Why Ga. has so little to show for being so ‘business friendly’
In November, Georgia was ranked 4th in the nation for its pro-business environment by Site Selection magazine, which specializes in corporate relocations. The Georgia Department of Economic Development was understandably quick to seize on that happy news, giving it prominent play on the department’s website.
Such rankings appear to validate a concerted, decade-long effort by Georgia’s leadership to make the state as business-friendly as possible. Our state and local business tax burden, for example, ranks eighth lowest in the country, according to a 2012 analysis by Ernst & Young. And as Site Selection noted approvingly, the 2012 Legislature continued that effort by eliminating the sales tax on energy used in manufacturing, enhancing tax incentives and “strengthening” open records laws by delaying public release of economic development deals.
When the 2013 Georgia Legislature convenes Monday, it will no doubt attempt to continue that crusade. For example, while state legislators are likely to approve using tax money to help finance a new stadium for the Atlanta Falcons, they could balk at renewing a much-needed hospital tax that will help keep tens of thousands of poor Georgians covered by Medicaid.
You see, using tax money to help the Falcons and the NFL, the most profitable sports league on the planet, is “economic development”, while helping poor families get medical coverage is considered welfare.
The larger question, however, is whether the state’s strategy is achieving its goals. And that in turn depends on what you choose to measure. For example, here is how Site Selection has ranked Georgia’s business climate each year from 2002-2012:
2002: 4th
2003: 7th
2004: 4th
2005: 3rd
2006: 4th
2007: 2nd
2008: 10th
2009: 8th
2010: 6th
2011: 2nd
2012: 4th
For more than a decade, in other words, Georgia has never ranked out of the top 10 for business climate, and over that period it has averaged in the top five. That tells us that year after year, for an extended amount of time, our leaders have succeeded in crafting government policy to produce exactly the kind of regulatory and tax environment that business leaders say they need to produce growth and prosperity. So by that measure it has been a great success.
But what do we have to show for it?
— We have an unemployment rate of 8.5 percent, significantly higher than the 7.8 percent national average and the ninth highest rate in the country, tied with Mississippi. And it is not a short-term phenomenon. Our unemployment rate has exceeded the national average for each of the last 64 months.
— In 2001, Georgia had the 17th highest poverty rate in the country. By 2011 it had the nation’s sixth highest poverty rate. We are slipping and slipping fast.
— In 2001, the state ranked 25th in per capita income and was rising rapidly in that critically important category; today, it ranks 39th in per capita income. In fact, after adjusting for inflation, state per capita income has declined by 3.5 percent since 2001.
To make matters worse, while trying to create a diligently “pro-business” environment, state government has also attempted to shrink the social safety net substantially. In a piece headlined “Georgia’s Hunger Games,” Slate reported last month that thanks to aggressive government efforts to deny benefits, fewer than 7 percent of the 300,000 Georgia households in poverty collect benefits through Temporary Assistance to Needy Families, more commonly known as welfare. Nationally, the comparable number is 27 percent.
Is that punitive approach working? Not so you’d notice. We also have the nation’s fifth highest rate of those without health insurance, and the fourth highest differential between rich and poor.
In other words, there is no sign that pursuit of a narrowly defined “business-friendly” climate has resulted in a more people-friendly climate. And isn’t that the real goal?
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TaxPayer
January 9th, 2013
8:34 pm
Like I tell all those who trash talk GA. If you don’t like it then move. There are 56 other states you can move to. Well, according to the smartestest president in the world there are 56 other states.
Like I tell all swamp thangs, if you don’t like my trash talking your trash talk then you can go to any one of those communist countries that may or may not restrict trash talk to your liking.
F. Sinkwich
January 9th, 2013
8:34 pm
“…I’m standing in front of the Judgment Table.”
Too bad you weren’t standing in front O’bozo’s death panel.
Doggone/GA
January 9th, 2013
8:35 pm
“Because you live here and not there. DUH”
That’s not proof. Try again. Especially as, because of this little thing called the “Internet”, you have NO IDEA where I live. Posting here is not proof I live here.
