Spike,

"After about five minutes, the couple were told by a SEIRPC employee that the cake would not be accepted and Tapp had declined to meet with them."

You are right. If friends and family cannot lick taxpayer goodies from the bowl, what else should you expect?

If the whole truth is ever revealed, do you think Tapp and the rest of tribe would accept a cake? There could be a file inside.

Betty Crocker

“Iowa has held...the top spot among states for the largest Pay Gap between government workers and private-sector workers for over two decades.”

Spike:

All your viewers should take a look at this report from the Public Interest Institute at Iowa Wesleyan College. Our state employees are paid 146.61 percent of what the private sector in Iowa earns on average.

This means when a private sector employee earns $35,256 annually that a government employee will earn a 146.61 percent of the private sector person coming out at $51,688 annually.

What this means is Iowa is ranked #1 in the United States for pay gaps between its private employees and government employees. In other words Iowa government employees are grossly overpaid.

Iowa government is grossly overpaid for the quality of management we receive for our state. Iowa government salaries should be reduced by at least 30% which would bring the state into range of the taxpayer in the private sector. In other words the way it is now the private sector taxpayer is not getting any bang for its buck from state government.

Please read this report.

Totally Disgusted

Spike:

Disappointed In Our Officials should take a look at the attached table that will show how Iowa city county and state government are raping the Iowa private sector to line their pockets with over pay and benefits.

Iowa government employees are living the life of Riley while the private sector employee is robbed to pay for it. Government unions are destroying our way of life through their greed with the help of Democrats.

Now the brain dead democrats in Des Moines want to reinforce the unions by doing away with our right to work laws as payoff to the scum bag government unions for their support.

Why do Iowans continue to support the same people that are ruining their lives? Many Iowans gave up their lives in wars to prevent the take over of our government by thieves, liars and crooks namely Democrats and unions rubbing each others back to the detriment of the private citizen.

Wake up Iowa and look at what the Democrats and unions have done to our state by looking at the attached table for Iowa below.

Disgusted

Thanks for sending this. Never fail to realize that people like Jeff Heland, Tim Hoschek, Lost Keys Bill Ell, Dandy Jim Davidson, our ex-drunk mayor Mike Edwards, Springsted crooked bond salesman Bruce Slagle, Mini-Me Crook Doug Worden, Brian Tapp and the revolving door of tax and spend Democrats contributed their undivided efforts to this mess.

Spike

Kennedy's Burnt Bridge Finally Gone

"Republican Scott Brown took over the seat of the late Massachusetts Sen. Edward Kennedy on Thursday, vowing to be an independent voice in a bitterly divided Senate.

"I can't promise I will be right in every vote I make. ... I will do the very best job I can," Brown told reporters.

Brown was sworn-in by Vice President Joe Biden at a Capitol Hill ceremony a week earlier than he originally planned, and just in time to plunge into a partisan fight over President Barack Obama's choice of a union attorney for a top labor job. "

The four-minute film, shot by optometrist Jack Moss, brings an entirely new perspective to the terrible event which killed a team of seven, including science teacher Christa McAuliffe, who had been chosen by NASA to become the first civilian in space.