What’s Quickly? It’s where readers sound off on the issues of the day. Have a quote, question or quip? Call Quickly at 312-222-2426 or email quickly@post-trib.com.
To the commenter who said when the Democrats were in the governor’s mansion in Indiana our financial situation was sound: He forgets that when Frank O’Bannon was governor our state was bankrupt. Thank you very much.
Randy Palmateer, business manager for the Northwestern Indiana Building & Construction Trades Council, needs to be kicked out of the trade unions for being charged with operating while intoxicated for the second time. It’s hard enough for those people to organize nonunion members. But when you’ve got a joker like this having a good time, well, you know the rest.
Although fact-checking requires a little time and effort, it might be worth your while. Who’s trying to stop from stemming the tide of Chinese steel and the profits it’s bringing to the big corporations? Hedge fund Republicans in the U.S. House and Senate. Get a clue, folks. If there’s an R in front of their name for Republican, there’s dollar signs at the back.
I wish people would stop making things up about former Gov. Mitch Daniels. The lease of the Indiana Toll Road was great for Northwest Indiana. Every town got a lot more money than they ever got before the toll road was leased. This is a great thing. He was instrumental in bringing that about, and he hasn’t’ been governor for more than three years. It’s time to let it go.
Somebody in Quickly is always talking about their good-paying job. Why don’t you quote how much you make an hour? What is a good-paying job? How much is a good-paying job, huh? Could it be $7 an hour? What is your idea of a good-paying job? Why don’t people say how much they make an hour? What are they afraid of?
The Drug Abuse Resistance Education graduation at Hobart High School was a wonderful event. If you didn’t appreciate armed officers standing there, go home. You would have been the first one to have been begging for their help if something would have happened.
To the person complaining to the attorney general’s office about the robocalls: Don’t waste your time complaining. The robocall center is paying one of the highest business tax rates in Indiana at over 200 percent. Show me the money, baby, and too bad for the public. Vote against the politicians in Indianapolis.
Did you know that the top five Managers at Meijer in Highland are women?
Maybe unions did some good 100 years ago. I don’t know because I wasn’t around here then to see it. But I do know first hand that modern day unions are bad for the US economy and standard of living with their current focus on “pay for no work” programs for those that pay dues. That’s why I refuse to vote for Hilary.
The real reason businesses locate from IL to NW Indiana is probably the rock bottom low wages here compared to Illinois.
Downtown Hobart is losing business at a alarming rate. Not a week seems to go by without another empty storefront popping up.
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