Rebuttal man: McDonnell to respond to Obama

I hope this guy makes it his agenda to turn Virginia into the most business friendly and tourism friendly state in the Union. If we get big companies to locate to Virginia they will be paying salaries with money they earned from the other states. (think IBM Hewlett Packard, Lockheed Martin etc)In order to do this we need to evaluate luring incentives and go after them.

Reopening the rest stops is a great first step, I could not believe Kaine was so stupid as to close them. Their closing meant people drove through to DC or wherever instead of stopping and getting local info.

He should invest in promoting tourism advertising partnerships. Money earned in Pennsylvania and spent here is free money.

re:"I wonder what the struggling would have done 50 years ago?"

Sounds like you are fairly ignorant of American (and indeed human) history. There was government and private assistance 50 years ago for people who struggled. In fact, there have ALWAYS been people who struggled to get by. It was always so and will always be.

Jesus chose to help and comfort them. I wonder what BM will do?

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McCaca on the horizon. Sooner than later if he doesn't loosen that tie .

"If we get big companies to locate to Virginia" you mean like BFI/Allied/Republic that control the trash business in the entire state, and try to stomp out local trash haulers and recyclers. I'd prefer to see incentives for local businesses and companies, not huge international conglomerates that create monopolies, drive out competition, and end up costing the taxpayers more for inferior services.

"Yep classic conservative. White male with ââ?¬Ë?family values’ fo the right weight with no real agenda beyond tax cuts and cutting programms for struggling families”Š.."

I guess the struggling are lucky. I would cut every bit of welfare except for seniors, disabled and the recently unemployed. The rest could either find a job, create a job or move. I wonder what the struggling would have done 50 years ago?

Skyler, great point about schools! I lived and worked in Northern Virginia as a teacher. I almost quit teaching. When you put 32 students in a classroom it is almost impossible to get anything done because you can't even walk through the classroom. Education has been on the back burner for every VA governor for years.

Oil development and tourism? Gov McBob will destroy both. One good oil spill at VA Beach and watch those tourist dollars go somehere else. Then the state will be stuck with the cleanup, same has happend in the Texas coast. Big business will do nothing for the state unless we require them to do something. Just opening our doors and letting them come in? So we want to give a big corporation a TAX BREAK for the honor of locating here. I believe they've had enough tax breaks already. Does AIG sound familiar? Let thm pay their share the same way the residents do.

I agree creating advantages for big, out of state businesses would be a disaster for local businesses. The trash business is a good example, as mentioned above, not only Allied with the landfills, but the arrangement the City has with Waste Management, a monopoly, shutting out our local recycling center. We need to stand up for local companies that create local jobs for our citizens.

I'm afraid this governor will create a business disaster in our state. Remember what happened with Gilmore and the car tax fiasco.

Bob McRobertson is NOT a moderate, and the recipe for fixing schools is certainly not to choke their funding (which is what BM proposes).

No, strike that. He has not actually proposed anything yet. A proposal of any sort would actually be surprising.

The countdown to embarrassment begins: how long until McDonnell blurts out some Pat Robertson-influenced mumbo jumbo about the devil, minorities, the rapture, or foreign countries? I'll put the over/under at 60 days.