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FUCK YEAH! How else do you exact punishment on the poor? They're POOR for fuck's sake, are we just supposed to sit idly by and let them do that to us?
Apparently, the Chamber doesn't include Convenience Stores and Grocery Stores? I can't even...
Seriously, I'd rather be poor in Paraguay. Nobody harasses you if you set up on a vacant lot with walls made of wooden pallet scraps and plastic trash bags for a roof. Nobody gives grandma shit for selling chips and smokes out of her garage to help pay for her family (and not just in the hood, but in ritzy neighborhoods like mine, personally, love the convenience of walking five houses away to when I run out of Kitchen Matches or the Kid's favorite juice boxes). Guy next store has a 15-year old kid and grandma selling BBQ Costilla and Empanadas weekend nights, is paying for his Private School that way.
At the end of the street, is what I call "Versailles" - a huge, must be 20-room mansion with armed guards and built totally out of unbelievably expensive imported stone.
I wonder how many "Free Marketeers" would allow neighbors to run a convenience store out of the McMansion next store. They'd be running, not walking, to the Code Department to complain - Home Values are at stake. Forget it if a neighbor was selling his secret special BBQ Ribs on his front driveway to pay for his kid's college fund. POLICE!!! NOW!!! A FRONTAL, AGGRAVATED ASSAULT ON MY PROPERTY VALUES!!!
I wonder how many "Free Marketeers" would allow neighbors to run a convenience store out of the McMansion next store. They'd be running, not walking, to the Code Department to complain - Home Values are at stake. Forget it if a neighbor was selling his secret special BBQ Ribs on his front driveway to pay for his kid's college fund. POLICE!!! NOW!!! A FRONTAL, AGGRAVATED ASSAULT ON MY PROPERTY VALUES!!!
Careful you are starting sound like a free market guy.
tax cuts on people are like electoral candy
tax raises on people are like electoral hemlock
raise taxes on the Kochs and they just send another billion or whatever to their message machines to oppose you
the 1%'s vote doesn't matter, but their money does
raise taxes on the middle class and they'll vote for someone else next time
Democrats learned this hard way in '94, but those tax rises did give us a pretty good economy in the 1990s eventually.
Before the Bushies took over we were afraid of running out of new treasuries to sell, LOL
debt held by public less Fed / GDP
Before the Bushies took over we were afraid of running out of new treasuries to sell, LOL
Greenspan famously told Clinton no widespread job training programs and science incubators, because that would create too much debt.
Then he went whole hog printing far more money for the GWOT.
Until the governor understands that, he will have the Republican majority doing the same thing over and over while expecting a different result.
This is not the definition of insanity.
I work with plenty of insane people who know better than to do the same thing over and over while expecting a different result.
Good comedy is hard to find - thanks for posting that.
You obviously don't read the NYT or any of the many TV stations on the major networks.
http://patrick.net/misc/Warning+For+S.F.+and+Silicon+Valley
Those companies have massively inflated valuations but the real clunkers are all the companies that Patrick has listed on this site that never have and never will make a profit yet employee tens of thousands of people at very high salaries who pay very high rents.
No no, the only states that can afford to be blue states have to make a lot of money in order to afford the parasites.
No no, the only states that can afford to be blue states have to make a lot of money in order to afford the parasites.
DieBankOfAmericaPhukkingDie says
Once the roads are reduced to ruin from earthquakes and unemployment runs to 92 percent
You cannot have true conservatism if smelting of metals is allowed.
We must ride dinosaurs and use only wood and bone implements, as Jesus did.
Allende also came to office during the Nixon Shock, 1973 Stock Market Crash, and was killed right before the oil crisis.
Here's an interesting story about the kind of folks Pinochet worked closely with:
https://theamericanscholar.org/the-torture-colony/#.VYuVeqbhU7A.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/paul-schfer-nazi-colonel-who-established-an-antisemitic-colony-in-chile-after-the-war-1981014.html
Ain't it interesting that Austrian Economists, Actual Nazis, and South American Dictators seem to have a very cooperative history?
Michael Townley is also an interesting person. Nice lifetime on the taxpayer dime under the Witness Protection program, and only 5 years for killing a former diplomat in DC.
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