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Re: Retreat on ending 'retreat' money

igliigli — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 20:38:58 -0400

The real taxpayer rip-off is the millions paid to the UNC coaches and the millions more paid the coaches where they are fired.
College sports, the biggest taxpayer and student rip-off around.

Re: Retreat on ending 'retreat' money

skeptical — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 19:41:33 -0400

What a man of the people! Thank you, Tony Rand. Your name will not be forgotten next election, not by me anyway. CROOK!! Just like the rest of my "representatives" in Raleigh.

Re: They have a deal

BitterEXdemocrat — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 08:40:55 -0400

"Democrackkks have a deal"

Spelled with 3 Ks to characterize and honor the ORIGINAL 'party' of SLAVERY, as they continue to ENSLAVE us daily, especially in the once great state of NC...

HOW can ANY NC citizen with an oz. of sense EVER VOTE for another vile democrackkk in this state?

Bring Um Home

AquaMan — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 06:28:09 -0400

Time to liquidate the US 'Empire of Bases' and adequately fund this countries school systems and hospitals.

Re: They have a deal

kevin_smith5 — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 00:08:03 -0400

Wow RaT, that was incredible partisan drivel. Come up with all those insults and non-sequitours on your own? Here's a thought....why don't you try soundng like someone who actually cares about fixing things instead of blamign things on your enemies and acting like "it's all _____ fault" somehow means anything you do is OK? PArtisan political hacks (on both sides) make me sick....

Repugs Ruined the Global Economy - they need to shut up.

Real_Americans_Think — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 23:16:39 -0400

The whiny rightwingers need to shut their pie holes. Thanks to the repugs, we had 8 years of Bush/Cheney and their cabal of incompetent loyalist cronies. As a result, they broke the world economy. Every penny in tax increase is to try to fix what the Repugs broke. Every job lost is because of the Repugs. So, if you are unhappy about the economy, blame the Repugs. And keep the fiscally iressponsible Repugs out of office. Thank God McCrory lost - if he was in office, he'd make massive cuts to spending while awarding tax breaks to corporations and the rich, just like every other incompetent selfish me-first Repug.

Re: They have a deal

PercyKution — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 22:11:40 -0400

If you voted, you can't complain. That means YOU were stupid enough to be fooled by at least one of the PoliPigs. It would be hilarious if they had an election and nobody showed up. Except the PoliPigs to vote for themselves of course.

Re: They have a deal

redneckpirate — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 21:54:46 -0400

I have an idea, what if our state government and Gov."Forest Gump " decided to save money and stop giving it away. What was this about giving a load of cash to the city of Dublin in Bladen County to have a peanut fest. after cutting state employees salaries. That is just one way our tax money is being wasted, money earned by the sweat of state employees.

Re: They have a deal

robdarich — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 20:47:55 -0400

Wiki'd: "A principle is a comprehensive and fundamental law..."
Dollar: "The principle of raising over $2 billion in taxes..."

He must've meant "Prospect", but it sounds funnier the way he says it (funny queer, not funny "ha ha".)

Not a word about corruption, fishing piers, economic development hose jobs? hmmmm, principle indeed.

Re: They have a deal

jesmyopinion — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 20:39:21 -0400

The liberal Democrats pay for all of their pet projects first, then they say they need to raise taxes in order to pay for priorities (such as education for our children), which is just a political stunt. Why don't they pay for education first if it truly is a priority, and then put the pet projects on the chopping block? And the $990 billion tax hike sound like when companies try to keep something below a certain amount, like $499 rather than just rounding off to $500 as it sounds better - I guess now they are going to brag they kept taxes to less than a billion dollars...

Non-Unicorns have a deal.

GiggleBox — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 19:20:29 -0400

Leprechauns didn't help either. Why don't you elect a Republican first, then we'll talk semantics.

re: The Democrats have a deal.

domewatcher — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 19:03:16 -0400

You wrote above: "Republicans, who have not participated in budget negotiations....."

So shouldn't the title be "Democrats have a deal?" It's not exactly like "we" came up with the deal?

Re: No parking on Capitol lawn

dahedgehog — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:00:38 -0400

In all seriousness, why has it taken them over 5 1/2 months to fix the freaking sidewalks! The construction really is a disgrace.

Re: Bills would make redistricting blind

alaskan1 — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 19:05:43 -0400

Impeach everyone in office!

Re: Bills would make redistricting blind

jesmyopinion — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 14:35:24 -0400

I bet a 2 year old can draw better lines than what we have now... And we would not have to pay them as much!