste of time, I'm going to try, once again, to shine some light into that atrophied little walnut you use for a brain. Why? Because it amuses me, it's almost 5 in the fuckin AM and I haz coffee to spare.

A little backround first before I eat you alive.

Gary Locke was a very good Governor, he knew what he was doing, and as his attorney General, Christine Gregoire was the person that won $5 Billion in lawsuits against the tobacco companies, for marketing their products to kids and hiding the addictive nature of the poisons they sell to the public. She took on the Drug manufacturers, winning ALL the anti-trust lawsuits she conducted for the State against them for manipulating costs and price fixing.

When Enron went kablooie, being a solidly Republican Company based in a solidly Republican State, She was able to recoup almost $100 million in losses to investors in Washington State. When the insurance companies got caught red-handed manipulating costs, she won every lawsuit the State filed against them. Every single one. She is a damn good attorney.

So, my first question to you is, is any of that a bad thing? Was any of that wrong somehow?
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!!!
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.

Taxes are way down from what they were four years ago, because the Republican president Bush unleashed the insurance, investment banking and mortgage banking industries by almost completely defunding the SEC and re-legalizing the bucket house operations in 2001. This led to a massive credit and construction boom, which led to a pretty sizable surplus in our States budget because people were allowed to use their houses as a cash machine, borrowing on them to get money to remodel their houses, buy speedboats, big televisions and new cars. That massively increased revenue from sales taxes.

The construction companies went apeshit building massive (and really shitty) condominium complexes in downtown Seattle, Bellevue, Kirkland and Spokane, building houses by the thousands all over Seattle, Issaquah, Kirkland, Juanita, Bellevue, Bothell and Lynnwood. That was more taxes paid by the construction companies, their workers and from the sales of those condos and houses.

At least one of those condominium buildings in Downtown Seattle now has to be torn down only nine years after it was built, because it used tensioning cables made from a steel alloy that corrodes when put in contact with concrete. The inspectors missed it, the construction company ignored it, and the architects washed their hands on it 15 years ago when they first proposed the design and contracted for construction and the State now must absorb the costs of the demolition, and file a lawsuit to find out who is at fault because nobody is owning up to the situation. The current State Attorney General, Rob Mckenna, is trying to avoid doing this, because all of the companies involved are high level contributors to his campaign coffers and are supporting his potential run for Governor in two years.

But I digress.

Gregoire stated flat out, that if the Legislature could not come up with a budget, she would cut ALL state departments by 20%, as required by law in that case. As the State is required by the Constitution to fully fund all public education, and had lost a court battle to shift some of those costs back to the Counties and Cities, that budget went up. People voted to reduce class sizes and increase teachers salaries, then, in the same election voted DOWN a 1 cent increase in sales taxes to fund those increases and reductions. That left the State with a big hole in its budget. When car tabs were reduced to a base level of $30 per car, that reduced the tax base to the State budget by almost 15% by itself. That $30 car tab fee, is below the cost of processing for registering a car in this state, so the State is now subsidizing the cost of registering a car. Any fees you pay above that $30 is set by the county you register your car in.

So the States available tax base has been massively cut, by the downturns in the economy and the construction bust and the credit bust and the goddamn banking collapses, and you blame the Governor for that. So, where would you cut the budget? You going to close schools? Libraries? How about CPS or the State Police? Prisons? How about we stop road construction, losing the matching funds the Federal Government is required to pay, reducing funds even further?

