phinsup

Locke annoys me, the guy has been in office for how long? and he is so useless the only things I have heard is he's had a kid or two, went to china on our dime and has bats in the governers mansion.



But in the state staying below the radar is enough to get you re-elected again.

isamu

I honestly don't know how Locke got re-elected either. I thought for sure he was out in the last election. I am not that much into politics but isn't our state govt. constantly unable to agree on anything, getting nothing done in the process? Isn't our state in a billion dollar debt right now, reqardless of the fact we have some of the highest gas, tobacco, sales (for those states who have it I guess), and property taxes? Hasn't Gov. Locke been lobbying for higher gas taxes, toll bridges and budget cuts to try and get the state out of this debt? I believe now they have been talking about closing all the parks to try and save money. The only reason they want to close the parks is to **** people off and get their attention. Keeping the parks open will be used as a ploy to persuade people to pay more tax at the pump or register because hey, everybody loves parks right? Unfortunately all of the new tax money will be used elswhere, the parks will remain open only on a temporary bases (because the gov. knows this is a good way to save money) and the user fee will double from what it is now. So basically it will reel you right in to getting fucked in the *** for a long time.

You know whenever I here about this light rail idea on television or in the paper I just get confused. If I am correct didn't they ok the idea of building a billion dollar light rail system in Pierce and King county but don't have a plan yet? Also aren't they still looking at expanding the monorail even though they are going to build a completely separate light rail system? Why don't they fork out the money for engineers who have experience with rail systems such as from Japan, and have them create a rail system that will not be outdated by the time its built?

Gosh, I didn't even comment on the seatbelts :unsure:

wdwflash

I work for the state and see rampent waste all of the time! It makes me sick to see how the tax dollars are wasted. Chairman Locke is going to try to shove this useless gas tax up our collective kazoos one way or another.

The department I work for, in 1978 had 56 people in the office, they now have over 300 with just about the same work load there was in 1978!

As to the light rail. When you have King county's tax to the max Ron Sims in charge you know the tax payers are going to get a Fu*king. Bangkok, Thailand(which is a third world country), has a nice, new monorail system. Looks like a third world city is better than Seattle(home to world leader Microsoft and all the other yuppy companies!)

By the way, in Bangkok, if you ride a motorcycle you have to use a helmet(if you don't, and you get pulled over, you just give the cop some money. No attorney,judge, court or insurance company involved. Who's system is better!) If you get stopped for speeding(almost never because people drive CRAZY over there!!), or you have an accident you just hand out money on the spot(the worse the crime the more money and people you have to pay) Also a lot of business deals are done on just your word. If your word is no good, you could be dead!(all without the use of attorneys, who's system is better!)

On the subject of attorneys. I was on a beach in Thailand talking to about ten college students, and I asked them what they were going to become. None of them said attorney. I asked them why none were going to be lawyers because in america almost 50% of them would have said lawyer. They said thay didn't want to be an attorney because in Thailand they shoot attorneys.(they were not kidding!)

Do you know what an attorney and a ***** have in common? They are the scum of the earth until you really need one!