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Jim Halonen

Delano, MN
Commenter for
2 years 44 weeks

Recent Comments

Posted on 11/01/11 at 03:48 pm in response to 'No!' is current Capitol answer to a public subsidy for Vikings stadium

I'm trying to reconcile how a couple of different issues are battling for face time these days: Scads of public school districts across the state have levy referendums this fall - because of alleged budget woes.... and there is consternation of if/how to publicly fund a sports stadium. If there is not enough money to fund something that is constitutionally required, it's astounding that a private business/entertainment stadium is even on the table for discussion.

Posted on 10/05/11 at 03:45 pm in response to Children's health and Republican efforts to lift restrictions on air pollutants

@#10...

If history is used as a guide, cost of implementation is usually way underestimated and savings are way overestimated.

Posted on 09/13/11 at 01:23 pm in response to What Tea Party supporters think about global warming

Most anti-AGW speakers, writers and thinkers are concerned about personal freedom and libery, not corporate ties. What I think is a fib within the fib is that "97 percent of scientists conducting experiments....". I would like a study on that number.

Posted on 09/09/11 at 03:19 pm in response to Obama channels his inner FDR in jobs speech

Read this article carefully and thoughtfully. This NYT writer highlights the inner Sarah Palin accrurately... It's both parties, we all have to wake up to it.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/10/us/10iht-currents10.html?_r=4...

Posted on 09/02/11 at 03:56 pm in response to Economy stalls on job growth with 9.1% jobless rate

What is more hilarious - Bush's "Mission Accomplished", or Obama's "Summer of Recovery"? These presidents must get out of the marketing business and let their leadership speak for itself.

Posted on 09/01/11 at 11:50 am in response to Highway funding system is running out of gas

I hear that some of our gasoline tax revenue is siphoned off to fund projects other than roads. If this is true, we need no increase in gas tax, just use the gas tax for funding roads and let other projects fund themselves.

Posted on 08/31/11 at 01:33 pm in response to With Perry in the race, some Tea Party supporters are asking: 'Michele who?'

This Perry surge is to the liberals delight. He's a lightweight against Obama in '12, Bachmann has the only chance at winning the general election for the GOP. It's early, but this is starting to smell like McCain all over again.

Posted on 08/23/11 at 01:41 pm in response to What Michele Bachmann would do about high gas prices

Back in the 90's Congress passed a bill that opened up ANWR to drilling, but President Clinton vetoed it. Had he signed it, we would probably be enjoying $2 gas now. President Bachmann would have signed it - common sense solutions is what Bachmann is all about.

Posted on 08/24/11 at 02:13 pm in response to What Michele Bachmann would do about high gas prices

The all-time cheapest gasoline was in 1998-99. Oil was going for about $19 a barrel. Did the oil companies, just for a time, suspend their drive for profits? Oil companies do not have anyhing to do with the price of oil! Governments can strangle (or assist) and over-regulate (no ANWR) their ability to explore/drill/produce which results in low supply, high price. If we have oil in our country, I would much prefer we harvest that than import from elsewhere.

Posted on 08/25/11 at 03:53 pm in response to What Michele Bachmann would do about high gas prices

Do pizza stores set the price of pizza? No! The marketplace does. Otherwise, why wouldn't the pizza store set the price at $400 a pizza? When oil was $17 a barrel in 1998, why wouldn't the oil companies simply make it $500 a barrel? Supply and demand, The Invisible Hand, etc...