When one works at a dangerous and often risky job to put food on the table, one has to sometimes endure conditions that would cause them injury to be potentially hurt on the job. While the company reaps profits for the work from the laborer doing the physical and often damaging work, the employee will end up on workers compensation. This nice piece tells how Indiana being in the race to the bottom and how they are working to screw the people that are doing the grunt work in society that the well polished professional butt kissers refuse to do. All the while trying to cut away and chip away at the benefits and Workman's Compensation for people that actually work for a living so big business and government can be in an unholy alliance of fascism and government sponsored corruption. Think your local officials and state government crooks have your best interests in mind? Think again.
http://inthesetimes.com/working/entry/19206/the_war_on_workers_comp
Tuesday, October 31, 2017
Submit it To Wish 8 TV Indianapolis
This is a link to WISH 8 TV Indianapolis regarding news stories that you could post about Lawrence County, Indiana and Bedford, Indiana regarding corrupt practices in local government. Included is WISH TV along with other Indianapolis TV Stations because local events need to be exposed and the local media and local right to know media isn't doing its job as usual.
http://wishtv.com/report-it/submit/
fox59news@fox59.com
https://www.wthr.com/station/contact-wthr
http://www.theindychannel.com/about-us/contact-us
http://wishtv.com/report-it/submit/
fox59news@fox59.com
https://www.wthr.com/station/contact-wthr
http://www.theindychannel.com/about-us/contact-us
Indiana Government Budget Corruption
Interesting how Indiana talks about being financially transparent with the rainy day fund. Yet localities in Indiana are lacking money to fix locally taxed property and fix their local county projects such as local roads and bridges. Lawrence County is no exception to this with one commissioner stating that the county had no money for snow removal in a previous winter. Not to mention the county didn't have the funding nor the money to fix area county and local roads. Which is a prime function of government. Although they did have the money to provide more officers and more money for the local police department and sheriff department.
Always seems that they have money to help out the people who are protecting their asses from ever being brought to jail and prosecuted for their crimes against the citizenry. Not to mention all of the drugs and heroin/meth that is regularly being found in Lawrence County that was more than likely known about for years and brought into Lawrence County with the assistance of some highly placed prominent people in the community.
Wonder why Lawrence County is overrun by meth and heroin? Because the powers that be wish it that way because its more money for the law enforcement community, bigger jails for the inmates in charge to run while they run roughshod over the local community. These officials are not public servants in the slightest but are nothing more than vampires feasting off the blood of the taxpayers and the public which pays their salaries, court costs, and other government funded shakedowns of the taxpayers.
WISH 8 has a nice article here for some of the counties of Central Indiana. I am sure they would like information about Bedford, Indiana and Lawrence County sent to their news department. I think it would make a great story to start cracking down on public corruption in Lawrence County but also other neighboring counties such as Orange, Martin, Washington, Greene, etc.
http://wishtv.com/2015/02/26/corruption-continues-as-government-budgets-go-unchecked/
Always seems that they have money to help out the people who are protecting their asses from ever being brought to jail and prosecuted for their crimes against the citizenry. Not to mention all of the drugs and heroin/meth that is regularly being found in Lawrence County that was more than likely known about for years and brought into Lawrence County with the assistance of some highly placed prominent people in the community.
Wonder why Lawrence County is overrun by meth and heroin? Because the powers that be wish it that way because its more money for the law enforcement community, bigger jails for the inmates in charge to run while they run roughshod over the local community. These officials are not public servants in the slightest but are nothing more than vampires feasting off the blood of the taxpayers and the public which pays their salaries, court costs, and other government funded shakedowns of the taxpayers.
WISH 8 has a nice article here for some of the counties of Central Indiana. I am sure they would like information about Bedford, Indiana and Lawrence County sent to their news department. I think it would make a great story to start cracking down on public corruption in Lawrence County but also other neighboring counties such as Orange, Martin, Washington, Greene, etc.
http://wishtv.com/2015/02/26/corruption-continues-as-government-budgets-go-unchecked/
Police Corruption Lake County
Wonder when they'll start turning their eyes to the public corruption happening in counties in Southern Indiana and not only Bedford and Lawrence County but also Orange and Washington counties where corrupt law enforcement officials and corrupt judges hold sway. Its time to start cleaning the chicken coop out.