Soothsayer
January 9th, 2013
8:35 pm
“Dale, you continue to be the biggest idiot on the planet. You can’t even get the figures right on this issue.
It is not, and never has been $12 million in taxpayer dollars, you moron.
Can’t you get anything right? Maybe you should have someone else write your material for you? Oh, that’s right! You already tried that didn’t you?”
Most of you will recognize this poster. This post is not from the AJC. It is from another publication. The posters are the same, however.
Some things just never change.
Swamp Thang
January 9th, 2013
8:37 pm
JamVet
January 9th, 2013
9:19 am
JamVet has posted nonstop since 9am this morning. Must be unemployed. No wonder he’s angry.
Swamp Thang
January 9th, 2013
8:38 pm
“That’s not proof. Try again. Especially as, because of this little thing called the “Internet”, you have NO IDEA where I live.’
You live in GA.
Doggone/GA
January 9th, 2013
8:39 pm
“You live in GA”
Got proof?
Swamp Thang
January 9th, 2013
8:40 pm
“Most of you will recognize this poster. ‘
Sounds exactly like JamVet since he’s the one using such names as “fat ass” and “idiot” all day long to other posters.
Swamp Thang
January 9th, 2013
8:42 pm
Taxpayer’s been here since 8:15 am so he’s also unemployed. I guess the unemployed hang out on Jay’s blog all day.
Soothsayer
January 9th, 2013
8:43 pm
No, it sounds more like you, Little Davy Crybaby. Turns out you have an extensive repertoire of posts online. In fact, you may be the most prolific poster of all time. Why, there must be hundreds of them! You don’t mind if I share them with the blog, do you?
Swamp Thang
January 9th, 2013
8:44 pm
“Willie, will you please spout that moronic nonsense of yours
JamVet is one class act.
Swamp Thang
January 9th, 2013
8:44 pm
Soothsayer
You must also be unemployed like JamVet and Taxpayer. McDonalds is hiring if you need a job.
Swamp Thang
January 9th, 2013
8:46 pm
“Forget hillbillies, I prefer the word cracker.”
JamVet, 10am this morning. So it turns out or angry little old man is also a racist. Damn. Just damn.
td
January 9th, 2013
8:48 pm
“If it comes to the actual implementation of an actual confiscatory directive from our president, then I do believe that the heroes of the law enforcement will defy this order. I do believe that there are enough soulless sheep within our government who would act on such an illegal order but I believe the powers that be at the local, state, and regional law enforcement would halt such an illegal, anti-American order,” said Nugent.
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2013/01/ted-nugent-gun-owners-the-next-rosa-parks/#gVhtXOjbq0JscebW.99
Well said Ted. I know quiet a few cops and military members who have basically said the same thing.
Soothsayer
January 9th, 2013
8:49 pm
You see, Little Davy Crybaby, you’re just the same as you have always been: full insults and no substance. It doesn’t matter if you’re Nero, Twinkie, Swamp Thang, or some other idiotic name that you dream up. Your entire online persona consists of insults and nothing more whether it be here, on Kyle’s blog or CummingHome.com. In fact, no matter what name you dream up, most of on here can recognize you instantly by your abrasive style and lack of substance. Maybe one day you’ll tire of your childish games.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
January 9th, 2013
8:49 pm
Whirled Nut Daily.
Birther central.
Doggone/GA
January 9th, 2013
8:50 pm
“You must also be unemployed like JamVet and Taxpayer”
It’s kind of sad when someone has so little in their life they have to resort to tracking someone else’s posting record.
Swamp Thang
January 9th, 2013
8:50 pm
td
Obama has no way of enforcing that stupid rant of his. If Chicago can’t control their thugs there is no way Obama can control an entire county.
Fred ™
January 9th, 2013
8:51 pm
Posting here is not proof I live here.
You don’t live here on the blog in the internet? Really? Are you going to try to tell me next that the REST of the people who post here don’t live here in Jay’s blog on the internet?
