Hugh Conway

Damn, that sucks crackers Proof that god loves us.

clearly the only solution to reforming the corrupt Port of Seattle is privatization sell off the national forests and wilderness areas first. fewer people benefit.

dire irony "road to serfdom" irony here

she got rid of bad pussy for free? lucky bitch.

Thanks for the update, Mr. Sunshine! if (person says something == bad) then (ignore)

ohhhhh lets underfund public transportation in Seattle again. Worked so well in the 30s why don't these lazy overpaid government workers post on cc.com?

JayB's big on one time selling off of assets to pave over structural budget issues and push off the pain? Is it conservative cliche time? oh, lets beat up the ports again! because Seattle still has a commercial port is a sure sign that the government failed. Privatize the sidewalks!

mmm soylent stew

keep your and rob's love life to yourselves. you find ttk hot? not surprising, but still disturbing

god, I wish you were the useful pink, pink

FREE MARKET BABY!

took you long enough

yeah everyone fits into the same pigeon hole, thanks j_b The comment about funding islanders was just over the top. There are plenty of bridges that facilitate access to people living in one place and driving to another to work too (I-90 and 520 bridge anyone?) you've been voted off the bandwagon!

I think you mean the people who live on the islands are thankful, I doubt many residents on the east side of the state agree with it. Maybe not. But myself and the other Seattlites are happily paying for their nice highways now, aren't we? Amazing how things work in a society. People who *live* on the islands aren't the only ones using the ferries. Duh. dissention amongst the reactionaries? oh dear

No, he uses a hammer to fit facts to his beliefs. Like JayB. Still eagerly expecting some explanation of why a privately operated airport would be so superior. Been to alot of airports in the world, private, public, they are all much of a muchness. They all have unaccountable bureaucrats, they all charge way to fucking much.

so Fairweather - did you want your career as gloryhole queen, or did you fall into it?

why didn't he kill a yuppie or ten? good money in yuppie pelts

That sucks. Now if they were to shoot some yuppie's in Belltown I'd give the cop a medal

you one of the hookers they fly in?

I've actually argued a couple of things. The first is that there are things that only government can do, like draft laws, enforce laws, etc. There are things that the government is currently doing that the private sector can do - like staffing ferries, filling potholes, or running a port facility. When the demands on tax revenues exceed the economy's capacity to finance them via tax revenues, and you can't fund everything that government currently does - it's best to focus government on things that only it can do. The second is that even in those domains where government is the only entity in society that can provide a given function, the government has a responsibility to use public funds as efficiently as possible. That's it. Consequently - I think that, say, spending 70 million dollars subsidizing a port facility, instead of leasing it to whoever can operate it for a profit is a completely unjustifiable waste of public money. Instead of generating money for the public via its operations, public money is funding it's operations to the tune of 70 million dollars a year. "Port of Seattle reduces tax bite on property owners It may be a first: the Port of Seattle commission voted on Monday to approve a 2010 operating budget that will reduce the amount of tax dollars the port collects from King County property owners over the next year. The port, which has the authority to tax property owners without voter approval, decreased the amount they will collect this year by about $2.4 million - dropping the total amount they will receive down to about $73.5 million." All things being equal, I can think of quite a few more legitimate and effective uses for public money. Evidently some can't. That's fine - but I find it endlessly amusing that as a consequence of that I'm the "regressive." once need only look at Heathrow Airport to see how shitty private run ports can be.

the thread started with an idiotic ramble, he's right on target

good thing you've no ability or need

What do/will the bottom 50% of wage-earners pay? Go look at your 1040.

how rationally irrationally reactionary!

more bent over repressed librarians who don't know how to masturbate please