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Re: GOP 'invites' Perdue into budget fray

dahedgehog — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 11:30:42 -0400

Was the House tax package regressive? Was the House tax package progressive? Was the House tax package a combination of regressive taxes and progressive taxes?

The public would like to know!

Andy and Opie Episode #320: Lobbyist chicken!

domewatcher — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 07:55:02 -0400

Episode #320: Opie learns about lobbyist chicken.

Opie: Pa, I have been thinking about my new bike.
Andy: Yes, son.
Opie: I’m gonna fix up my old bike. Paint it up and tighten up all the bolts. And get a new chain.
Andy: That’s using your head, Op.
Opie: Pa, rather than raising taxes, why can’t the state fix up some of their old stuff rather than buying new stuff.
Andy: Op, sometimes government doesn’t think like that. They believe it is easier to raise taxes and buy new stuff rather than fixing up the old stuff. They place a higher value on spending rather than saving.
Opie: But if the working families have to get by with old stuff, why not state government?
Andy: When you get elected and get your fill of lobbyist chicken then it becomes easy to raise taxes. Lobbyist chicken has something in it that blinds you to the plight of the citizens who elected you.
Opie: You mean they get a snoot full like Otis?
Andy: It’s along those same lines. You see, son, many people benefit from tax increases. There is more money floating through the air and some people are able to just reach out and grab it…..but not us.
Opie: It just doesn’t seem right. And it don’t sound nothing like what I heard during the campaign.
Andy: Once the campaign is over then all those campaign promises are forgotten. Campaign promises don’t mean much. They are like fire flies……you see them and then they disappear.
Opie: But isn’t a promise a promise?
Andy: Not in government. In government a promise dissolves in lobbyist chicken gravy. It’s like using paint remover. Or like blowing bubbles. The bubbles look good just as soon as you blow them out. But then they disappear forever as mist rising into the sky over Wake County.
Opie: I sure would love to taste some of that lobbyist chicken.
Andy: Hush your mouth. You never want to be tempted by lobbyist chicken! You would never be the same. It’s stronger than white lightnin’ and more deadly than an acorn dollar.
Opie: But why do the elected officials eat lobbyist chicken?
Andy: Son, those lobbyists are slick. They use their wiles to entice the politicians. They put the lobbyist chicken bones under the desks in the General Assembly and the smell permeates the air. They rub lobbyist chicken grease on the microphones and when an elected official raises that microphone to their lips……they are forever within the grasp of the lobbyists. They’re smitten with the desire to raise taxes. You can smell the chicken bones throughout the chambers. You can smell it on the politicians’ clothes. It’s everywhere.
Opie: Have you ever smelled it, Pa?
Andy: Yes I have. You remember when Barney wrote the Governor a parking ticket? And then the Governor came to Mayberry to shake Barney’s hand. Well, Op, we had to air the place out for a week. The chicken smell was so pungent you could not hardly believe it. The flies were everywhere. People thought we had opened a chicken joint here at the jail. And mixed with that Cuban cigar smell….it was something awful!
Opie: Whew! Is there any antidote to lobbyist chicken?
Andy: The only known antidote is common sense or acid reflux.
Opie: I hope I have common sense and not acid reflux.
Andy: Op, did Ms. Crump give you some homework to do?
Opie: No, Pa, I ain’t seen Ms. Crump in three weeks time.
Andy: What, you haven’t seen her in three weeks?
Opie: No. She has some new teacher’s aides and assistants now. She spends all her time in the teacher’s lounge eatin’ chicken. They have to haul the chicken bones out with a forklift!

Join Opie and Andy again next time for another exciting episode where you may hear the Gov say: “Hey big man, let me hold a billion-five.”

Re: GOP 'invites' Perdue into budget fray

Gosh — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 20:29:59 -0400

As many times as I feel like.

That can get expensive for you bootstrap anti-government types. Don't you have to pay long distance charges on top of AOL by the minute?

Or did you let that big gov'mint man from the USDA on your land long enough to hook you up with rural broadband from the stimulus package before you shot him for trespassing?

Re: GOP 'invites' Perdue into budget fray

mountainman — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 20:29:57 -0400

Gosh, you don't run this blogg, though you do try. I am going to see if there anything that can be done about your remarks. You know the inbred,bucked toothed, etc.... I feel these comments are racial stereotyping.

Re: GOP 'invites' Perdue into budget fray

mountainman — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 20:20:11 -0400

As many times as I feel like.

Re: GOP 'invites' Perdue into budget fray

Gosh — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 20:16:10 -0400

One thing about bucked toothed mountainmen, they can finish what they start.

If you're referring to beer, that's apparent.

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How many more times are you planning on editing what I've already quoted?

