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If you don’t “see the benefit of Twitter”, there are probably 5,000,000 articles that can explain it. Even the City of Burnsville is smart enough to have figured out the value (and, yeah, I just threw up in my mouth a little bit).

LaBeau is probably one of those sheeple that sits in traffic for 90 minutes after a 100-degree day causes a road buckle and thinks “boy, I wish there were some way I could have known to take an alternate route!” (psst…Colleen….this is one example of a bazillion of ‘who’s gaining from it’)

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LaBeau retorted that she does not “see the benefit of Twitter. Who’s gaining from it?”

I don’t see the benefit of individuals on city councils who cannot grasp the desire of other councilmembers to communicate with their constituents in the ways the public prefers.

Luddite councilmembers can bitch and moan all they like about what Little says on social media but the simple fact of the matter is that he’s doing exactly what he said he was going to do.

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I’m writing in response to a social media posting Council Member Matt Little made. Little wrote, “I have now been in office for nearly 6 months. My vision for the city of Lakeville has been that of safe neighborhoods, strong infrastructure, good schools, and smart policy-making that reduces costs and taxes to the citizens. I look forward to the day when Mayor Bellows and Councilmember Labeau join in this vision.”

Mr. Little, I find comments such as this disrespectful and uncalled for. What does making such a comment do to help the citizens and businesses of Lakeville? Furthermore, you couldn’t be more off the mark about Mayor Bellows’ and Council Member LaBeau’s visions for the city.

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Maybe the other council members are just jealous that Mr Little seems to have learned how to use Social Media and they haven’t.

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The various federal, state, county, whatever assistance programs out there do make a difference in the lives of people that most of us would agree with.

Mikeh,

Which do you think most of us would agree with? Here are a few I don’t.

Assisting mothers that don’t have a job but were able bodied enough to get pregnant (i.e. all of them).
Assisting people who have lived here for less than a year.
Assisting pretty much anybody who is able bodied and could have a job.
Giving food stamps to people who trade them at 50 cents on the dollar for alcohol and cigarettes.
Giving food stamps to people who get food with them. If you can make it to the grocery store, you can make it to work.

It is easy to point out “disabled” people. I am already paying for a lot them with this thing called health insurance.

There is probably room in my budget for kids under 18 who don’t have parents, so I will give you that one.

I think I heard recently that there is a backlash in some state because they are thinking about drug testing welfare recipients prior to paying them. That says a whole lot about the state of our society.

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Here are some of his comments there:

I have now been in office for nearly 6 months. My vision for the city of Lakeville has been that of safe neighborhoods, strong infrastructure, good schools, and smart policy-making that reduces costs and taxes to the citizens. I look forward to the day when Mayor Bellows and Councilmember Labeau join in this vision.

June 23 at 2:18pm

Mayor calls this plan substandard. His idea calls for no Senior Center, and has repeatedly implied that providing for our seniors is not a core service. I disagree. This plan is a low-cost, creative solution that will provide a solid facility for over 1000 Senior Center members.

June 28 at 12:41pm

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LaBeau shouldn’t have complained about Little as a public statement — she should have talked to him one-on-one. (It’s unfair to say she “hates freedom of speech” based on her statement — she didn’t question Little’s right to express himself through social media, she questioned the appropriateness of social media as forum for resolving conflicts between Council members.)

The voters have been rewarding and electing politicians who are pugnacious and confrontational and punishing those who are polite and can work with diverse interests to get things done for the common good. An eye for an eye leaves everyone blind.

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As for “The Poor” in general, my statement that I do not support public assistance of that kind stands and that certainly doesn’t mean I’m kicking them around.

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The various federal, state, county, whatever assistance programs out there do make a difference in the lives of people that most of us would agree with. A side affect of having these assistance programs is that it also makes a difference in the lives of people that many of us would prefer they don’t.

Along with the opportunity that exists in our society there are costs. You can’t have one without the other.

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Near the end of the trip they began discussing who they planned to rob in order to make up for the benefits they felt they were expecting to lose due to the shutdown.

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Now, aside from the fact that I don’t believe in any public assistance at all, as I have somehow been able to support myself and my family adequately, I have to say that if they spent the same amount of time researching jobs as they did how to get freebies from churches, other non-profits, the government, and by criminal means they’d probably me making more than they’d require to have their family supported.

Clearly that’s not as much fun however.

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I think people need to read their history. When the rich get richer and the poor have to fend for themselves, really bad things happen. It can happen here just like anywhere else.

Really?

How about the “poor” work harder and get a better fucking job and not depend on the “rich” to pay their fucking way? I work hard, have a job I am happy with and I can “fend for myself”. Why should I have to pay for somebody else?

To be clear, I am not making this statement in support of the Minnesota legislators nor in deference to the Governor (though I know it sounds like it). I am making this statement because I would like Michele to explain why people with a few dollars should spend these dollars on somebody who would rather sit on their couch than work.

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I think people need to read their history. When the rich get richer and the poor have to fend for themselves, really bad things happen. It can happen here just like anywhere else.

I do agree that we need more honesty, but telling tales and talking behind other people’s backs isn’t honesty. And I think ALL the legislators need to remember that.

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