This latest budget, is $800 million lower than the last one. That means cuts in services like parks, police, prisons, public schools, County Sherrifs departments and rural fire departments. That means the rural counties are going to be slammed hard by those reductions in services. That means State Parks are going to be closed. That means rural roads aren't going to be repaved or improved as often, food inspections are going to be reduced, industrial disability insurance is going to be cut and a lot of State workers like building inspectors, health inspectors for restaurants, school administrators, law enforcement and teachers are going to lose their jobs. The State is required by Federal law to absorb a lot of the cost of the military sending the National Guard troops to Iraq and Afghanistan, and that costs a shitload of money. The States pension funds got chewed up by the banking scams of the last 25 years, but must remain at their current level by Federal and State law. Under Bush and Cheney and a GOP Congress, the costs of medicaid were shifted back to the States, and our State has a large number of people that need that service. Thats people with downs syndrome, people born with birth defects, people that have no health insurance and use the hospital emergency rooms as their regular medical care and cannot pay.

When Gary Locke finally stood up, and demanded that companies like Boeing and Westinghouse own up to the taxes that they had deferred over the years, money that they OWE, and agreed to pay back when their profit levels went up to a certain point, Boeing moved out of town rather than pay back the money, and Westinghouse closed some of its operations in Hanford rather than pay back the money that they had agreed to pay. When Enron filed a lawsuit against Snohomish county demanding money that they had contracted to pay for electricity, the State had to absorb that cost of the lawsuit and pay the money that the County had contracted for, even though those contracts were based in fraud and manipulation of the market and the County had obviously been horribly scammed.

You really are a stupid human being. But, you are typical of the teabaggers, all reaction, no thought as to where the money comes from or where it is actually going. No actual study of the problems. You're just a bunch of dumbass suckers who have continually refused to even attempt to even minimally educate yourself on the subject.

Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2010 3:12 pm
by derek666
DF you are a cunt and of course I will stand up and smash your shit talking mouth!! You run your mouth andcall names like a fucking school kid you deserve to get your teeth knocked out!!

First off we do need taxes, taxes fund everyone's basic need's of course- Police, Fire, School's etc my problem is this ridiculous rate of tax increases by Gregoire. We have the 5th highest gas tax, 8th highest diesel tax, and our roads and highways are shit.

I'll bet you rent so you won't know the truth behind property taxes, property taxes here in Oly tripled 2 years ago somehow. I guess the assessor's think that guessing condition's of property justifies jacking up property taxes?!?! They were only 2 1/2 times as high this year as opposed to 2 years ago, woo hoo.

How's this, 2 years ago voters overwhelmingly approved school initiatives but Gregoire shut em down. A few years before, voter's thought theycompletely did away with the funding of Qwest field, or was it Safeco? What happened? oh that's right, jack up taxes to fund was was NOT wanted.

My property taxes are supposed to go to publicly funded services right? Why is it not being used for the services I pay for? I guess paying for bike lanes that only about 10 people a year use, a fancy bike bridge, round abouts, maybe the fancy cement stamping, or millions in wasting the study of how cutting 4 lanes down to 2 lanes while adding bike lanes for no one will help the flow of traffic is worth while?

Simple math is an easy way to cut shit out of the overspending. Cut spending on fake studies, cut the waste in the judicial system, cut funding to Evergreen State College, the cost alone of fixing and trying to stop the crap they do is astounding, cut the funding for never ending do nothing legislation sessions, I could go on and on.

Here is something for you to think about, Thurston County Jail charges people to be booked and also house them, plus taxes on top of that. DOC depending on your crime charges to be locked up, along with being charged for food, housing etc etc and no longer can inmates buy clothes through catalogs, they have to purchase clothes straight from the prison. Where does all our tax money go since that shit has taken effect?

With all the taxes on fuels here in WA, why couldnt thecar tabs be$30? Plus how many people are clogging up the road's multiplied by $30 on top of the massive fuel tax shopuld be more than enough to fix our road's. Although, wasting money re paving Skookumchuck rd in Tenino for the 30 or so people who live out there when the road was just fine to begin with, is worth it.

I know where the money comes from cunt lip's, my pocket. So go back to trash talking like the teafuck's do along with everyone at MSNBC and keep hyping the tax raising machine.

Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2010 3:43 pm
by DeathFrogg
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.

Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2010 5:57 pm
by derek666
DeathFrogg 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.
http://www.theolympian.com/2010/04/10/1 ... ested.html

Evergreen State College not from OU!! the other shit problem's, which you can look up on youtube were the port protests here in Oly, to top it off a fucking Dem councilman from here, TJ Johnson, was at the port of Tacoma purposely getting arrested and causing havoc at both port's. I am surprised anyone remembers the WTO shit.

Wow, I totally agree with you on the mass transit situation here in Oly, don't know how it is up north but it completely blows balls here. I completely agree with the accross the board tax also, wow, I think maybe this 2012 thing may be real, you and I agree on something...:cheers:

Fuck McKenna, he is an idiot also. back on the bike lane thing, seriously, where they want to ruin an already clusterfucked road and subtract 2 lanes is completely insane. Unfortunately I have to drive that way every Friday to pick the kids up and there are 3 ways to get to where I need to go, packed freeway, I-5/ 101 interchange completely fucked, out Capitol way, where they want to eliminate 2 lanes, packed, or backroad's that are held up by the building of fucking roundabouts.

The McKenna lawsuit costs the same as re-housing those juvenile criminal's on our dime!! woo hoo. by the way, Gregoire also campaigned on, " there will be NO NEW TAXES" her famous words when asked about the deficit, her reasoning was the so called rainy day fund.

anyways enough bickering, I am completely shocked we agree on something, so now I will go get me some brews before it costs me $20 a 6 pack and a pack of smokes before they are $100 a pack.

Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2010 8:34 am
by Project Undead Vish
I keep meaning to read all of this bullshit, but I just can't seem to muster the energy.

Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2010 8:42 am
by derek666
Project Undead Vish wrote:I keep meaning to read all of this bullshit, but I just can't seem to muster the energy.
you can do it

Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2010 10:57 am
by Bloodiah
Well I've skimmed this politics laden snooze fest, possibly due to lack of anything better to do as my printer is tied up with crap flyers for the next couple hours...

The only thing in all of this that torches me is our governments embrace of hippies and hippie ideals. Socialism in this country wont EVER work, because we have guns, and eventually the crazy trailer dwellers will pack up their automatic "hunting" rifles and start shooting the shit out of anyone in power. Which will be funny. Bike lanes? Are you kidding? We can't even agree on gay marriage, yet they get an entire lane on a road? Yes, I'm openly calling "cyclists" fags, take off your spandex and buy a fuckin car hippie!
Roundabouts? Don't get me started. This isn't fucking England! These pretentious douchewaffles designing these things need to stop swallowing cock long enough to realize that a traffic light works out JUST fine, and roundabouts confuse asshole rednecks like myself. If you want roundabouts move somewhere else, like San Fransico...
Basically I'll blame it all on the liberals. Gregoire really needs to LEAVE her head up nObama's ass until she fucking suffocates. This is getting out of hand...

Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2010 8:51 pm
by Adremelech
Funny you should mention roundabouts. Those damn things are popping up like dandelions around here.

Posted: Fri Apr 16, 2010 11:44 am
by Bloodiah
Ain't nothin funny about it! I'm stuck in traffic detour hell because the City of Lake Stevens decided that closing the main road into town for 2 months to put in another one of those fucking eyesores would be a better idea then taking a weekend to throw up a fuckin traffic light....assholes....

Posted: Fri Apr 16, 2010 8:25 pm
by Adremelech
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.

Posted: Fri Apr 16, 2010 8:48 pm
by DeathFrogg
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.

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.

Posted: Fri Apr 16, 2010 11:56 pm
by derek666
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.
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.

Posted: Sat Apr 17, 2010 8:44 am
by Blake NWR
Hear fucking HEAR. We have some roundabouts here in Eugene/Springfield, and NO ONE seems to take notice of the yield signs at each entrace -- they just go for it, cut people off, etc. It's retarded.