1. Government fundamentally, has become, along with their Union friends, a Large Criminal Organization and Conspiracy Like all Criminals, they feed off those who Earn their money. Yes, they want to raise Taxes and those who resist are their Enemies. They will do whatever they can to raise Taxes and if that means usurping the Rights and going against the will of the People, they certainly will do it. Government looks upon the People as an Entity to be harvested. It is time to strike back at those who are destroying us. It is time to Vote the Criminals out. It is time for the Changing of the Guard!

Posted by Daniel at February 4, 2010 09:53 AM

2. Government meeting with the beneficiaries of their largess? SHOCKING!

Nothing will change in this state until the people wake up and stop electing more of the same every year.

Posted by Palouse at February 4, 2010 10:46 AM

3. I can't tell if FredW is serious or if he is pretending to be a conservative. Regardless, I suggest he should be banned and his comments removed from this site.

Sound Politics administrators, I strongly suggest moderating every comment on this site. The left has used astro turf techniques repeatedly in the past. We shouldn't provide a forum for them. Let them build their own websites with their own readership.

Posted by Jonathan Gardner at February 4, 2010 11:00 AM

4. Jonathan: there's no point to moderating every comment, and I am only removing FredW's comments because he explicitly encouraged violent criminal acts.

Certainly he's a liberal faker, but I won't moderate someone for that. If someone wants to make himself look dumb, more power to him.

Posted by pudge at February 4, 2010 11:56 AM

5. Pudge, for those who still don't get it---this is exactly why Tim Eyman has supporters. He is pretty much the only voice taxpayers have working specifically for them.Obviously, these politicians aren't.

Posted by Michele at February 4, 2010 02:28 PM

6. Your Leaders Dislike You

The feeling's mutual...:)

Posted by Shanghai Dan at February 4, 2010 04:42 PM

7. The Republicans will do the same damn thing. It's just that the D's have the media to cover it all up.
I've seen many D's just as if not more arrogant as Roach. The difference is they are protected mainly because of their votes on "diversity" and the "diverse" press.

Posted by Smedley Ogelthorpe at February 4, 2010 09:15 PM

8. yeah, all those religious organisations, community clinics and elderly services are corporate special interest groups...

seriously pudge, you think the signatures on the evergreen petition DON'T represent corporate self interest? i promise they do.

smedley,
conservative whining about media is hilarious and ironic... how much free airspace has blethen given republicans? how much funding? you mean to say that if no one spreads propaganda and lies like faux noise, then they're beholden to the Ds? christ, conservatives are dumb.

tim eyman has supporters? yes, as a corporate whore, he makes his living of the donations of a few corporate douchenozzles. maybe one day he'll actually 'speak for the people of washington' and not the corporate interests he kowtows too - but i hardly doubt it.

Posted by mike at February 5, 2010 09:57 AM

9. mike: yeah, all those religious organisations, community clinics and elderly services are corporate special interest groups

Correct.

seriously pudge, you think the signatures on the evergreen petition DON'T represent corporate self interest?

The difference, of course, is that most of the people who do NOT want taxes increased are the ones who are net PAYERS TO the government. Most of the ones who DO want taxes increased are the ones who are net TAKERS FROM the government.

That is why I, properly and correctly, called them "corporate special interests who get government subsidies." You may dislike my using words that, to your mind, compare the teacher's union to Boeing ... but that's the point: they're not much different (except in that the teacher's union represents a much greater conflict of government interest, being that its members are government employees).

Posted by pudge at February 5, 2010 10:29 AM

10. The difference, of course, is that most of the people who do NOT want taxes increased are the ones who are net PAYERS TO the government.
if you are going to throw out trash like this, at least back it up. that's an asinine assumption there. lots of people, especially in conservative rural areas, don't want taxes raised - and they're not 'net payers' at all. In fact, the more conservative areas of the state ARE the 'net takers'

and are you suggesting that businesses don't get government subsidies? are you saying microsoft hasn't received billions of dollars in taxpayer giveaways? boeing hasn't? weyerhauser hasn't? at least be consistent, pudge... there is just as much conflict of interest in the anti-group as in the pro-group.

Posted by mike at February 5, 2010 01:39 PM

11. mike: Thanks for showing us you can't read.

Posted by pudge at February 5, 2010 01:48 PM

12. I really could not care less if our leaders like the fact that they are supposed to be working for us not against us!!

Posted by Laurie at February 6, 2010 10:50 AM

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