en-us https://www.intensedebate.com/users/142573 Comments by Billy http://www.komonews.com/opinion/kenschram/133814313.html#IDComment221994030 A classmate of mine recently posted our class pictures to her FB page. Every one of them from grade 1 to grade 6 showed 31 - 35 kids in our class. Our teachers were perfectly able to provide us with a good education and probably could have done so with 40 kids in their class. Back then we had "respect" for elders and had "dicipline" in school; things which are un-American nowadays! I say, make the year shorter, make classes bigger, return the "paddle" and make teachers do their job and stop whinning about everything. Or maybe, use the paddle on the teachers? Mon, 14 Nov 2011 20:47:53 +0000 http://www.komonews.com/opinion/kenschram/133814313.html#IDComment221994030 http://medina.komonews.com/news/politics/residents-city-council-bring-chen-back/646874#IDComment162707645 Nah, I grew up on poverty rock, a friend of mine got $20 million just to graduate with a "C" average. And Yes, most of them were, are Liberals! I worked for my money, and I give to charities, I don't use other people's money to be "charitable". Wed, 15 Jun 2011 00:00:40 +0000 http://medina.komonews.com/news/politics/residents-city-council-bring-chen-back/646874#IDComment162707645 http://medina.komonews.com/news/politics/residents-city-council-bring-chen-back/646874#IDComment162649395 I think that's a myth, the most wealthy people are usualy bleeding heart, liberal democrats. Tue, 14 Jun 2011 19:38:28 +0000 http://medina.komonews.com/news/politics/residents-city-council-bring-chen-back/646874#IDComment162649395 http://medina.komonews.com/news/politics/residents-city-council-bring-chen-back/646874#IDComment162615901 You can sum this up in one word, "Democrats"! Tue, 14 Jun 2011 17:16:59 +0000 http://medina.komonews.com/news/politics/residents-city-council-bring-chen-back/646874#IDComment162615901 http://www.komonews.com/news/local/123748234.html#IDComment162482165 Great! and now we have a Progressive Republican to run in her place, YIPPI_SKIPPI! Tue, 14 Jun 2011 06:22:01 +0000 http://www.komonews.com/news/local/123748234.html#IDComment162482165 http://www.komonews.com/news/local/121833444.html#IDComment152365035 Poetic justice? Now the environmentalists can find out what dealing with "environmentalists" is like! Perhaps they will begin to see that their regulations are more "political" than practical, driven by an agenda which prefers Marxist redistribution over common sense. Sun, 15 May 2011 16:31:33 +0000 http://www.komonews.com/news/local/121833444.html#IDComment152365035 http://www.komonews.com/news/consumer/117739628.html#IDComment133895835 I checked the internet and could not find any records of the millions of stillborn children in the 1940's-1960's when smoking was everywhere. If this information were true, then there must be millions upon millions of dead bodies being hidden along with records on lung ailments from those days when you could smoke in the grocery store and at your desk and even in the doctor's office. Consider that. Thu, 10 Mar 2011 17:55:16 +0000 http://www.komonews.com/news/consumer/117739628.html#IDComment133895835 http://www.komonews.com/news/local/113510099.html#IDComment121309273 Lower costs, better competition, more contractors working; if the State just repeals the "Prevailing wage" law and loosens restrictions on contractors, we could save billions of dollars! Fri, 14 Jan 2011 15:44:17 +0000 http://www.komonews.com/news/local/113510099.html#IDComment121309273 http://www.komonews.com/news/local/111895144.html#IDComment115979184 One more idea to cut costs; eliminate the "prevailing wage" doctrine in state and local government. This makes contractors pay "union scale" to their employees if they do work on state and local projects. If we eliminate this provision, the costs of state contracts would decrease by close to 40%. But hey, the guy mowing the grass on the side of the highway needs his $45 per hour wage to live on? Wed, 15 Dec 2010 15:46:37 +0000 http://www.komonews.com/news/local/111895144.html#IDComment115979184 http://www.komonews.com/news/local/111895144.html#IDComment115978215 Only 48,000 employees? Why not just lay-off 10% and bring our state back to 2007 levels? The only way to solve our budget problem is to "SHRINK" government, not expand it and just trim pay by 3%. Hell, if they cut