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THAT BITCH IS LIKE 19! WTF ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?!?!

We gotta do something about this...

"Give us your broke-ass Seniors, senor..."

I just gave you a 57 minute lecture to listen to that did exactly that. Pull your head out of your ass, that'll help. classic "if I don't acknowledge the data, it goes away, and I can claim that we already discussed it" moment Bump.

Why would anyone bother sharing anything with you when you'd just go hide for a month till the whole thing blew over and you'd found a hot, new (old) axe to grind (subsidies, "the mob", people who don't love Walmart, etc, etc.)

Now if he were a derivatives trader...that'd be a different story.

Now, if she ran Enron...that'd be a different story.

Maybe we should think of them more as General's Burgers, you know, like a Colonel Sanders KFC spinoff... Not sure why you're dissin' potential SEIU members, comrade. What the fuck are you talking about dissing them?! I'm gonna make a bundle feeding them to each other!

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Maybe we should think of them more as General's Burgers, you know, like a Colonel Sanders KFC spinoff...

Looks like we needz to start turnin' a buncha folks into hamburger 'cause they gettin' expensive!

Yeah, Phil Gramm was another one of our "best and brightest" whose blind adherence to the cocktail napkin helped drive the planet into a ditch.

"Mental recession?"

I heard some German industrialists got rich under the Nazis. Who knew?

Except that by all indications, intergenerational mobility, the metric by which movement between classes is measured, has actually declined under the Reagan/Thatcherite policies of which Jay_B is a proponent. The rich getting richer and occasional Beverly Hillbilly or The Jeffersons aside, the notion that Americans have more opportunities to "get ahead" under conservative economic policy is pure horseshit. Rags to Rags Britain More Class Bound Than Ever Movin' On Up?

Wow, what a great opportunity for one of your monographs on the dangers of "mob rule". For some reason I don't think we'll see one.

AND FAILING MISERABLY AT!!! WAKE UP!!! IT'S NOT WORKING!!! By "not working" you must mean "financing every last penny of public employee wages, benefits, and pensions." But I agree that there are virtually no circumstances in which the growth of tax revenues under any reasonable forecast and any tax regime likely to endure for more than a single election cycle can come anywhere near covering the tab for the said pay and benefits. Right now future liabilities for public retiree health benefits are roughly 5% funded. The model under which government unions promote maninfestly un-fundable compensation schemes that drive both business and citizens out of their states is failing miserably, is not working, and it's time for the public employee unions to wake up before a taxpayer revolt tosses them out of the bed they've spent the last few decades feathering. No, what's not working is pretending that this austerity proposal isn't the same "drown the government in the bathtub", "corporate tax cuts or else" set of policy prescriptions that you folks have been pushing for years and that's left Americans poorer, dumber, and angrier as a result. It's tired and using the crisis you've created as an excuse to force down more of the same medicine is simply gross. That this "common sense" is coming from the two usual suspects should clue anyone in that it's a nightmare of an idea.

From the article posted above, it seems more important that the State be finding ways to put people to work rather than finding ways to increase the ranks of underemployed and those lacking health-care.

AND FAILING MISERABLY AT!!! WAKE UP!!! IT'S NOT WORKING!!!

Maybe you should consider the possibility that your interests and your employers' interests are not always one and the same. Which ones? How is adding to the rolls of unemployed likely to effect the economy right now? Cutting some of the only living wages in the State? More uninsured? Fewer teachers, classes? Cops? Oh yeah, you like cops fine, and by golly we're going to need all them we can get! Roads, bridges, inspectors, biologists, librarians, regulators? Who, exactly? All of 'em? How about pensioners? Cutting them off? What are they going to do? Where are the dynamic sectors in the private sector where these people are going to find work? Where do you think all this is headed? Do you wonder? Do you think your business leaders or political leaders or your talk radio friends have the answers? If they did, I'd have thought they'd have been putting some of their policies into action during the last 30 years. Please enlighten us! What's next?

Wow, now you're a friend to the environment, union workers, Washington Democrats, the petroleum lobby, and the American consumer! This is too good to be true! What's next, a cure for bad breath? Where do I sign up?!

"Yes indeed, how ever will we get these people to take their medicine without having to take the nasty stuff ourselves?"

No, lemme guess: your boss told you that the nickel per 12oz. sodee-pop "tax hike" Gregoire proposed was threatening to lead his family to the slaughter and has chosen to send you to the glue factory instead. (Don't even consider a pay raise, time off, or a retirement plan, BTW.) And then you drove around all day and listened to the corporate talk radio echo chamber and they told you that raising taxes on cigarettes and pollution to keep schools open was tantamount to a next holocaust and that it's all the unions' fault. And you lapped it all up and went to Wendy's. Is that about right?

You should dress up like a Founder and clutch a copy of the Constitution immediately!