Arkansas Blog

Max - what can we do in order off-set whatever fallout from Acxiom and Alltel, not to mentioend the rumored closing of West Little Rock's Nuvell office(up to 1000 good paying jobs?) - and G-D forbid a Dillards sale (YIIKEESS!) What can we do to attract new biz and jobs? Because whatever we've been doing - ain't working?

I'm not defending corporte or utlity mealey-mouth hacks that muck-up the good-of-the-order only serving their masters (like the gaggle of overpaid drug reps peddling their mothers-little-helpers to "whore-sque docs" ).

Is there not a reasonable compromise? There are plenty of smart forward-thinking folks around town that would(?) shelve their greed in order to help create a sustainable economic co-exisitance - where are you - please help us!

Ask Beebe if the reason why we didn't get the Toyota plant is that he was told by Toyota and Japanese officials that they wouldn't come if he picked that lady as the head of the AEDC? As the ambassador to the Philippines' she lead a push for Japan to pay the PH for World War 2. Toyota was one of the companies she was trying to get war reparations out of for World War 2 forced labor. Beebe was noting going to pick her, then Bill & Hillary got wind of what was going on a called Beebe. So Beebe picks the woman and Arkansas lose the chance at a $800 million dollar plant. If hillary because president you can be sure Beebe gets a cabient level job.

"Although Marion's air quality proved to be a non-issue, the state still needs "to develop another supersite or two," Maulden said. "

I heard of a farmer who hauled his corn to the famer's market and barely broke even on the load. He said, "well next time guess we better bring twice as much."

Jim Beam us right on up wideopen.

The first and best thing to do is get rid of the Arkansas State Income tax and the Arkansas Death Tax. see: fairtax.org...read it...study it. It is the future.

wideopen!!....Where in the hell did you get that crap you are trying to peddle. Maria Haley ambassador to the Phillipines? You idiot, she is FROM the Phillipines. Her father was the Phillipine Ambassador to France among other countries.

She led the effort to get Japan to pay for its actions in WW2?????? What a doofus!

You need to be sober if you're gonna post on here......OK?

wideopen and Barrett Jackson did what their crowd does best--abandon reason and try to change the subject when the policy debate goes against them. Much better, they think, to hijack a thread than to face up to the waste of tax dollars for corporate welfare. Just make stuff up, like yellow cake, and spread it loudly.

When is Barrett the Parrot ever going to answer our questions about the problems with the Fair Tax? All she does is pop up and squawk and then runs to her hidey hole.
Voodoo economics has a new cry. If Barrett would ever get her head out of the sand she would find that Fair Tax Organization has failed to answer concerns of some of the most conservative fiscal groups in this country. That's right, Barrett. Your harshest critics are the toughest economic conservatives in the capitalist world. The leading anti-tax Republican even stands against the plan.
I get a chill from the shrill shill for this swill, this faux tax fiasco, a distinctly unpleasant future if there ever was one.