I just sent the following email to Tim Eyman. Think he’ll accept my olive branch?
From: “David Goldstein” david@horsesass.org
Date: Wed Feb 23, 2005 12:38:53 AM US/Pacific
To: “Tim Eyman” insignia@greekwatch.com
Subject: Please join me in supporting SHJR 4205Dear Tim,
I can’t tell you how much it saddens me that we haven’t been able to develop a more constructive, working relationship. Indeed, some might even describe us as downright adversarial.
For example, you sponsor an ill-conceived, boneheaded initiative, and I oppose it. You send out a deceptive, misleading press release, and I refute it. You cook the books to hide the fact that you are using initiative campaign contributions to fund your personal compensation committee, and I file a complaint with the Public Disclosure Commission.
And then, of course, there was that whole “Tim Eyman is a Horse’s Ass” initiative. While I’m sure we both had a good laugh at that one, I’m guessing we were probably on opposite sides of the issue. (I was for it.)
But I think I have finally found an issue we can both support.
This week the state House passed by a 73-25 margin, a constitutional amendment that would eliminate the 60% super-majority required by local school levies. The amendment faces a tougher challenge in the Senate, but if it passes by two-thirds, it will be sent before the people for their approval.
As a self-proclaimed champion of direct democracy, you have time and again admonished our elected officials and judges to honor the will of the people. In defense of your own initiatives — even the really, really stupid ones — you have argued that voters, not politicians, should be trusted to choose the kind of government they want. Thus I am confident that you will agree with me that the super-majority amendment can and should be decided directly by the voters… for to contend otherwise would be hypocritical.
That’s why I urge you to join me in asking the Senate to approve SHJR 4205. I suggest we draft a joint letter, instructing our respective supporters to contact their state senator, and demand that the people be given the opportunity to decide this important issue for themselves. Since I happen to have a copy of your list, I’d be happy to directly email your supporters on your behalf.
This is a terrific opportunity, not just to strike a blow for direct democracy, but for you to jump-start your stalled initiative career by supporting something that actually has a chance of passing. You’ve had two consecutive years without an electoral victory, and you’ve got to admit, this year’s performance audits initiative was dead on arrival. (Oh man… what were you thinking?) This is a chance for you to briefly be relevant again.
Given the opportunity to work together, I believe we can make a positive impact on all of Washington’s citizens, as well as learn a little something from one another. For example, I could teach you how to directly answer a reporter’s questions… and I understand you could teach me a few creative accounting tricks.
I look forward to our new partnership, and eagerly await your reply.
Affectionately yours,
David
Goldy–
Why don’t you send Tim one of your BIG BINDER’s?
That ought to scare the wits out of him!
Are trying to mass produce these BIG BINDER’s Goldy thru artificial insemination?? If so, be careful who the sperm-donor is! Because based on your previous efforts, any new BIG BINDERS with you as the “birth-father” are certain to be retarded!
What amazes me Goldy is that you dont even give Eyeman the kudos he deserves. This guy really did more for the average to poor citizen than any single person or program in many years with I-695. By reducing the auto licence fees on vehicles he put money directly back into the pockets of people. Now we have a governor that just left office that did nothing but soak up taxpayer money for 8 wasted years while the state revelled in higher unemployment than most of the nation and you backed this loser. As I said, I dont agree with Tims financial arrangements (only reason is I think he overpays himself) but I dont contribute to him so it isnt my place to bitch about that. But if you are truly a underdog for the poor to average you need to give Tim his due for helping them with real savings…real money that can buy food!
Re Dear Tim letter. What a humerous bit of scribing, loved it. Laughing is good medicine, aids the digestive track. Pour it on. Constipated cynics could use a few good laughs to loosen up. Lightening their load a few quarts might rattle their funny bone enough to bring on some muse.
Mr. Cynical. Big Binders has absolutely nothing to do with use of “retarded” to slam Goldy. Could be your Big Binder keeps you from thinking straight. Hunker down boy!
