tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34974565044933294362024-03-07T21:11:39.173-06:00MN Tax WasteMark from Minnesota Tax Wastehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02348665399988147613noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3497456504493329436.post-91496936009837355782011-07-01T17:29:00.000-05:002011-07-01T17:29:20.120-05:00Minnesota Socialist Style<a href="http://www.bloggerschoiceawards.com/blogs/show/106242/?utm_source=bloggerschoiceawards&utm_medium=badge&utm_content=bestpoliticalblog"><img alt="My site was nominated for Best Political Blog!" border="0" src="http://www.bloggerschoiceawards.com/images/bca_badges/bca_badge_bestpoliticalblog.gif" /></a> <br />
Well I thought I would be able to celebrate this 4th of July remembering all the liberty we have and the freedom that we never take for granted, or do we? It seems that our votes don't count anymore here in Minnesota. We have judges that have taken that away from us. <br />
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The State of Minnesota is shutting down because of the people we elected to keep it running, but what has happened is that they can't seem to get it together and work things out. So what happens? The Courts of Minnesota have taken up the cause of running this State, not the people we elected, the Governor nope, State Senators nope, State Legislators nope, a Supreme Court Chief Justice Kathleen Blatz will be running the State of Minnesota!<br />
This should make you mad as HELL! Be it at Democrat, Republican, or Independent they all need to step up and do the dam job they were elected to do! I feel like I am living in a Socialist State when one Judge is making choices that others should have done!<br />
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It amazes me that people are fighting and blaming one party or another, but fail to see that their rights as Americans are being taken away and we are not doing anything about it! We (you) should be so pissed off at our system that you pick up the phone and call Mark Dayton I would call him the Governor but I feel that is a title that should be earned.<br />
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</div>Mark from Minnesota Tax Wastehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02348665399988147613noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3497456504493329436.post-57813074579926112962011-03-15T18:19:00.002-05:002011-03-15T18:19:43.243-05:00State Sen. Terri Bonoff Democrat District 43 from Lake Minnetonka Wants Jesus Out of Senate Prayers!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="http://www.bloggerschoiceawards.com/blogs/show/106242/?utm_source=bloggerschoiceawards&utm_medium=badge&utm_content=bestpoliticalblog"><img alt="My site was nominated for Best Political Blog!" border="0" src="http://www.bloggerschoiceawards.com/images/bca_badges/bca_badge_bestpoliticalblog.gif" /></a><br />
<h1 style="line-height: 22.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">State Sen. Terri Bonoff has come out to say that she wants Jesus out of the Minnesota Senate Prayer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When I was reading this I could not feel anything but anger at her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For too long people like her have tried to take our right to prayer out of our schools and now she has moved to take the word Jesus out of our State Capitol.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></h1><h1 style="line-height: 22.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We sent Sen. Bonoff an email to interview her, or get her comments on this but have not heard back from her or her staff.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are wondering why such a simple name could give her such a pain that she would want it removed from prayer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She is Jewish and is well aware of what the name Jesus means to her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></h1><h1 style="line-height: 22.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The name “Jesus” in her own words makes her feel uncomfortable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How could one mans name make a person feel so uncomfortable that they would want to have it removed from prayers?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I got to thinking how I would feel if a group wanted to use their right as Americans to pray and what I would do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I would leave the room if the prayers or the person whom they were praying to.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s it in a nut shell, just leave the room and go do my own thing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This self righteous Senator wants to force her views on religion and the state down our throats with out a fight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thinking all along that we would lay down and let her take our right as Americans to pray.<o:p></o:p></span></h1><h1 style="line-height: 22.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The last time I checked Senator, the United States Constitution gives us that right, and no one will take that right away from us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Could we Senator use another name in place of Jesus?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How about Buddha or Mohamed? Or would those names make you feel uncomfortable?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If a Rabbi would come and pray would that be ok in your book?<o:p></o:p></span></h1><h1 style="line-height: 22.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I am a big believer in ones right to pray, and believe that the state has already taken many of our religious and personal rights away over the past 25 years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But Sen. Bonoff has gone too far in taking more of these rights away because one mans name makes her feel uncomfortable.<o:p></o:p></span></h1><h1 style="line-height: 22.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Sen. Bonoff do you want to know what makes us feel uncomfortable?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>People unable to find work, taxes going up, State Senators thinking of funding a stadium as our roads get more and more pot holes, our homes in foreclosure, </span><st1:state><st1:place><span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Minnesota</span></st1:place></st1:state><span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> school children failing, but the schools want more money!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt;">These are just a few of the things that make us uncomfortable. <o:p></o:p></span></h1><h1 style="line-height: 22.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt;">How about stop caring about what’s important to you and take care of the voters who put you in office!