Chafee wanted to tax soda? Water?

What if he wanted to tax coffee, too? Perhaps sugar, tea, paper.

Linc sounds like "King George" to me. Cut my taxes, Linc, or sink!

Here's my shout-out to the RI GOP and their minority leader Brian Newberry:

http://smithfield.patch.com/blog_posts/open-letter-to-ri-gop-and-minority-leader-brian-newberry-its-pirate-time

Yo Ho Ho!

I keep telling you that we drink coffee...cocoa is for wussies. I'll make a Rhode Islander out of you even if it kills me!! =)

I love coffee - especially if it has chocolate in it!

I also love paying lower taxes. Chafee and GA should love that, too.

(Do they drink coffee?)

I also want to see a fifty-state GOP strategy catch fire. RI is the place for the fire to move.

Thanks Renee, for real. You do not have to make me a coffee drinker, because I already am one (sometimes. . .)

Robert E -- Thanks for writing.

My point is not to lecture or insult, but to get a conversation going, to get some momentum on freer markets, free people, and a free Northeast to teach the rest of the country how it's done.

Get the GA to move Chafee to lower your taxes!

Start the tax revolution from the cradle of the American Revolution, as far as I am concerned.

Thanks again!

"Leave RI"

I am confused about your name-sake.

Have you left RI, or are you about to leave RI?

And why, if I may be so bold.

Thanks for commenting!

I felt I was getting too old for my birth name, "Arrived RI"

Time to close up the bank, for good! : - )

I appreciate the sentiment. Jack, I can count on your vote?

In the mean time, press Brian Newberry -- GOP minority leader in Providence.

http://www.briannewberry.org/why.html

Sure what the heck, I don't drink coffee though so it will have to be Coffee ice cream for the bribe lol.

JB:

You are "right on".

The GOP is all about helping people "not be poor" as opposed to just "helping poor people."

Forget about Bush II -- Obama is twice as bad.

Good RI GOP leadership is out there. Someone can be like a Chris Christie-type (without the weight problem) and instill some leadership. . .

Thanks for the correction. I mixed them up.

Still: an end to a state income tax and a sales tax would be great.

In the beginning, the United States federal government was not allowed to tax anyone at all. Revenue came through a tariff and land sales.

An extreme idea, perhaps, but "starving the beast" and giving everyone back their money -- that sounds like the kind of reforms we need to see in this country!

I don't think I missed the point. The point the author is trying to convey is that Rhode Island, and other states, should lower their taxes. I happen to agree. However, it would also behoove the author to do some fact checking.

https://www.commissaries.com/business/planogram/pdf_planograms/Juice2DTomato26Vegetable_id1801.pdf

$2.80 at PX/Commissary..I have the coupon

Damnit!..you borrowed that hat from my t.v. antenna and Rex Trailer is on Boomtown.

Great hat, "RI Teabagger"!

I wouldn't wear it in public, though. That cap belongs on the heads of Democratic legislators who refuse to "tune in" to lower taxes, less spending, and looser regulations.

Thanks again!

Thanks Mr Slapper.

Makernotataker:

You take the cake! You have made my day!

Call Brian Newberry. Raymond McKay, and the RI GOP.

Tell them that you are tired of games where Rhode Islanders lose and Democratic elites win!

Rhode Island's victory is California's victory is the United States' victory.

Thanks again!

Are you from another state too like Schaper who I doubt has ever set foot in RI, nor will? There's plenty of blame to go around in RI in both parties. Mostly at the hands of corrupt, lying politicians and high paid administrators who loot the system for their own gain while lying to the taxpayer and worker alike. Too much looking for the quick fix like 38 Studios. We were told when the Navy left NK & Newport that tourism was going to take up the slack. Well, look at Post Rd. in NK or Middletown. Lots of vacant hulks due to too relying on tourism. Maybe Schaper and Makernotataker can stop in an spend a few bucks!

There is no "civil war"

There are some uncivil insiders -- McCain and Graham.

Social issues matter, but at the state level.

Marriage -- private matter.

I am pro-life -- but spare me "legitimate rape" distinctions. Must permit exceptions in cases of rape, incest, as well as life of mother. (I was a baby, once, as was every other person on the earth.