Re: GOP 'invites' Perdue into budget fray

mountainman — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 20:11:12 -0400

Is that the best you come up with gosh??? I thought someone with a gaint brain,and no B**LS. could do better. You are not going to shut me up!!! Just because you think you are better than me, and that you have a superior brain because you live in the city. Thats just geography. You proved in your last post just how smart you are.

Re: GOP 'invites' Perdue into budget fray

Gosh — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 14:57:03 -0400

Submitted by mountainman on June 21, 2009 - 12:14pm.

Andy: republicans don't hate democracy son, just liberal left-wing nut jobs that are ruining the country

Opie: Why are they ruining the country Pa ?????

Andy: Well, you see son. They like to vote and sometimes they win. And what that means is every bucked toothed, inbred Mountainman with a fourth grade education aint always right.

Opie: They aint Paw?

Andy: No Ope, they aint. See, what we have here is a Democracy. And not all Mountainmen get that. See Ope, sometimes, a man cut off from things...

Opie: What kind of things Paw?

Andy: Oh, Ope, you know. Reality, election results, mainstream America, anything but Fox News... well, they get them some ideas, some real upside down thinking.

Opie: Gosh, Paw. Upside down Mountain men?

Andy: Well Ope [chuckle], not so much upside down as just real irrelevant and real loud about it.

Opie: I get it. Like a stuck pig before we eat 'im. Huh, Paw?

Andy: That's right Ope. Now you best get on an' do your homework lest you end up like one of them stuck pig Republicans.

Opie: I sure will Paw. I don't wanna be no irrelevant inbred.

Re: GOP 'invites' Perdue into budget fray

chafee40 — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 12:36:55 -0400

Ok,this comment is in the budget mix. My wife is a school psychologist for a county in NC. Anyone know what the Legislature has decided about the schools: shorten the school year, remove longevity pay, any news?

Re: GOP 'invites' Perdue into budget fray

mountainman — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 12:14:40 -0400

Andy: republicans don't hate democracy son, just liberal left-wing nut jobs that are ruining the country

Opie: Why are they ruining the country Pa ?????

Andy: Because of money and power son, they had rather rule in a socialist nation than to live in a democracy.

Opie: Pa, why does GOSH hate republicans???

Andy: well, he don't really, he just don't like folks with different oppinions from him.

Opie: Is Gosh a liberal democrat or a centrist, what are the defference???

Andy: I can't see no defference so for, except they are good at correcting folks spelling

Re: GOP 'invites' Perdue into budget fray

Gosh — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 12:07:36 -0400

Submitted by BitterEXdemocrat on June 21, 2009 - 11:48am.

America is NOT a democracy!

Good luck with that Infomercial.

Re: Opie & Andy Episode #319: "Opie learns about taxes."

BitterEXdemocrat — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 11:48:18 -0400

(because they are smart enough to KNOW that America is NOT a democracy!)

the word 'democracy' does NOT appear in the US nor the NC Constitutions!

'democracy' is known as MOB rule, with the controlling group bossing the defenseless.

of course, government screwl indoctrination centers PREACH about 'democracy' daily, which is a LIE to the students...

WHY do democrackkks have to LIE about everything and keep us so oppressed on the plantation of government SLAVERY?

Re: Opie & Andy Episode #319: "Opie learns about taxes."

Gosh — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 10:45:50 -0400

Opie: Paw, who's DOMEWATCHER?

Andy: I don't know Son. Nobody does.

Opie: But he don't like all those people voting for Governor Perdue, President Obama and all those Democrats does he?

Andy: No son, I reckon he don't.

Opie: Paw, is he a terrorist?

Andy: No son, he's a blogger.

Opie: Oh. Like a fly in the ointment?

Andy: Yes son.

Opie: A wrench in the machine?

Andy: Yes son.

Opie: A platitude in a reasoned debate?

Andy: Yes son, that's him.

Opie: Paw?

Andy: Yes son?

Opie: Why do Republicans hate democracy?

Re: GOP 'invites' Perdue into budget fray

dahedgehog — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 09:33:23 -0400

Wait a minute, bniolet. Republicans are accusing the House Dems of passing a package of "regressive" taxes, but is this actually the case? I know the package was a combination of many taxes, but didn't it include raising income taxes on the highest earners?

Actual reporting needed! Was the House's tax package regressive or not?

Re: GOP 'invites' Perdue into budget fray

domewatcher — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 08:28:12 -0400

I believe the current thinking concerning raising taxes can be found in a line from the movie, "The Magnificent Seven." (perhaps the finest movie ever made)

In the movie Calvera (played by Eli Wallach) says:

"If God didn't want them sheered,
He wouldn't have made them sheep."

Looks like we are going to be sheered again and it will be a little closer than last time. I hope they know if they cut too close we will die.....and then what will they do next year?