Comments by Largo

Written on Federal government's fiscal outlook improving -- for now :

This article is pure propoganda. The Federal Government is drowning in debt and still spending like mad with no end in sight.

Written on EVSC budget shortfall means doing only what's necessary :

They should be doing only what's necessary. That's what most everyone else has done for the last ten years. It's too easy to spend OPM (other people's money).

Written on Workers anxious as cuts set to take effect :

There are no cuts to the budget. We are spending more this year than last year. This is simply a reduction in the spending increase Obama wanted.


Girl - you need to find a new boyfriend - immediately if not sooner.
This guy doesn't care about you.

Written on LETTER: Article promoted homosexuality:

in response to Flash:

It soes make you wonder. Were Al Sharpton, Jessie Jackson and Juan Williams being racists when they spoke against George Bush's policies?

If so, where were all our warriors against racism then?

Sorry, I forgot to include the corollary: A minority cannot be a racist.

Written on LETTER: Article promoted homosexuality:

Let there be no doubt,
if you disagree with homosexuals, polygamists, or any other lifestyle that was traditionally considered perverted (in the bad old days), you are now considered a bigot.

If you argue against any welfare policy, if you oppose affirmative action, if you disagree with President Obama in any way, if you oppose illegal immigration, you are now considered to be a racist.

If you oppose gun control, you are a right-wing nut-job of course.

If you enjoy profits and oppose tax increases, well, you just might be... the evil rich.

These are the new rules - please drink responsibly.

Written on LETTER: We must reconsider voucher program:

Funding is not the issue for public schools.

North just built a new High School. Harrison just built a new stadium.

Public school systems spend more per student than parochial schools.

This is well documented along with the fact that there is little to no correlation between cost per student and test results.

Do some research for yourself - read the studies that have been done over the years regarding cost per student and test results.

Written on LETTER: Racial equality still just a dream:

Stop worrying about equality and start worrying about how many people are working. Start worrying about out-of-control government spending. Start worrying about the next tax increase. Those are the problems we face together.


Go pound sand comrade Obama.

I thought Carter was bad at the time, but this guy is truly the beginning of the end.

Written on LETTER: Gun ownership makes us safer:

Look at the states with the strictest gun control laws. Look at the statistics for gun-related crimes in those states. What do you see? Those strict laws have not made those states safe from gun-related crimes.

Apparently criminals in those states don't care about the legality of the gun they are using during the commission of a crime.

Written on MURDOCK: Republicans failing to lead fiscal reform:

I wouldn't give a plugged nickel for the entire Federal Government. It is a money pit that we are forced to pay into. How do we fix a mess like this? Everyone wants their pork right? Republicans and Democrats seem to be the problem.

Written on White House: Hagel will win Senate confirmation :

in response to pressanykey:

Obama uses the Clinton method of filling vacancies. If they understand who is really in charge and are willing to shut up and do as they are told, they get the job.

Looks like Chuck Hagel fully understands the drill.


Agreed - Hagel is another mindless bot. He has no intention of keeping us safe, nor any concern. He can't even answer straight forward questions.

Written on EDITORIAL: City should look at Sunday bus service:

This makes no sense as written. Suddenly folks are going to lose their jobs if we don't establish a Sunday bus service?
Bull hockey.

Written on City Council hears request for Sunday bus service:

in response to avontbone:


I agree. I live near highway 41 on the North. The bus roars up and down with little to no passengers. We see it time and time again - tearing up the roads, creating unnecessary traffic and stinking up the air.

Nobody has a problem with legitimate routes that reflect significant ridership. That is what the bus should be used for. It is ridiculous however, to force the routes into places with little to no ridership.

Written on 1st woman to lead in combat 'thrilled' with change | GALLERY:

What kind of society puts women into this situation? I don't see this as progress.

Written on Earthcare paying on loan, but hard to find:

Anyone who knows anything about finance knows that interest-only payments are not good policy.

The principal is not being reduced.

When you are unable to contact the borrower after several months, you can expect bad things in the future.

From what we know, this seems utterly ridiculous.

Written on Evansville pastor receives national recognition for work in Catholic education:

Congratulations to Father Bernie Etienne! We are very lucky to have someone like this leading the way. This award is well deserved.

Written on Obama demands quick action to raise debt limit:

in response to Johnadams:

So was Obama lying as a Senator when he said it was wrong to raise the debt limit, or is he lying now?
Get your story straight libs and answer the question. It is a very simple direct question.
And so much for the new Editor of this paper not allowing name calling on this page. Look up the term "tea bagger" on your search engine if you don't believe me.
The days of your liberal free spending is OVER. The government borrows over 40 cents of every federal dollar spent. Try that at home and see how that works for you. Try that at the state level and see how that works for the state.
Any person with even a SHRED of common sense realizes we cannot continue to borrow that much.
If the tea party does not stop the Libs, who will?

It's possible he was lying both times eh?

