Fuck its silent in here.......

[Brownie]

A blog post by a UC Berkeley professor...


http://blogs.berkeley.edu/2010/08/24/a-letter-to-my-students/

California, the tax haven? And the "selfish, mean-spirited tax-cutting" all started after Reagan left office? Has Professor O'Hare been sniffing glue?

The fact is that California's public services were not sustainable then and they definitely are not today. Sorry!

[Gilgamesh]

A blog post by a UC Berkeley professor...


http://blogs.berkeley.edu/2010/08/24/a-letter-to-my-students/

California, the tax haven? And the "selfish, mean-spirited tax-cutting" all started after Reagan left office? Has Professor O'Hare been sniffing glue?

The fact is that people in California (and the rest of the US) want public services but don't want to have to pay for them were not sustainable then and they definitely are not today. Sorry!

Fixed it for you.

[Brownie]

A blog post by a UC Berkeley professor...


http://blogs.berkeley.edu/2010/08/24/a-letter-to-my-students/

California, the tax haven? And the "selfish, mean-spirited tax-cutting" all started after Reagan left office? Has Professor O'Hare been sniffing glue?

The fact is that people in California (and the rest of the US) want public services but don't want to have to pay for them were not sustainable then and they definitely are not today. Sorry!

Fixed it for you.

Thus, they don't really want said services. And, again, say this out loud without laughing uproariously:

California: The nation's tax haven since 1978.

[Gilgamesh]

A blog post by a UC Berkeley professor...


http://blogs.berkeley.edu/2010/08/24/a-letter-to-my-students/

California, the tax haven? And the "selfish, mean-spirited tax-cutting" all started after Reagan left office? Has Professor O'Hare been sniffing glue?

The fact is that people in California (and the rest of the US) want public services but don't want to have to pay for them were not sustainable then and they definitely are not today. Sorry!

Fixed it for you.

Thus, they don't really want said services. And, again, say this out loud without laughing uproariously:

California: The nation's tax haven since 1978.

Meh.

[Chuck to Chuck]

Thus, they don't really want said services.

No, they really do.  Everywhere.  In every state, county, city, town, village and hamlet.

Go watch a Bill Brady commercial.  He's running the Mayor Goldie Wilson campaign:

Elect Bill Brady.  Progress is his middle name. Bill Brady's progress platform means more jobs, better education, bigger civic improvements, and lower taxes.

Right.  Cover a billion dollar budget deficit without raising taxes and without cutting popular services.

Never.

Gonna.

Happen.

[Brownie]

Thus, they don't really want said services.

No, they really do.  Everywhere.  In every state, county, city, town, village and hamlet.

Go watch a Bill Brady commercial.  He's running the Mayor Goldie Wilson campaign:

Elect Bill Brady.  Progress is his middle name. Bill Brady's progress platform means more jobs, better education, bigger civic improvements, and lower taxes.

Right.  Cover a billion dollar budget deficit without raising taxes and without cutting popular services.

Never.

Gonna.

Happen.

The measure of how much someone wants something is by how much he or she is willing to pay. And besides what one is willing to pay, there's also the matter of what one can afford.

As for Bill Brady, what "civic improvements" is he calling for? He's calling for lower taxes to help spur the creation of more jobs. Do you think the industrial parks opening in Pleasant Prairie are stealing jobs from Iowa?

[Gilgamesh]

Thus, they don't really want said services.

No, they really do.  Everywhere.  In every state, county, city, town, village and hamlet.

Go watch a Bill Brady commercial.  He's running the Mayor Goldie Wilson campaign:

Elect Bill Brady.  Progress is his middle name. Bill Brady's progress platform means more jobs, better education, bigger civic improvements, and lower taxes.

Right.  Cover a billion dollar budget deficit without raising taxes and without cutting popular services.

Never.

Gonna.

Happen.

The measure of how much someone wants something is by how much he or she is willing to pay. And besides what one is willing to pay, there's also the matter of what one can afford.

As for Bill Brady, what "civic improvements" is he calling for? He's calling for lower taxes to help spur the creation of more jobs. Do you think the industrial parks opening in Pleasant Prairie are stealing jobs from Iowa?

In a perfect world, maybe.  But once people realize that the government has a credit card and can give them everything they want for "free," they stop caring.

Until the bill comes due.  Citizens in this country want, want, want, but don't want to pay.  Simple as that.

Politicians learned a long time ago that they can buy votes with the people's own money.

[Brownie]

Thus, they don't really want said services.

No, they really do.  Everywhere.  In every state, county, city, town, village and hamlet.