<o:p></o:p></span></h1><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div></div>Mark from Minnesota Tax Wastehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02348665399988147613noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3497456504493329436.post-66405771755187451652011-02-22T21:03:00.000-06:002011-02-22T21:03:45.232-06:00The State Union Workers in Minnesota Stealing From Taxpayers<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="http://www.bloggerschoiceawards.com/blogs/show/106242/?utm_source=bloggerschoiceawards&utm_medium=badge&utm_content=bestpoliticalblog"><img alt="My site was nominated for Best Political Blog!" border="0" src="http://www.bloggerschoiceawards.com/images/bca_badges/bca_badge_bestpoliticalblog.gif" /></a><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">With all the Union rallies going on in </span><st1:state><st1:place><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Wisconsin</span></st1:place></st1:state><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"> we need to look at what the State Union Workers are doing to the tax payers in </span><st1:state><st1:place><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Minnesota</span></st1:place></st1:state><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"> and what they consider fair.</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Lets take a look at what mape.org </span></b><st1:state><st1:place><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Minnesota</span></b></st1:place></st1:state><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> Association Of Professional Employees wrote in their website today </span></b><st1:date day="22" month="2" year="2011"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Tuesday February 22, 2011</span></b></st1:date><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span class="apple-style-span"><u><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Schools are closed. Workers, high school and college students, community members, religious groups and concerned citizens have dropped their daily lives to rally against Gov. Scott Walker’s Draconian attacks on middle-class jobs and his proposal to strip </span></u></span><st1:place><span class="apple-style-span"><u><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Wisconsin</span></u></span></st1:place><span class="apple-style-span"><u><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> teachers, nurses, social workers and other public employees of their collective bargaining rights</span></u></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Let’s read what they are saying.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><u><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">We the </span></u></span><st1:place><span class="apple-style-span"><u><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Union</span></u></span></st1:place><span class="apple-style-span"><u><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"> are having our teachers call in sick and having Doctors give them fake sick notes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are telling you this because even thought you the voters of Wisconsin elected a new Governor and Senators to clean up the waste, we think you the voters are wrong and we are going to do everything we can to take your votes and throw them in the trash.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We don’t care about the financial mess that both parties got us into and we just want more money.<o:p></o:p></span></u></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt;">The Unions in </span><st1:state><st1:place><span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt;">Wisconsin</span></st1:place></st1:state><span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt;"> are right now paying nothing into their retirement and not a dime into their healthcare.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How about the private workers? They are paying about 25% into their healthcare and retirement, which is not right.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But still the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">unions want more</b> of the tax dollars.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 7.5pt; mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt;">Gov. Walker’s proposal would require government employees to contribute 5.8 percent of their wages to their pensions and 12.6 percent toward health care costs. Both figures are still quite generous; on average, private sector workers pay about twice that. Those add up to a combined pay cut of 7 to 11 percent. This is a small price to pay to bring the budget back in order.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 7.5pt; mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt;">Government Unions make 32% higher income than their private counterpart, so with the cut that is being asked of the unions they still come out ahead.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt;">People are also learning that, nationwide, unionize government workers have 31 percent higher salaries than non-unionized government workers and receive 68 percent more in benefits. Even with an 11-percent benefit cut, the unionized portion of </span><st1:state><st1:place><span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt;">Wisconsin</span></st1:place></st1:state><span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt;">’s government workforce would still cost more for taxpayers to maintain than in other states.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 7.5pt; mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Last year KSTP did a story on the City of </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt;">St Paul</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt;"> workers and the work they did.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The work consisted of going on long breaks and milking the clock.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">were unions milking the tax payers</b> (your money) If this was done in the private sector these workers would have been fired on the spot.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 7.5pt; mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Last year in </span><st1:state><st1:place><span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt;">Minnesota</span></st1:place></st1:state><span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt;"> we had a nurses strike that the union said was about the patients. How strange it was when the union got their money, not another word about the patients.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 7.5pt; mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>When illegal immigrants were caught by ICE last fall in </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt;">St. Paul</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt;"> the union was right there to fight for their rights.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What they did was sell out on the American worker.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 7.5pt; mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>When </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt;">Detroit</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt;"> was having financial problems and went to the unions for concessions, the unions would not budge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt;">Detroit</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt;"> has an 18% unemployment rate thanks to the unions.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 7.5pt; mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt;">So this is what is coming to the </span><st1:state><st1:place><span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt;">Minnesota</span></st1:place></st1:state><span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt;"> taxpayers, get ready to open your wallets to help pay all the healthcare costs for Government Unions while you struggle to pay for a Doctors visit for yourself or your child.