Residual Forces

State spending is out of control, and no one seems to be doing anything about it. I thought it would be a neat little digg at elected officials to have a logo for my sidebar that just showed the numbers spinning out of control. Like any good MOBster that wants good looking professional graphics, I went to Derek Brigham of Freedom Dogs. While working on the graphics we pulled in Larry Colson to help with some the javascript.

While I was putting them through the demanding paces in the graphic development, I started thinking this should be more than just a logo. Now it is still a work in progress, and if I wait for it to be perfect, the people in St. Paul will have spent a few more hundred million dollars in the blink of the eye.

I’ll be keeping a MOB Focus Page going that you can get to by clicking on the nifty logo in my sidebar. We’re setting things up so that other MOBsters can display the logo on their own blogs. We’ll get that ironed out over the weekend. Contact me if you want me to send you the code. It’ll be a cut and paste feature, so no upload or download to worry about.

I just figured maybe it is time to send a message to people that bloggers are not just tin foil hat wearing, cheeto stained fingered, people sitting in there mom’s basement writing to themselves, oh yeah in their underwear. I get accused of that weekly by GOP loyalists and comment trolls sent to shut me up by Republican leaders. It gets quite annoying, and just proves to me that the leaders of this party have no intentions whatsoever of trying to keep Minnesota from being a liberal mecca.

They treat bloggers like me as enemies most days, when all I/we want is less. Less government spending, intervention, and mandates. They are not open to ideas and have absolutely no money, plan, nor desire to spread the word that more government is actually the problem. And they don’t understand that a lot of us started blogging because people like them weren’t listening. Maybe you create you own enemies sometimes.

I have bi-partisan hatred coming at me, which leads me to believe I’m doing something right if people in both parties hate me. We won’t get into why each does right now, but put simply I’m calling one party a bunch of socialists and accusing members of the other one of trying to act like people in the other party.

So here is the beginning of what will hopefully turn into something big, er small. MOB Focus. I fully believe that our elected leaders should not be trying to find more money to spend just to pander to all the special interest groups. There’s enough money being drained out of our pocket books already for them to spend in St. Paul. We’re in the top 10 on most tax burden lists out there.

I believe enough is enough, and that they waste too much money already. Unfortunately, most people who feel that way too, are down and out, feeling hopeless that anyone will listen to them, or frustrated that no one will even consider the alternative to massive spending increases. I feel that some people should be listening to us and trying to fight for what we believe, but are more concerned with insulating certain people from us, than conveying our message to them.

OK, when I started typing this it wasn’t supposed to be an editorial. I’ll be ranting like this a lot over the coming weeks and months, so I will leave it right there.

I’ve begun to add contact information for Pawlenty, links to the ‘find your legislator’ pages for the legislature, links to the Caucus pages for the Legislature so you can keep an eye on them, and I will be compiling a list of places to go get ’second’ opinions of the ’state of the state grab bag’. Once again you can get to all that with one simple click of the mouse right on that MOB Focus logo.

It is a work in progress, no where near done. If there are any links or information you think would be good to add, or want the code to add this to you blog, let me know.