MERGER WAS A LIE AND WE KNEW IT

Louisville Metro Merger Success or Failure?
When merger was passed, though I have yet to find anyone who would admit to voting for merger, many things were promised. Primarily we were promised this would streamline the process for attracting new jobs, we would have a smaller more centralized government, and of course the whole transparent government as well.

Merger has been a dismal failure in ALL areas and the way it has been handled is exactly why I voted against it.

The democratic mafioso in this town would, I knew, take the potential benefits of what merger could be and use it to line their pockets. The sad part is Abramson as the biggest public face of this rape continues to get elected.

How dumb are we Louisville to elect this man to a Lt Governor job so they could try and install him as Governor in the very near future?

In 2008 I started outing the fallacies of merger and comparing us to another City with a similar land mass but 1.5 times the population. San Diego previous stories

Using this model I put out a basic guideline that would save $1.8 million of our tax dollars just by downsizing the over bloated Metro Council on salaries alone. One Council member and one aide I stated then would save this money.

The Courier Journal recently put out an article saying merger was a failure Courier thanks to a commissioned report by Darryl Owens. Admittedly, Owens and I have no love lost for one another and I rarely, if ever, agree with him on anything but this report is meaningful in many ways.

OCCUPIERS: LET THE CRYING BEGIN

This article has been edited to reflect that Zuccotti Park is a privately owned park. My apologies to the readers.

First let me state I am all for peaceful protests. In fact I am very outspoken about the need for people to take to the streets in protest. The problems I have are not with legitimate protests but with the lack of consideration by some protesters themselves.

Take the latest out of New York for example. Typically the unions and others are jumping up and trying to denounce the move by Mayor Bloomberg to oust the occupiers from Zuccotti Park at 1 am last night. NYC ousts occupiers.

Seemingly this was by design to break up the movement itself right?

Wrong.

DEBT "CRISIS" ? GET REAL

What a crazy couple of weeks it has been! So much has been made of the so called debt ceiling crisis, and the resultant last minute deal to avoid such a thing, it defies logic as to how and why these idiots in Congress continue to get reelected.

It is time to start gaining accountability from the status quo uni party and start holding ourselves accountable. Yep us.

We have allowed this monstrosity government to prevail at our expense. We have allowed ourselves to be used as pawns in the bigger game of manipulation thrust upon us by cowards that supposedly represent us, but who care only about themselves, and not the people they supposedly represent.

Regardless of your "party" affiliation each party is responsible for the fallacies of their decisions we suffer from today.

Republicans and Democrats alike.

I find it funny that the Tea Party is being blamed, as fast as the media can get it out there, for the problems we face today. I have a few simple questions for the people who buy that rhetoric.

Where was the tea party when we were accumulating trillions in debt beginning with Ronald Reagan? They didn't exist.

Tea Party had influence over George Bush? Sorry no one had ever heard of the tea party at that point.

Bill Clinton's fake balanced budget? No tea party person was heard of then.

Now the tea party has gained a couple of seats and it is all their fault we are in the mess we are in now?

Try again lame-stream media and kool-aid drinkers. I admit I am no fan of the tea party in many ways. Some things I like, some I don't, but that is common with anything I suppose. What I do care about is the fact that so many of us can be led down this path of lies and manipulation.

A $14.5 trillion dollar deficit did not occur in a year or two folks. It has accumulated over time. It did not accumulate just in the last few months since some tea partiers got elected.The fact that the status quo uni party in Washington have avoided this mess says a lot about their character. The fact that the real debt problem exceeds $100 trillion according to some economists is even more alarming.

We gave the banks over $1 trillion dollars and what did they do? Absolutely nothing except benefit themselves. Homeowners lose their homes to fraudulent foreclosures and what happens? Do the people who were victims of the scam get their homes back? Of course not.

But the government got paid billions in fines by the likes of Bank of America, Wells Fargo, GMAC (now Ally bank) and more.

So why was this money not given back to the people who were victims of these scams? Who knows. President Obama set up the HAMP program thinking that would appease we the people. Did it work? Of course not just another failure.

HAMP was supposed to benefit millions of homeowners yet has not. In fact in many eyes it has been a dismal failure though it was one of Obama's signature issues.

But hey the banks got theirs and the government got theirs. Who cares about a few million people who have lost it all thanks to illegal dealings. We will spend more time and money going after a pot dealer than we will going after the fraudulent banks and illegal white collar criminals.

New jobs? A growing economy? Sorry lies that did not happen.

Who benefits most from that arrangement? The elected elite. Welcome to America folks.

I say this.

It is OUR America and it is high time we change the rules.

An old philosophy I believe in is that people will only give you what you are willing to accept. My question to you is a simple one.

Do you really want to accept this type of behavior?

If you do then we have more problems than anyone can fix. Just sayin'

CNN MOST TAXED CITIES

According to this from CNN money, Big city taxes: Who pays what - Apr. 14, 2009 , Louisville is ranked 8th in the most heavily taxed Cities in America. Abramson continues to defy labor and blames Labor agreements for keeping business out of here. He just does not get it does he? As I have stated over and over again the pay to play schemes and high taxes are what keeps business out of Louisville.

According to this article I am right. It just repeats what I have been saying since 2005 when I decided to run for Mayor. Abramson just does not get it or does not want to.

The way Abramson and our elected officials keep going after us reminds me of this from the Family Guy. YouTube - Family Guy - Stewie Beats Brian

Don't you just feel like the dog?