Be carefull you guys – if we poke him too much Mr. Cynical might just start typing in ALL CAPs some more.
That’ll be the day…
Best of luck and remember the devil is in the details.
affectionately?? you liberals just cannot let go of the $30 car tabs can you? the little ol $30 car tabs created EVERY financial shortfall in the entire state, according to liberals. Get over it, it is what THE people want. What don’t you get about that? Retarded is right Mr Cynical. Actually Savage is right, liberalism is a mental disorder.
Sorry,
Tim and his gang are friends of mine and many many other voters who believe they are being taxed to death in this state. Eliminating this 60% majority just makes it that much easier for tax hikes and although it will pass the muster of the Olympian tax thugs, it will die on the vine of the popular vote as have most all of the recent tax hikes they have tried to get past the voters. CG got it right (and I will give here credit on that item) in yesterdays Seattle Times article. The people have spoken about new taxes! Come in with solutions not just requests for more $$. We’ll see who is listening and acting once again!
But if the Democrats can’t raise taxes, how can they buy new voters? Isn’t “guvment” money raises to “redistribute” monies from those that earn it to those [like Don] that “gets the guvment check” and vote Democrat? Union hacks who need “guvment” contracts from Democat pols, welfare hacks, illegal aliens looking for free education, medical, and social services, “guvment” employees like Don……what do they have in common? [Could they all vote Democrat?] What happens when the private sector “sezs” “enough!” hehe……..JCH
Goldy, Your letter was very disappointing. You may not agree with Tim, but at least he is doing something about what he believes. He has taken action. Yes, what you wrote is humorous, but not of any lasting value. Make a difference.
Honest Democrats need to take their party back. The extreme desperate left is the New Democrat Party.
Where will all the moderates go? The left calls for a tax increase to ALL citizens, yet the Organized labor wing says our members need more money just to get by. How does the party satisfy both? This is their downfall. When you refuse to cut spending you have to raise taxes. This dems just cannot get past that. WHY?
They spend our money irresponsibly! If I went to Olympia and asked for $10 million to study the dung beatle because I believe it plays an important role in global warming, I would get that money. Especially if I got Algore to endorse my theory.
Rightwingers @ all
It is about time you came back to your roots. We want the services, but don’t want the taxes. good for you. I thought you were all about denying civil rights, and controling the press corp, and invading the world to make it safer.
Although you revere Reagan as a God, guess who was one of the largest Tax raisers (back door) in History…and he still ran up deficets, Damn Democratic congress they love to spend. But guess what is happening now??? Reagans records have been shattered…9/11,9/11,9/11…say it all together, 9/11… I almost forgot, those numbers aren’t included in the budget deficet. as for local Taxes we carry approx. the 38th Tax burden in the country….if you can think of 37 better states you would like to live in……move.
Chardonnay @7,
Hey… thanks for making my point. You don’t want this amendment to go before the people for a vote, because you know that it will overwhelmingly pass. But apparently, people like you and Tim only really care to “honor the will of the people” who agree with you.
The Senate is not being asked to raise taxes. They are being asked to let the people decide if, in the future, a simple majority should be required to pass school levies. If this amendment passes at the polls, it is what THE people want. What don’t you get about that?
Zapporo @10,
Oh… you mean make a difference like… you? Or like all the work I put into researching, drafting, and supporting the Property Tax Homestead Exemption bill, that would save many low and middle income homeowners over $300 a year, while maintaining funding for critical public infrastructure and services? Or how about all the work I put in to promoting a public debate on important issues like this?
Goldy….”Make a difference”…like serving in the military. Goldy, the United State military. [Just so you were not confused as to whom you owe your freedom to be a liberal idiot.]
JCH @14,
So if failing to serve in the military makes one a “liberal idiot”, I guess I’m in good company: Tim Eyman, Dino Rossi, Dick Cheney, Rush Limbaugh… need I go on?
(The day when military service is a prerequisite for citizenship, is the day we cease to be a democracy.)