Wow. I thought I was the only one who didn’t live in cyber space. Bummer. I’m NOT unique………
Swamp Thang
January 9th, 2013
8:51 pm
Soothsayer
For you and the other unemployed slugs.
http://www.jobapplicationcenter.com/fast-food-job-applications/mcdonalds-application/
Swamp Thang
January 9th, 2013
8:53 pm
“It’s kind of sad when someone has so little in their life they have to resort to tracking someone else’s posting record.
Awe, did I strike a nerve with you again? Awe. Well, considering there are 11 pages of comments and JamVets was on the first three spouting off angry rants against other people, it really wasnt’ that hard. Now go find a job.
Doggone/GA
January 9th, 2013
8:53 pm
“Wow. I thought I was the only one who didn’t live in cyber space. Bummer. I’m NOT unique”
Sure you are! Haven’t you see this: “I’m unique…just like everyone else”
Swamp Thang
January 9th, 2013
8:54 pm
“Birther central.
Added to the list of other “genius” Kamchak lines. What EVER will he think up next?
Fred ™
January 9th, 2013
8:54 pm
Swamp Thang
January 9th, 2013
8:50 pm
td
Obama has no way of enforcing that stupid rant of his. If Chicago can’t control their thugs there is no way Obama can control an entire county.
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I love how you mindless talk radio/FOXBOT puppets have somehow made president Obama the founder of Chicago. Wasn’t it just a couple of month’s ago you idiots were claiming he was born and raised in Kenya?
Do you realize how stupid you sound?
Soothsayer
January 9th, 2013
8:54 pm
Swampathang, Tiberius, Nero, Twinkie, etc.: I accept your surrender! HAHAHAHAHAHA! What a joke!
Oh! by the way, you’ve already told us earlier that you’re retired, so that means you sit on your ass all day, right. You must sleep all day since you only show up here late in the afternoon, right?
Doggone/GA
January 9th, 2013
8:55 pm
“Well, considering there are 11 pages of comments and JamVets was on the first three spouting off angry rants against other people, it really wasnt’ that hard”
Nothing like confirming how little you have in your life to occupy you constructively. It truly IS sad.
Fred ™
January 9th, 2013
8:56 pm
So, who do YOU think the latest alt, Swamp Thang is? Which regular cowardly poster afraid to use their own “name” and is hiding behind the sock puppet?
Swamp Thang
January 9th, 2013
8:57 pm
“I love how you mindless talk radio/FOXBOT puppets
Ah yes, the “fox news” excuse. FOX!!!!!! FOX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
“Wasn’t it just a couple of month’s ago you idiots ‘
I love how the left wingers talk about how “evil and mean” conservatives are and then turn around and then use such lovely language as “you idiots.”
“Do you realize how stupid you sound?
The anger is strong in this one.
Swamp Thang
January 9th, 2013
8:58 pm
“you’ve already told us earlier that you’re retired, so that means you sit on your ass all day, right.
If you were smart, which you obviously are not, you’d have realized that I didn’t start posting until about an hour ago which means I have not been here all day which means….I have a job.
Sucks to be you, unemployed little man.
Swamp Thang
January 9th, 2013
8:59 pm
“Nothing like confirming how little you have in your life to occupy you constructively.
Then again, you’ve been posting all day long. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
JamVet
January 9th, 2013
8:59 pm
Twinkie’s on a bender.
He is exhibit A in the Georgia GOP’s Neanderthal image problem.
But the kid did crack me up the other day when he got really irate and said he had an MBA.
I was impressed.
That he could even spell MBA!
Swamp Thang
January 9th, 2013
9:00 pm
“Which regular cowardly poster afraid to use their own “name” and is hiding behind the sock puppet?
So JamVet is really named JamVet and Soothsayer is really named Soothsayer. Got it.
Fred ™
January 9th, 2013
9:00 pm
I love how the left wingers talk about how “evil and mean” conservatives are and then turn around and then use such lovely language as “you idiots.”
I don’t think you are evil OR mean. I just think you are stupid. Where did you dream up that evil and mean crap? More FOXBOT nonsense that you repeat?
Swamp Thang
January 9th, 2013
9:01 pm
“Georgia GOP’s Neanderthal
JamVet couldn’t think up anything original so he goes and steals what I called him earlier. Sad. Just sad.
