Taco Bell – "Thank you for suing us"

What we need is a judge with some backbone to hold the ambulance chasers accountable. A huge fine and  damages in favor of the plaintiff to put these kinds of frivolous lawsuits to rest once and for all. Anybody with half a brain can see what this is about. Publicity and Lawyers fees and nothing else. The lawyers get the money and the taxpayer gets the bill for the abuse of the court system.

Here it is from CNN.

We've Hit 1000 Page Views

WOW! 1000 + views in 24 days. Maybe it's the 5 of us checking up 200 times in the in the past 3 weeks. Or maybe there are few of you out there checking in occasionally. Either way thanks for checking us out.

Dear Mr Reif (Janesville school district teacher)

Mr Reif, you say Janesville economy is on the “upswing”. Let’s examine the FACTs from the US department of labor, Bureau of labor statistics (here is the link so you can see for yourself (http://data.bls.gov/pdq/SurveyOutputServlet?series_id=LAUMT55275003&data_tool=XGtable) The average annual unemployment rate between 2000-2008 was 5.58% with 2008 being the highest at 6.1%. Since then Janesville has reached as high as 13.2%, the most current month (Nov 2010) is predicted at 9.4%, the year previous to that (Nov 2009) 11.4% (current state avg 7.5%). So YES the economy is on the upswing, HOWEVER Janesville has NOT recovered. NOW is not the time to talk about more spending, NOW is the time to learn from our mistakes, make GOOD decisions with the current budget. I wish we could afford all the best things in life for our children, but the obvious truth is WE CAN NOT. Time to make very tough decisions on NEEDS AND WANTS. Keep the “needs”, reduce/ cut the “wants”. Very basic financial and life skills I have been teaching my daughter for 17 years.

Residents: Raise our taxes

You see this one from the Gazette?

Check out this guy: Jim Reif, a teacher who was on the teacher's side of the bargaining table, challenged that idea. He said teachers agreed to smaller pay increases than the average increase statewide.
"We're doing our part," Reif said.
Reif said if the board had taxed to the maximum allowed by law in recent years, it wouldn't be in the financial straits it finds itself now.
Perhaps taxpayers needed a "breather," Reif said, but now the economy is on the upswing.
"Time to go to the people and say, 'maybe we need a little more from you,'" Reif said.

Wow! He has some balls. Not sure where you are at but I have not personally seen anything form this "upswing" he's talking about. The people have no more to give.

I am nominating him for next weeks Douche bag of the week.

Here's the whole thing from gazettextra.com

Legislature Passes $67 Million Tax Cut Measure

My question is this.... How do they know it will cost $67 Million dollars? I wish they would have put a provision in it with some sort of wage necessary to receive the tax cut say $15.00 an hour minimum. Give Gov. Walker some credit for doing something. I hope it works.

Here's the link from channel3000.

Douche Bag of the Week

 Douche Bag of the Week will be a new feature on The Grove. Please feel free to send nominations to  evansvillegrove@gmail.com  our first winner is Dennis Kucinich.

 

Rep. Dennis Kucinich sues cafeteria over olive pit in sandwich

 $150,000.00??? He should be ashamed of himself.  What do you expect from  a liberal, vegan douche bag. This is exactly what is wrong with our legal system. Screw you DOUCHE BAG!

Here's the story from cleveland.com

Here's a Working Link to the Petition Against 4k

Click here.

Thanks to chasin for putting it out there. Sign it then tell your friends.