Years ago, before the Council adopted a UGA plan to raise City employees salaries to close the gap between City and private sector ranges, Council decided to allow a great number of employees to take their City vehicles home at night to make up some of the shortage. Now that City compensation is on a par or better with private sector packages, the wide spread practice of providing City employees with take-home vehicles should be revamped. A good place to start would be to take all vehicles away except for police officers, and police and fire officials, with a condition that those employees must live in the Columbus city limits.
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L-E headline: "Columbus police may finally get $2.5M computer reporting system" -- A little more information please, as to what $2.5 Million is buying? Is it just software/licensing (and how often the license must be renewed), or does it include new computers for the police vehicles (and how often do the computers needed to be upgraded). Also, is this a program direct from a hardware/software company or through a package put together by a third party distributor or vendor? In this day, $2.5 Million for a computer package is pretty expensive when notebook computers go for under $1,000.00 bucks.
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Ron Paul pulled in 3% of the FL vote. Guess that was the 3% that still looks at him as younger than them.
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Online headline: "Photos Of Osama bin Laden's Death May Be Released" -- Hmmm and exclusively in inner city voting booths and iPhones on November 6, 2012.
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It makes sense in liberal-ese, but not in American. Apple, beloved by liberals for its iconic symbolism against the conservative establishment, is one of the worst, possibly the worst thorn in the side of economic recovery. Not one of its popular products is made on US soil, and it keeps a ton of its $70+ BILLION in cash in overseas accounts.
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An economist predicts that by 2100, only 3 languages will be important... English, Spanish, and Mandarin. Makes you wonder why potUS O'Blather thinks we should model ourselves after the French.
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From a fellow BCer:
SOME WILL APPRECIATE THIS AND SOME WILL NOT.
HOWEVER, ALL OF IT IS TRUE.
After two years of Obama ...

Here's your change!

January 2009 TODAY % chg Source
Avg. Retail price/gallon gas in U.S. $1.83 $3.44 84% 1



Crude oil, European Brent (barrel) $43..48 $99..02 127.7% 2



Crude oil, West TX Inter. (barrel) $38..74 $91..38 135.9% 2












Corn, No.2 yellow, Central IL $3.56 $6.33 78.1% 2



Soybeans, No. 1 yellow, IL $9.66 $13..75 42.3% 2



Sugar, cane, raw, world, lb. Fob $13..37 $35..39 164.7% 2



Unemployment rate, non-farm, overall 7.6% 9.4% 23.7% 3



Unemployment rate, blacks 12.6% 15.8% 25.4% 3



Number of unemployed 11,616,000 14,485,000 24.7% 3



Number of fed. Employees 2,779,000 2,840,000 2.2% 3



Real median household income $50,112 $49,777 -0.7% 4



Number of food stamp recipients 31,983,716 43,200,878 35.1% 5



Number of unemployment benefit recipients 7,526,598 9,193,838 22.2% 6



Number of long-term unemployed 2,600,000 6,400,000 146.2% 3



Poverty rate, individuals 13.2% 14.3% 8.3% 4



People in poverty in U.S. 39,800,000 43,600,000 9.5% 4



U.S. Rank in Economic Freedom World Rankings 5 9 n/a 10



Present Situation Index 29.9 23.5 -21.4% 11



Failed banks 140 164 17.1% 12



U.S. Dollar versus Japanese yen exchange rate 89.76 82.03 -8.6% 2



U.S. Money supply, M1, in billions 1,575.1 1,865.7 18.4% 13



U.S. Money supply, M2, in billions 8,310.9 8,852.3 6.5% 13



National debt, in trillions $10..627 $14..052 32.2% 14














Sources:
(1) U.S. Energy Information Administration; (2) Wall Street Journal; (3) Bureau of Labor Statistics; (4) Census Bureau; (5) USDA; (6) U.S. Dept. Of Labor;
(7) FHFA; (8) Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller; (9) RealtyTrac; (10) Heritage Foundation and WSJ; (11) The Conference Board; (12) FDIC;
(13) Federal Reserve; (14) U.S. Treasury -- Please note that the National Debt is now over $15 TRILLION and Congress is adding an additional $1.2 Trillion to the Debt ceiling.
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From another BCer:Excellent Video on the Tax-the-Rich Mentality.flv - YouTube
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L-E headline: "MUSCOGEE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT
TEACHER HELD IN SEX ASSAULT OF STUDENT" -- Hmmm, Sex Ed homework? Perhaps all of our teachers need to be re-screened by the CPD.
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