“But the kid did crack me up the other day when he got really irate and said he had an MBA.’
This must be the point in the day when JamVet’s medication kicks in and makes him type weird and off-the-wall rants.
“That he could even spell MBA!”
He could even spell MBA? Grammar fail, Vet.
Wilma
January 9th, 2013
9:01 pm
“I love how you mindless talk radio/FOXBOT puppets have somehow made president Obama the founder of Chicago. Wasn’t it just a couple of month’s ago you idiots were claiming he was born and raised in Kenya?”
Fred, shake those rocks out of your head right now!!! You have as much sense as a Compsognathus.
ld
January 9th, 2013
9:02 pm
Other states, SC for one, agressively seeks to coordinate tech edu w/business need. Georgia seems to have failed big time on that one.
When I went back to tech school years ago, I paid all costs while some who seemed to receive every form of aid and welfare imaginable got a free ride over and over again as they failed and/or dropped out of one course after another. Some of the funding for the state being business friendly would be well spent on aiding QUALIFIED applicants (weed out those that are drunks, drug addicts and/or repeat failures/dropouts) in order to get at least partial aid to those that are actually willing to do the work to get the training they need to fill the jobs currently available and those anticipated to be available in the near, foreseeable future.
Fred ™
January 9th, 2013
9:02 pm
So JamVet is really named JamVet and Soothsayer is really named Soothsayer. Got it.
No you don’t “got it.” In most folks I would think you were being deliberately obtuse but in your case I think you really DO lack the wits to understand the meaning of names in parenthesis.
I would have put it in simpler terms for you, but I doubt there is anything more complex than a grunt that you understand.
Swamp Thang
January 9th, 2013
9:02 pm
“I just think you are stupid.”
Awe, a faceless blogger thinks I’m stupid. How sweet.
Fred ™
January 9th, 2013
9:04 pm
Wilma
January 9th, 2013
9:01 pm
“I love how you mindless talk radio/FOXBOT puppets have somehow made president Obama the founder of Chicago. Wasn’t it just a couple of month’s ago you idiots were claiming he was born and raised in Kenya?”
Fred, shake those rocks out of your head right now!!! You have as much sense as a Compsognathus.
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Which would STILL be exponentially more sense than the far right FOXBOTS……..
Swamp Thang
January 9th, 2013
9:04 pm
“I think you really DO lack the wits to understand the meaning of names in parenthesis.”
Fred actually thinks his comments mean something to me.
Swamp Thang
January 9th, 2013
9:04 pm
“FOXBOTS”
Added to Drudgeyspam, theres your sign and sport.
JamIt
January 9th, 2013
9:05 pm
“But the kid did crack me up the other day when he got really irate and said he had an MBA. I was impressed. That he could even spell MBA!”
Yeah, that is probably impressive to someone with a GED.
Fred ™
January 9th, 2013
9:05 pm
Swamp Thang
January 9th, 2013
9:02 pm
“I just think you are stupid.”
Awe, a faceless blogger thinks I’m stupid. How sweet.
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No really. I DO have a face. Here’s your sign………
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5ZkdHImCuQ
Swamp Thang
January 9th, 2013
9:05 pm
“You have as much sense as a Compsognathus.”
Fred had to look that word up. That was way too big for Fred to handle.
Doggone/GA
January 9th, 2013
9:06 pm
“Then again, you’ve been posting all day long”
Truly a sad thing to see when the only thing you have to occupy yourself is tracking others posting records.
Fred ™
January 9th, 2013
9:07 pm
Swamp Thang
January 9th, 2013
9:04 pm
“I think you really DO lack the wits to understand the meaning of names in parenthesis.”
Fred actually thinks his comments mean something to me.
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Actually, no I don’t. i doubt you have the wits to understand my posts. You prove me right with your poor attempts at a rebuttal.
It’s a shame that liar Lil Kyle shut’s his place down or else you could post over there with the other mindless FOXBOT trolls.
Swamp Thang
January 9th, 2013
9:07 pm
“Yeah, that is probably impressive to someone with a GED.”