Decriminalize controlled substances. The way to break free is not through condemnation.

There is another civil war --- with the Dems. . .

Greens (environmentalists) vs. Union interests -- viz. XL Keystone

Establishment vs. Progressives -- Obama loves drones, ACLU not so much

Rand Paul made Obama look like a weak wannabe totalitarian.

Luv Guv Christie -- tells it like it is!

Luv Rand Paul -- tells it like it is -- not afraid to step up!

GOP is A-OK!

Dems? Obama is your "George W. Bush" (Is the Dems learning?)

Bush was a bummer -- all my CA GOP colleagues could not agree more!

Obama is a bigger bummer -- he reminds me of W, but he can talk (a little better).

Democrats in RI -- the biggest bummer

Go, GOP, take back your state!

Hmmmm....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pdWAcK6Eh8

Makernotataker: My apology for thinking you were from elsewhere. We have roots here too, but only to the 1700's. My family has always been working class. You are right about the takers. Suprising statistics Ted Nesi has on the recession. Legal residents should be getting the benefits, not the influx without documentation.

@iamtiredofthegames;

If you have been here that long you should know that the GOP cannot be blamed for anything as a party in this State. The State has been under DEM control in the legislature by a vast majority for over 78 years straight. The Governorship is basicly a figurehead so that party affiliation does not matter, since the GA can over ride anything they like.

The GA also has more power then the Governor, by our Constitution, which is why almost every Governor has tried to change that but been unsuccessfull.

Individual party member you can obviously blame and there is Corruption on both sides to that. But again we are the only State that can Blame a single party for everything that has happened in the last 78 years in this State. One Party rules is a recipe for disaster always.

I agree on the takers thing ;-}

McCain and Graham need to be booted, they are nothing more than politicians playing games and out for themselves not the voters. They are part of the intrenchment on both sides that need to go in my opinion.

Oh disagree, Christy also is a any which way the wind blows and is all over the place on way to many issues to be reliable in my opinion. ;-}

Guv Christie -- not perfect -- but believable

McCain -- What a pain (Romney w/o the money, or the job creation)

Graham -- crumbling fast -- Mick Mulvaney for US Senate 2014

Don't believe Christy has the rep, credibilty, exposure or attitude that would sell nationwide especially outside of the East Coast.

Mr Slapper, as long as you and your fellow Teapublicans support politicians like Rand Paul, Barbara Bachman, and Ted "Joe McCarthy" Cruz then you all but guarantee that the Democrats will retain control of the White House in 2016.

Yep I have 2 pages of the taxes Chaffee wanted when he got in office, not only soda but plain water as well as perscriptions and many other things that are unbelievable that I don't even think the most left DEM would have proposed.

The guy is out there, but I do give him credit for the Studio 38 and saying NO it stops now.

Also think Cacieri and quite few other should be in jail on the Studio 38,

Yea ithought about that and I am looking for the list which is way to long to post lol.

Yea he didn't have soda in there.

Taxes from 1% to 6% he wants, These are the silliest to me but theres about 50 more.
Computer software, prewritten and delivered electronically.

Eyeglasses and contact lenses.

Insurance proceeds from destroyed or stolen passenger automobile as trade-in allowance.

Purchase of newspapers

Nonprescription drugs, including medical marijuana.

Property or supplies used in the processing or preparation of floral products.
Investigation and security services, including locksmiths.

Laundry and dry-cleaning

Investigation and security services, including locksmiths.

Laundry and dry-cleaning

Boat manufacturers' promotional and product literature.

Coffins, caskets and burial garments

Building materials used to rebuild after a disaster.

Water for residential use.

Transfers or sales made to immediate family members.

Flags

Heating fuel used residentially.

Horse food products

Jewelry-display products

Automotive, including car washes.

Personal-care services including hairdressing salons and personal-grooming establishments, diet and weight-loss centers.

This was all from his web site when he was running and after he was elected, they are however now removed. I wonder why?

What you against feeding people now lol.

Shame on you lol.

It is free speech you know.

I can try and contact who sent it to back when he was elected as it has been removed from his web site once he was elected, though it may be around somewhere, The general assembly balked at most of them lol.

