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BILL MCKECHNIE

cotton, MN
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2 years 21 weeks

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Posted on 03/02/13 at 08:48 am in response to The fight at South High was more than a food fight

This is utter nonsense. They need to spea k, write, interact and live English. All other immigrants have learned English. French,German,Norwegians, Italians, Chinese and Japanese to name a few. Tell the kids together a grip, become American or go back to Somalia.

Posted on 11/09/11 at 01:12 pm in response to 'Washington Rules' and our path to permanent war

You are right on in recommending this book. We could cut our military forces and bases in half and still be able to clobber the rest of the world without much effort. We don need nor can we afford to have a military industrial complex. Let those companies make solar panels, hydrogen powered cars and the like and pound their weapons into plowshares. Finally we should invest in Peace Studies at the International Peace Gardens in North Dakota on the border with Canadal.

Posted on 09/06/11 at 04:30 pm in response to Shawn Lawrence Otto fights against attacks on science in this country

Don Shelby and Otto are spot one, science is under attack and if we see Perry in the White House, it will be even worse.

Posted on 06/09/11 at 12:30 pm in response to State employees speak: 'When something shuts down, it shuts down'

It seems to me that the Republican freshmen and those who espouse their view of reality should be required to do several things. First, read the constitution of Minnesota and the USA. Second, they must learn that fundamental to a shared power arrangement, ie governor and legislature requires compromise. It is the heart and soul of democracy as our framers intended. The ideological positions staked out by the Republicans must give way to compromise or fail. Third,they must be forced to admit...

Posted on 05/20/11 at 01:13 pm in response to Gov. Mark Dayton enters GOP session to a warm ovation but leaves on a chillier note

Way to go Mark Dayton- Don't give up your principles either. You won the statewide election and these local ideologues did not. Focus on what we have to do have a great state and whatever that number is, stick with it. I am sure most of these new Republicans won close races and thus just less than half of their constituents would support their "principled attempt to legislate a wholesale change in our society".

Maybe after the Rapture event at 6pm Saturday night the population of...

Posted on 05/18/11 at 07:32 pm in response to Chip Cravaack touts Ryan budget bill at Brainerd meeting

Our esteemed Congressman Chip is simply out to lunch, He must of been busy when economics 101 was taught, he must have been busy when political theory was taught, he must have been busy when social responsibility of a society to its people was taught. I just do not understand how a man who spent a good part of his life working for the federal government and using government medical system, its pension system and its paychecks has such a problem with taking care of the lest fortunate than he...

Posted on 04/06/11 at 11:53 am in response to House Iron Rangers try again in vain to save their economic development funds

I agree that the taking of the 60 million dollars from the IRRB is wrong in so many ways that it is deplorable but altogether expected when we view the perfidy of the Republican majority. However, I wonder if the IRRB has been more active in spending the money in the name of job creation on the Range there would have been the big of a pot of money to steal. I think the IRRB spent more time acting like a bank and less like a job creation organization. They were not risk takers at all...

Posted on 04/06/11 at 12:27 pm in response to House Republicans unveil federal budget with aggressive cuts

Paul Ryan's and the Republican approach to balancing budget on the backs of the poor and dwindling middle class is the break in the two hundred plus years of the great experiment in Democracy we call the United States. There has been up to the past thirty years a compact between all segments of our society. We are all in this together and if we need to do something for the country we will all pitch in and make a shared sacrifice. That idea has been severely damaged on the rocks of...

Posted on 02/22/11 at 12:24 pm in response to 'MinnPost Asks' Zellers and Thissen -- and you can too

Doug why not ask this question: Why not increase, substantially the taxes on the wealthiest Minnesotans, say top five percent, and see what happens. We have had 30 years of low taxes for rich people why not try another approach? Don't let them get away with the mantra answer, job killing tax increases. Make them state some facts. Also I do not want philosophy, I want results, Money to pay for our wonderful Minnesota.

Posted on 01/21/11 at 01:30 pm in response to To me, this poll's big finding: We like to whine

Eric I agree with you that the white haired greatest generation who make up most of the TEA Party should get over it. For the past thirty years the wealthiest of them have not paid their fair share of taxes putting many states in a bankrupt position with their unfunded liabilities for public pensions and they have had the the kids fight two wars for no real reason. To fix these problems we need to stop whining, have the over 65 crowd pay a surcharge on their wealth over 150k with a sliding...