save 15% right off the top wrote on January 30, 2009 08:02 PM: stop paying county paramedics for work they are not doing.

http://www.lvrj.com/news/10228251.html

psssst Annie wrote on January 30, 2009 05:17 PM: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MGT_cSi7Rs&eurl=http://sweetness-light.com/archive/watch-dems-defend-the-fanniefreddie-scam

Dee Dee wrote on January 30, 2009 04:19 PM: Stay away Jim Rogers! Understand? You single handedly destroyed the higher education system by your childish rants and cry baby behavior. We don't like you, we don't want you. Do not go to Carson City. Instead there's a place down under where you can join this skinny man who is all red and carries a pitch fork.

milfy2001 wrote on January 30, 2009 04:02 PM: jill,
you are forgetting the most important difference between a private sector job and a public sector job.
i VOLUNTARILY decide who gets my dollars when i buy goods and services in the private sector. I am FORCED to pay your salary through taxes even if i do not use that government service or think it can be done better by private enterprise (education being the prime example here). you only PAY my salary if you do business with my employer. you can go somewhere else if you don't like it. i have no choice and have to deal with you.

Johnathan L. Abbinett wrote on January 30, 2009 03:23 PM: O.K. "Rasputin" since it's a Super Bowl Weekend, let me put it this way - Independents don't get to affect who gets through the playoffs! But, they can have an effect on who wins in the General Election!

Otherwise, please accept my heart-felt apologies if I hurt your teeny, weeny feelings for criticizing you for spreading "erroneous" er, "stuff" - GEEEESHE!

"Annie" THANK YOU for reaffirming my original point about FACTS!

honesty wrote on January 30, 2009 01:20 PM: rasputin, i'm sorry, but believing the garbage you spread here is a sign that you are not thinking, so please don't claim to be ...

Annie wrote on January 30, 2009 12:41 PM: rasputin;

The deregulation of the financial industry was done by Republican controlled Congress (ss Gramm legislation 2000 and 1999); Clinton signed the d&*n things. Too, the SEC and Thrift agencies did not regulate in the 21st century and in fact did the opposite;

freddie and fannie?! Come one, this has been well debunked. The reregulation of these two agencies was stopped in the Republican controlled congress. Frist (R) wouldn't lets S.B 5 come to the floor for a vote. Why? Newt Gingrich was on freddie payroll as was McCain chief campaign manager...they worked to kill any additional law changes. A true fact is that Bush, by executive order, could have changed many of the issues with fannie/freddie but he didn't.

Bush in 2002 made it a goal for 5m new low income homeoners to get their own houses.....but bad lenders with bad practices.....

I note a lot of foreclosures in the most affluent areas all around the Valley, poor people weren't the one behind those mult-imillion dollar homes going belly up were they?

Jill wrote on January 30, 2009 12:33 PM: miraje,

Everybody pays everbody's salary. That is they way an economy works. State workers get paid from taxes that are set aside for certain services. Private industry workers are paid by people buying things or paying for services. I don't know what your occupation is, but your salary is paid by people in your community, just like mine. I haven't seen any difference in complaints between government workers and private industry. We all need our jobs. I face reality everyday. That reality is that I might not have a job tomorrow, even if we weren't in recession. That is the same reality you have. We all need to make decisions based on what is best for us. You spouting on about how you pay for my salary is just whining. I'm not asking you to pay more taxes so I will get a raise. All I expect is a little common courtesy and common sense.

Rasputin wrote on January 30, 2009 12:26 PM: Mr. Abbinett:

As enjoyable as it is to have a RESPECTFUL and informed conversation, my parting thoughts are these:

I *have* ample 'cahones' (sic) (that's 'cajones', by the way), thanks.

I do not need remedial, anvanced or expert level civics, thanks again. The reason I am an Independent is the utter corruption that's part of both of the major political parties in the US.

As for the primaries, I use my vote as my most potent weapon. And, when I find a worthwhile candidate, I *do* help them, both financially and with my volunteered time and efforts.

Perhaps, in the future, you'd do well to remember that name calling and snide platitudes are not conducive to an intelligent, reasonable conversation.

No_more_mooching wrote on January 30, 2009 12:19 PM: GOP & DEM are both BIG government parties. They have no real substantive differences. They both vote for gov-based solutions. One party tries to give taxpayer money to union members and ambulence chasers, and the other one likes to give it to government contractors. I prefer that the gov just flush the money down the toilet.

Please stop criticizing the NV GOP for their proposed budget cuts. Total NV gov spending (general fund + federal money) will still be pretty close to record levels. The spending figures rise whether we elect Bob Miller (D), Kenny Guinn (R), or Jim Fibbons (R).

GOP spending priorities might be a little different than the NEA-dominated DEMs, but they still want to spend as much money as current revenues permit. OK, so they want to spend a little less than the DEMs. The problem is not the tens of millions more that the DEMs want to spend, it's the BILLIONS that BOTH parties support.

A pox on both their houses.

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