State Senator Eric Koch
This nice article from the Chicago Tribune talks about the attempt by Indiana State Representatives to cover their public dealings by preventing the public from knowing about their public business and their attempts at hiding behind the law to in order to violate the Indiana Public Records law which requires government officials to freely respond to requests for said public records. State Senator from Bedford, Indiana one Eric Koch sponsored a bill to help out his oil and gas buddies and of course his corporate masters. Instead of doing right by the taxpayers and ratepayers for Duke Energy, he's tied in with them and in their back pocket. Imagine another bought and paid for public servant?
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-indiana-lawmakers-records-secrecy-20160519-story.html
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-indiana-lawmakers-records-secrecy-20160519-story.html
The Screwing of the Elderly, Middle Class and the Poor
What the powers that be in Congress and the Presidency continue to tell us is that job creators need more tax breaks for their businesses to survive and thrive. All the while real wages have declined for the past 20 years for most Americans and there more poverty, less stability, worse jobs, and more financial hardship for most American than there has been for decades back to the times of the Great Depression. To argue otherwise is foolish because when one sees the economic morass and mess left behind from years of the corporatization of America one should see the damage that was done by vast enterprises of business moving their operations to foreign shores not because of taxes. Yet they moved businesses such as Visteon, Whirpool, Rexnord, Carrier out of the state of Indiana not because of taxes. But because they needed cheap labor and paying someone 20 to 25 dollars an hour is way too much for their corporate masters when they can pay a Mexican wage slave 2 or 3 dollars an hour. That's the real story they aren't bothering to tell you and nor do your government officials have the balls and human decency to actually say anything about it. Other than false promises by Donald Trump that he was going to make America great once again. All for the economic race to the bottom supported by the Republican Party and those in corporate America that want to capitalize on low wage labor.
http://www.muncievoice.com/20579/budget-cuts-tax-plan-reverse-robin-hood/
http://www.muncievoice.com/20579/budget-cuts-tax-plan-reverse-robin-hood/
Corporate/Governmental Censorship and Despotism
Great piece about how government and their corporate masters wish to control all of us via the control of information. No different than regimes in Russia, China, North Korea, Vietnam, and other model communist states. They may have embraced certain aspects of state capitalism but down deep they are monopolists and no different than a corporation ran as a monopoly ie. water companies, power companies, etc.
The Buying and Selling of the Indiana State Senate and House Representatives
Do you ever wonder why Indiana regularly ends up being one of the worst polluting states with some of the worst environmental rankings as a state even though its only a state of 6.5 million people? Here's some nice background information regarding the corrupt dealings of the State Legislature and Indiana State Government including our wonderful Christian ex-Governor Mike Pence and now of course after palms were greased and corrupt practices ended up being the United States Vice President. Kudos for the Muncie Voice for pointing out this corruption of the Indiana government and resulting issues that affect all of us whether you vote Democrat, Republican, Libertarian or none of the above. More proof that Indiana is a bought and paid for state government.
http://www.muncievoice.com/18960/rankings-show-indiana-corrupt/
http://www.muncievoice.com/18960/rankings-show-indiana-corrupt/
Corporate Corruption
Wonder how much corporate corruption has been allowed by government officials in Bedford, Indiana with regard to industrial pollution and other negative aspects of manufacturing? Wonder why cancer rates are higher in Bloomington and Bedford than many places in Indiana?
https://www.publicintegrity.org/2016/02/08/19223/meet-rented-white-coats-who-defend-toxic-chemicals
https://www.publicintegrity.org/2016/02/08/19223/meet-rented-white-coats-who-defend-toxic-chemicals
Indiana: A Lack of Governmental Integrity
Indiana again proves that it ranks near the bottom of government integrity but what can one expect when we've largely had decades of corrupt one party rule not that the other party is any better. They are both as equally incompetent but as corrupt as you can just about get.
This article from the Center For Public Integrity has some very good information in it about the corrupt clowns that rule our state from Indianapolis and of course with the various State Senators and State Representatives who are nothing more than bought and paid for corporate shills and lackeys.
Bedford Indiana: The Local Syndicate
In Bedford, Indiana and Lawrence County, Indiana the truth is regularly suppressed by the local right to know media companies including those on AM/FM radio and the other local news sources. In other words they don't want to tick off the powers that be in the Bedford Mafia that runs the local community and controls the police and judicial branches of government. This little You Tube video by a local Bedford resident says a lot about the local Bedford criminal class that hides behind the color of law and in their darkness violates the rights of the citizenry as well as conducts their criminal work. It says a lot about the good old boy syndicate network in Lawrence County.