Coke meet computer, computer meet coke.
Jm
January 9th, 2013
9:08 pm
Who is twink?
Fred ™
January 9th, 2013
9:08 pm
swamp Thang
January 9th, 2013
9:05 pm
“You have as much sense as a Compsognathus.”
Fred had to look that word up. That was way too big for Fred to handle.
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It’s not a word, it’s a dinosaur. Nice try little guy.
Swamp Thang
January 9th, 2013
9:08 pm
“No really. I DO have a face.”
I’m sure you do, Fred. I’m sure you do.
JamVet
January 9th, 2013
9:08 pm
Whack-a-troll Twink, you’re violating your parole by drinking.
No worries, when you go back to the big house, you can see mom and dad…
Swamp Thang
January 9th, 2013
9:09 pm
“i doubt you have the wits to understand my posts.
Yeah, because FOXBOT is just so damn intellectual. They must use them big words like FOXBOT at Harvard and Yale.
Obamatron
January 9th, 2013
9:09 pm
“Posting here is not proof I live here.”
But it is the first principle of epistemology: I post, therefore I am. A corollary to that is: I have a teleprompter, therefore I am wise.
Fred ™
January 9th, 2013
9:09 pm
Yawn. If Swamp Thang is the best the right has to offer, there isn’t much hope for them. Think I’ll go do something that is more intellectually stimulating than typing to him, like watch paint dry…….
Fred ™
January 9th, 2013
9:10 pm
Obamatron
January 9th, 2013
9:09 pm
“Posting here is not proof I live here.”
But it is the first principle of epistemology: I post, therefore I am. A corollary to that is: I have a teleprompter, therefore I am wise.
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George Bush coined that phrase didn’t he?
Swamp Thang
January 9th, 2013
9:10 pm
JamVet, get a job, a life and a girlfriend. Your posts are about as pathetic as John Edwards love child.
td
January 9th, 2013
9:10 pm
New York Gov. and likely 2016 presidential aspirant Andrew Cuomo used his State of the State address Wednesday to call for new gun controls, press Congress for post-Hurricane Sandy aid and propose a historic “women’s equality act” in the Empire State.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2013/01/observers-see-2016-in-andrew-cuomo-speech-85983.html#ixzz2HXCYtECA
The article did not say he was pulling a Dean as he screamed he wanted the guns.
I am sure you libs got a woody listening to his speech.
Fred ™
January 9th, 2013
9:12 pm
Yo Jammie: For your listening pleasure.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKftiJS30Cs
Later.
Swamp Thang
January 9th, 2013
9:12 pm
“Think I’ll go do something that is more intellectually stimulating than typing to him”
It’s funny that Fred thinks he’s smart. I bet he talks to himself in the mirror.
“I’m good enough, I’m smart enough and people like me” – Fred.
JamVet
January 9th, 2013
9:12 pm
My bad on that last, Twink.
You would have to know you parents to recognize them in prison…
Wilma
January 9th, 2013
9:12 pm
“It’s not a word, it’s a dinosaur. Nice try little guy.”
Honestly, Fred! It IS a word that REFERS to a dinosaur. It is NOT the dinosaur itself!!! I sure wish you had graduated from pebble school. You embarrass me!
Finn McCool (The System isn't Broken; It's Fixed)
January 9th, 2013
9:12 pm
Georgia is the Honey Boo Boo of states:
“A Dolla’ Make Me Holla’”
Swamp Thang
January 9th, 2013
9:13 pm
td
Cuomo can scream all he wants because the state already has strict gun control. The idiot will probably try to take guns away from cops.
Jm
January 9th, 2013
9:13 pm
Twink is funny
td
January 9th, 2013
9:14 pm
“I say to you forget the extremists. It’s simple — no one hunts with an assault rifle. No one needs 10 bullets to kill a deer and too many people have died already,” Cuomo said.
Another lib that does not understand the meaning of the 2nd Amendment.
Doggone/GA
January 9th, 2013
9:14 pm
“Your posts are about as pathetic as John Edwards love child.”
From the person who has nothing better to do in life than track the posting records of others.