2, 6, 7
Washingtonians on the whole are not overtaxed by their state government compared to other states. In terms of state taxes per $1000 of income, Washington ranks 32nd of the 50 states. http://money.cnn.com/pf/featur.....tal_taxes/ Maybe this explains why the whiners are still here and haven’t moved to another state. The problem is maldistribution of the tax burden: Small business and low income households pay too much, big business and affluent households not enough. How about it guys, are you willing to support revenue-neutral tax reform that utilizes a state income tax to remove the B&O tax and reduce the sales tax, in order to distribute the tax burden more fairly?
I don’t recall the public asking for a State Owned Liquor monopoly, when the private sector grocery stores could handle this just fine without all the costly State Liquor stores, state employees, etc etc etc.
I don’t recall voters voting for a lightrail system that is now nearly twice as expensive and half as long as the voter approved system.
I Don’t recall voters voting for A Monorail system 200 Million overbudget and counting
I don’t recall voters voting for the most expensive (and counting) Alaska Way viaduct option that even Patty Murray has agreed is a pipe dream.
I do recall paying about half the cost to educate my children in great private schools rather than the 10k per student the public run schools average.
We don’t ALL want the services you are stating! We live within a budget, even unemployed which is a whole other story!
chardonnay @ 11
Seldom have I read a post on this (or any other board) so totally full of shit as this one. The irresponsible spenders are the Republicans in D.C. who are borrowing trillions to pay for optional wars, massive tax breaks to the richest 1%, and gargantuan giveaways to corporations that do nothing for average citizens (such as the Medicare prescription non-benefit). And all the time, they lie about what they’re doing, and lie some more about what it costs. This administration wants to spend upwards of $150 billion to land a couple guys on Mars and you accuse Democrats of wasting $10 million to study dung beetles? I would like to see some evidence of that $10 million dung beetle study at taxpayer expense — proof, please. Put up or shut up. As for Olympia, the big pigs at the trough are the contractors and paving companies lining up for highway project money, and the Republican reps and senators who vote for that stuff. Do you really think those Republicans in the Legislature don’t spend your money like water? They just spend it on different stuff — things that favor the building industry and other groups who contribute to THEIR campaigns. Such lies. Such hypocrisy. Sheesh.
GS @ 17
“I don’t recall the public asking for a State Owned Liquor monopoly, when the private sector grocery stores could handle this just fine without all the costly State Liquor stores, state employees, etc etc etc.”
Please list the state taxes you’re willing to raise to make up for the lost revenue. By the way, this one HAS gone to the voters — several times — and each time the voters said “no” to privatizing liquor sales.
“I Don’t recall voters voting for A Monorail system 200 Million overbudget and counting”
Man some people have short memories. The monorail was put to a revote just last November — overbudget and all — and passed for the fourth time.
“I don’t recall voters voting for the most expensive (and counting) Alaska Way viaduct option that even Patty Murray has agreed is a pipe dream.”
Kwitchyerbellyachen nuthin’s been decided yet.
“I do recall paying about half the cost to educate my children in great private schools rather than the 10k per student the public run schools average.”
BFD, so did I — the difference being I didn’t bitch about paying school taxes all the way to my stockbroker’s office.
“Damn Democratic congress they love to spend.”
Actually, throughout the 1980s, the Democratic congress appropriated LESS money than the administration asked for. Know your facts.
Dean @ 19
Really??…so there was some finacial restraint by the Demo congress? Wow I thought all we did was Tax and spend. Of course when you have checks and balances that will happen…But Bush does know about checks….just Credit cards. I got an Idea..lets sell off our Insurance policy (SS) to pay of our credit cards.
From the Seattle PI 9/17/1999
Washington State’s revenues are holding steady and projected reserves still top $1 billion. The state Revenue Forecast Council, a bipartisan panel that includes legislators and Gov. Gary Locke’s budget and revenue directors, yesterday approved a revenue update that adds $28 million to the forecast for the next two years.
