State...Journal...blogosphere....slowly....dying....gasp

Well, it finally got you to post something. Who cares? Stuff often gets off track here. Don't like it? Don't read it.

Marine Recon, trying, and others.....If you guys want to discuss national politics sooooo much, then please create a blog on national politics and do so. When you keep bringing in national politics (in reference to local, unrelated blogs) it makes people like me who want to read opinions (about the blog/article subject) search through all the same crap you guys say on every blog. So please, do us a favor and restrict your comments to the subject in the blog/article.

Oh, con man, don't you know that Denial goes by the mantra of the Obama campaign, if a lie is repeated often enough people will eventually believe it's the truth. It worked, everything was Bush's fault, never mind that the foundation for the real estate market crisis was laid long before either Bush was in office. Never mind that Clinton made the final push to give lending institutions free reign just so everybody could have a home. Never mind that Fannie Mae was supposed to be reigned in and investigated years ago (something Bush condoned) but the then Democratic congress decided against it. People struggle to pay for their houses, they won't buy other stuff especially cars... things go down the drain...

Oh, and under Clinton everything was better, except there was never a real surplus because they always excluded social security... the funds of which have been robbed, oops, also long before either Bush came along.

But hey, if we repeat it often enough, maybe we can make it all Denial's fault. I'm sure we can spin it somehow to blame him for everything. It's a shame that people so easily swallow the kool-aid and don't read up on what really transpired. Heck, Denial lived through all of that, he should know the history.

Now as to the trillions spent.... in the stimulus package lots of it went into wasteful projects. If we want to believe Obama 1/3 of what has been spent went to the people in form of tax cuts (you know that little paycheck bump we all got). Now, instead of being the good citizens we are supposed to be and going about and spending it all, we suddenly developed the nasty habit to hang on to as much as we can. Can you blame us? Those lovely financial institutions we bailed out last year with an uncontrolled money injection decided to repay us alright. Interest rate hikes on loans and mortgages, little to no room to renegotiate, incredibly tightened criteria on new loans.... That's really hurting businesses. Top that with the questions about how much the health care reform will cost us and impact the individual businesses... nothing is moving. In a way Obama is right, if we don't get this healthcare stuff resolved somehow, it's bad news for the economy. Nobody wants to make major moves unless they know what's coming their way. Europe is starting to recover. We just got more bad news this month. Record foreclosures, more job losses...

Quite frankly, the people I see messing up right now are our current lawmakers, rushing things through, not reading what they vote on, not knowing contents, not even being able to talk about it... and that all the way up to the president. It's ridiculous. But last I checked, the Democrats ruled congress since 2006... Three years was time enough to get us into a bigger mess than ever without a care in the world...

But hey, it's all Denial's fault. He did it!

The comments from many of these posters prove my theory that this is absolutely the cheapest town in America. Its a small town where we know most each other and everyone wants a deal. But we forget, if we give everyone a deal, we are out of business in a couple of months.

For what it costs a family of four to eat at O'Charlies or Chili's ONE TIME, you can have a full year online sunscription to our local paper.
That has to be one of the best bargains around, anywhere.

Now I wish like crazy the SJ would do more investigative journalism on state government. It is ripe with misdeeds and state workers ready to rat them out. And they should rat them out, it is our tax money being wasted. The local need is proven by the staffs both statewide papers dedicate to Frankfort.

Back on topic, see my earlier post for the environmental benefits this paid site provdes too.

It seems to me that if the State Journal really wanted more people to pay for the online edition, they would make it easier and faster to subscribe and get access. Right now you have to submit your contact information and wait for them to call you back.

Hey guys, how about setting up an online payment option that provides immediate access once the payment is processed? Paypal works wonderfully for this! I know because I've used it on many, many websites.