The same people who raised the minimum wage are also the same people who are trying to end the $12 billion every month squandered in Iraq. We sure could use that money instead back in Indianapolis and America.

Believe it has everything to do with feel-good economics. Nothing but politicans working hard to make minimum wage earners belive they are getting more when in fact their take home pay increase will not take them home and the net result is less than what they had before.

Abdul, your buddy Jen over at TDW told me that you can’t have it both ways. You either have to pay for more officers and pensions or keep the funding levels where they’re at. I reminded her that the third option that I am contemplating is just simply getting the hell out of town. If I lived in Plainfield or Avon (practically across the street from my house), I wouldn’t have these headaches to deal with. The only time I spend in Marion County outside of my house is when I’m driving 465 to work, and when I get out there, I’m in Carmel. I’m done with this town.

…or cut costs! That would be a novel approach. Just as I will cut my spending in Marion County, let me show Bart-man how.

Time for Bart to SHOW US THE BUDGET! It’s our money, time for us to see how it is being spent. Line by line.

Abdul,

You know how ridiculous that logic is. In many responses to questions about federal policies, you state the relationship between them and state/local, but caution that this is a local/state blog. Are you really linking a federal minimum wage increase to a local tax increase? Come on. That’s a non-starter; it’s not even logical or your usual eloquent nuancing of issues (which I appreciate).

I would hasten to accuse you of reaching to the lowest common denominator to prove a point, to infuriate the masses. Is that your goal: to start revolution? We, the people, should revolt against the government because we, the people, keep electing them?

Wouldn’t it be a better service to highlight opposition candidates? Is there even a full slate come November?

But, the more I read looking for some insight, the more I find posts of ignorance.

Maybe a forum allowing us to discuss what an effective local government looks like (what services it provides) would be beneficial to the conversation; or is it, I want it but don’t want to pay for it?

“The seed of revolution is repression”, Woodrow Wilson.

Maybe our public servants (whether on a School Board or a City-County Council) ought to keep that in mind.

Allowing public opinion some free expression, while it might make our ears burn a bit, might surely dampen the anger that is beginning to simmer.

The uglier Indianapolis grows, the more tax-hungry and panhandler-infested it becomes, the lousier the schools become, the more people move to the Donut Counties, the longer Bart, Democrat Chairman Dan Parker and his attack Tribble, Jen W., can stay in power. Raising taxes and wrecking Indianapolis actually strengthens the Marion County Democrats, sort of the way a dung-beetle lives off dung.