Ever wonder why Bedford Indiana is a declining community with a population growth that is stagnating and even going negative from 2010 to 2016. This is probably part of it along with the lack of economic opportunity, crappy low wage jobs, and a public servant mentality that the people owe the government something. Its time for the people to retake their local governments and with that we can all work together to retake our nation.
Ever wonder why Bedford Indiana is a declining community with a population growth that is stagnating and even going negative from 2010 to 2016. This is probably part of it along with the lack of economic opportunity, crappy low wage jobs, and a public servant mentality that the people owe the government something. Its time for the people to retake their local governments and with that we can all work together to retake our nation.
The Incompetent Lawrence County Commissioners and Council
Lawrence County and Bedford lack a strategic vision for the future and like many small towns in Indiana seems to have no real vision for the future and what they will become as a community and a small city. Instead, they wish to become a bedroom community for a larger city such as Bloomington where half its population will have to leave their home just to find a job in Bloomington or even Seymour, etc. All because the morons and incompetents that run Lawrence County have did little to nothing regarding economic development over the last 20 years or so.
Instead, they thought that they would keep Bedford the same forever with the same small town mentality and keeping the two main automotive plants running and that would fix the employment problem and find something for people to do in a productive manner.
Sadly, they have failed and most of them are failures because they have no vision of where Bedford can go as a community despite the fact that its only 20 miles to the Interstate system via I 69 now that it is going to be very easy to get to Bloomington via State Road 37.
Instead of capitalizing on such proximity to the Interstate Highway System, they've chosen to sit on their laurels for the past 10 years since I 69 was announced and do absolutely nothing. Other than the minor Mickey Mouse outfit that has opened up in Bedrock over the years there hasn't been much in the way of economic progress.
Despite the formation of Radius Indiana in 2009 to serve as a catalyst for economic development and economic growth in the eight county region surrounding Lawrence County, there has been little to no economic and productive development of any major sort in many years. Those counties are as follows Crawford, Daviess, Dubois, Greene, Lawrence, Martin, Orange and Washington.
After nearly a decade of being involved in their so called economic development plans, there hasn't been much in the way of economic progress and economic development in those counties. If anything, its more low wage jobs and more low wage employers which they take great pride in. If it wasn't for outfits such as NSWC Crane and GM Powertrain as well as Jasper and its large employers, they haven't done much of anything in any of these counties. Only to keep certain people employed with government grants to justify their own jobs and keep the government sponsored gravy train coming. All the while the job and economic creation has been nil or even in many cases plants closing in this region and moving.
In the case of Bedford, they've had years to attract new factories and new manufacturing to take over existing manufacturing facilities and have failed at doing so. How about new plants and new growth industries in the pharma industry or technology. Nope, they haven't did much of anything there either.
Where this ties into Lawrence County is that Lawrence County and the cities of Bedford and Mitchell should be doing their job and finding ways to attract employers and help out homegrown companies in expanding their economic presence and value. Outside of a few low wage service industry jobs making fast food and low wage service jobs, they've did absolutely nothing except talk out of both sides of their mouth.
The Lawrence County Council and Commissioners should be held responsible as well for their lack of action except for turning Lawrence County and Bedford and Mitchell into retirement communities. While the young finally figure out such and they decide to haul ass to the next best location because they know there aren't many opportunities for them in South Central Indiana. The interesting thing is that while Bedford has stagnated over the last generation and 20 to 30 years, Bloomington increased its population from 52,000 in 1980 to over 81,000 today and its county has increased in population from 98,000 in 1980 to over 145,000 in 2016.
Wonder why the Lawrence County hayseeds in office can't do their job and create the type of decent community that everyone with any sense really wants? Is it because you have corrupt politicians who are more interested in polishing the seats of their office rather than getting up and do their job.
Oh and another great item is to hear incompetent public officials complain that they don't have enough money to repair roads and basic infrastructure nor to provide government services such as snow removal and brine/cinders for read clearance during the winter months. Yet, they've got plenty of money to give more money to the cops or the county sheriff while the roadways in the county are falling apart and basic infrastructure is being totally neglected.