Written on Obama demands quick action to raise debt limit:

in response to snakerunman:

The government shuts down every week on Friday @ 5:00 PM until Monday morning @ 8:00. It also shuts down on every federal Holliday. So when the government shuts down on the weekends is it damaging as you clamed?

I wish they'd shut down for good. The Federal Government is a huge burden - and that burden is about to get even heavier for us to carry.

Written on LETTER: Government must live within its means:

Good letter. With Obama, we may be past the point of no return. I hope we can save it somehow.

Written on EDITORIAL: Does congressional maneuvering remind you of groundhog day?:

in response to elkaybee:

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Good point.

I reserve my contempt of governmental ineptitude largely for the feds however. They are a bunch of pork barrel buffoons.


The Federal Government is a corrupt, mindless over-taxing power-hungry money pit. We had the American Revolution to rid ourselves of overbearing and unfair leadership. Now we've got these losers instead.

Written on Despite deal, taxes to rise for most Americans :

This is what Obama supporters voted for. Enjoy this tax increase, and the many to come. Enjoy the value added taxes which will follow. Enjoy government spending beyond it's means.

Written on COMMUNITY COMMENT: Lawmakers won't act on assault weapons unless we make them:

Criminals will always have weapons. We cannot stop that with a new law. If you pass a new gun law, the criminal will ignore it. If you stop the legal manufacture of the gun in the U.S., the criminal will buy one elsewhere, or make one. Instructions for this will be available on the internet. Manufacturers will make a weapon that complies with the law, but can be easily converted to an "assault rifle."

After all the new gun laws are passed, the criminal will still have his assault rifle, and we will be sitting there with well, something else in our hand.

Written on CVB 'making serious progress' on plans for baseball/softball complex:

in response to soccerdaddy2003:

I think the root of the problem is the innkeeper tax itself and its designated use.

The idea is to collect taxes from people who visit Evv and stay in hotels so that we can use the money to get more people to come to visit Evv.

Only problem is, this doesn't really benefit anyone in Evv unless you own a hotel or restaurant. To the other 99%, it is using tax money to build something that we don't really want.

Is tourism for tourism's sake really a good thing for the city as a whole?


Written on LETTER: Elected women bring compassion to office:

Is it compassionate to give a woman "the right to choose"? Is it compassionate to the baby who is aborted, or to the father whose baby is aborted?

Is it compassionate to allow two hairy dudes to "marry", and to equate that with the marriage of a mother and father trying hard to raising a family?

Is the abolishment of the Don't ask, don't tell" policy compassionate? I remember when the policy was introduced by President Bill Clinton who promised to allow all citizens to serve in the military regardless of sexual orientation. Do you now think it's compassionate to force hetero military men and women to shower and sleep near the overt homesexual?

Maybe we don't all agree with your version of compassion.

Written on America tired of hearing of fiscal cliff:

It's amazing to me that so many people voted for this. Your taxes are going up. You will receive no benefits for this. More of our money will now belong to the Federal Government. How is this a good thing?


in response to henrys1921:

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If some Americans believe that believe that higher taxes on the rich is going to solve anything, then those folks are ill-informed.

Eventually we will run out of other people's money. We must drastically reduce spending.

Written on COMMUNITY COMMENT: IRS stats bear out claim that middle class not paying fair share:

How much of our wages belong to the Federal Government?

Is 50% high enough for you? How about 70%?

Maybe all of our money belongs to the Federal Government. Would that make you happy? Geesh.

Written on LETTER: Takers steal our future:

in response to rockore:

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You are correct.

Unfortunately the Federal Government ignores the Constitution.
The feds think they are much "smarter" than the founders.

People in big cities are voting for them, so they're off to the races.

Written on Obama to Hill: Fiscal cliff is 'urgent business' :

in response to shieldsawyer:

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If we have to watch dumbo raise our taxes, can we at least use some of the revenue to reduce the size of those ears?


in response to ripperJack:

Stand your ground, Mr. President, and don’t give in to their threats. No deal is better than a bad deal... especially when it would be so obvious that these troubles were being deliberately inflicted by the G.O.P. in a last-ditch attempt to defend the privileges of the 1 percent.

Your taxes are going to go up.
Wait and see what happens.
This "one percent" business is a smokescreen.
It will come down to raising taxes across the board.

Written on LETTER: Religion not written into Constitution:

in response to backhomeagain:

No not really. It isn't stating that one has to go to a "church" and have that "church" pay for birth control. It's stating that if one is employed by a business run by a religious group they must offer insurance policies that also COVER birth control. BIG difference! Anyone with half a brain knows this.

"In god we trust" has only been on money since the 1950's due to communism.

Most of the Founding Fathers were Deist which meant while they believed in a "creator" which probably doesn't have the same meaning as yours they thought the bible was crap.

Lincoln has been accused of being a Deist and also an Atheist so again I wouldn't count on what you think of a religion is what he held dear.