Chang Mook Sohn, the state’s chief economist, said that’s “virtually no change” from the June forecast, a mere increase of about one-tenth of 1 percent when compared with the state’s $20.6 billion budget.
“It would be like a person who earns $50,000 a year getting $70 more,” said the council chairman, Senate Majority Leader Sid Snyder, D-Long Beach.
But the bottom line – a projection that the state will have $1 billion left unspent on June 30, 2001
What happened the democrats were in charge for the majority of the time from then until now??
Earlier today, I made another post on this.
Just click my silly screen name to go to it.
Dan, Dean, Don, Goldy:
Excellent smackdowns of these wingers who use second-hand rumors and perennial chestnuts from wingnut blogs for arguments.
Way to go team!
Don @ 16–
Didn’t Will Rogers or was it Mark Twain say:
“Thank God we don’t get all the government we pay for!!!”
Whoever said it…career guv’ment attorneys like yourself have made the prophesy oh so true.
You continue to spew the misleading half-truth about Washington only being 32nd out of 50 in State TAXES. You conveniently forget FEES (taxes in disguise) and the cost of other regulations. Taxes is only part of the equation for the cost of doing business.
Every time you post something Don, I understand clearer and clearer why you failed in the real world (Don confessed that prior to becoming a career State Guv’ment Attorney for 30 years…he tried to make it in our real world for 10 years. Don’s own words….”I only made $1000/yr. for 10 years and no return on my investment capital”!!!!!
I guess how you look at life depends where you come from to get to this point. DON, I hope it makes you feel minutely adequate to try and dummy down the real world so we are all guv’ment workers.
Hey Don…I heard one of the most highly quoted and highly regarded Lefty posters on Goldy’s site is a Guv’ment worker blogging on Guv’ment time.
Is that acceptable in your Lefty world Don??
Another Guv’ment worker told me some of these folks do it by logging into a YAHOO account so there is no traceable evidence of what they are actually doing. Clever…if it’s true.
Goldy you open the guys mouth take a dump in it and then want his help?… you have issues. You ever heard you get more bees with honey? try laying off the vinegar you poor angry man.
Cynical @ 26
You seem to be all over Don for having a Government Job everytime you post. I know that you feel that we shouldn’t have any government at all….but does that include the MILITARY ? Oh my god Cyn hates the troops, Cyn is unpatriotic.. Cyn is anti american…Cyn is helping the terrorists…does this refrain sound familiar to you? it should, it’s your new GOP mantra. Keep up your blind goose steps with these folks and places like this won’t even be available to you.
PS think about some of those other Government jobs you couldn’t live with out. Like the IRS that lets you write off your Church Tithings.
rightwingbob @ 21
Hey Rip Van Winkle, that projected surplus disappeared when a recession came along and sales tax revenues took a nosedive.
John @ 24
It feels good, but doesn’t do any good, because nothing makes a dent on these retrograde troglodytes. Not facts, not logic, not reality. A ceiling could collapse on them and they would still spout their disbelief of gravity. See, for example, posts 25 and 26.
Cynical, for your information, less than 3% of state revenue comes from permits, licenses, and fees; but the rest of us shouldn’t expect you to look that up, can we? That’s asking too much of a lazy person. It’s much easier to run off at the mouth than it is to do research, isn’t it?
Also, why do you assume that my business activity predated my state career? Don’t you wonder how I survived on $1,000 a year? Of course not, you don’t look into anything before shooting off your brainless barbs. Obviously, it was a part-time moonlighting job, and equally obviously, I didn’t quit my “day job” to pursue it.
Finally, please provide the names of the state employees who are blogging on state equipment & time so I can notify the appropriate department heads. That was a firing offense in every agency I ever worked for. If this is really happening, and is not just another one of the myths you make up in order to diss on government workers, then let’s get these slackers off the payroll right now, because there are plenty of honest hard-working folks who want those state jobs.
