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Danie Watson

Mound, MN
Commenter for
5 years 28 weeks

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Posted on 04/14/11 at 01:51 pm in response to Obama's deficit speech: One of the best and most important of his term

Dennis, it's preferential spending on one group versus another--whether it's home owners, charitable donors, business owners or high-income earners.

Posted on 04/14/11 at 12:40 pm in response to Obama's deficit speech: One of the best and most important of his term

High time we correctly identify tax cuts what they are: spending.

Posted on 04/08/11 at 04:14 pm in response to Hmmm ... One Wisconsin county finds 7,500 Prosser votes

I say take a breather on the Wisconsin election.

I never met a poll worker who was doing anything but giving her or his best effort to produce an accurate result. We owe it to them to assume honest people are doing honest work unless there is clear evidence to the contrary.

Yes, such charges were leveled against election judges in DFL areas during the Coleman-Franken election and in the Dayton-Emmer race (such as the Hennepin County election judge who posted updated totals to...

Posted on 04/08/11 at 03:18 pm in response to Hmmm ... One Wisconsin county finds 7,500 Prosser votes

I understand there is no automatic recount in WI, as we have here. A candidate has to file a request.

Posted on 04/07/11 at 04:29 pm in response to Advocates for needy fear today's political climate

I did mean the Great Depression. It followed the last period of time when the income disparity between rich and poor was as deep and wide as it is today.

I've volunteered at food shelves and worked for hunger relief organizations in Minnesota and Nevada. I talked to many food shelf visitors who had exhausted every other possible resource before coming there, which they saw as a last resort.

I wish I had a nickel for every person who had fallen from a financially secure perch...

Posted on 04/07/11 at 01:28 pm in response to Advocates for needy fear today's political climate

Gregory, of course state spending on welfare is up. We're coping with the worst economic crisis in 90 years. That's precisely when upward pressure on the social safety net occurs, and when it is appropriate for government to provide for its people.

Aren't you seeing those yellow "Auction" signs in your neighborhood? How many more of them would you like to see? 5? 10? 20? Your property value will suffer. Your neighbor's kids are going to bed hungry--one in eight kids in Minnesota....

Posted on 04/07/11 at 02:50 pm in response to Pioneer Press touches newspapering's third rail: the TV listings

The Strib had the worst web site of any news site in the biz--until they rolled out their new site.

Posted on 04/05/11 at 10:53 am in response to Wally the Beer Man gets a celebrity 'beertender' gig

GOP Voter ID defenders are now saying it will only cost $4 million. They manage this with the usual budgetary slight of hand: no money in the bill for free IDs for those who can't afford them (read "poll tax") and no voter education funding (read "chaos on election day").

Posted on 04/04/11 at 04:15 pm in response to Jason Lewis on taxing the rich

"It's important to remember the budget 'crisis' in play here was deliberately created as a matter of policy."

Dead on. The MN deficit has been created by Pawlenty's irresponsible policies (both as a legislator and as a governor).

Posted on 04/04/11 at 03:30 pm in response to Jason Lewis on taxing the rich

I am as fed up with the run-government-more-like-a-business argument as I am with the run-government-budgets-more-like-family-budgets argument. Both are poppycock.

Why, if families ran their budgets as the Republicans suggest, then the first task would be to have one wage-earner quit his or her job (cut taxes and reduce revenue), then turn one or two of the children out of the family and in to the street (slash the budget for services to the neediest).

I wish there were more...