Appalling?

Here are some things I find appalling.

A beef plant disaster that no one in the state legislature, apparently, saw coming.

Teachers Unions placing their interests over those of children.

The sad good old boy administration of Lee County Schools.

School work trucks with candidate stickers on them.

Illegal immigration.

Teddy Bear legislation.

The crime problem in Jackson.

The Jeremy Martin fiasco (thought I'd forgotten, huh, Samson?)

Suing small businesses in election years.

Suing small businesses located within a quarter mile of your home.

Suing Fair View Junior High.

Suing AmVets.

Suing Ole Miss and the ATO fraternity three years after a tragic fire.

Ike Brown's continued presence in the political process of this state.

Complacent media types.

Hothead state legislature candidates.

Katrina fraud arrests in an election year.

Starting fistfights at your party's national convention.

$14 million sweetheart deals for your campaign supporters.

VPAC stealth candidates.

Requesting three times as much travel funds as other representatives from your county.

All of this rankles me WAAAAAY more than three and a half pennies being saved on the dollar next time I buy milk or bread. By the way: The TAX SWAP SCHEME WILL NEVER WORK! Not even if you put on a display at the Big Star for the Clarion Ledger folks. It's still diminishing returns (that means you get less as time goes on, Yaw Yaw), meaning that the state will lose whatever surplus we have today since if you're elected we'll go about spending like a drunken sailor on shore leave in Thailand after six months at sea.

There's the one issue Jamie Franks Jr is counting on in November. Never have the press questioned the fact that some working families (whom he's the CHAMPION of, remember) might see an increase in prices when you SUE THEIR LOCAL GROCERY STORE!

If a sales tax is what you find appalling, you haven't been paying attention here lately.