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The Wife and I were visiting Gettysburg a couple years ago... While sitting and eating ice cream on a bench in front of a shop, a squirrel in a tree next to us launched into an agitated chatter. The chiding went on for about 30 seconds. When it ended, without looking up from my ice cream, I responded "Yes, Dear..." Came pretty close to wearing ice cream that day.

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I thought it was 600 gazillion, so 600 thousand aint so bad

This is just the beginning..."privatization" is nothing more than a euphemism for redistibution of wealth.The people that do the work will make less on either pay and/or benifits while someone in Kasich's circle will make millions providing cheaper labor to the state of Ohio.We will see only a relatively small change in costs.

Shame on the spin doctors Shame on Governors Walker and Kasich Shame on the politicians and Shame on us. Why? We have allowed the powers that be to paint our public sector employees in a bad light and we drank the Kool-Aid! Police Officers, Firemen, Teachers, Corrections Officers and others are NOT the enemy. They are not bad people and they are not pawn to serve as feathers in someone’s cost saving cap. We’re too busy bickering amongst ourselves to see the truth. THEY ARE PATRIOTS AND HEROS!!! Patriots because many have served in the military to fight for and defend our great nation. Heroes because they sacrifice much for the betterment of our society with so little reward. Sure we can come up with stories about this guy or the other but those are the 1%ers. Don’t let that sway your view or the other 99% like Ben’s brother or the ones posting here. My hat goes off to the firefighters, policemen and teachers here and everywhere. Policemen never know what will happen at a routine traffic stop. They could end up getting shot at any time. Firefighter attack fire and hazardous spills on a daily basis Scooter pasted about a friend being beaten and sent to the hospital and there is no way I would want to deal with 25 adolescents for 8 hours a day! There are many good comments both for and against this bill and a wonderful debate but what we fail to discuss does the end justify the means? Do we really what to crush our heroes under a political thumb to save a few dollars in tax money? I read many post that say things like “I wouldn’t want your job” or “I’m not saying they’re overpaid”, well let’s call that to the front line. Would you support them with your vote or your pocketbook? If not it is empty rhetoric. I will and have support them with both. Police Fire and school levies in my district receive a HELL YES! on my ballot. You get what you pay for 90% of the time. There is a reason that I picked to live where I do. As like most of you I considered the quality of the school district and the crime…Hmmm. Have we really become that Chinatized? Do we always want more, more, more for less, less, less? There is a breaking point for this lifestyle and we need to consider that. (Have we thought about how this will increase short term costs, quality of service and whether these employees are under or overpaid?) What we need to do is look behind the curtain of SB5…I’ll post on that later. BTW - I’m a salaried corporate employee.

Tom... While I don't doubt that's your real life girl... I'm callin' bullshit on that bein' your bike

This is your wedding gift from your ordn brothas:

I've been behind that Sable a couple times..."small transmission leak" my ass, it couldn't pump more fluid if it was built by Sutphen.

By mrtahoe at 2011-03-24

i wants my preciousssssssss.........