Comments on: Tax agency gets special treatment

By: jimmydeeoc

jimmydeeoc — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 20:41:17 +0000

speaking of nickel and diming..and sweating the small stuff while ignoring those 800 pound elephants

From Walter Russell Mead’s blog (Via Meadia…….well-written observations for those moments you are away from CWD.)
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Hurricane Sandy and the Perils of Nanny State Governance

……Here in New York we have a very busy government. It’s worried about the kinds of fats we eat and the size of the soft drinks we buy, and there is no shortage of regulations affecting businesses, street vendors, and individuals. But in all this exciting fine tuning, nobody seems to have bothered to think about the much greater task of keeping floodwaters out of the subway system. Admittedly, getting public support and finding the money for flood protection would be hard, but it is exactly that kind of hard job that governments are supposed to do. Leadership is getting the important things done, not looking busy on secondary tasks while the real needs of the city go quietly unmet.

The problem with nanny state governance isn’t just that it’s intrusive. It isn’t just that it stifles business with over-regulation, and it isn’t just that it empowers busybodies and costs money. It’s that it distracts government from the really big jobs that it ought to be doing.

Mayor Bloomberg has done an admirable job under great pressure as the city reels from Sandy’s attack. But an ounce of prevention beats a pound of cure. The city needed flood protection for its subways and electricity grid—and it didn’t get it. If the Mayor had spent less time and less of his political capital focusing on minutiae, this storm could have played out very differently.
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Sound familiar?

By: Queeg

Queeg — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 17:31:11 +0000

Ulysses is in Texas at a auction…they have a glut of trailers, Pods and boxes. For some reason!

Watchin the office today…if ya call in….we may get ya in about Nov. 27th.

START PACKING!

By: Forest grump

Forest grump — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 04:51:28 +0000

More government bureaucrats to drive around new ford 4×4’s looking for bark beetles and having lunch on the clock with their BLM and NFS buddies. Just what we need, more tree police???

By: Hondo

Hondo — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 01:23:23 +0000

There are a thousand little things like this lumber tax that has kept the unemployment rate above 10% in Kalifornia for years. This is while the rest of the country is coming out of the downturn in the economy.
Kalifornia has more ways to make economic growth and jobs than any place on earth. It was called the golden state for good reason. It was. And the Kali demoncrats can’t figure out how the rest of the country is getting better and they ain’t.
They never will. And there doesn’t seem to be any way of getting them out. So, many Kalifornians are getting out of the state.
Uhaul really out to get into the moving business. It’s the only business that seems to be doing well in Kalifornia.
Hondo….