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 7.5pt; mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt;">The unions had their time and they did a great job in helping the workers of </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt;">America</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt;">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But the Unions have sold out to the dollar and the turned their back on the American workers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Unions have turned from shaking your hand to giving you and the American public a shake down of our wallets.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 7.5pt; mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: .5in;">Again if you know of any tax waste please email us at mark@mntaxwaste.com</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div></div>Mark from Minnesota Tax Wastehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02348665399988147613noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3497456504493329436.post-27394209983653762932011-02-01T17:18:00.001-06:002011-02-01T17:26:53.730-06:00Part 2 Level 2 Sex Offenders and Rep. Tony Cornish, a Republican from Lake Crystal MN<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="http://www.bloggerschoiceawards.com/blogs/show/106242/?utm_source=bloggerschoiceawards&utm_medium=badge&utm_content=bestpoliticalblog"><img alt="My site was nominated for Best Political Blog!" border="0" src="http://www.bloggerschoiceawards.com/images/bca_badges/bca_badge_bestpoliticalblog.gif" /></a>Sometimes we see something that an elected official says and we take a shot at him or her because we think it’s a waste of your money. We did that last week with Rep. Tony Cornish and after a few emails back and forth, we came to the understanding he is a straight shooter when it comes to common sense.<br />
<div class="MsoNormal"> We still disagree with him on how he wants to spend your Tax Dollars on Level 2 Sex Offenders, but sometimes we need to see beyond that to see what else a person brings to the table. </div><div class="MsoNormal"> Rep. Tony Cornish answered our questions without spin, and without a I will get back to you later answer. We have to say he caught us with a left hook on his answers and not only knock me out but a few others here as well.</div><div class="MsoNormal">Here are our questions and his answers.</div><ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">How do you want to help business in </span><st1:state><st1:place><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Minnesota</span></st1:place></st1:state><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">? IE. Taxes<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<ul type="circle"><li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 1.0in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Lower em<o:p></o:p></span></li>
</ul><li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">What do you want to do about the Illegal Immigration problem in </span><st1:state><st1:place><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Minnesota</span></st1:place></st1:state><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">?<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<ul type="circle"><li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 1.0in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Enforce em and stop em<o:p></o:p></span></li>
</ul><li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">What do you want to do about people that take advantage of our Welfare System? IE. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Do you think there should be a time limit on childless adults who are able to work but get welfare for 5 years plus.</b><o:p></o:p></span></li>
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</ul></ul><div class="MsoNormal"> We have sent out many emails to our <st1:state><st1:place>Minnesota</st1:place></st1:state> elected officials, and only once have we gotten a straight answer from them. We also know most people would like an answer with some kind of plan attached to it. We will try to see if we can get more from Rep. Cornish, but we are impressed by what we have gotten today from him.</div><div class="MsoNormal"> </div><div class="MsoNormal"> Remember if you see tax waste in your city, county, or municipalities please email us, you don’t even have to include your name. mark@mntaxwaste.com</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">With over 200 Level Three Sex Offenders on the Minnesota Dept of Corrections Web Site, Rep. Tony Cornish, a Republican and the </span><st1:place><st1:placetype><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Lake</span></st1:placetype><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><st1:placename><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Crystal</span></st1:placename></st1:place><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> police Chief wants to add more than 1200 new people to the list. The cost of this would be around $250,000.00 to start and more than likely hit around $750,000.00 in just a few years.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">This is no more than a <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">political move, it’s a scare tactic</b> used by politicians when they are running for office or need something to show them in a good public view. We sent Rep. Cornish an email asking him the real cost and why is he doing this. We have not received an answer, and we don’t expect one. To put these offenders on a web site is not just paying a person to sit there and type names. It would involve hundreds of State and Local employees. Most Police Departments are working on small budgets, but we are sure Rep Cornish would not mind taking more of your money to pay them<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">This is just one of those many State politicians who are not in it for the job of representing the people, but a politician who runs on <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">W.I.F.M. What’s In It For Me</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Rep Cornish, <o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">We are wondering what you are really doing for the voters of </span><st1:state><st1:place><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Minnesota</span></st1:place></st1:state><span style="font-size: 12pt;">? What are you doing to bring jobs to </span><st1:state><st1:place><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Minnesota</span></st1:place></st1:state><span style="font-size: 12pt;">? What are you doing about the growing Illegal Immigration problem in </span><st1:state><st1:place><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Minnesota</span></st1:place></st1:state><span style="font-size: 12pt;">? What are you doing about Taxes in </span><st1:state><st1:place><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Minnesota</span></st1:place></st1:state><span style="font-size: 12pt;">? What are you doing to bring business to </span><st1:state><st1:place><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Minnesota</span></st1:place></st1:state><span style="font-size: 12pt;">? What are you doing about Education in </span><st1:state><st1:place><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Minnesota</span></st1:place></st1:state><span style="font-size: 12pt;">?