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the seattle times is for austerity. Who knew? LOLZ

by opposition to your 401k after the Wall Street bailout? by opposition to its rebound in intervening years Try to be coherent once in a while. As if rebounds after a crash happened without government spending.

you keep spewing about government spending for services being unsustainable but you don't want to acknowledge that 401k values are propped by Wall Street speculation and bailouts, and government bonds. How sustainable is that?

how eloquent. retard.

We seem to get to this point relatively quickly. Again and again. indeed, there has been a neoliberal revolution to defund the state since Thatcher and Reagan. Time to pull your head out of ass, perhaps. tongue in cheek, my ass. why didn't you ask Jayb what he meant when he attributed the budget crisis to overspending? was he hand waving?

yeah right, Jim claiming that I handwave supposedly in contrast to his non critical approach to the drivel of neoliberals going after public workers is not a personal attack.

by opposition to your 401k after the Wall Street bailout?

more continual off topic drivel from Attila

for the nth time, insults and ad-hom aren't equivalent. Now fuck off, goon. You'll note that the preceding insults all relate to your behavior and therefore aren't ad-hom.

Merkel knew about it because the German surplus has its roots in a deficit somewhere. It takes 2 to tango. the details of what, jackass? the same elites that don't pay taxes and profited from the crisis were in charge of policy for as long as we can remember, so why shouldn't they make sacrifices, first?

Texas has among the lowest taxes and the lowest spending on public services in the nation, yet Texas has a huge budget shortfall (despite wingnuts cooking the books). Texas is of course in the top 1/3 in freedumb ranking. You can tell where this is going.

Ok then. Your version is.....? do I have a few days to put my expert report together or will soundbites suffice? Kind of interesting how "government spending is responsible for budget shortfall" doesn't elicit as much as a pip of questioning from you but "elites don't pay their fair share" is somehow a big point of contention.

right genius, the debt has to disappear at this very instant

"state’s relatively decent tax-burden levels" Washington has among the most regressive tax scheme in the nation, which is likely why they think it's "decent". Wingnuts are so much for "freedom", they want to require a supermajority to raise new revenue.

Just imagine private schools have to be certified and teachers have to be licensed! why can't any bibble thumper claim to be a teacher? Pretty soon they'll require schooling for all kids through k12. The infamy!

Well - at the end of the day consumption can exceed production only as long as there's a store of real wealth somewhere that can cover the difference - so it doesn't really matter if you're wasting money building pyramids or paying 3x as much as necessary for basic municipal services. The ride may be a bit different, but in the end you'll be swirling down the same drain. you'd first have to demonstrate there isn't a store of wealth sufficient to pay for services. 200 individuals own more than the remaining of Greeks yet they pay little to no taxes. Again, there are at least 2 components to a budget: spending AND revenue.

in other words, taxation is slavery but a non-living wage is liberty. Freedumb now!

it's working out great for wall street and 401ks ... so far

interesting how the ranking of the freedumb list is almost opposite that of median household income: Household Median Income by State The wingnuts really try hard to make "slavery is freedom" ever more actual.

After the Koch Bros propaganda, it's Rupert Murdock's propaganda via the New York Post. FREEDUMB!

Great! Certainly looks like it was a good year to do it. It seems the climb doesn't come into conditions very often, which combined with lack of info made it a test piece.

In fact, on average, western welfare states are doing better than the no growth-no jobs former lions of neo-liberalism cheered by JayB.

I hope that having one's brain on won't put too much of a damper on some of the humor displayed here.

Even in this one party land there are visions of history at odd with the dominant NARRATIVE. There has always been and there always will be. It's difficult to talk about immigration policy without also discussing trade, employment, subsidies but I don't think there is any doubt we should be 100% fair with immigrants who are often victimized by our policies.

These POVs you describe aren't polar opposite at all, because they are in fact held by the same camp (far right wing) directed at different demographics. To make it simple view A is mouthed by the equivalent of the Kock brothers while they finance the xenophobes articulating POV B. POV B is useful to those who hold POV A because those uppity immigrants have to be kept very needy so they come cheap, or there would be no point in employing them.