Frankly, I’m beginning to suspect you’re one of ’em, Cyn. You sure sound jealous to me. Whatsamatter, get turned down for a government job long ago, and still hold a grudge? Sorry, Cyn, but “guvmint work” isn’t for everyone, only the qualified.
“guvmint work” isn’t for everyone, only the qualified”….Don, you mean the “unqualified”..those who can’t or won’t make it in the private sector. You are right out of “Animal House” [One of the “guvment pigs].
Dan @ 28
way to jump yo confusions! you should be applauded at spinning everything he said, If you can’t come up with a rebuttle at least twist everything he said.
You are a huge ASSet.
Aazreal @ 28
Just following the right wing play book. You agree with Cyn? you must be for the Terrorist too…that’s the game you play. I am sure that most of our Government workers would be thrilled to hear that they are only working to suck off the proverbial tit. Hey Let’s drop a Line to Rossi…he’s been sucking for a long time. What couldn’t make it in the Real Estate world? even with a crooked partner?
Dear Don,
You are an Attorney for the State? At the AGO? Then you must be soooo defensive because you know first hand what goes on within that office. Lets see, Gregoire was there 12 years, played favorites, including her husband Mike who was an investigator there (qualifications please). Qualified applicants bypassed for open jobs for trusted friends & huhmm, paybacks for favors. How many people went from the AGO over to the Govs office? How many elections workers were promoted to state jobs (AGO/GOV/DOE) for a “wink, wink, job well done”?
You are a typical business hating liberal. Contractors and Paving companies are not chomping at the bit for Road jobs. they keep plenty busy without those jobs. Someone has to do that work don’t they? They “EMPLOY” people, you know JOBS! The problem is, democrats(enviro’s) refuse to build more roads because of the “global warming farse”, cars are bad, humans are bad. You are not very good at misleading us, nice try, some Attorney. Isn’t your area of expertise suposed to be “arguing”?
Keep those blinders on tho buddy, it helps Republicans all the more.
Don @ 30–
So now you are admitted that you moonlighted while a State Guv’ment Lawyer??? You previously told us you worked 70 hours per week as a Guv’ment Lawyer (that’s 10 hrs./day.. 7 days/ week)
Don, that doesn’t leave a lot of moonlighting time.
But wait, Don also said he only made $1/hr. moonlighting to make his $1000/yr.
Let me help you with the math Don.
That’s another 3 hrs./day….7 days per week.
Hmmmmm….so you want us to believe you worked 2 jobs…a total of 13 hrs./day 7 days/week??????????????????????
You are a big bullshitterrrrrrrrrrrrrr Donnie!!!!!!!!!!
dan@28–
FYI…I believe government should provide us a strong military, public safety and infrastructure…..then allow the free market to take it from there. The Guv’ment attorneys like our Bottom-Feeding friend Don are a blight. They produce nothing of value.
Now that doesn’t mean Don isn’t a decent human being….it means he has had 30 years to rationalize what he has done.
Don..you even admitted that after awhile you saw how futile it was AND THEN IT WAS ALL ABOUT SALARY, BENEFITS & PENSION.
Sad Don…to have so little self-respect and dignity that you would continue to do a worthless job for salary, benefits & pension. You just proved the point JCH, chardonnay and others have made about you Don.
Typically, you are the only one who doesn’t see it.
PS–I will not rat-out the guv’ment working blogger who works in another state. HE knows exactly who HE is….yet continues to research & post. It’s not my yob to police the blog for out-of-state guv’mint workers.
Dan @ 28 Cynicalidiot was that little shy boy in the back of the class that never got accepted for anything. Tried to enrolled in private schools, not accepted, tried to go to state universities, not accepted, tried the military, not accepted…..I can see his dismay with this world. poor little idiot…..want a crying towel?
“I would like to see some evidence of that $10 million dung beetle study at taxpayer expense – proof, please. Put up or shut up.” Don @ 18
Oh come on, Don, there you go again. If you read slower, you may grow out of your “when did you stop beating your wife?” approach to rebutting people’s hypotheticals. If it makes you feel any better, I think she’d only get $1 million for the dung beetle study. Remember what Christine announced to the Department of Ecology the other day? “WE’RE BACK!”. It made the hair stand up on my neck when I read it.
