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What's yer specific gripe, then? Did yer hours get docked because of obamacare? Did your club get dissed by the IRS? Did somebody pull your library card?Toemeesleather wrote:Still consistent.....nothing.
Toemeesleather wrote:sardis wrote:List of Detroit's creditors. Doesn't take long to figure out why they are going bankrupt...
http://www.freep.com/article/20130718/N ... -Kevyn-Orr
SUSTAINABLE11!!
....bringing hope and change into focus.
Then it sounds like those local officials were practicing liberal economics (Tennessee good ol' boy style). That is not too surprising; Republicans have been known to do that too.bluetick wrote:Merely 6 years ago our republican county voted to replace the gold pension plan for county law enforcement with a diamond jubilee one. Ads with deputies pulling cats out of trees did the trick, despite protestations from sensible people that this would be our ruin. It passed (puter and I voted against the plan to no avail), and then anybody with any connection to law enforcement jumped onboard...DA's office, 911, court staffs, etc..Professor Tiger wrote:Too much government spending (much of it on government union pensions and health care), too much borrowing, and too many tax increases that drove businesses elsewhere.
Liberal economics wants to do for America what it did for Detroit.
Again, all the players were repub...sheriff, mayor, nearly all the commissioners, voters (there are practically no dems in East TN). Now the current county mayor is stuck trying to mitigate this disaster.
Nope. Our repubs are no different than anybody elses repubs - whatever the po-po or the military want, they get. And they'll get even more than they asked for, and they'll like it by God.Professor Tiger wrote:
Then it sounds like those local officials were practicing liberal economics (Tennessee good ol' boy style). That is not too surprising; Republicans have been known to do that too.
No, I'm not blue at all. In fact, my ilk are doing quite well. Its some other demographics that aren't...bluetick wrote:Toemeesleather wrote:sardis wrote:List of Detroit's creditors. Doesn't take long to figure out why they are going bankrupt...
http://www.freep.com/article/20130718/N ... -Kevyn-Orr
SUSTAINABLE11!!
....bringing hope and change into focus.
So it's Detroit that has you blue?
Detroit's problems go back at least 6 administrations, right? Two/thirds of the citizenry moved out, along with the businesses that served them, and as a result tax revenues withered away. It's was in all the papers.
You can't make this shit up...Steyn wrote:To achieve this level of devastation, you usually have to be invaded by a foreign power. In the War of 1812, when Detroit was taken by a remarkably small number of British troops without a shot being fired, Michigan’s Governor Hull was said to have been panicked into surrender after drinking heavily. Two centuries later, after an almighty 50-year bender, the city surrendered to itself. The tunnel from Windsor, Ontario, to Detroit, Michigan, is now a border between the First World and the Third World — or, if you prefer, the developed world and the post-developed world. To any American time-transported from the mid 20th century, the city’s implosion would be literally incredible: Were he to compare photographs of today’s Hiroshima with today’s Detroit, he would assume Japan won the Second World War after nuking Michigan....
...So, late on Friday, some genius jurist struck down the bankruptcy filing. Judge Rosemarie Aquilina declared Detroit’s bankruptcy “unconstitutional” because, according to the Detroit Free Press, “the Michigan Constitution prohibits actions that will lessen the pension benefits of public employees.” Which means that, in Michigan, reality is unconstitutional.
Low brow sarcasm that requires a nod to IB.Professor Tiger wrote:Those photos show the result of all those Republicans that ran Detroit into the ground with their lavishing the po po and their draconian cuts to liberal boondoggles such as public education or environmental services.
Two points:Toemeesleather wrote:No, I'm not blue at all. In fact, my ilk are doing quite well. Its some other demographics that aren't...sardis wrote:List of Detroit's creditors. Doesn't take long to figure out why they are going bankrupt...
http://www.freep.com/article/20130718/N ... -Kevyn-Orr
SUSTAINABLE11!!
....bringing hope and change into focus.
So it's Detroit that has you blue?
Detroit's problems go back at least 6 administrations, right? Two/thirds of the citizenry moved out, along with the businesses that served them, and as a result tax revenues withered away. It's was in all the papers.
http://www.aei.org/article/economics/th ... n-america/
bluetick wrote:Toemeesleather wrote:sardis wrote:List of Detroit's creditors. Doesn't take long to figure out why they are going bankrupt...
http://www.freep.com/article/20130718/N ... -Kevyn-Orr
SUSTAINABLE11!!
....bringing hope and change into focus.
So it's Detroit that has you blue?
Detroit's problems go back at least 6 administrations, right? Two/thirds of the citizenry moved out, along with the businesses that served them, and as a result tax revenues withered away. It's was in all the papers.
Over the line!bluetick wrote:Low brow sarcasm that requires a nod to IB.Professor Tiger wrote:Those photos show the result of all those Republicans that ran Detroit into the ground with their lavishing the po po and their draconian cuts to liberal boondoggles such as public education or environmental services.
Rough day?
Speaking of horrible places to live, here's an interesting cross reference article:Dr. Strangelove wrote:Mayors of America's 50 largest Cities.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:M ... _US_cities
34 Dems, 12 Republicans, 4 Independents. I imagine all the Dem-run places are horrible places to live.
