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Speach, speach!

The guy needs to be gone. Preferably by his own people. All they need are the gift bundles. You. are. a. fucking. idiot.

NAFTA = Epic Fail

nah, bill uses one too, though at least it gets changed weekly - does blow goats on a slow machine I rest my case.

For people who aren't mildly retarded, anyway.

Ever wonder why nobody else uses an animated gif as a sig line? Because it gets old really fast.

You spelled "speech" wrong.

I've seen Mexicans with leaf-blowers make better contact with a fastball than Jose Lopez.

Apparently, NPR has been following Spray lately... Morning Edition 9/23/10 The 10-part Slate series, The United States of Inequality it references.

Linky.

This thread still sucks.

This thread sucks.

Based on what statistics? The point is that if you don't take age and experience into consideration simply looking at a distribution of income is misleading, to say the least. There are three kinds of lies: lies, damn lies, and statistics. You love to use the third type with no questions asked (as long as they suit your myopic Marxist world-view) There is little doubt that at no time since World War II have people born poor been more likely to stay poor. This situation is getting worse, not better. If modern capitalist societies with liberal democracies are to remain socially solvent, they need those at the bottom to buy into the myths and narratives that suggest they have a stake in maintaining the status quo. The "American Dream" myth has been in decay in the face of declining opportunity, rising inequality, and hardening class and spatial divides for quite some time. Unless there are some major initiatives to reverse these trends soon, we're going to need some new myths. Myths can be scary...

"Good worker?! Motherfucker, I'm going to work you into a bloody pulp."

Sound effects from Kojak's monkey cage! I love it. Must be frustrating for him though...

I'm always amused by the fact that whenever the subject turns to things that are concrete and specific, like taxes and budgets, you invariably go "meta" and take refuge in a set tangential articles of faith. "What's 2 + 2?" "The very symbols that you're using to frame your question encapsulate a set of concretizing western intellectual constructs that have persistently subverted and undermined the...blah, blah, blah." My evil homonym shares your outlook but at least he coughs up a straight answer every once in a while. Well, the short answer is I simply find number-crunching with a serial data-mining cherry picker with a lousy track record for intellectual honesty boring as all hell. But don't kid yourself or anyone else, despite your appeals to "the data", anything you post is always rooted in ideological "articles of faith". It's simply more interesting looking at your unexamined premises and faulty assumptions than dig through your info-garbage to find the obfuscations, omissions, and distortions. j_b seems to do just fine on his own in that department, though sometimes you make it easy.

What the fuck do you think neoliberal globalization is?!

3 billion dead serfs are laughing their asses off right now.

Yeah, you folks would sure like that wouldn't you? Down the old memory-hole, eh? Nothing to see here. Back to the ol' tax-cuts, deregulation, privatization, union-busting, and the rest for us. Yep, for as much as you pretend can't abide Palin and the rest Jay, I'd say the Party of No (Fucking Idea) suits you just fine. Just a reminder: We're talking about state and local budget shortfalls. Nothing that anyone at the state and local has any discretion over is going to have any effect whatsoever on any of the macro trends that you'll go to your grave impotently railing on about. In order to deliver the current level of services, state and local officials have a menu consisting of three options. The can raise taxes, cut services, and/or cut compensation. That's all that they can influence, and that's really all that it makes sense to discuss in the context of funding state and local government. Thanks for the meta-analysis, though. Would have been better if you'd spiced it up with something about heternormative neoclassical class-imperialism, IMO. That's right folks, you heard it here first. Despite the fact that these "fiscal crises of the State" are happening simultaneously at the municipal and national level throughout the industrialized world as a result of the same failed policies, we're going to solve the problem right here in King County. And not only that, but we're going to intensify the dynamics generated by those same failed policies to fix the problem. Funny your provincial outlook didn't prevail when you were breathlessly cheerleading globalization. Yeah, "keeping it local" is a great way to help frame your argument in these either/or, black/white, good/bad terms while absolving your failed project of any responsibility for creating the mess. Thanks for not helping. Typical Republican... I'm always amused at the irony of these little quips in that if such an analysis did exist and you actually read it, it would probably go a lot further in explaining the real world than your cocktail napkin bullshit.

And speaking of Seattle bus drivers making 70k a year, have you seen what those people have to put up with on a daily basis? They earn that money.

And the same goes for a commensurate tax increase on the incomes of those in that tier that can most afford it.

Yeah, you folks would sure like that wouldn't you? Down the old memory-hole, eh? Nothing to see here. Back to the ol' tax-cuts, deregulation, privatization, union-busting, and the rest for us. Yep, for as much as you pretend can't abide Palin and the rest Jay, I'd say the Party of No (Fucking Idea) suits you just fine.

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