I just posted it to show how wack out he is on taxes.lol

Ok found it, it moved to under budget deficits after he was elected lol.

It has the numbers for the revenue he expects. He has not given up on this though,the speaker of the house however does not seem to want much to do with it as it is listed.

http://chafeeforgovernor.com/2010/10/budget_deficit_1.php

What died? Also I am talking about the State legislature not the fed. In response to the soda tax and showing other silly things in my opinion that need to stop. Jobs Jobs Jobs and business friendly enviroment should be the only thing the GA should be working on, because I am sure you will agree without those this State is dead!!

Wrong as usual, sir.

If there is an "extreme", it's a President who refused to clarify whether the President could use drones on American citizens.

A president who resisted XL Keystone.

A president who refuses to step back and admit that his administration has been nothing but failure, from stimulus to Obama-WaxmanCare, to foodstamps, to bailouts, to higher taxes.

How does Obama plan on paying for his progressive hopes and dreams?

Obama is George W. for the Dems.

"Is your progressive children learnin?'"

You really do have to live here to understand that taking back will not happen, don't know if it is the water, ocean air, or halebop, but there is something that got lost here that was here back in the 17 and 1800's lol

How sad it is that this State is known at the place where the Industrial Revolution Stated (Slaters Mill), and look at our business expertise now, worst in the Country to move or have a business in. Now thats sad.

On another note, Our State Government has information leaks like a sieve, thats why so many of our politicians go to jail and the FBI uses the State as a training ground for new recruits, because it is so easy to see the mistake our politicians make lol.

Hey Kid!!! You want to fatten Up your resume for Director? Go to RI. you can catch a politicians every day for a week and not put a dent in the corruption there. Everyone does it lol.

Ok Robert confussed the heck out of me on that one. How can a social program spending be fiscally conservative it thats what you mean.

Because though people always say the thatchers thing and sluff it off, it is factually acurrate that you cannot keep giving money away forever.

I think don't think there is a bubble. I think we have a puddle, the bubble popped a long time ago. Just saying

I guess you are going to have to continue saying that theory.

I vote on specific issues, and determine whether they are in line with my own personal views, and look at the lessor of 2 evils on most social issues and if they violate the rights myself or of others.

I do not approve of issues that are invasive of other peoples personal lives that affect no-one elses lives. Free will and self responsibilty cannot be legislated either so I do not aprrove of Bills that try to do that as they accomplish nothing. I.E. Finn present gun control Bill and all the others in NY and washington that have gone off the deep end.

Oh and I abhor knee jerk reactionary legislation, never turns out well for honest citizens.

Don't know what you mean by "socially repulsive", as you are lumping all conservative into one pool it seems. That is not logical, as humans do not work that way at all. Not to mention I would venture there are repulsive people in all walks of the political arena. Blanket Statements are pointless, even though I have mistakenly used them at times. (because I am at least Human I think lol).

On another note, forgetting all other Conservative issues for a minute.

What is wrong with wanting fiscally conservative budgets, not just in bad times but all the time. It after all how a business works in order to massimize profits I was always taught in the 60's. Don't think it has changed much when you look at how companies change now adays with the constant restructuring.

Last thing lol.

I will agree that Many Conservative politicians and Liberal ones shoot themselves in the foot on major issues just because they take a stand on a lessor social issue or very emotional issue, missing the big picture as they say and ruining their credibilty.

Wow!

I had no idea of how sobering the statistics were.

I do not look at circumstances.

I look at what people can be, have, and do.

That takes faith.

Somone like Luis Fortuno of Puerto Rico, who cut spending drastically, in spite of the political upheaval that followed.

Governor Walker, Chris Christie, the list of leaders out there abounds.

Stop looking at the circumstances, start engaging the truth, take back your state.

Think of Ronald Reagan.

He wanted the Berlin Wall to come down -- in 1968.

People believed that Communism was forgone conclusion, here to say, going nowhere.

In 1989, Reagan broke a block of the crumbled Berlin Wall.

Walk by faith, not by sight.

You will have what you say, not what you feel.

Well that didn't answer what "socially repulsive" is.

I do find it sad that you voted on only social issues almost exclusively. That for me is the problem, social issue are dependent on personal view or personal choice, at least the ones you named that determined your vote.