Swamp Thang
January 9th, 2013
9:14 pm
“You would have to know you parents”
JamVet, take a damn grammar course. The drunker and angrier you are, the more mistakes you make.
Finn McCool (The System isn't Broken; It's Fixed)
January 9th, 2013
9:15 pm
Relax people, no one is taking guns away.
Swamp Thang
January 9th, 2013
9:15 pm
“From the person who has nothing better to do in life than track the posting records of others.”
Guess that would make sense if the above poster had a job.
Swamp Thang
January 9th, 2013
9:16 pm
“Relax people, no one is taking guns away.”
Of course they aren’t. They don’t have the manpower to enforce it.
Finn McCool (The System isn't Broken; It's Fixed)
January 9th, 2013
9:16 pm
Another lib that does not understand the meaning of the 2nd Amendment.
Cuomo didn’t say anything that had anything to do with the 2nd amendment.
Doggone/GA
January 9th, 2013
9:18 pm
“Guess that would make sense if the above poster had a job”
Got proof that I don’t?
Swamp Thang
January 9th, 2013
9:18 pm
“Got proof that I don’t?”
Yeah, you’ve been posting on Bookmans blog all day.
Doggone/GA
January 9th, 2013
9:20 pm
“Yeah, you’ve been posting on Bookmans blog all day”
That’s a conclusion you have made because you have nothing better to do than track the posts of otehrs. It’s not proof. I asked for PROOF.
JamVet
January 9th, 2013
9:21 pm
Great tune, great record and great band, Freddie.
And that instrumental part that starts at 5:40 is so insanely good that even PBS uses it.
OK, time to flush the Twinkie turd.
Swirl away lil twink and buck up!
Tomorrow, Kyle’s will reopen and you can once again play Aesop…
td
January 9th, 2013
9:21 pm
Finn McCool (The System isn’t Broken; It’s Fixed)
January 9th, 2013
9:16 pm
Really? So if I wanted an AR-15 with a 30 round mag and Cuomo want to say no then that has nothing to do with my right to keep and bare arms?
Fred ™
January 9th, 2013
9:21 pm
Wilma
January 9th, 2013
9:12 pm
“It’s not a word, it’s a dinosaur. Nice try little guy.”
Honestly, Fred! It IS a word that REFERS to a dinosaur. It is NOT the dinosaur itself!!! I sure wish you had graduated from pebble school. You embarrass me!
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Sorry Wilma. My feet hurt from driving the car………
Swamp Thang
January 9th, 2013
9:23 pm
Doggone/GA, get a job.
Fred ™
January 9th, 2013
9:24 pm
Really? So if I wanted an AR-15 with a 30 round mag and Cuomo want to say no then that has nothing to do with my right to keep and bare arms?
What does Cuomo care if you bare your arms or not? He doesn’t monitor if you wear short sleeves or long sleeves.
And what do your naked arms have to do with an AR-15?
Do you shave your bare arms or are they hairy bare arms?
Swamp Thang
January 9th, 2013
9:24 pm
Wonder what time JamVet will start posting again tomorrow? 8am or 9am? Either way he’ll be here all day calling people names and acting as if his opinion means something. Can’t wait!
Uh Huh
January 9th, 2013
9:25 pm
@td
January 9th, 2013
9:14 pm
“I say to you forget the extremists. It’s simple — no one hunts with an assault rifle. No one needs 10 bullets to kill a deer and too many people have died already,” Cuomo said.
Another lib that does not understand the meaning of the 2nd Amendment.
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Its people like “YOU” who would want a gun with 10 bullets.
Until YOUR child is MURDERED with one of these guns.
Big mouths like you RANT and RAVE about the 2nd amendment until
someone in YOUR family is killed by one of these guns.
Then you CRY LIKE A BABY FOR SYMPATHY.
Well guess what?
You will get NO SYMPATHY FROM US.
So defend your gun with the 10 bullets.
YOU ARE OWN YOUR OWN IF IT HAPPENS TO SOMEONE
IN YOUR FAMILY.
FAMILY.