Mankind has been around much longer than 2,000 year. Recorded History is over 10,000 years old and man goes back a few million so in a real time line your "church" isn't much older than this Government, always capitalized BTW.

You can't get around the fact that the law forces churches to fund activity that is against their long held belief system. This is a defacto infringement of First Amendment rights.

If you accept this government power, then you allow the government to chip away at your rights as well. Don't you enjoy liberty? We shouldn't take it for granted. Liberty can be eroded.

BTW, this is an online forum (not an official document) so forgive me if I don't capitalize government.

Written on LETTER: Religion not written into Constitution:

The issue is whether the government has the power to force the church to pay for something that is against the church doctrine.

The first amendment to the Constitution says, "Congress shall make no law... prohibiting the free exercise of religion...".

The Declaration of Independence makes reference to God, the Creator, and Divine Providence.

Look at your money. It says, "In God We Trust".

The majority of state constitutions mention God.

Since you mention Lincoln, how about a Lincoln quote that goes like this, "Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right."

The church has been around for 2000 years, the government has been around for 236 or so.

Written on Mayor says annexation 'not a topic of conversation at all':

Consolidation shot down. Next to succumb to defeat - annexation?

Written on Indiana's next big ballot battle: Gay marriage:

in response to guido63:

Do you honestly believe that churches are not political and aren't endorsing candidates and propositions from the pulpit already? For instance, the Mormon church sank millions of dollars into defeating Prop 8 in California in 2008 and didn't try to hide it or cover it up!

I can tell you that I have never heard a political endorsement of any kind in church.
It is not allowed.

Written on Indiana's next big ballot battle: Gay marriage:

in response to Mandrake:

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If you removed the not-for-profit status from churches, then they ccould become political. They could endorse political candidates.
Considering the number of people are churched,
the effect on elections would be overwhelming.
I fail to see how that helps someone who opposes the message of the church.

Written on Indiana's next big ballot battle: Gay marriage:

in response to Panopticon:

The government has no business restricting who can get married to each other. Get the government out of it.

Do you mean there should be no legal definition of marriage, or do you mean all types of marriages should be legal?

Written on State gives failing accountability grade to 15 EVSC schools:

in response to Imop:

And this my friends is why I am proud to say my grandson attends Westside Catholic Consolidated who earned an A along with most of the parochial schools.

Public schools in Evansville have been declining for years. It's a shame our government doesn't put more money and attention into the schools. Pay teachers what they are worth and fund more programs to improve our overall scores!

Do you think the teachers at your grandson's parochial school get paid more than public school teachers?

Public school education costs significantly more per student than parochial education.

Look at the facilities that public schools have available to them - a new stadium at Harrison - a new school at North.

Study after study has confirmed that there is little correlation between cost per student and academic results.

Written on CONSOLIDATION: Help community look forward; vote yes:

Vote NO to this piece of something that cannot be printed here.


This letter is another "consolidate or we will annex you" message. Beware.

Written on COMMUNITY COMMENT: Obama, Democrats represent progress:

I don't understand "...Liberals do not seem to like rule-directed societies presided over by authority figures...".

Who gave us the individual mandate on health insurance?
Who is trying to tell us what our kids can eat in school?
Who favors stricter laws governing gun ownership?
It seems to me those are all part of the Demo agenda.

Here's the way I look at it:

Conservative: small government person who believes citizens are capable of taking care of themselves rather than relying on government.

Liberal: big government person who thinks the government should take care of citizens.

Written on COMMUNITY COMMENT: Consolidation would end struggle between city, county:

Vote no to joining a city government that cannot live within its means. Here is a city that builds a new arena while the sewers need millions of dollars of upgrade. Here is a city that struggles to balance a checkbook. Vote no to joining a city that is desperately and aggressively annexing. Vote no to joining a city government that happily passes out big raises while most in this economy are struggling to remain employed or to find a job.

Vote no to joining a government that cannot seem to decide what to do with Roberts Stadium since they built the new arena. Vote no to any idea so permanent, so large and so vague. Will taxes go up or down? We don't know.

Vote no to a plan that is potentially detrimental to county residents, and yet does not allow county residents a veto.
That is patently unfair.

Written on Winning strategy comes through focus on Obama deficit:

If you can't beat a choom-smoking so-and-so incumbent with high unemployment, huge deficits, a bad economy, failed foreign policies who bows to foreigners across the globe between rounds of golf and mutterings about gay marriage, you have utterly failed as a political party.

At that point (RNC) you should close your doors for good and go get a real job.

Written on Three-state tour has CVB officials thinking about ballfields for Evansville:

Please take longer to scout around - we'll call you if we need anything.

Written on New York City bans large sugary drinks:

I am for larger cup size.
The New York law is outlandish, out-of-hand, and downright outrageous.
Jackie Chiles

Written on LETTER: Term limits needed in merger:

Thank you for your NO vote.
Vote NO to this piece of ... CONsolidation.