By your definition, that is why we have one party control in this State? Frankly I want legislatures that actually look at what ever issue and freely debate them in the open (no back room tit for tat) and ac tually lister to whom they are mandated to work for I.E. we the people. Novel idea I know, but it is the way the system was setup, which has now been destroyed especially in this State. Minority views are ignored totally, same is going on in washington. We are not a pure Democracy of mob rule, though that is what we are becoming. This State has shown the way and the result. Bankruptcy and corruption.

I also think social issues like you have listed should be on the back burner until the fiscal house is in order. They spend so much time on that, and that is why no real solutions to fiscal problems have happened for decades in this State in my opinion.

I have no respect for people who vote party line exclusivly. It is a coward way out of what voting is all about in my opinion. I have always voted the person and what I thought was the person with the best idea's on the majority of issues we face. Party does not matter to me and never has.

Robert:

I am pro-choice and pro-life -- Dems are pro-abortion! They removed "safe, legal, and rare" from the party platform. RI GOP should adopt it.

Marriage is a private matter. Give me a break, Linc!

Immigration -- get rid of the welfare state, streamline the naturalization process, and come in, everyone!

Labor -- Unions do not support workers anyomre; they support unions. I have endured this discrimination myself too many times.

Not true. On a daily basis you forego liberty in the name of equality. Personal responsibilty is an afterthought in your ideology. Liberals demand more and more governmental control through burdensome regulation. The notion of efficient, limited government is an obamanation to you and your ilk. We end up with massively bloated wasteful governance that exists only to foster cronyism and debt.

If you think equality and liberty are mutually exclusive, you are ignorant.

Liberals value personal responsibility very highly, only the hate-mongers on talk radio tell you otherwise.

Liberals do not demand more government control, we demand less -- for example we demand the government not dictate to people whom they may love.

Liberals demand efficiency from our government just like everyone else. That we do not always get it is a failure of government, not a failure of liberalism.

There is no such word as "obamanation."

I am an individual with my own personal beliefs, ideologies and faith. I am not part of any "ilk" no matter how much you may wish to lump those who are not like you together.

Cronyism was not invented by liberals. That idea would be an ignorant assertion. Writings dating back to the Bronze Age reveal that cronyism was embedded in the human condition millenia before liberalism existed.

You mention debt? Name the last Republican president who lowered the national debt.

Yikes..I don't know John Pearl. I think you 'n Arthur wear the same foil hat..just in different ways.

Liberals of today want to make more of the decisions for others, out of fear.

Your name-calling exposes your unwillingness to consider the points that I have made. That is unfortunate.

I am grateful for people like Jack B and Ted G, who are willing to discuss and outline the problems.

I refuse to believe that anything but better come from Rhode Island, or any other place in dire straits.

It's not about what you see, but what you are willing to believe, in spite of what you see.

Like Ronald Reagan, who wanted the Berlin wall to come down, nearly thirty years before it actually did.

Or Gov. Snyder of Michigan, who passed "right-to-work" legislation in a heavily unionized state.

Looks like we have another master lever proponent among us

Nope never said that, I have said the system is boken a lot and does not follow the intent nor the rules laid out by the founders though.

I told you before, I have never belonged to any political party(or registered) or organization except the NRA which is a requirement of most gun clubs to remain a member.

You however do continue the useless acts of name calling and labels that accomplish nothing as usual. Ever think that is why this State and Country cannot get it together. It is all us vs them to you. That is sad.

Angry white act, what does race have to do with it?

See that your problaem you look at is as a game. (win or lose).. Then you complain to the high heavens when who ever your oppenent is uses the same tactics and believes the same as you. It is not a game it is suppose to be representative doing their jobs. (representing the people not themselves). Novel idea I know, but that is how it is mandated to work you know.

PS. what makes you think I am angry lol.
Confused at you mindset maybe, but far from angry lol

I know we had this conversation before and I guess you still have not read about the Founders as only a couple were politicians.

Ben Franklin was the only really old man. Eighteen were under 40; three were in their 20s. Of the 56 almost half - 24 - were judges and lawyers. Eleven were merchants, nine were landowners and farmers, and the remaining 12 were doctors, ministers, and politicians.

