tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post8845598215644636171..comments2020-04-11T03:30:02.282-05:00Gary R. Welshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15185079937305083438noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-79141400516531513842010-12-06T12:45:28.438-05:002010-12-06T12:45:28.438-05:00Isn’t the Wishard deal a house of cards from day one? What&#39;s to be expected from a state assembly deal (please advise if I’m recalling incorrectly), introduced late in a session, at night, with no preliminary study, testimony, or fanfare, by a tag team of: Rep Crawford and Senator Kenley(?). There&#39;s not reason to smell a rat?<br /><br /> Funding based upon (at least in-part), existent, publicly-acknowledged “overpayment” of something else (nursing home care?) from the Federal government. Again, millions in funding based on the theoretical steady pipeline of being overpaid from a level of government under enormous pressure to reduce spending. What isn’t wrong with this picture? To start with, if it were your kids- wouldn’t you tell them to stop depending on money from a source that may well dry-up when the overspending is discovered? Where am I misrecalling or misstating?<br /><br /> If Daniels wants to recover from the broadsides he&#39;s taken on FSSA, jobs numbers, and most recently the IURC, he could make sure the IURC gives what is perceived as a thorough, scrupulous, and non-partisan look. If this goose is already cooked, it would at least be a better holiday for taxpayers if IURC gives their rubberstamp before the end of year and the cheaper bonds are vamos.<br /> <br /> I&#39;m going to get a Shelia Seuss-Kennedy T-shirt. I may disagree with her at least as much as Juan Williams, but she hit the jackpot on privatizations sometimes being mere political escapes to evade tax increases and potential election ouster. Peterson was at least upfront with his tax increase late in his administration. Conservatives have rough sledding when a privatization deal is as foul and wretched as the other party&#39;s fantasical and short-sighted government expansion. How are you going to compete with &quot;free&quot; stuff if your purported support of transparency, accountability, and frugality is none of the above? Both major parties may be grotesquely self-serving and deceitful, but if you&#39;re the &quot;party of No&quot; and the other guy is &quot;…for the children&quot;, you pepetually got some &#39;splaining to to do. You’ve got to truthfully cite examples of the consequences of government overspending, reinvigorate taxpayer vigilance and continued volunteering for those in need, and reiterate that all boats are historically better raised with imperfect free enterprise capitalism versus imperfect egalitarian socialism.<br /> <br /> As with Lugar&#39;s vote against prohibiting pork-barrel spending, sooner or later we&#39;re talking about real money. When our public servants forgot that, it’s time for new public servants. The attitude of not to worry about potentially losing millions on Wishard bonds is amazingly smug, on a frigid day in a city that can&#39;t keep libraries open but finds bucks for a new Pacers scoreboard.dcrutchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12856825454020971907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-45122889600471708632010-12-05T17:11:57.338-05:002010-12-05T17:11:57.338-05:00I am wondering if Mayor Ballard took a class by Ball State &quot;Professor&quot; Bart Peterson....and got an &quot;A&quot;???<br /><br />Can anyone confirm?Indy4U2Chttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16321040357893518968noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-29771585789847309052010-12-05T14:36:07.215-05:002010-12-05T14:36:07.215-05:00Government officials always lie; they just call it public relations or public information. One would hope that the IURC (with the input of the Utility Consumer Councilors) would seriously review the deal, particularly in light of their previous skewering of the Veiola contract and the current scandal. I am crossing my fingers, but I have virtually ceded that corruption, thievery and lying is so endemic to government, that there is no hope of anything occurring that would benefit anyone but the lying thieves.Citizen Kanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17083803017411939029noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-75515126288295078382010-12-05T09:39:56.032-05:002010-12-05T09:39:56.032-05:00The IURC *MUST* reject the proposal, seeing as how it was founded on bogus assumptions. If they have a shred of integrity, that is.Downtown Indyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06239811599722585898noreply@blogger.com