tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19923729.post7212393981835713734..comments2023-09-05T08:34:20.322-04:00Comments on susan the bruce: Elections and EulogiesUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19923729.post-92114975268064578352013-11-18T08:39:23.460-05:002013-11-18T08:39:23.460-05:00Left wing Marxists in NH? Better get to the docto...Left wing Marxists in NH? Better get to the doctor right away, before that jerking right knee gets any worse. susanthehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05960705109051557790noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19923729.post-65524781109464578212013-11-18T07:17:26.738-05:002013-11-18T07:17:26.738-05:00Judge me on whatever you want. At least the Irish ...Judge me on whatever you want. At least the Irish Republican Army stood up against the Royals. <br />Beware of anyone that lives in a castle, has servants and footmen, taxes you off your own land and then says "They're really just trying to help you."<br />Agree with your comments about Greece and Portugal this is what happens when left wing marxists gain control. The same thing is happening here in New Hampshire. www.nhinsider.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19923729.post-34027072511029842262013-11-16T11:39:45.136-05:002013-11-16T11:39:45.136-05:00"Connolly" is an Irish name, is it not?
..."Connolly" is an Irish name, is it not?<br /><br />Perhaps we should bar you from political participation based on your ethnic heritage. After all, Ireland, thanks to a string of inept, corrupt, center-right governments, has long been one of the economic bottom-feeders of Europe. It could usually be found battling it out with Greece and Portugal for the coveted "Biggest Train Wreck" distinction.<br /><br />If you are going to judge the representative from Nashua based o what happens in New Delhi, I'm going to judge you based on what happens in Dublin.Some Guy On The Interwebsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19923729.post-45419015466299892012013-11-15T15:35:45.521-05:002013-11-15T15:35:45.521-05:00I wasn't aware that writing about a campaign w...I wasn't aware that writing about a campaign was the same thing as endorsing it. Thanks for clearing that up, Mr. Connolly. You might want to take a peek into your dictionary. One of these things really isn't just like the other. <br /><br />I note that rather than address any of the issues I raised in my earlier post, you chose to engage in a xenophobic rant about "those people." You are aware that GOP rising star Bobby Jindal is one of "those people" aren't you? <br /><br />Investing in our state is not socialism, Connolly. It's pragmatism - and something you and your fellow mouth breathers would do well to consider. susanthehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05960705109051557790noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19923729.post-23803081562294439892013-11-15T15:18:39.260-05:002013-11-15T15:18:39.260-05:00"Since you seem to have the inside track, per..."Since you seem to have the inside track, perhaps you could share it with me." <br /><br />I do have the inside track. Having served two terms in the NH House myself and being active in NH politics since 1987. <br /><br />In terms of your 'endorsements' you might not have been holding a sign, but you've endorsed Rep. Latha Mangipudi or at least you were there in principle. <br /><br />Have you been to India Ms. Bruce? This is a country that is like a train wreck. This is a country that refuses to help itself. And other than bringing their cultures, their values and their ideas to the U.S. what do these individuals from India bring to New Hampshire and the NH House? <br /><br />Former Rep. Silva's comment about "New Delihi" is likely accurate. Instead of assimilating to values that have existed since the 1700s these people have chosen to remake and rebrand NH into how THEY want it. Including using economic models, values and ideas that fail and continue to fail in their own countries. <br /><br />Socialism is an economic model that has continually demonstrate that it can't work over time. Yet it is one that yourself and other continue to espouse and promote and an a direction that will tax and spend New Hampshire into oblivion.Steven J. Connollyhttp://www.nhinsider.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19923729.post-90711248639148934342013-11-15T14:39:48.079-05:002013-11-15T14:39:48.079-05:00"These people" would be folks like forme..."These people" would be folks like former Congressmen Jeb Bradley and Charlie Bass, former Governor Lynch, the Union Leader...you get the idea. If you were here in 2005, I suspect you remember - and that you were one of the howlers. <br /><br /><br />As for why NH trails every other northeast state in job creation? That's almost too easy. <br />Vermont has invested heavily in improving Vermont. They made getting the whole state wired for high speed internet a priority. It's almost done. They included the far flung rural areas, like the Northeast kingdom. NH has no such priority. NH could care less about the northern, rural part of the state. NH has been kicking the can of infrastructure down the road for decades, because NO NEW TAXES. NH now has some 500 bridges on a "redlist" for structural impairments, and no money to fix them. NH has inadequate highways and few east-west connectors. NH is too cheap to invest in NH. NH is too cheap to invest in education, and so we rank 50th in the nation for funding our state university system. NH, because NO NEW TAXES has an over-reliance on the property tax. Thanks to the nuclear power plant on the coast, NH has some of the highest energy costs in the region. <br /><br />Then there are the other, more subtle reasons that businesses would cause businesses to choose not to come here. The 2011/2012 legislature made it clear to the world that NH is populated by lunatics. Martin Harty, DJ Bettencourt, Bill O'Brien, the Magna Carta bill, the warning signs at the border bill, and so on. We were a global laughingstock. <br /><br />The tea party whackos like Jack "UN invading NH" Kimball have a high profile in our media. This is the image we project. Same is true of O'Brien, whose media coverage is more extensive than his political influence. The battle over guns in the state house made us look insane to the rest of the nation and the world. Then there's the Free State Project - the group of armed glibertarian misanthropes moving to NH to take over the state government and threaten to secede. Why would any company come here? <br /><br />NH is the Texas of the northeast. Texas works in the south, because the south is full of similar thinkers. NH doesn't work because the rest of the northeast is not full of mouth breathing ideologues. Even Texas is investing in its own infrastructure, which is more than NH is willing to do. The GOP has been beating the dishonest drum of "NH doesn't have a revenue problem, NH has a spending problem" - but that's a big old crock of guano. No other state in the union funds their state parks the way we do - which is why our parks are in such bad repair. NH isn't a poor state. It's a cheap one. The result of that cheapness is staring you right in the face, but I suspect you're too impaired by ideology to see it. <br /><br />Simple answer Sparky? NH is behind because the wingnuts of the far right are opposed to investing in bringing NH even as far as the 20th century, even though we live in the 21st. <br /><br />I'm curious to learn what candidates I've endorsed. Since you seem to have the inside track, perhaps you could share it with me. <br />susanthehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05960705109051557790noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19923729.post-71661460599067616082013-11-15T14:08:06.275-05:002013-11-15T14:08:06.275-05:00"It's been mildly amusing to watch the pe..."It's been mildly amusing to watch the people that were howling....offering accolades now that he's gone." <br />And who exactly are these people Ms. Bruce? <br />Perhaps when your done standing on the pulpit of liberal-socialist mantra you might be able to explain why New Hampshire now trails every northeast state including Vermont in such areas of job creation and home foreclosure rates. <br />What do your endorsed candidates have to say about all this? I'm sure your perspective in this area is very meaningful if not innovative.Steven J. Connollyhttp://www.nhinsider.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19923729.post-46449960563474447302013-11-14T21:40:30.713-05:002013-11-14T21:40:30.713-05:00You write so well what many of us out here are thi...You write so well what many of us out here are thinking about, and trying to put into some kind of meaningful perspective -victoriahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07709091860709088941noreply@blogger.com