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Re: Happy Thanksgiving from Dome

Proctor — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 02:09:06 -0500

Dome's Thanksgiving lull is richly deserved. It is entirely appropriate that Dome itself be given the opportunity to be associated in the public mind with turkeys for a day or two out of the political calendar year. Turnabout is fair play.

But what about New Year's weekend? With the new schedule of caucuses and primaries from Iowa to New Hampshire, how is Dome going to find the time to enjoy some of the more intriguing football bowl matchups? Indeed, Dome may find itself in a journalistic position of being Johnny-on-the-spot, so to speak, when it comes to differentiating between voting percentages and passing yardage.

Re: Happy Thanksgiving from Dome

ethanperry — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 23:34:20 -0500

Politicians and bureaucrats can be thankful many of them will keep their jobs due to the apathy of a majority of voters.

Others can just be thankful we live in a society where hope is eternal.

Re: Hunt's role in Goodyear, Part II

wisdom4all — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 16:48:30 -0400

I don't think we should give Goodyear, Bridgestone or any other corporation our tax dollars. Goodyear has enough money to update their North Carolina plant. They are just playing our governor and general assembly for the "chumps" that they are. They have tax breaks, cheap labor and many other incentives to stay in North Carolina. We need our tax dollars for schools, roads, bridges and many other much more important things.

Re: Details of the compromise bill

ethanperry — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 06:08:48 -0400

Lawmakers, not just in NC, but around the country started this craze of giving businesses incentives to make jobs. They also expanded the global market with little or no protections for American citizens, which gave the greedy businesses more leverage to stick it to the people in this country.

All of this has been made worse by the greedy and corrupt politicians who are being bought at the expense of taxpayers.

Like the person who replied above says, you would think state government would have learned a lesson, but they haven't. With all the resources taxpayers provide Raleigh, there has to be some sense of what is right and wrong, but it seems not, and people keep electing the same old crowd.

What a mess!

Re: Details of the compromise bill

Wuptdo — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 23:19:44 -0400

I think I will send a copy of this in its final form to IBM, SAS, and ten other large corporations in North Carolina. Shouldn't they get a piece of this pie too. You would think after the Dell deal that State government would learn it lesson.