pay by 30%, government workers would still be making more than private sector workers! Wed, 15 Dec 2010 15:40:21 +0000 http://www.komonews.com/news/local/111895144.html#IDComment115978215 http://www.komonews.com/news/local/111496519.html#IDComment114506072 Democrats! Need I say more? Wed, 8 Dec 2010 15:46:37 +0000 http://www.komonews.com/news/local/111496519.html#IDComment114506072 http://www.komonews.com/news/local/106656253.html#IDComment107806215 They, she, grew state government by 38% over the last four years. When the budget gets tight, instead of just eliminating what new programs and pension additives they have created, they go after Deputies, Courts, and other programs which will "punish" us. Kind of like when they doubled ferry fes to punish folks over in Kitsap county. Thu, 4 Nov 2010 16:47:04 +0000 http://www.komonews.com/news/local/106656253.html#IDComment107806215 http://www.komonews.com/news/local/106327573.html#IDComment106837518 We defeated Hitler and his "National Socialists", and the Soviet Union; shouldn't be a stretch to see we can defeat the Progressive Socialists! Your days are numbered, Wednesday morning wills show the resolve of real Americans. Sat, 30 Oct 2010 03:05:55 +0000 http://www.komonews.com/news/local/106327573.html#IDComment106837518 http://www.komonews.com/news/problemsolvers/106353678.html#IDComment106836523 Stick with it, you're a conservative in a Socialist village; they will probably try to hang you by the toes, but hold on. There are those who believe in you. Sat, 30 Oct 2010 02:55:21 +0000 http://www.komonews.com/news/problemsolvers/106353678.html#IDComment106836523 http://www.komonews.com/news/local/101257944.html#IDComment94707785 We could afford it if we take action. Break the government unions which prescribe pay @ 50% higher than the private sector, eliminate the "prevailing wage" clause which makes contractors pay their employees union scale and reduce the regulations required for construction projects like EIS's. Just enacting these simple changes would put our state in a budget surplus and we could lower taxes; food for thought! After the big earthquake in CA, they did such things and their freeways got rebuilt in record time "under" budget! Sun, 22 Aug 2010 18:42:11 +0000 http://www.komonews.com/news/local/101257944.html#IDComment94707785 http://www.komonews.com/news/national/99246094.html#IDComment88999638 You make valid points. Perhaps you can plug your nose long enough to watch a couple of episodes of Glenn Beck, he has much to offer one such as you. Also, look to the TEA party functions, they are not the "Racist- right wingers" that the media has portrayed them to be, just folks like you and I, fed up and pissed off! Mon, 26 Jul 2010 19:33:21 +0000 http://www.komonews.com/news/national/99246094.html#IDComment88999638 http://www.komonews.com/news/national/99246094.html#IDComment88998416 I stand corrected, thank you. It was a rookie mistake! Mon, 26 Jul 2010 19:23:10 +0000 http://www.komonews.com/news/national/99246094.html#IDComment88998416 http://www.komonews.com/news/national/99246094.html#IDComment88985855 The Democrats have been in control of Congress since 2006, when all of the financial meltdown began. Remember Frank & Dodd pressuring banks to ease credit? The Democrats have basically legislated Socialism into the US Government over the last year and we have only one chance to stop it in November. The choice is as clear as it could be, Socialism Vs. Capitalist democracy. Don't be fooled, the Democrats are no longer the Democrats we knew back in the day, they use the label, but they are dyed in the wool "Socialists"! Mon, 26 Jul 2010 18:34:15 +0000 http://www.komonews.com/news/national/99246094.html#IDComment88985855 http://www.komonews.com/news/local/97708504.html#IDComment84590795 No, she is just afraid of loosing the illegal's votes for her party aka the communist/progressives. Sat, 3 Jul 2010 18:01:22 +0000 http://www.komonews.com/news/local/97708504.html#IDComment84590795 http://www.komonews.com/news/local/97708504.html#IDComment84579991 We don't have an economic problem or a labor problem, we have a Deportation Problem! Once we deport those illegals, our economy will bounce back, there will be jobs for legal citizens and everyone will finally be speaking english again! Sat, 3 Jul 2010 17:11:04 +0000 http://www.komonews.com/news/local/97708504.html#IDComment84579991