Local media here, including today's print, had me chuckling as to Democrat problem solving skills (our State, Illinois, has a complete Democrat Executive branch with Dems in majority in both State Houses)...faced with work and other slumps, the Illinois Senate proposes State-owned gambling casinos in return for which they'll revamp dingy locales into nice-looking yet non-farm, non-commerce developments...oh, and in the enabling bill, set about taxing any horseracing or anything else "hurting such State casinos"; Gov. Blagojevich (D) is cited as saying he knows, he knows...a flawed bill, but pass it anyway because it at least provides a few crumbs for school building and he is a champpion of children, not just today, but for their futures as well as current family home life. 

 

Then, same media reported Obama as saying he's noticed there are stressed-out working single moms who'd like a little tax cut, no doubt, so he's proposing $80 million dollars worth; one can only bemusedly chuckle that Senator Obama and the Democrat party screeched for six years "restore the cuts NOW!" and "not just corporations, but ANYONE with a good salary should be taxed for compassion programs and senior care and the children"...and in fact BLOCKED GOP and Conservative proposed personal tax cuts as Obama now proposes...just to make voters' wallets a bit lighter, despite money States got didn't go to farms, commerce, bridges, the children, and such, all waiting for 2008 to have Democrats save us from their own blocking.  

 

Well, not much difference in the treatment of corporations and private persons between some Federal and some State officials, regardless of party. So that kind of biaprtisanship should extend to all things.

 

We hear from some now that Blackwater, due to extremely limited alleged overuse of force, is proof that Petraeus and our military are negligently guilty for it, and aha! maybe THAT will invalidate Bush, the GOP, Conservatives, Petraeus, and our troops, even if Laden swells due to it.

 

Okay, exacting attentions to detail are THE hallmark of the Democrats and Liberals, and not one slip up or risk to anyone would occur...plus you never have to wonder, does a Democrat WANT something to happen, like you wonder DID Bush want Blackwater to err (under battlefield conditions, yet!), or would a DEMOCRAT just use immigrants by masquerading their under-exposure as "critical workers re diplomacy or industry needs"? Let's look at a recent and handy Illinois example of such theories.

 

Two seasons ago, a USA national and Zion IL resident was killed due to OSHA-unsafe conditions at Six Flags Great America over in Gurnee IL; at that time Federal OSHA cited a slew of violations. For the last and this season, Six Flags has found that NO USA nationals of any stripe want to work there or are qualified to, and each year Six Flags has HAD to hire diverse races primarily from South Africa as total staff; last week, local print here was abuzz that not only on a recent visit did OSHA find all the previous violations well worsened, a slew of new public and work hazards had formed around them.

 

Well now, surely there's a REASON State safety inspections are never made at Six Flags Great America, or the State doesn't do its own prodding to fix, and maybe these "immigrants doing jobs Americans won't do" AREN'T just hired because they don't know rules, don't care about the public, or both...and that nearby Chicago remains a sanctuary city.

 

Or maybe, as in the case of President Bush, General Petraeus, and our military, even IF Blackwater acted negligently under battle conditions in limited occurrance, that does not mean Blackwater was ever INTENDED to.

 

This is important, because today's local print here is also saying Islamic extremists in Iraq are using the recent "Bush to Iraq for oil only!" garbage to parlay Blackwater as the sould of "the occupiers". I of course support acceptance of the Petraeus Iraq report, and unless some are addicted to saying they'd send troops to defend us on attack but as soon as troops are sent say or imply enemies are right to kill them, I believe most in both parties share my concern.