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8.31.2007

 

The inundation of Vermont

I know the mantra is that not enough people (for whatever short-sighted reason) want to live in Vermont, but I can tell you this: The entire nation is here visiting Vermont this holiday weekend.

On my way to work this morning, I encountered more than the usual traffic, and almost all of out-of-state cars. Whether for Champlain College orientation, the holiday weekend or whatever, somehow the entire population of the United States decided to descend upon Burlington.

This afternoon, they are choking the streets of Burlington. I watched one SUV driver from Michigan try to go the wrong way down the one-way street between the hospital and Main Street. She was some surprised to see all the cars coming at her.

With the splendid weather that's going on out there, some of these people are bound to come back for good. Just not all of them, please. We don't have room for all of them.

As for the rest of you, take a chill from your political angst, get out there and soak up Vermont on this Labor Day weekend.

- Terri Hallenbeck

Comments:
Some of these people will come back for good??? Who - the child predators, the leftist parasites looking for free everything? The Bush haters? The idiot environmentalists who live off Daddy's trust fund? One can only guess what will "come back" while our best and brightest leave for greener pastures!
 
" . . . our best and brightest leave for greener pastures! "

But you're still here, Bubba.
 
The taxes drive people out!
 
Meanwhile the governor stands at the borders and says "Vermont's a terrible place to do business. Don't come here"
 
The Legislature makes Vermont a terrible place to do business. What's the Governor supposed to do, pretend it's not happening? Is he supposed to be a smiling cheerleader even though the Legislature is wrecking the state? Stop being such a hypocrite about the Governor.
 
Developers and Kevin Dorn who represented them for years must be delighted. As an aside, perhaps they also covet the land on which the Intervale composting is being done.
Get someone else to pay for all the
needed testing and then move in and develop.
 
Do I smell the foul odor of hypocrisy and sour grapes? When OMYA or IBM or a gas station is suspected of leaking something onto the ground, 15 self-appointed environmental watchdog groups rush to the scene and demand action and penalties. But when a politically-correct company is accused of an environmental infraction, it's all a conspiracy so developers can steal the land?
 
I'm going over to Obie's for a hot dog!
 
Make mine a natural casing, grilled and I'll join you
 
The hypocrisy lies on the other side. That's the point.
 
Bull. It's a self-proclaimed native American who;s causing all the trouble.
 
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These are the people I'm talking about. Any full sentence they could produce would just be filled with liberal babble, so better the non-sensical utterances.
 
If you were paying attention to the local news you'd know. There's a woman who claims to be an Abenaki who complained to the state against the Intervale Composting Company. She claimed that their operations were destoying a "holy" Abenaki site and now the state is investigating whether Intervale Composting's operations are violating any environmental laws.

Anonymous 9/1 at 10:42 a.m. brought this subject up and made the suggestion that this is all just a way for the state to grab the land that Intervale Composting works on.
 
Bubba, shut up. All your postings are non-sensical utterances.
 
Guess we better halt everything until the phonies claiming to be "Abenakis" get their "entitlements".
 
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^^^ Terri, do you let racist posts like the one above stay on your blog?

If so, please explain why you'd leave that up but delete a post with the "F" word in it.

If you do delete it, thank you.
 
How about getting out there and celebrating every working stiff who fought back against corporate hacks to gain benefits and decent wages for people who are probably just like you (sigh...even you Bubba). It's freakin' LABOR Day, not End of Summer Day.
 
I'll happily celebrate people who work hard, like me and my parents and grandparents, but I'll decline to join you in the crass name calling against the people who own the businesses.
 
Sure, let's all join unions and sit around and do nothing! Sounds great, doesn't it? After all, these are the people that destroyed the auto industry in America and dumbed down education. But I guess unions appeal to some - no matter how lazy, no matter how stupid, no matter how totally incompetent you are, you've always got a job!!!
 
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"some of these people are bound to come back for good"

This is exactly what e-state will accomplish.
 
First and foremost, Vermont union members are your neighbors, your friends and your relatives - i.e. they are people, just like you. They live in our communities and work in our workplaces.

And remember, unions and their workers brought the weekend, vacation, minimum wage, health insurance, and workplace safety measures forward to the benefit of all workers.
 
I'll post the reply to Bubba again, minus the reference to him as a donkey's posterior.

Union workers die in work related accidents, just like nonunion workers. The world is not as black and white as the screwed up little universe that Bubba lives in.
 
The day that I need a union steward to tell me what I can do at work, and for how long I can do it, and when I can do it, and on top of all of that, tell me my dues are going to some left-wing political hack like Bernie Sanders whether I like it or not, that's the day this country might as well be communist Russia or China!
 
Judging by your posts Bubs, you would keep a union steward busy.
 
Developers in this state have not been interested in really affordable housing; that's the problem. It's only now when the market has stalled for the McMansions they have been busily building over the past decade that there is suddenly an interest in housing for the less affluent. More of the hypocrisy--just like the sudden interest in holding any business of any kind to Act 260!
 
Sorry typo an the Act reference.
 
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