My problem with Unions is State Unions only same as most of the Country. Not like there are many Union Members any way on 11% of the work force total is in a Union and 35% of that 11% are State Union members.

You will never get it I guess so it is pointless to vontinue yet again with you.
You have no respect for minority positions and only wish to infrict your will on others. If Politicians do what they are elected to do, then why do so many not get re-elected?

Your theories are out there and not the norm for most of the Country. 5 or 6 % win for Obama was not a mandate of the people either. It did show the great divide of the Country however.

Since you obviously do not believe in minority right either with that Statement. I have the same rights as you, they are not negated just because you have a majority, thats way we are a Republic and not a Pure democracy. The Independents like my self are are not extreme and it is we who decide a national election now not one party or the otehr. Thats the facts of it.

All done ;-}

Still havn't answered the "Angry white act" thing there guy. Nor the reason for name calling but i expected that lol.

should read "only a Few were politicians".

What license do I have by the way lol.

Nice try at spin, however it is wrong and I guess you refuse to face those facts. Oh well can't lead a horse to water and make them drink it.

least you know I have rights, even if you think they they are not any good.

Only one bring up the race card is you, I merely asked why you did and still you refuse to answer what race has to do with this, Like Obama I am mixed race, so am I white or red?

Good for goose but not the gander I guess.

Who says they are oppressed?

Please find a post where I have even said that. You won't by the way. I believe in free will and if you think you are oppressed then you have done enough to yourself to to stop it.

If the reagan thing is correct ( I have not verified that) then yep he did not have a mandate on that if it was the case either.

Oh conversation with you is over again on this issue as it is as pointless as the last time, when all you start doing is name calling and personal attacks. Have a good day.

"Like Obama I am mixed race, so am I white or red?"

Your claimed Blackfoot Sioux bloodline is so thin, we can see through it.
You're no more native than the average applicant for a Casino license.

bigmanny, don't forget about Jack's fellow teabagger and member of the defunct TCC, JIM L.

Jack you and Jim L, share the same values regarding unions etc. You are both former federal employees who receive a pension from the federal government Your views regarding other issues, role of the federal government, gun control etc. mirror those who support the Tea Party agenda. Just because you are not a member does not mean you do not support their ultra conservative views.

Wow you read minds just like Rob, who new lol

MaKernotataker,

Jim L, and Jack B, are retirees who rely on pensions from the federal government. They probably also receive Social Security from the federal government. They are two shining examples of takers.

JAT, You are so full of it lol. You have not a clue of what you are talking about. Don't know about Jim L, he can speak for himself. But I am not entitled to SS or medicare, I payed into my retirement like all federal workers do, under the old system I was in and those under the new system in place since 1984.

I worked like any other worker as a firefighter, military and many other jobs for my pension from digging ditches to running jack hammers roofing etc. It was far from layed back. I doubt you would know hard work at all. I wont go into what work I did on days off or now, so I can live how I planned in my youth.

Jealously of another persons stature is just plain ignorance of how to succeed.

Here's a novel idea JAT, as usual you take to these blogs only to deride people anonymously, that is cowardly in my opinion.

I have no problem with anonymous people discussions on issues, but lets face it that is not why you remain anonymous!

Try taking on the issues in the blog rather than just act like a 5 yearold who thinks another kid should not have the new superman comic book, just because he did chores at home that his parents gave him an allowance for. I suspect you never got an allowance or did a days work in your youth. lol

Jack B what work could you possibly be doing these days. You post nearly every hour of the day. Clearly this is how you occupy yourself all day and night long. How ironic that JimL and you seem to have the same schedule.

Have no clue why I am answering you BM. None of your business. when you post your real name, address, job etc. I will consider answering it lol.

I can say it is easy work for me and I love it. Nice to be my own boss and enjoy making my own hours,

PS your jealousy is showing alo lol.

Oh forgot BM, you are shut off now for answers to personal questions, they are on a need to know basis and your clearence is lower than whale poop. So I don't see it ever happening lol.

"I can also assume you are all under 5 feet 6 inches tall- I already know my height comment is pretty rude, but we also have a "small man syndrome" happening in RI."