Zip @38, exactly my point, the DOE! This entire election was about saving the cushy jobs and preseving the positions of the snitches planted by Gregoire. Rossi posed a threat on those that were waved in or appointed. Christine proved that when she placed her boy as head of the DOE. Just her saying “we’re back” should reveal her eco ties and where we are headed under her rule. King Ron Sims showed us an example of what is to come for the entire state.
The AGO, now under McKenna, should get back to what it is intended, the law. I imagine Don is bent because he may actually have to produce aka “work” under an Attorney General that will use the office for what it was originally intended and not a frikin campaign office for the pitbull (as know by her non-co-workers).
Sinner @ 36
FYI…I believe government should provide us a strong military, public safety and infrastructure…..then allow the free market to take it from there.
There was a time that this happened, Free market taking it from there. Those were the days of Standard Oil, U.S. Steel and women & children sweat shops. I am sure that the funds that you are diverting now from your membership, when they aren’t going to Rossi rebitch campaign would be in control of someone else. Do you really think that they would have let the rank and file stormtroopers like yourself into the game. not. you would have just been busting your hump, like the millions of people who actually do labor in this country, while you make your money on stock speculation, and cheating the IRS with your write offs of church tithings…god I hope they audit you. You are a miserable self centered egotist, who thinks that his work in the Church is helping the entire country. guess what pal, you need to go on a mission to the inner city where the real work is done and they still can’t make ends meet.
As for “Chard remains” and the Global warming farce, again like stem cells and all other forms of research. “If it ain’t in the Bible it ain’t Science”. When lord when? will these knuckleheads open a frigin book.
Judging only from the government employees that I am forced to deal with on a regular basis I’d have to agree with my dear friend Mr. Cynical. They generally aren’t the brightest bulbs in the pack (ever go to the post office? or even the DOL?) Don if you are smarter than a postal worker then you have to understand that for the most part us private sector worker bees rarely get away with the low standards the guv’ment worker seem to aspire to. Unless of course we work for a union but that is another story.
But, just maybe we could get back to talking about Mr. (horses ass) Eyman. As I have stated more than once…Mr Eyman did not get i-695 passed. It was thrown out by the courts. Mr. locke in one of his republican moments asked the idiots in Olympia to pass the law that included the intent of i-695. So if we need to blame someone for the passage of i695 let’s at least point to the man who passed it and signed the bill.
Eyman is a little dude with big ideas. most of his big ideas involve finacial gain for him and no one else.
chardonnay @ 34
Why do you assume I worked in the AG’s office for Gregoire? I didn’t, and I don’t know her.
Cyn @ 35
“Let me help you with the math Don. That’s another 3 hrs./day….7 days per week. Hmmmmm….so you want us to believe you worked 2 jobs…a total of 13 hrs./day 7 days/week??????????????????????”
Why are you only crediting me for working 13-7, you freaking piker?
Cynical @ 36
“attorneys like our Bottom-Feeding friend Don are a blight. They produce nothing of value.”
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! All my life I’ve wanted to be a bottom-feeding attorney who produces nothing of value. It feels great to get recognition for my life’s work.
“Don..you even admitted that after awhile you saw how futile it was AND THEN IT WAS ALL ABOUT SALARY, BENEFITS & PENSION.
Sad Don…to have so little self-respect and dignity that you would continue to do a worthless job for salary, benefits & pension.”
I’ll bet if you interviewed for a job, you’d rather skip the self-respect and dignity crap and focus on salary, benefits, and pension, too.
zip @ 38
I’ll quit asking you for proof if you stop making shit up. Is “hypothetical” your euphemism for lying?
reggie @ 41
Guvmint workers may not be very smart, but they’re smarter than the dumbasses who replaced “Classic Coke” with “New Coke.” I could give additional examples of private sector fuckups, but that one should suffice to illustrate my point.
