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Nooo, hipster douchebags are thoroughly inculcated with capitalist consumerist logic?! Say it ain't so!

That's right folks, things aren't happening in this country because your wages are too high!

You've got to be kidding! What planet are you on? Oh, you're not on a planet. You're doodling on the cocktail napkin again.

"Now that we got that whole "prevailing wage" thing out of the way, let's move on to some other inefficiencies that are keeping infrastructure from getting built. Health and Safety, first aid kits, fire extinguishers, orange vests, training and all that shit? Cuts into the bottom line. It's out. Building codes, whoo boy don't get me started! Too stringent. Things would go alot smoother (sorry, efficiently) without all that paperwork and some bureaucrat looking over our shoulders. Hey, I give my word, but if the shit does hit the fan, the state or the dead and injured or whoever can find another developer. It's a free market, er, country. Inefficiencies are everywhere, brah!"

Well shit, in that case ship in contract labor from Bangladesh Detroit, Las Vegas, and Stockton on container ships trains, house them on-site in said containers train cars under armed guard, refuse to pay them under phony contract violations, and deport fire them if they complain. You know, like you guys did in Abu Dhabi! Lowest price guaranteed!

So would shipping in contract labor from Bangladesh on container ships, housing them on-site in said containers under armed guard, refusing to pay them under phony contract violations, and deporting them if they complain. You know, like you guys did in Abu Dhabi!

The US military is like 80% homo already.

American businessmen are now openly touting China's model of authoritarian capitalism. Min. 0:43, great stuff! [video:youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ggaummmvIY

[video:youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKeS9LrJR6w

I'm not sure if populism can be "fake", only manipulated and misguided. There have been some interesting trends as the Beck segment below makes clear. Megaphone size aside (and that's admittedly a big aside), liberals' continued suckling at the teat of capitalist ideology and subsequent inability to take advantage of its ongoing terminal crisis (as far as the middle class is concerned) have virtually guaranteed the Right's capture of global narratives and political momentum. Keynesianism back in the day was a compromise amongst capitalist factions necessitated by the spectre of working class radicalism. Lacking the fear that real alternative posed, is it any surprise that Krugman, et.al. are virtual voices in the wilderness? Keynes' capitalism with a human face is an anachronism, time to let it go.

You just jinxed it.

Or check out a reasonable facsimile at the renaissance faire!

The main difference being that the policy keeping or kicking gays out of the military actually exists.

Like conservatives and the "immigration problem"!

WHAT IS HOT RIGHT NOW IS MAUREEN DOWD! GODDAM SON! RAWWWRR!!

Or ignore completely as the neglect of the promotion of general welfare or this now-famous embarrassment make clear. But you're right, the Teabaggers' self-proclaimed role as the keepers of Constitutional principles is a pathetic joke.

I'm excited because your quoting the Constitution's provision for the "common defense" is typical of the teatard's selective and loose reading of the document when it suits your interests. The notion that we need to spend trillions only to get our ass handed to us by pirates and tribesmen in the name of "defending ourselves" is an irony you cracker-barrel constitutional scholars haven't wrapped your heads around yet. Don't you ever get tired of being led around on a leash?

de·fense n. 1. The act of defending against attack, danger, or injury.

"Defense".

Huh?

+1 Who's running on this platform?

The rent is too damn high.