Jesse Ventura at it again.....

[DrPizza]

Maybe he doesn't really believe that stuff. Don't forget, his first profession was an actor. (hit in the head with chairs - you guys think that stuff is real?)

 

[KlokWyze]

Maybe he doesn't really believe that stuff. Don't forget, his first profession was an actor. (hit in the head with chairs - you guys think that stuff is real?)

Yeah exactly. I don't want to believe the he is a strait up loon, but that's what he is OBVIOUSLY trying to appear as. I'm sure we can both agree that he wasn't the greatest actor of all time. :biggrin:

 

[Skitzer]

He was excellent in predator.

 

[skyking]

Unlike Arnold, Jessie never made it to "da choppa".

 

[werepossum]

When he first became governor in Minnesota I said that if he runs for President, my vote is his to lose. It did not take him long to exercise that option.

 

[OCGuy]

This guy is a nutter just like every other 9/11 truther...

 

[LegendKiller]

Your distortion of motives and actions is exaggerated, and has negative and paranoid slant. Try thinking positive man; it’ll improve your life.

J. Ventura explained that in a more balanced and rational way, making your contradictory analysis look ridiculous.

The treasury had a cash surplus. There was no way the cash was going sit static for a long time in your so called “rainy day fund.” Politicians were clamoring to spend it in various ways each of them schemed would make themselves look good to their constituents. J. Ventura decided to preempt their out-of-budget spend plans by returning the cash to people it had been unnecessarily taxed away from.

Obviously, it’s a given that there’ll be problems returning cash to taxpayers. Of course! Overall, however, Jesse Ventura’s cash return was admirable, exemplary stewardship of the public trust, and we need to see more of that attitude expressed by others nationwide.

He effectively took projections of future revenues, projecting out the same economic growth in 99/00 through the next decade and said "we don't need this money". Yeah, it was going to be spent somewhat, because it needed to be spent. Another large portion of it was to be kept aside.

After the economy got crushed following the .bombs the state started running short of money. They didn't have the rainy day fund to make up the difference and, instead of cutting those extra projects with the money they might have had, they just didn't have the money.

I live in reality, not some flowery bullshit you think I should live in.

 

[WhipperSnapper]

Should this come to pass they'll have my vote with a double middle finger to the corporate bought and paid for politicians that occupy office now.

Just because they might give the middle finger to conventional politicians doesn't mean that they'll be any better when in office or that they'll enact better economic and social policies. What if their economic policies would make things much, much worse? Suppose that Rand Paul's economic policies resulted in 95% of the American people being working poor with 5% being very rich, living off their backs? (Oh wait, that's the current Republican and Tea Party economic policy.)

 

[WhipperSnapper]

Please, I was there. I saw the aftermath. The UofMN faced massive increases, mainly because they were promised money which turned out to be what he gave back. He also defunded several infrastructure projects, including bridge inspections and repairs.

Are you implying that Jesse may have been partially responsible for the I-35 bridge collapse that killed several people?

 

[Thump553]

When he first became governor in Minnesota I said that if he runs for President, my vote is his to lose. It did not take him long to exercise that option.

Yes he certainly took a very strange twist after getting the governorship. And since leaving the governorship he has turned into just another conspiracy nutcase-the only difference is he has a TV show to spout his nonsense.

I long for the good old days when guys like this wore ratty raincoats and walked around downtown muttering to themselves all day.

 

[NoStateofMind]

Just because they might give the middle finger to conventional politicians doesn't mean that they'll be any better when in office or that they'll enact better economic and social policies. What if their economic policies would make things much, much worse? Suppose that Rand Paul's economic policies resulted in 95% of the American people being working poor with 5% being very rich, living off their backs? (Oh wait, that's the current Republican and Tea Party economic policy.)

I don't trust Rand or the neo-tea party.

 

[WhipperSnapper]

Perhaps Matt Ryan, Michelle Bachman, or Sara Palin (aka "The Dingbat") would make a better running mate for him?

 

[WildHorse]

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[LegendKiller]

Are you implying that Jesse may have been partially responsible for the I-35 bridge collapse that killed several people?

A simple google search shows how MNDOT was under budgetary pressure during Ventura's term, with significant cuts to manpower and inspection. Further repairs were put off under Pawlenty.

 

[LegendKiller]

Unfortunately you have already demonstrated in post 4 above that an analysis presented by you is skewed toward the negative, overlaying the worst imaginable perspective onto things, or in other words, you are paranoid. Your presentation of matters is not to be trusted by reasonable, fair minded people.

And now here you are again presenting a retread of essentially the same extremely slanted, unbalanced tale of “how things really were…the inside story.” Sorry, I’m sure you’re a good guy but we don’t buy the negativity you suffer from and spread to everybody.

Go watch a comedy or something, have a laugh; maybe that’ll help bump you out of your gloomy unbalanced downer “it’s-all-bad” attitude.

In my opinion J. Ventura's motivation was a very positive thing in this rebate matter. I hope his courageous (because outside the box) example is an icebreaker that more politicians follow.

Blah blah blah. Go smoke some more weed dude. I don't need to have a good attitude about some twat fucking over MN and then being paraded around as a conservative hero for his moronic conspiracy theories.