N.A.D.S. a cute acronym for Not Another Dime Suckers. This now needs to become the battle cry of every taxpayer here in the People's Republic of Massachusetts. Except, of course, for the limousine liberals who will likely avoid the Massachusetts tax structure altogether. Can you say "Rose Kennedy"? Here in Boston we proudly name the land above the BigDig as "The Rose Kennedy Greenway". Oddly, Rose chose to have her "green" estate probated in tax friendly Florida. Only Captain Renaud could fake shock. Now, some twenty odd years after Michael Dukakis folded all of the gas tax money into "General Revenues"pork barrel, even Renaud would not be shocked to find the roads and bridges of the Commonwealth in such disrepair. "We're 19 Billion short!" they say on Beacon Hill. And "What about the children?" Frankly I've had more than enough of these dolts and thieves. I'm tired of being governed by a pack of failed attorney's who couldn't make a living in their chosen profession, of layabouts and spineless weasels who's only purpose in life is to find ways of cheating hard working people out of their earnings so as to support shiftless in-laws and payback patronage to union bosses who cheat their members. These bloated bureaucrats have spent every dime we've ever given them and we have little or nothing to show for it unless you count gazebos in Braintree, artistic grants for a light switch and a huge leaky tunnel. Now these felons have the temerity to propose an ADDITIONAL 11.5 cent/gallon hike in the gas tax and a GPS spying program to charge us all another 5 cents per mile should we be foolish enough to drive to work each day. These are the same fools who are outraged over eavesdropping on Ahmed and Mohammad planning to blow up LNG tanks, but spying on commuters is A.O.K. with them. They are the same idiots who preach about the environment, then buy speed boats that get 1 mpg, insist on large luxury vehicles to do "the people's business" and oppose wind farms because it might disturb the pristine view from their stately mansions. Even when one of their number has a brain fart and comes up with a proposal falling short of their socialist agenda (Coupe Deval's Casino's for cash plan) the nanny's fear the "social ills" of gambling. None of them have any qualms about the state lottery however. Our state lottery is as big a sucker bet as any seen at Foxwoods, Mohegan Sun, Vegas or Atlantic City. Every "gambler" knows that "the numbers" are the single worst bet imaginable. For decades "numbers" were organized crime's biggest cash cow.

Many of us work in Boston because that's were the jobs are. I do not cherish arising at 5:00 am each day to begin an 1 1/2 hr commute over some of the worst roadways in America, but I have no choice. The cost of living in metropolitan Boston is insane. Few can afford $400,000 for a 2 bedroom cape on 1/8 acre of land in a bad neighborhood. Now we may not be able to afford to live in Central Massachusetts and waste 3 hours a day in the company of people "multitasking" while they drive. To those Solon's who want more of my money I say "N.A.D.S.!" Not another dime suckers! Not until the dolts at the MBTA have to work until 70 like I do. Not until toll takers on the turnpike make the same as the kid in the drive up window at the Burger King. Not until every brother-in-law, sister, cousin, and monkey's uncle is thrown out of state government on his or her fat candy ass. Not until illegal aliens are treated as "illegal" and sent on their merry way back to from whence they came and not provided with free education and health care.

N.A.D.S. to you Massachusetts! NOT ANOTHER DIME SUCKERS!!!

'Nuff said

Red State, Blue State. I'm curious as to why the "conservative" states are called "Red" and the liberal ones "Blue" . To me, life here in the People's Republic of Massachusetts is similar to the old Soviet Union ergo "Red" seems far more appropriate for the liberal havens. Maybe it's just because being governed by the self-proclaimed elite makes one "blue" living here.

Now that the Legislature has decided to postpone the Constitutional Convention until AFTER the elections (such heroism has rarely been seen before) perhaps it can do as the elitists professes to want and turn attention to the "people's business". I refer not to getting jobs for their brother-in-law, or putting a new park in front of some rental property held in a spouse's name, but rather to fixing the deplorable condition of one of the Commonwealth's major highways ....... the long neglected Route 2! The only vehicular route to Boston from North Central Mass., Route 2 is poorly maintained and completely inadequate for today's needs. The numerous traffic signals between the Route 128 interchange and Acton create a horrendous and needless backlog of traffic at any time of day. The Concord Rotary is a dangerous farce. I'll bet that there are more accidents and injuries in that rotary then are caused by people failing to wear the seatbelts as now legally mandated. The communities of Lexington, Concord and Acton have no right to force hundreds of thousands of commuters to be needlessly delayed to assuage their effete sensibilities. I don't advocate draining Walden Pond, but bypassing those traffic signals and creating an alternative to the rotary are improvements long overdue. Yes Acton may have to increase it's property taxes to compensate for extorting money from honest commuters but so be it. People can choose to live there or move to another town. Commuters have no such option. Perhaps if our tax dollar bloated solons had had the foresight to re-locate the cramped Logan Airport to the old Ft. Devens when the federal government offered the property to the state, a modernized mass transit alternative would have been necessitated. Why we wouldn't have even needed the Ted Williams Tunnel or the connector which now endangers the lives of anyone who uses it. Sadly we live in Massachusetts where foresight and common sense are as rare a dragon teeth and unicorns. What's that you say about the "Commuter Rail"? Yes we have the civil war era "purple line" and it's 2 1/2 hour ride. Hardly a bullet train now is it. Perhaps the gluttons who run this sate need to be reminded that we, the citizens of North Central Mass. pay taxes also. I know it will come as a shock, but the world exists beyond Route 495.