Swamp Thang
January 9th, 2013
9:26 pm
“What does Cuomo care if you bare your arms or not? He doesn’t monitor if you wear short sleeves or long sleeves.”
Fred is so intellectual. He must have studied at Harvard. I mean, NO one can be as smart as Fred!
Doggone/GA
January 9th, 2013
9:26 pm
“Doggone/GA, get a job.”
Got proof that I don’t have one already?
Swamp Thang
January 9th, 2013
9:27 pm
“Until YOUR child is MURDERED with one of these guns.
Big mouths like you RANT and RAVE about the 2nd amendment until
someone in YOUR family is killed by one of these guns.”
People are more likely to be killed by a car, cancer or a hammar than a gun. So sell your angry rants to MSNBC.
Obamatron
January 9th, 2013
9:27 pm
“Another lib that does not understand the meaning of the 2nd Amendment.”
What do you mean??? Don’t you know that they used to hunt animals with militias in the 18th century? How can you possibly question Cuomo’s intelligence and knowledge like that? In his vast wisdom, he has said that the confiscation of guns could be an option. He is on SOLID Constitutional ground when he says things like that. I mean, we interred Japanese in WWII. Why not inter those racist, neo-nazi white people in the GOP who insist on having guns? And, to his credit, Cuomo dis say he did not plan on confiscating everyone’s guns – only those belonging to law abiding citizens. He will let those in the “hood” keep their illegal arms, since they vote Democratic.
Swamp Thang
January 9th, 2013
9:28 pm
“Got proof that I don’t have one already?’
Yes and you continue to prove it. Thanks.
td
January 9th, 2013
9:31 pm
Uh Huh
January 9th, 2013
9:25 pm
No I want a 30 or 50 round clip to go with my AR-15 so that I can shoot those thugs before they attack my children.
Doggone/GA
January 9th, 2013
9:31 pm
“Yes and you continue to prove it. Thanks”
Well, no you don’t…and you continue to prove that you haven’t.
Swamp Thang
January 9th, 2013
9:31 pm
“Considering that all the bookman regulars can do is grunt at Swamp Thang’
That’s because they don’t have much of a life. It’s hilarious to watch JamVet scream things like “loser, idiot” at me yet he spends all day posting nonsense. He, and others, actually think their rants matter and have an effect on life.
Fred ™
January 9th, 2013
9:32 pm
Party Girl
January 9th, 2013
9:29 pm
Considering that all the bookman regulars can do is grunt at Swamp Thang, I’m showing it at 74-0 in his favor.
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Don’t forget to wipe your chin.
Swamp Thang
January 9th, 2013
9:33 pm
“you continue to prove that you haven’t.”
You’re unemployed.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
January 9th, 2013
9:33 pm
Look like the “Scorned of the Kam” have decided to go on a sewage run
Swamp Thang
January 9th, 2013
9:33 pm
“Notice how Kamchak has retired to it’s rathole in the face of such intelligence?
He’s busy searching the internet for new words to use.
Fred ™
January 9th, 2013
9:34 pm
I wonder if Doomy, I mean Swamp Thang has enlisted a partner or if he is playing the part of party girl and Wilma by hisself………..
Doggone/GA
January 9th, 2013
9:34 pm
“You’re unemployed”
Got proof?
Swamp Thang
January 9th, 2013
9:34 pm
“Don’t forget to wipe your chin.
Another highly intelligent post from our resident Ivy Leaguer.
Fred ™
January 9th, 2013
9:34 pm
Hey Keep. How’s it going?
Swamp Thang
January 9th, 2013
9:35 pm
“Got proof?”
You’re unemployed
Keep Up the Appearances
January 9th, 2013
9:36 pm
“Look like the “Scorned of the Kam” have decided to go on a sewage run”
What manhole did you use?
Swamp Thang
January 9th, 2013
9:36 pm
“Hey Keep. How’s it going?”
The saddest part of that comment/question is Keep is Fred’s only friend in the world. Jay should be the new Match.com for unemployed folks in search of a boy/girlfriend.
“Jamvet is a sputtering, angry weakling”
Don’t forget unemployed and old.