Where's the right to know Bedford newspapers and Bedford media on these issues? Instead they're trying to cover for the corrupt politicians and good old boy network which relies on keeping the people ignorant of their poverty and ignorant of what is really going on behind the scenes in their community.
Instead, they thought that they would keep Bedford the same forever with the same small town mentality and keeping the two main automotive plants running and that would fix the employment problem and find something for people to do in a productive manner.
Sadly, they have failed and most of them are failures because they have no vision of where Bedford can go as a community despite the fact that its only 20 miles to the Interstate system via I 69 now that it is going to be very easy to get to Bloomington via State Road 37.
Instead of capitalizing on such proximity to the Interstate Highway System, they've chosen to sit on their laurels for the past 10 years since I 69 was announced and do absolutely nothing. Other than the minor Mickey Mouse outfit that has opened up in Bedrock over the years there hasn't been much in the way of economic progress.
Despite the formation of Radius Indiana in 2009 to serve as a catalyst for economic development and economic growth in the eight county region surrounding Lawrence County, there has been little to no economic and productive development of any major sort in many years. Those counties are as follows Crawford, Daviess, Dubois, Greene, Lawrence, Martin, Orange and Washington.
After nearly a decade of being involved in their so called economic development plans, there hasn't been much in the way of economic progress and economic development in those counties. If anything, its more low wage jobs and more low wage employers which they take great pride in. If it wasn't for outfits such as NSWC Crane and GM Powertrain as well as Jasper and its large employers, they haven't done much of anything in any of these counties. Only to keep certain people employed with government grants to justify their own jobs and keep the government sponsored gravy train coming. All the while the job and economic creation has been nil or even in many cases plants closing in this region and moving.
In the case of Bedford, they've had years to attract new factories and new manufacturing to take over existing manufacturing facilities and have failed at doing so. How about new plants and new growth industries in the pharma industry or technology. Nope, they haven't did much of anything there either.
Where this ties into Lawrence County is that Lawrence County and the cities of Bedford and Mitchell should be doing their job and finding ways to attract employers and help out homegrown companies in expanding their economic presence and value. Outside of a few low wage service industry jobs making fast food and low wage service jobs, they've did absolutely nothing except talk out of both sides of their mouth.
The Lawrence County Council and Commissioners should be held responsible as well for their lack of action except for turning Lawrence County and Bedford and Mitchell into retirement communities. While the young finally figure out such and they decide to haul ass to the next best location because they know there aren't many opportunities for them in South Central Indiana. The interesting thing is that while Bedford has stagnated over the last generation and 20 to 30 years, Bloomington increased its population from 52,000 in 1980 to over 81,000 today and its county has increased in population from 98,000 in 1980 to over 145,000 in 2016.
Wonder why the Lawrence County hayseeds in office can't do their job and create the type of decent community that everyone with any sense really wants? Is it because you have corrupt politicians who are more interested in polishing the seats of their office rather than getting up and do their job.
Oh and another great item is to hear incompetent public officials complain that they don't have enough money to repair roads and basic infrastructure nor to provide government services such as snow removal and brine/cinders for read clearance during the winter months. Yet, they've got plenty of money to give more money to the cops or the county sheriff while the roadways in the county are falling apart and basic infrastructure is being totally neglected.
Where's the right to know Bedford newspapers and Bedford media on these issues? Instead they're trying to cover for the corrupt politicians and good old boy network which relies on keeping the people ignorant of their poverty and ignorant of what is really going on behind the scenes in their community.
Bedford Sucks
Yes, you've read it here already even if it has been slowly creeping into your mind over the past few years. Bedford at one time was a bustling small city of 13,000 people in South Central Indiana with a county wide population of 45,000 in Lawrence County, Indiana. At one time Bedford had a nice downtown with plenty of stores and shopping amenities including a small mall and shopping area on West 16th Street also known as Indiana 450.
Within a lifetime Bedford has been transformed into a collapsing community which is full of drug, drug dealers, crooked cops and crooked public officials.
These public officials rather than promoting the city and promoting economic prosperity have been interested in keeping Bedford in their own image of making sure it remains a place ran by their own little good old boy clique.
Even the current mayor and council has remained a total joke even though Bedford has had the same mayor for the better part of the last decade and the economy has been out of recession for several years. But instead of promoting the community and bringing in new businesses and retaining existing business, Bedford chooses to spend its money on wasteful government projects that really do nothing to promote the general welfare of the citizens.
