Comments on: Boone County, KY. — hardly poor

By: Richard

Richard — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 23:01:56 +0000

Jim, you don’t have a flag if you don’t believe in what it stands for. Our country is growing into the 21st century and obvious you’ve been left behind…

By: Jim Riordan

Jim Riordan — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 21:34:17 +0000

Mr. Jueth . . . I have been “over it” since election day ended. However, I pledge allegiance only to my flag, never to socialism. Have a great next three plus years of no accountability and a constant string of lame excuses. I think it is only fair that we should keep hearing the same ole/same ole, “It’s the last administration’s problems I inherited”, cause this time it will be true, since not one promise he made was kept. What a joke.

By: Richard

Richard — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 21:07:54 +0000

Even their own leadership agree, saying stupid things seem to be a way of life for the tea party; Dick Armey, former leader of the conservative group FreedomWorks, said most GOP candidates said “stupid things” that party leaders should have taught them to avoid saying. He said Republicans had a lot of candidates who did “dumb things” during their campaigns. Republicans had been hoping to win control of the Senate but ended up losing seats instead, and they lost strength in the House as well. Seems there’s a message here ………

By: Rich Jueth

Rich Jueth — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 21:00:43 +0000

Riordan and Cookie: get over it already, losers.

By: James E.

James E. — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 19:03:34 +0000

Phil, we should all remember that the Fiscal Cliff, and all its implications are the result of past kicking the can down the road by Congress. If they don’t want the Defense Department, et al.,
to suffer severe cuts all they have to do is change the deal — if they would stop having massive holidays, they could do in less than one day.

By: Jim Riordan

Jim Riordan — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 18:34:57 +0000

More Garon hogwash. He got his wish. Now he can watch Bronco Bama, the “Urban Chowboy” give away all the freebies to the freeloaders when in fact there is nothing left to give away except inflation. Ride ‘em Chowboy! . . . and be sure to take some of Garon’s retirement to give away to those more worthy . . . . I’m sure Mr. Garon would like it that way.

By: Phil Veerkamp

Phil Veerkamp — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 16:15:28 +0000

Keep in mind, Colonel, the point of perspective, "as he fades into nothingness”. Mitt is still at the top of the cliff. He will be watching us as we fade into nothingness over that “Looney Tunes” cliff. We pull the rip cord. Out pops a flag embroidered “PARACHUTE by ACME” beep!beep!

By: James E.

James E. — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 15:49:09 +0000

Cookie, you speak of a man called Mitt Romney. I don’t think I remember him. Was he someone who the public should remember as he fades into nothingness?

By: cookie65

cookie65 — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 14:41:17 +0000

Mr. Garon doesn’t depend on accuracy for the nonsense he spews. His intent was to bash Romney and anyone who prefers liberty over marxism. Zero won and Garon is every bit as bitter as ever. It is going to be a longer four years for him than it is for the rest of us. He is grasping for the utopia that isn’t coming. At least he has everyone else on the planet to blame for obama’s failures.

By: Phil Veerkamp

Phil Veerkamp — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 07:34:43 +0000

PS to my previous comment – These “poor” people have arrived early at OCCUPY’s vision of the future. Sustainability . . . living off the land . . . survivalists . . . freedom that many might envy . . . the meek . . . our successors?

By: Phil Veerkamp

Phil Veerkamp — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 06:48:31 +0000

John, I’m certain that at some time in the past you have been corrected on statements such as, “. . . brainwashed by the GOP and religious extremists into believing that Romney would lift them out of their poverty”. One of the tenants of the right is the notion that when people lift themselves out of poverty the government becomes less relevant. John, the politics of dependency is what these poor people understand and seem to reject.

By: John

John — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 03:04:48 +0000

I apologize to residents of Boone County, Kentucky, which is not the poorest County in the U.S. The foreign news show where I got my info probably meant to say “Booneville”, the county seat of Owsley County, which IS the poorest county in the U.S. according to the Census Bureau. Southeastern KY is home to the four poorest counties in the country. Boone County or Booneville matters little; the pictures told the real story of a population with a median yearly family income of less than $20,000 brainwashed by the GOP and religious extremists into believing that Romney would lift them out of their poverty.

By: Phil Veerkamp

Phil Veerkamp — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 19:50:09 +0000

LINK - Map of Kentucky highlighting Boone County

By: Phil Veerkamp

Phil Veerkamp — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 19:28:33 +0000

LINK - www boonecountyky org/

By: Phil Veerkamp

Phil Veerkamp — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 19:26:44 +0000

LINK – http://www.boonecountyky.org/

By: James E.

James E. — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 18:58:15 +0000

Phil, exactly where if Boon County? I think Boone County (as in Daniel Boone) is in Kentucky. Hmmm, wonder if there was a Daniel Boon?

By: Phil Veerkamp

Phil Veerkamp — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 17:54:48 +0000

Mr. Garon, would you address Mike Parker's testimony, please? . . . Mr. Parker, a commenter from Mr. Garon’s, “Boone County, Ky., poor and GOP country” letter to the editor admits to total prior ignorance of Boon County but nonetheless validates Mr. Garon’s assertions by writing, “John Garon quite correctly references Boone County as being the poorest county in the country . . . Wanting to know more about Boone County, about which I had been totally ignorant prior to John’s letter, I went online. The commenter’s internet validation of Mr. Garon’s letter comes from a uk url - LINK - Boon County pictorial essay -dailymail-co-uk-news-article - Mr. Parker, it seems that all of us out here in California are personally ignorant of Boon County. Have you ever encountered places in Boon County that might be the source of the pictorial essay?

By: Mike Parker

Mike Parker — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 17:13:36 +0000

I live in Boone County Kentucky, one of the best places to live in America!

Boone County school system is in the top 5% in Kentucky n that is with having over 20k children in the system!

Boone County is far from one of the poor counties of Kentucky, we are lucky to be real close to Greater Cincinnati International Airport which is located in Boone County plus we are only 10 miles south of Cincinnati .

Come visit us!

Mike Parket

By: Phil Veerkamp

Phil Veerkamp — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 06:56:45 +0000

Susan, thank you for a well stated, well constructed and logical counter of the effete, worldly and urbane Mr. Garon’s condescending slander against the good people of Boon County, KY. Mr. Garon and his wife are former denizens of the United States State Department. If his treatise on Boon County is typical of his work product at State then much may be explained.