Kitzhaber spokesman: No truth to D.C. job rumors

@jpk I read the book

@Pers Retiree @randola yer a total badass!

@Biker1085 The "gotcha" meant "I understand", not "ah ha!  gotcha!!"   

Gotcha??  Hardly.  Your last statement denegrating the notion of tax breaks and less regulation to create jobs in the private sector illustrates my point that you (and many other liberals) are woefully ignorant of how a thriving micro and macro economy works.  Let me amplify for you.........more jobs in the private sector equal more taxes paid.  More taxes paid, equal more revenue for government services, benefits, etc.  Less jobs in the private sector plus increasing taxes to fund the public sector equal increasing unemployment and so on.  Pretty basic really.  It boils down to this:  If you have a job, thank a republican.  More than likely, he or she risked a great deal of time and money to create and grow a business that provides employment and pays taxes.  If you are unemployed, underemployed, or a business owner burdened with increasing tax rates and fees, over reaching government regulation, expensive business license fees, increasing payroll tax rates to fund Trimet's trolleys and crime conduits and so on, thank your local and state democrats for making those "choices" for you. 

@Biker1085 As for how I vote, for issues like ballot measures I vote based on the knowledge I've absorbed throughout my life as well as my personal feelings about an issue and how it will impact myself and others.  Too touchy/feely for you, no doubt.  I will leave a box unchecked before I will ever vote "R", also based on my life experiences and how their party platform will impact myself and others.  There is no one I've ever seen listed on a ballot with an "R" behind their name that I've ever found to have my interests in mind.  Quite the contrary -- their opinions and recommendations always show themselves to be harmful to me, especially financially.  Hope that clears it up for you.

@Biker1085 I was working on a response to your first comment, but I'll comment on the second for now.  So you met him one time, listened to him for maybe 30 minutes at a Chamber meeting about 15 years ago during his first term.  BTW, I'm a member of my local Chamber the past 12 years, so I'm familiar with how those events go.  Anyway, we all know that none of us change in any way over the course of 15 days....er, months...er, years, so I'll accept that he must be exactly the same, think exactly the same and act exactly the same based on your hands-on experience of that one day back when you were both 15 years younger.  I mean, you haven't changed at all, right?  So we've established that he didn't agree with you -- let me guess:  you were hoping for some kind of tax break or deregulation to create jobs, right?  Gotcha.    

@Sundowner.  I met him at a Beaverton Chamber of Commerce meeting during his first term.  As a businessman and taxpayer in the private sector, I came away totally unimpressed with his tone deaf and arrogant attitude to the concerns expressed by myself and the other job creators in Beaverton. 

@Sundowner.  As to your comment ".........why I would never vote "R", never ever".  It is "groupthink" like this, that has elected stellar candidates like Adams, Goldschmidt, and Leonard.  The first two of course, well-known pedophiles.  And let's not forget Adams and Leonard happily marching in solidarity with the "occupiers".  Then prior to that......Tom Potter, who was one of the gang of four that saw fit to discontinue Portland's cooperation with the Joint Terrorism Task Force..........Christmas of 2010 at Pioneer Courthouse Square ring a bell for ya??  And then of course, there was the episode of J. E. "Bud" Clark.......Portland was the laughing stock of the nation at that time.  Not to mention Clark's ignorance of, and failure to address the growing problem of gang violence in the city.  The only thing you liberals, socialists, progressives or whatever you call yourselves these days have demonstrated, is the abiliity to consistently vote against your own and most other people's interests.   

@Biker1085 It sounds as though you know him personally.  Did you work with/for him or were you a patient of his at some point, friend of a friend?

@Sundowner.  How fortunate that you didn't run into Mr. Tall (John Whatever) in a Starbucks line during the campaign.  You would have found a very arrogant jerk, not at all open to hearing your rant.....er, comments.  In fact, he would have most likely proceeded to "lecture" you, and try and convince you that he was much more sophisticated and had a more comprehensive knowledge (on all subjects) of what was "best" for you, regardless of your opinion.  Should you have persisted in engaging the General Secretary with your idle chatter, instead of listening, he would curtly dismissed you, brushed his hand through his ducktail haircut, then hopped on his donkey with his fishing pole and proceeded up to the Keller Auditorium fountain to go "fishing"......for votes that is.

@randola @oh4FS I used to be a basketball fan, and then Kareem retired. =(

@Sundowner @oh4FS Dudley. Best looking free throw form ever in the NBA. OK, not really.