GOT TO HURRY
QUICK STAT:
Please give what you can.
THEY CAN'T BE SERIOUS . . . can they?
Friday's Kitsap Sun had a front page article touting the Job Growth here in Kitsap according to a recent California think tank study.
Kitsap County ranked 18th out of 200 of America's "Best Performing Cities" in terms of job growth, according to a report issued this week by the Milken Institute.
The report calls the Bremerton-Silverdale area an "island," and references the proposed tunnel near the Bremerton ferry terminal as "ALLOWING EASIER ACCESS TO SEATTLE AND THUS PROMOTING INCREASED ECONOMIC ACTIVITY BETWEEN THE TWO AREAS."
Folks we are talking about an 800 foot TUNNEL here not a tunnel to Seattle. With a cost of some $28 to $35 million dollars to build. That this 800 foot tunnel is promoting increased economic activity is laughable.
What scares me is that they might believe it.
By the way could someone give me a hand up I fell off my chair laughing.
ATTORNEYS SAY NEW BANKRUPTCY LAW INEFFECTIVE
Sometimes you just know that something won't work and it seems like almost everything coming out of Washington D.C. falls into that category. Especially if it has been lobbied heavily by the special interest groups. We saw it in the Prescription Drug program and now in the Bankruptcy legislation.
Ninety-seven percent of consumers seeking to file for bankruptcy so far this year cannot afford to pay back their debts, according to a survey by the National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys (NACBA).
NACBA surveyed six credit counseling agencies that have been working with over 61,000 potential bankruptcy filers and assessing their ability to pay what they owe under a debt management plan.
Going for credit counseling within six months of filing for bankruptcy is a new requirement for debtors seeking bankruptcy relief under a reform law that went into effect in October.
The reform law was intended in part to prevent consumers from abusing the bankruptcy system by clearing all their debts when they might have the ability to repay at least some of them.
Critics of the law contend that it is overly broad - imposing greater costs and obstacles to filing on everyone in order to ferret out a small number debtors who have the means to pay off at least some of what they owe.
That the NACBA survey found that only 3 percent of potential filers have the means to pay back some of their debts didn't surprise Sam Gerdano, executive director of the American Bankruptcy Institute (ABI).
The NACBA survey also found that 79 percent of potential filers said their financial troubles were the result of circumstances beyond their control - e.g., a medical crisis or job loss.
NOTE: THIS LAST FACT WAS KNOWN BEFORE THE LAW WAS CHANGED LAST YEAR. IT WAS THE DAMN CREDIT CARD LOBBY THAT DIDN'T GET IT. THEY PUSH THIS LAW THROUGH AND SAID PEOPLE WERE ABUSING THE OLD LAW.
How do we change this. . . STOP SENDING THE SAME FOLKS BACK TO CONGRESS that's how.
NO WORDS NEEDED
PRETTY GOOD JOKE
George W. Bush:
* " We cannot let terrorists and rogue nations hold this nation hostile or hold our allies hostile. " . . .
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