Not to mention the city being worried about an old man with signs being one Sam Shaw, a longtime Bedford resident that has been harassed by the Bedford powers that be regarding his signs that are politically incorrect and obviously embarrassing to the crooks and criminals running Lawrence County.
Instead of improving the community economically and getting better paying jobs and opportunities for the people of the locality, they are more interested in retaining the control of the local good old boy network and people that are politicians and professional butt polishers with their lying lips.
All the while they smile and talk about the great jobs they are doing and how they are improving the community while more jobs leave the area and what jobs they have are low paying jobs in the services and retail industries which are also declining.
Just see how much Bedford has declined over the years and with the businesses that have left the city. Add in the fact that Visteon left years ago and nothing really substantial replaced that once booming plant. Add in the fact that GM Powertrain is now a fraction of what it once was and yet still Bedford decides to be a retirement community rather than a community desiring prosperity. That's the Lwrence County they wish for. Not one of prosperity but one where the city is wracked by drug usage, drug dealing and criminality.
After all, its a Bedford growth industry to have drug dealers and drug abusers along with all kinds of criminal behavior because it keeps the police in Bedford and the Lawrence County good ole boy system employed. Otherwise, they would have to start looking for other jobs in the productive sector instead of needing to add more cops and police patrols to keep the lowlifes and societal trash in line.
Bedford is too busy chasing down little old men that put up politically correct signs in their community that break some obscure and inane law proposed by a city council that polishes the ass of the current executive in the mayor's office.
Instead of promoting community development and job creation with new factories, pharmaceutical and health industries, they are promoting poverty and drug usage with their lack of jobs and economic creation.
Within a lifetime Bedford has been transformed into a collapsing community which is full of drug, drug dealers, crooked cops and crooked public officials.
These public officials rather than promoting the city and promoting economic prosperity have been interested in keeping Bedford in their own image of making sure it remains a place ran by their own little good old boy clique.
Even the current mayor and council has remained a total joke even though Bedford has had the same mayor for the better part of the last decade and the economy has been out of recession for several years. But instead of promoting the community and bringing in new businesses and retaining existing business, Bedford chooses to spend its money on wasteful government projects that really do nothing to promote the general welfare of the citizens.
Not to mention the city being worried about an old man with signs being one Sam Shaw, a longtime Bedford resident that has been harassed by the Bedford powers that be regarding his signs that are politically incorrect and obviously embarrassing to the crooks and criminals running Lawrence County.
Instead of improving the community economically and getting better paying jobs and opportunities for the people of the locality, they are more interested in retaining the control of the local good old boy network and people that are politicians and professional butt polishers with their lying lips.
All the while they smile and talk about the great jobs they are doing and how they are improving the community while more jobs leave the area and what jobs they have are low paying jobs in the services and retail industries which are also declining.
Just see how much Bedford has declined over the years and with the businesses that have left the city. Add in the fact that Visteon left years ago and nothing really substantial replaced that once booming plant. Add in the fact that GM Powertrain is now a fraction of what it once was and yet still Bedford decides to be a retirement community rather than a community desiring prosperity. That's the Lwrence County they wish for. Not one of prosperity but one where the city is wracked by drug usage, drug dealing and criminality.
After all, its a Bedford growth industry to have drug dealers and drug abusers along with all kinds of criminal behavior because it keeps the police in Bedford and the Lawrence County good ole boy system employed. Otherwise, they would have to start looking for other jobs in the productive sector instead of needing to add more cops and police patrols to keep the lowlifes and societal trash in line.
Bedford is too busy chasing down little old men that put up politically correct signs in their community that break some obscure and inane law proposed by a city council that polishes the ass of the current executive in the mayor's office.
Instead of promoting community development and job creation with new factories, pharmaceutical and health industries, they are promoting poverty and drug usage with their lack of jobs and economic creation.
Monday, October 30, 2017
Bedford Indiana Sucks
Welcome to Bedford Sucks, your local source for knowing about the corruption of Lawrence County, Indiana and the suckiness that exists in Lawrence County including public corruption, drug addled losers and how the community at large is being turned into a total cesspool. Other information will be to expose crooked public officials and a system that is meant to keep the ordinary citizen down and keep them in place.
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