Jimbo Eruptions

Jimbo has decided he won't work with Chancellor Jim Rogers because Rogers hurt his feelings by telling the truth.

Jimbo Eruptions

Chickenshit Jimbo got his way, and there will be a "liaison" or go-between between himself and the Board of Regents, specifically Chancellor Jim Rogers, who wrote in a column the other day (see Monday's entry) which mentioned Jimbo's obvious intellectual and ideological shortcomings.

Jimbo Eruptions

I HAVE to post this editorial which appeared in yesterday's Nevada Appeal (I am sure other Nevada bloggers have it, too) written by Chancellor Jim Rogers. He basically says what everybody knows the governor is, and that's an empty suit:

I am constantly confused by Jim Gibbons having become the governor of Nevada. What strange set of facts could possibly have come together to elect this man whose every characteristic supports one cause — Jim Gibbons. The man has absolutely no regard for the welfare of any other human being.

Rather than a governor, Nevadans elected an executioner. Did he snooker us all? Was he able to camouflage himself to such an extent and hide behind so many empty slogans that a majority of Nevada would vote for this man in the empty suit, for an ideology that has three simple words, “no new taxes”?

These words from Gibbons’ mouth represent a total lack of understanding of the purpose of government. His words also evidence no understanding of the devastation these three little words can cause.

If implemented, the political and economic policy of this man in the empty suit will shut down Nevada’s programs to provide health care for children and care for the elderly who have no way to care for themselves.

His policies will permanently injure students who hope to grab a part of what used to be the American dream — to get a college education. Without support from the state, that dream will be denied.

That's just for starters. In response to this stinging critique, our beloved governor is asking the Board of Regents, two of whom issued a letter to the guv saying Rogers' remarks weren't representative of the Board in general, to appoint a liaison between himself and the legislature and the Board of Regents. Jimbo apparently doesn't want to face Rogers.

Jimbo Eruptions

Nevada's chancellor says the state's public education system is a "disaster" and will get worse if Jimbo has his way.

Of course it is true. But as somebody who has lived in this state for 25 years and probably not much longer, there are too many people in this state who want a free ride and think the state shouldn't have to spend any money on public services. They are also very resentful of people who work in the public sector, as they have made terrible occupational choices and are jealous of those who have had relatively secure jobs. A case in point was when the Reno Gazette-Journal decided to publish the salaries of public employees in some kind of attempt I believe to create animosity with the general public and without giving some kind of background as to why the salaries are the way they are. Yesterday the paper's online edition had a section about firefighters, and noted 41 percent of Reno fire department workers made over $100,000 in 2007. Naturally, as comments poured in trying to straighten the writer out as to WHY this was so, including many firefighters going out of state to fight fires and racking up overtime pay as a result--which is required by law, by the way, as they are hourly workers--other commenters were just beside themselves in anger that these lazy bums were drawing giant paychecks while sitting around at the fire station eating and watching television. These same fools don't seem to object when robber barons like Madoff can get rich ripping off people of millions and millions of dollars, or when our government bails out robber barons on Wall Street. But if a public sector employee makes anything even approaching a middle-class income, these idiots yell and scream about it.

It's divisive tactics like the newspaper's "data collection" articles and what Jimbo is pulling which makes fools who should know better fall for the anti-government, anti-public schools, anti-public employee propaganda. What is tragic is Nevada is dying on the vine without some drastic changes in its revenue base. Nevada can't depend solely on tourism and warehouse distribution for revenue and jobs. That's why it is necessary to fund education, which in turn attracts businesses to the area and creates jobs.

More facts are here about state spending. Not that the rednecks care one iota. Government isn't supposed to exist anyway, so ANY amount of money spent is bad.