Comments on: Rick Perry returns to woo CA businesses

By: carbed out

carbed out — Mon, 14 Apr 2014 14:21:39 +0000

Ted Steele,

those of us who have paid substantially into SSI for 30 + were given “promises” too, however, every time SSI runs into a financial crisis, they bump the age up for collect, when was the last time that happened to a government pension… you know, the retiring at full pay at 51…..
moochers are all the same,

It’s crazy that you liberal progressives think that a reference to the Boston Tea Party is somehow derogatory and offensive. Do you even know what the Boston Tea Party stands for??

By: S Moderation Douglas

S Moderation Douglas — Fri, 28 Mar 2014 14:58:22 +0000

In reply to billybs. With ALL due respect, BS, you are full of crap as a Christmas zebra.

By: Steve Mehlman

Steve Mehlman — Wed, 26 Mar 2014 17:49:56 +0000

A modest proposal:

All those who so love Rick Perry and want him to succeed in pillaging our state should go back to Texas with him.

By: Joseph Perkins

Joseph Perkins — Mon, 24 Mar 2014 22:37:32 +0000

That would be the Lone Star State, my friend.

By: Mark Landsbaum

Mark Landsbaum — Mon, 24 Mar 2014 21:20:23 +0000

Hey Joseph, what state did you say Perry is from?

By: billybs

billybs — Sun, 23 Mar 2014 14:53:04 +0000

Ted, My focus is Finance. I know you are never going to change your opinion. I guess we we will see how all the math works out. I believe the country is going to go broke. My sense is many of your view don t believe that, or don t care. Moocher applies to the latter. When are I hear nothing but snide comments( they are better because of my pension) about debt being passed to the next generation…..well, I abhor that. I guess if the gov t needs to implement a large increase in estate taxes to pay the current generation’s debt, when you and I meet the maker, that is our kid’s problem. I feel that is my issue, not the super rich’s problem, not the illegals, two groups that are chastised, as not paying what’s fair, or taking too much. The citizens job is to work to change the govt if necessary. If the govt is strongly influenced be special interests, what can be done to change that? If we have broken immigration polices, can we change that? Are we up to the task? Many feel their job is grab and go:hey the deck is stacked, take what you can, fight off anyone who would upset that perception. The only way change can happen is hard work, ours, not the work of our kids and grandkids. Your comment about the 30 years of service: our legacy may be not as the Booker generation, but as the You Owe Me generation.

By: Ted Steele, CEO

Ted Steele, CEO — Sat, 22 Mar 2014 17:15:36 +0000

In reply to billybs.

LOL— that’s right Billbs— the moochers focus on compensation they were promised after hard wotk for 30 years or so—– LOL

Teabilly predictable little buddy.

By: Ted Steele, CEO

Ted Steele, CEO — Sat, 22 Mar 2014 17:14:05 +0000

my God Rick Perry is a tool!

Ooooooooops!

By: billybs

billybs — Sat, 22 Mar 2014 11:09:20 +0000

Quite quiet when someone applauds hard work. The moochers focus on pension guarantees and wording in labor agreements to move up the strata. Hard work, that is for boomers not the moochers.

By: Hondo

Hondo — Sat, 22 Mar 2014 01:55:26 +0000

I moved to Texas long time ago, in the late 70’s. In Odessa I showed up at a truck pool that sends work crews out into the oil patch. I asked to fill out an application and was told to ” Git in the truck”. I responded ” But the application?” The old guy said “Quit your back talk and git in the truck. Git in the backa da truck”
3 months later I was driving that huge boom truck and was a crew boss because I spoke enough spanglish to get the illegals to work, and hadn’t been killed yet.
It was Darwinin down there. The strong, smart and hard workers survive. There was a whole society down there that embraces the work ethic. Money earned from hard work, and the ability to stay out of jail, was a ticket to most levels of society. It was a revelation from California where the state puts up so many barriers to work and working.
My time there was some of the best times of my life. I learned so much about life and the work ethic.
Hondo……..