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The Minnesota Dept of Corrections is doing a good job, please do yours. That job is to help us in this horrible economy not to think you can scare us. We are scared enough about where our next check is coming from and how we are going to feed our family.<o:p></o:p></span></div><a href="http://www.bloggerschoiceawards.com/blogs/show/106242/?utm_source=bloggerschoiceawards&utm_medium=badge&utm_content=bestpoliticalblog" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; color: black; font-size: 16px;"> </span><img alt="My site was nominated for Best Political Blog!" border="0" src="http://www.bloggerschoiceawards.com/images/bca_badges/bca_badge_bestpoliticalblog.gif" /></a></div>Mark from Minnesota Tax Wastehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02348665399988147613noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3497456504493329436.post-60858781702944703632011-01-27T18:03:00.000-06:002011-01-27T18:03:01.171-06:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="http://www.bloggerschoiceawards.com/blogs/show/106242/?utm_source=bloggerschoiceawards&utm_medium=badge&utm_content=bestpoliticalblog" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="http://www.bloggerschoiceawards.com/images/bca_badges/bca_badge_bestpoliticalblog.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="My site was nominated for Best Political Blog!" border="0" src="http://www.bloggerschoiceawards.com/images/bca_badges/bca_badge_bestpoliticalblog.gif" style="cursor: move;" /></a> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"> It seems that there are so many things we don't need in Minnesota and as I was going over the news this morning I came across all of these items. I ask you do we as taxpayers need any of these or more important need to have OUR money spent on them.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #262626; line-height: 21px;">In the current budget that ends June 30, 2011, this bill gives the Minnesota Management and Budget commissioner the directive to reduce state agency spending by $200 million to prevent a </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 21px;"><b>“Christmas in June”</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #262626; line-height: 21px;"> for agencies that spend excess money in order to protect their total level of funding.</span> </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"> What that means is these State Agencies are going to spend more to get more. Yes they are going to spend more of OUR money so they can get more of OUR money!! Sounds like BS to me </span></div>Mark from Minnesota Tax Wastehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02348665399988147613noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3497456504493329436.post-43866265740805826572011-01-26T15:50:00.000-06:002011-01-26T15:50:08.069-06:00President Barack Obama’s State of the Union Address<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>As I sat back and heard our Presidents speech last night I was really taken back by what he had to say.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He came across as sincere, honest and forthright to me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just about everything he said I agreed with, the anger, name calling, killings just made sense to me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I took a good hard look at that this morning, as I was reading the comments on WCCO, Fox, Star and Tribune, CNN, and KSTP.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I looked at what people were writing and what I have written in the past.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was not that person who I thought I was, I was also writing the name calling and we are better than you crap just as I saw from the others.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I went to my email and it was full of the same kind of hate and disgust for my fellow Americans.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My first email was from the American Tea Party asking me to call Michelle Bachmann and tell her she does not speak for the Tea Party?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I sent them an email back to take me off their list.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My second was from the Minnesota GOP telling me how wrong and evil President Obama is.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My third was from the Minnesota DFL telling me to support our President on all fronts, and not the Minnesota GOP.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I also sent them emails to take me off their lists.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yes we need to watch where our money goes, and cut back on the spending.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think all parties would agree to that, but this hatred for each other has to stop.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">If there is one wonderful thing that I got out of the Presidents speech last night it was we need to come together.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We need to some how come together and work this out, or we will fail as <st1:country-region><st1:place>America</st1:place></st1:country-region>, not Americans but <st1:country-region><st1:place>America</st1:place></st1:country-region>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our great country will go down in the history books as not the Great Society, but as the Worst Society.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">We as a country have come so far where only white men ruled to a place where anyone can become President.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We came from working the ground with a horse to feeding the world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We came from having a wagon train on the <st1:state><st1:place>Nebraska</st1:place></st1:state> fields to putting a man on the moon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We came from hitting the beaches of <st1:country-region><st1:place>France</st1:place></st1:country-region> to helping the survivors of an earthquake in <st1:country-region><st1:place>Haiti</st1:place></st1:country-region>. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">We have done so much when we come together, and yet we push each other away when it comes to helping this country grow as a nation.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">I can’t set here and not wonder what our founding fathers would think of us at this point in our history.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do they look at us as little children crying for what’s in it for me? or do they look at us as failures for what we have become.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ether choice I am not proud to be part of, but I have been both.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">When I was a child growing up in <st1:city><st1:place>St Paul</st1:place></st1:city> my father always told me people have something to say and it’s important to hear them, today I think I really heard him.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">I don’t know where to start, but I do know this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I will listen more to what others have to say, and I don’t mean just glance over it but to take it to heart as what my fellow Americans mean.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><br />
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