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I will certainly do that. Your take on the state is exactly right as it seems to me. I live in the Columbia Gorge and you are right...the beauty is breath taking and I know I live in another world from Seattle and the other high population areas. We pay the taxes and are thankful we can do that. I just wish we had more say in how the money is used. PDX has high taxes most of which is poured into the Oregon school system, yet this past week showed PDX's schools below the national average...shameful, but thats liberal spending for you and believe it for sure, libs control the schools unions where a lot of the money lands.

PDX has high taxes most of which is poured into the Oregon school system, yet this past week showed PDX's schools below the national average...shameful, but thats liberal spending for you and believe it for sure, libs control the schools unions where a lot of the money lands.

There was a time in which unions were effective (and even necessary) in fighting unhealthy work conditions, child labor, etc. But those days are long gone. Now, unions only serve three [counterproductive] purposes: artificially driving up the cost of labor, lowering productivity, and evading accountability. It's pathetic. When teachers can strike for months on end over a pay dispute -- and then the taxpayers have nothing to show for the compromise -- there's something very, very, very wrong with this picture. And I see little evidence that taxpayers have learned anything from these year-in, year-out debacles. Like lemmings, they support the teachers because, God help them, "it would be wrong not to want to improve our edyookashun system..."