I find it illuminating that you, a claimed compiler of data and statistics have finally used a number in one of your posts; as an insult. Here's a number for you,
I'm holding up a single digit - which one do you suppose that might be?

My guess..
http://allthingsd.com/files/2011/10/one-million-dollars.png

There's already a height tax, as anyone who rides coach has seen.

I believe the modern world is constantly inventing ways to injure tall people.
That, and the constant requests for weather updates are sufficient penalties.

Liar Liar pants on fire

Yea the funny bone, because you are so far out in your lies and lack of information on anything you have posted it is quite amusing and boggles the mind. lol

Typical of you as you continue to stay off topic and attempt to do personal attacks that are irrelevent to the subject at hand. But free Country, nothing says you can't be a liar and ignorant of facts,.

I must admit it is one thing you seem to be an expert at lol.

Seriously? Your asking that question while posting on an article about RI written by a man that lives in California? Too funny

@OldTownie -

that's irony. We don't get that around here.
We did once, but they made that guy move to Canada.

Dude, you're approaching a level of expertise on incoherence the rest of us only
imagine... what's it like, in your World? Are there Unicorns and Jet packs?

Unicorns WITH jetpacks? Awesome.

Let's double down on that strategy instead of applying actual Conservative principles -
like not wasting resources, training our populace for the future America, paving our
roads. It's as if today's Republican party can't be bothered to fund anything that
takes longer than 8 years to pay off.

I suppose that's the average life expectancy of their constituents...

" Why do you think having a degree in statistics and owning a business is so unbelievable. " Maybe it's the complete absence of numbers in your posts?

"Why do people like you harass people who who have built successful businesses."
Maybe it's because you appear paranoid?

"Who is to blame for your lack of success?" (A classic ad hominem attack.)
Maybe it's your inability to use logic?

Then there's this little gem -
"Stop blaming and start doing. I voted for Obama..."
Um-hmm. Sure. Shall I pass the Haldol?

Several excuses are always less convincing than one.
- Aldous Huxley

"Several excuses are always less convincing than one.
- Aldous Huxley
"

I'll take a wet bag over a wet blanket -- the Democratic hypermajority.

Wet bags can dry out. . .wet blankets must be tossed into the dryer -- OPen primaries, citizens redistricting, no more master lever.

If not Brian, then perhaps Travis Rowley, or maybe you? You have some spunk about you, Robert. . .

Blaming the customer hardly ever gets you elected.

Gee Robert, same as blaming the honest gun owner customer owning a perfectly legal product, bought from a legal business isn't it. lol

"Unions" do not equal workers. They represent "unions". I was a public school teacher, and the unions did not represent me. They took my money, without my permission, then refused to help me when I needed it. One of my mentor teachers refused to join the union, but they still took some of his pay.

Currently, I work at a supermarket, where union membership is required. I thought that I would have three months before I had to join -- not so. Even worse, they demanded a huge fee up front, along with monthly payments. Right now, it works out to half of my first months pay!

A Los Angeles Police Officer, and a GOP, told me that he supported Walker's reforms in Wisconsin. There are more people opposed to union tyranny within the ranks, but they are silenced. Tyrrany!

Unions are not representing workers anymore!

"You will have what you say!"

If some are so "stupid", then "wise up" and get people wise!

"Several excuses are always less convincing than one.
- Aldous Huxley "

On yea I am thinking about running, out of this State lol.

Authur you have to live here to understand where thie line, you can't fix stupid came from lol.

You have to realize that over 78 years on intrenchment id not going to change by trying to vote it out. It will take more than that> The control here is unbelievable and the corruption runs so deep it is generational.

Remember Autur, there comes a time when you reach the pinacle of stupidy and have to say, the heck with it, let them wallow in their own cause misery. (being a Non-Christian) I can say that lol.

Mr. Slapper, I am not sure how they teach mathematics in CA but in RI 10% + 10%= 20%. How is 20% of the GA going to control the other 80%. You do realize 80 is greater than 20?

Perhaps you should re-read his post JAT, thats not what he said. Let me explain.

"there you have the seeds of a political revolution" in other words you have 10% getting 10% getting another 10% etc, till you have control. It was pretty clear I thought lol.

