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>> A great many are out of work and stupidly continue to vote for Democrats.

Amazing isn't it?

I make my living selling iron to people who make trees into stumps and fields into parking lots. At my company, most of the folks will vote Republican, but then it's nonunion.

Our company management did support vehicle and fuel tax increases last year, but the money is earmarked for construction projects, so the company will see some benefit from it. Still, I disagreed. I say do the construction projects, and other things that are needed, with the money that is available, and just stop doing the things that are not needed. As for the useless eaters in state government that would have to go to in order to accommodate this common sense approach, I care no more about them than they do about me.

On the forest initiative, I am firmly in the school that says the "national forest land", as long as we're going to have it, is best managed for timber production. In that capacity, it is not a liability. It is all going to either burn or be harvested, so we may as well not squander that economic value that is there.

That's not to say, though, that I think for a minute that the huge percentage of the real estate in this state that is under federal control ought to be, because I don't.

Dave in Eugene