Don….The “dumb ass” who came up with “New Coke” probably lost his or her job. You, on the other hand. are a “guvment union hack, and never will be fired. You are a “Animal Farm” pig who is just “a little more equal” than those of us who product goods and services in the private sector. Like the pigs, you disrespect those who really do the “heavy lifting”. You, not the “New Coke dumbasses”, are the parasite!!
Don @ 42
How about the difference between a guvment lawyer and a private sector lawyer….can you say “marcia clark vs johnny cochran”?
no contest there…and let’s talk about government screw ups…how about that deadline the AG’s office missed?
What I tried to get across was the fact that if most of the government employees would have a hard time making it in the real world. That statement is based solely on the work habits they put on display every day in serving the very people they work for.
Don @ 42
There you go again, Don. So when did you quit kicking your dog?
Don, you really make this a fun blog. Your chain is yanked so easily. Crank yankers R us.
You really need to stop taking all the comments so personally; it’s just not pretty.
You prove the definition every time of how I describe a “Liberal”, a “progressive”, a Democrat. Superior, better-educated, self-appointed savior that “thinks” he knows better than the average citizen does.
You are only human, fallible. Get off the high horse in other words.
Reggi @44,
I have never worked for or with a government agency, but I did have the opportunity to work with some very large telecom companies back in the late ’80s, and one thing I learned is that a bureaucracy is a bureaucracy is a bureaucracy. Private or public sector, it makes no difference. This blind faith assumption that the private sector is always efficient and the public sector is always wasteful is based on nothing but blind faith.
As it turns out, there are some services that can only be provided by government, and some that are most efficiently provided by government, and some that are best left to the private sector. There are also some in between… managed and paid for by government, but mostly contracted out to private firms.
That is the reality of the real world. One of the hardest working most dedicated attorneys I know has spent most of his career in the AGs office — much of that time he was defending the state from frivolous prisoner lawsuits — he could be easily earning twice his salary in the private sector, but he’s a dedicated public servant who enjoys his job. Taxpayers are getting a bargain by hiring him.
So make your broad generalizations about government employees if that makes you feel better about your own politics, but that dog simply won’t hunt.
War at large is not the only war to fight. The biggest war is within. A Soldier is but ambition’s tool, to cut away to unlawful ends and when worn, hacked, hewn with constant service, thrown aside, to rust in peace and rot in hospitals. There are many ways to serve country. Being a soldier is not everyone’s height of ambition. Everyone didn’t inhale, everyone did’nt dodge. I have great empathy for all military service people called upon to war. When times get tough, the tough get going. Noone has a corner on the market when it comes to pride in well-doing at home or abroad. Tiny example: Betsy Ross sewed the flag.
Goldy thank you for finding the one State employee that is worth a damn. I know it took an exhaustive search. Now can you find one that can count to at least 11. (okay that was harsh)
But, I really stand by my statement. As an employer I am constantly on the lookout for talented individuals. I have not seen anyone working for the state or the federal government that I would consider working with or for me. While I realize that I haven’t met every state employee and to be fair there are probably some of them out there that could make the transition to the private sector successfully. Next time I won’t paint with such a broad stroke…like saying that all republicans are stupid ‘cos we have money and we don’t want to spend it on taxes. (I noticed you don’t stop that broad stroking)
So next time you go to the DOL ask yourself…would I want to work with this person? Would I hire this person? I betcha ya say no.
Actually, reggie you could probably go to most branches of the military, gram most enlisted men under e-6 and have one hell of a great employee, but that is as far as I would go with government employees (and above e-6 it would take too much time to de-militarize them although they would still be good employees)!
Goldy @ 47
Yeah but I bet through nepotism he probably got a family member a job there….maybe a wife or something. Yeah and I bet you probably know some other civil servants who work in Snohomish county as well. you may not have work in the government, but you sure seem to know a lot of them…you sure you didn’t work for the Post Office?