LOL proves my case Maker@

Jack:

Exactly!

It's the Dems fault! Who are the real "losers" in Rhode Island?

The Dems, because they are bringing everyone else down.

It does not matter how much money any candidate or special interest may have. In San Diego and San Jose, California city voters have demanded pension reform by 70% ballot initiative.

Do not look at the numbers. What do you hope for, have faith to get it, and love every minute of getting it!

Sometimes it takes someone that knows nothing about our fair state to make suggestions that are common sense to some of us. If you ever make it here, we would love to buy you a coffee. The Patch has been very good to our organization.

RI Teabagger:

You are not "piratical" enough.

Prove me wrong, and make Providence providential once again.

The gop new? The most destructive group of me firsters this country has ever seen. We are all smart enough to figure out the relative proportionality of the debt/growth equation without a bunch of illiterates running around with sledge hammers.

John H Hedley wrote to @mike westman some brilliant points!

Way to go, John!

Now, go and tell about ten Rhode Islanders the same. Then tell those ten to tell ten people, and so on. . .and get the GOP back in the GA.

The "elitist myth" that the Dems have perpetuated against the GOP stops now!

Do you have any links for the info you shared, John H? More people need to know that their "representatives" only represent themselves.

Thanks again!

from austerity to abject depression

Even with "abject depression", the only way left is "up, up, up"!

Just flip ten constituencies, at least. Unions represent unions, not workers.

The conservatives in RI had a record for campaign donations in 2012.

gop does not represent the common man...only those who have a lot or think they do

As long as I have my wife, I have a lot
http://longballbennie.com/LongballsCart/Kisser-mjung.gif

Mike Westman wrote:

"gop does not represent the common man...only those who have a lot or think they do
...

Mike, that is patently untrue.

After 78 years of one-party Democratic autocracy, Public sector unions and bureaucrats have the lions' share of power, while wealth creators are punished and the poor are impoverished.

Lowering taxes on "the rich" is a win for all.

Raising taxes only raises more tax shelters, while passing on the costs to the consumers.

I have never read such uninformed comments so often repeated:

"Repeat a lie often enough. . "

It's time for the GOP to tell people the truth.

At this point, if anyone is in the pocket of Wall Street, it's the Democratic Party!

Obama won't even lead on breaking up big banks. Dodd-Frank only made them bigger.

And all of those tax increases in Obama-WaxmanCare are hitting -- not the rich, but the middle class!

C'mon, Mike, open your eyes and see what the Dems have done to RI!

Authur@ I believe Mike W@ has something in his eyes (a right and left foot from our braniac Finn) lol . Just saying

@mike westman

And the Democrats do represent the common man?

Tell me what common man does Sheldon Whitehouse represent? He owns a multi-milliondollar house out at the LillyPond down in the Gooseneck, drives around in the summer in a vintage French convertible car (in addition to the 60K Benz), and sails a Herreshoff S Boat (Average cost, restored: about 150K, requires 10K+ in yearly maintanence) and routinely races out of the NYYC. All that wealth despite having been a public servant for almost all of his adult life. Hmmmmm, yeah... definitely reeks of commonality. I bet you're just dumb enough to believe he feels you pain.

I do agree that RI is sort of an inverse relative to the rest of the country....but with the social miasma that the right projects and the thinly disguised kochian libertarian/bircher bs that the 'true believers' project...somehow I feel safer and less compromised with the status quo here....just remember RI is a service state and not a producer...has not been for decades...and how you function as a service state is not by clipping off the engine that keeps it afloat (albeit less efficiently than all of us wish) Those interloping carpetbaggers who are attempting to shove the drivel of the right down our throats in this forum see not what really exits here....only their destructive concepts of the modern state. I remember in the vietnam period the philosophy of some ....kill em all and let god sort it out....well we saw how well that worked. Short term gratification and long term internment.

Leave....you are right.

Now that you mention it John, he does have that "Lex Luther" look. lol

Jack:

No one needs kryptonite to make the point, but someone has to got to hold the GA accountable.

Raise all kinds of rebellion if you have to.

Who runs RI? It should not the Union-dominated Dems, that's for sure!

They would throw you out anyhow