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Comment on Bring on the discussion

j suggs — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:35:01 GMT

honest debate and Gov in the same sentence. Laughable

Comment on Bring on the discussion

Johnny Hiott — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:14:27 GMT

An excellent idea and chance for the citizens to see first hand how or if these governmental officials think.

Comment on Skinning the Cat a Different Way

John — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 22:37:14 GMT

Voting is a RIGHT, not a privilege. Voter fraud is a laughably small occurrence--look up the actual numbers. Republicans introduce these bills because they know it discourages young voters and poor voters... i.e., those less likely to vote for them.

Comment on We Need a Third Political Party

Vicki Kennedy — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 17:43:01 GMT

Thank you, Tom Campbell, for the column "Arguing for less government is politically popular but unrealistic." (Jan. 14, 2012) You've expressed what I've believed for a long while, and said it more clearly and concisely than I could. When politicians make a knee-jerk attack against "big government," they forget that government is not a separate life form; government is a collection of people who are supposed to be working together for the common good. Scratch the average "government abuse" or "government waste" situation, and what you'll find are self-serving individuals who enrich themselves at the taxpayer's expense. That's a character problem, not an institutional problem. Conservative politicians who staunchly maintain that "government waste" is the big problem would never in a million years support closing a military base or VA facility or doing away with lowe-interest federal disaster loans that affect their constituents--even when unbiased studies show individual cases where these programs are neither efficient nor productive. Pork in my district is called "job creation." Pork in the other guy's district is called "too much government."
Thanks again for your insights.

Comment on We Need a Third Political Party

Anonymous — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 20:59:54 GMT

Don't waste scarce brainpower on political parties or groupings. thats no progress by committee. what we need in this country is something new...NO POLITICAL PARTIES, people run for office, funding of every person running and term limits of one 6 year term. no seniority in congress and straight majority votes to pass things. or would that be just too too honest.

Comment on Lessons learned from Tuesday's elections

Robert L Lowry — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 17:59:52 GMT

RIGHT ON !!!!!!!!R>LOWRY< CARY, N>C>

Comment on Good Riddance to Continental

Jimmy — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 09:24:12 GMT

The incentives here were a drop in the bucket compared to the Spirit Aero deal down at the GTP. The Spirit package is some serious money.

Comment on We Need a BHAG Goal

Andrew Lee — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 15:16:28 GMT

I think this is a wonderful idea!

Let's all start stacking our extra nickels in the corner, so when the current North Carolina, SSN 777, gets decommissioned in twenty years, we won't have a crisis to bring her home, lol.

On a more serious note, I agree with Jesse, and plan to hitch my independent wagon to Herman Cain's star!

Comment on Lessons learned from Tuesday's elections

Andrew Lee — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 14:38:11 GMT

It seems that the voters in Wake County have forgotten the very poor choices made by the Democrats over the last 30 years prior to the Republican controlled school board.

If a person puts one crab in a bucket it will climb out easily. When the person puts two or more crabs in a bucket, they will pull each other back down into the bucket while trying to climb out, and none escape.

I would like to proclaim the election that put control of the Wake school board back in the hands of the Democrats as the "crabs-in-a-bucket-election".

The Republican controlled school board took bold, new, and refreshing steps to get Wake County out of the "30-year-bucket". All indicators show that their policies are working, and that they were close to escaping from the bucket.

Now, the voters have ignorantly thrown Democrat crabs back in, and they will surely pull Wake County Schools back down into the "30-year-bucket" with them.

It was a very sad election day for the parents and children of Wake County.

Comment on We Need a BHAG Goal

NC Blogger — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 13:22:28 GMT

Doug, I came from Greenville, where the very first Hardee's opened in 1961. We didn't have McDonalds for several years after that.