Homeless man kicked off of Dubie campaign train while Dubie campaigns on "screw the poor" platform

No doubt (4.00 / 2)

the homeless fellow wanted to chat with the Dubie dream team about holding state spending at affordable levels.
Or perhaps the man is overburdened by regulations and worried about permit reform?

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by: BP @ Tue Aug 31, 2010 at 10:04:32 AM UTC

I love how they use the word "plan..." (4.00 / 2)

to basically provide a vague list of principles:  Hey, I have a plan to end world hunger!  My plan is feed everybody a healthy amount of food.

You're welcome, world.

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by: JulieWaters @ Tue Aug 31, 2010 at 10:14:45 AM UTC

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Dubie ducks (4.00 / 1)

and even the Free Press notices a trend when he can't take more than a few minutes to expand on a plan eight months in the making.

Dubie's campaign staff allowed media only 12 minutes to ask Dubie questions following presentation of his 25-page plan, saying he had other appointments.

Read more: http://www.burlingtonfreepress...
 

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by: BP @ Tue Aug 31, 2010 at 10:32:59 AM UTC

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OOOOoooooooo....... (4.00 / 1)

Nothing ticks me off more than reading this - I'd like to mail this in postcard form to every registered voter in the state!
I watched Dubie on WCAX read from some crib notes; I mean give me a break; ten lame points and he can't commit them to memory?

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by: brattlebarb @ Tue Aug 31, 2010 at 11:28:57 AM UTC

Not the last (4.00 / 3)

The homeless guy who had found a home will not be the last one to be thrown out of his home by a contination of the Douglas and Dubie doctrine of helping the unfortunate.  That doctorine basically says, get a job then we can count you as newly employed; find a home so we can take you off the homeless roles; eat healthy so we won't have to provide you with health care; and most of all, do this all without any government assistance as we need to keep our money for tax credits for the rich.

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by: reelvermonter @ Tue Aug 31, 2010 at 12:45:14 PM UTC

I've been working on the railroad (0.00 / 0)

This is probably the final chance to take back our country, and perhaps we can only take back our little corner of it.  Fascism creeps. If you're ignorant to the severity of what I am saying, then I'd say lucky you.  The platform intents that I bring forth is the only one that copes with the economic war from a winning place.
Whether you like or detest me personally, it behooves you to do what you can to make these  candidates answer to the proposals.  Bring the proposal of State Bank, and VUE ( Vermont Unit of exchange), and Securities Transfer Tax ( tobin tax), VT Credit card, and a Common Good Bank for each community to the table. These are the propositions that will fund the businesses that make the jobs, the equity in pay, returning the power of money to Vermont and pay down the deficit.   If you allow personal ego and feelings to get in the way of getting this plan out there thne you won't have the benefit of the power of money in this State, and we will continue to be made homeless and have no chance to win the economic war that is waged on us from within our elected body.

 

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by: empeyton @ Tue Aug 31, 2010 at 13:22:08 PM UTC

Antique personal rail cars? (4.00 / 3)

Doesn't this evoke powerful memories of the last Great Depression? Barons of industry living high off the hog, having saved their own skins with no thought for the displaced working man, turned out onto the streets to scrounge for food and shelter.

"That National Federation of Business" sounds like it's agenda is identical to that of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce  which has evolved into a truly anti-small- business entity.  Lots of blinds here to look behind...

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by: Sue Prent @ Tue Aug 31, 2010 at 13:40:23 PM UTC

Fitting indeed (4.00 / 4)

Social contract?  What social contract?

Interesting that Dubie mentions Dean essentially level-funded state services, but fails to note that Hoho also maintained Snelling's higher tax rates so human services could stay afloat.

A recession is not the time to reduce taxes on the wealthy and business.  Historically we've gotten out of the downturns by extracting more from those who can afford it, providing services to those hardest hit, increasing demand, and investing in necessary infrastructure.

Remember: Reagan raised taxes 7 times from 1982 to 1987 because his original tax cut package was a disaster.  Dubie's plan is more Voodoo Economics and will kill jobs and the state budget.

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by: ntoddpax @ Tue Aug 31, 2010 at 15:09:55 PM UTC

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Noblesse Oblige: Tied to the Tracks (4.00 / 2)

.... and summarily dispatched by the Laissez Faire Express.

Beware the Everyday Brutality of the Averted Gaze

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by: mataliandy @ Wed Sep 01, 2010 at 13:54:00 PM UTC

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Dubie (3.00 / 1)

VT Dems have largely allowed the Rs to get away with this stupid (and false) one-note campaign for 8 years.   If their communications people can't run with this, and draw the obvious connection to what's going to happen to the rest of us once the Rs take over in Congress and various Governorships, they are indeed lame.

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by: scaypgrayce @ Tue Aug 31, 2010 at 13:51:47 PM UTC

One note that's off-key (3.67 / 3)

Taxes, taxes, taxes!  At least he's mostly stopped trashing Vermont's business climate.

He forgot about the VT Biz Survey that shows businesses are actually not moving away and doing pretty well.  Of course they complain about taxes.  Who doesn't, even in the lowest tax states?

Yet VT ranks high in well-being, best places to raise a family, etc.  Businesses surveyed generally appreciate our healthcare reform efforts.

State taxes account for very little in corporate expenses (about 1.2%, not counting Fed deductions), and about 9% of biz moves are predicated on tax law.  Factors such as access to resources, transportation, a healthy, educated and productive workforce, etc, matter more often.

Saying we've got to cut taxes at the expense of all the positive factors that gives Vermont a competitive advantage is like my trying to figure out what I'm going to wear on the Champlain College campus this Thursday based only on the temperature right now in Fletcher.  It's inane.

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by: ntoddpax @ Tue Aug 31, 2010 at 15:16:48 PM UTC

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Family flight? (3.75 / 4)

Where does Dubie get his data about families being driven out of the state?

The latest 3-year census estimates show an increase in the number of families in VT (http://tinyurl.com/29uly6h).  I'd love to see his source, unless it involves a camera and his colon.

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by: ntoddpax @ Tue Aug 31, 2010 at 15:19:08 PM UTC

the problem at the core (0.00 / 0)

The only way to fund new jobs is reclaim the banking industry, so that the interest that new businesses pay returns to the State treasury via a bank of Vermont, or to local vie Common Good Banks.   The fact that we are sending thousands upon thousands daily out of State with each bank that does business here but is owned elsewhere, and the fact we don't have a State Bank is key to understanding how we must act.

Minimum wage is insufficient to make an honorable living, in fact 2 full time jobs at minimum wage are not.  This is not going to turn around of its own accord. It got this way by the purposeful efforts and designs of financiers, and they have cornered a legal industry to back it up, as well as a media industry that dominates thoughts of society as a whole.

Indignation that Dubie kicks off a homeless man needs to be accompanied with knowledgable, active, benefitial  proposals that he should answer to.  

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by: empeyton @ Thu Sep 02, 2010 at 15:43:43 PM UTC