Go watch a Bill Brady commercial.  He's running the Mayor Goldie Wilson campaign:

Elect Bill Brady.  Progress is his middle name. Bill Brady's progress platform means more jobs, better education, bigger civic improvements, and lower taxes.

Right.  Cover a billion dollar budget deficit without raising taxes and without cutting popular services.

Never.

Gonna.

Happen.

The measure of how much someone wants something is by how much he or she is willing to pay. And besides what one is willing to pay, there's also the matter of what one can afford.

As for Bill Brady, what "civic improvements" is he calling for? He's calling for lower taxes to help spur the creation of more jobs. Do you think the industrial parks opening in Pleasant Prairie are stealing jobs from Iowa?

In a perfect world, maybe.  But once people realize that the government has a credit card and can give them everything they want for "free," they stop caring.

Until the bill comes due.  Citizens in this country want, want, want, but don't want to pay.  Simple as that.

Politicians learned a long time ago that they can buy votes with the people's own money.

I have no quibble with any of that and it's depressing. There are too many people who don't just want something for nothing, but they think it's their birthright (and that's not a left-right divide).

However, the professor's suggestion that California has become a virtual Monaco-on-the-Pacific starting during the Jerry Brown Administration is more than a little funny to me.

[Chuck to Chuck]

As for Bill Brady, what "civic improvements" is he calling for? He's calling for lower taxes to help spur the creation of more jobs. Do you think the industrial parks opening in Pleasant Prairie are stealing jobs from Iowa?

I was just quoting Mayor Wilson's campaign verbatim.  I have no idea what Brady's version of "Build Illinois" is, but he's got to have one or he'll have no support from the Combine.

the professor's suggestion that California has become a virtual Monaco-on-the-Pacific starting during the Jerry Brown Administration is more than a little funny to me.

It's gold, Jerry!  GOLD!  My sis moved to CA a few years ago to become a public teacher right as Davis was being recalled.  Dumbest career move ever.

[CBStew]

It's gold, Jerry!  GOLD!  My sis moved to CA a few years ago to become a public teacher right as Davis was being recalled.  Dumbest career move ever.

Every year since 1979 I have spent the month of April handling mass reduction in force cases for teacher unions.  In San Francisco this year the school district sent out 580 notices.  The union finally went to the bargaining table and agreed to concessions (including a shorter school year and furloughs during the year) in order to bring back the majority of those laid off.  Meg Whitman has a plan for California's job issues.  It consists of tax cuts to stimulate job creation.  Tha's a great plan, because the teachers who get laid off as a result of those tax cuts are going to have to find work.

[R-V]

It's gold, Jerry!  GOLD!  My sis moved to CA a few years ago to become a public teacher right as Davis was being recalled.  Dumbest career move ever.

Every year since 1979 I have spent the month of April handling mass reduction in force cases for teacher unions.  In San Francisco this year the school district sent out 580 notices.  The union finally went to the bargaining table and agreed to concessions (including a shorter school year and furloughs during the year) in order to bring back the majority of those laid off.  Meg Whitman has a plan for California's job issues.  It consists of tax cuts to stimulate job creation.  Tha's a great plan, because the teachers who get laid off as a result of those tax cuts are going to have to find work.

All hail the great California property tax freeze of 1978! If I remember correctly, Warren Buffett once stated that he pays higher property taxes on his modest Omaha residence than on his large house in California.

In other news:

http://www.grist.org/article/2010-09-01-how-bad-are-the-next-few-years-going-to-suck/

Pretty bad.

[morpheus]

It's gold, Jerry!  GOLD!  My sis moved to CA a few years ago to become a public teacher right as Davis was being recalled.  Dumbest career move ever.

Every year since 1979 I have spent the month of April handling mass reduction in force cases for teacher unions.  In San Francisco this year the school district sent out 580 notices.  The union finally went to the bargaining table and agreed to concessions (including a shorter school year and furloughs during the year) in order to bring back the majority of those laid off.  Meg Whitman has a plan for California's job issues.  It consists of tax cuts to stimulate job creation.  Tha's a great plan, because the teachers who get laid off as a result of those tax cuts are going to have to find work.

All hail the great California property tax freeze of 1978! If I remember correctly, Warren Buffett once stated that he pays higher property taxes on his modest Omaha residence than on his large house in California.

In other news:

http://www.grist.org/article/2010-09-01-how-bad-are-the-next-few-years-going-to-suck/

Pretty bad.

Start with the fact that Democrats are going to get shellacked in the midterms.

Sounds pretty good to me.

It's possible that Republicans could come out of 2012 with the presidency, the House, and the Senate back in their hands...

Sounds even better.

[World's #1 Astros Fan]

It's gold, Jerry!  GOLD!  My sis moved to CA a few years ago to become a public teacher right as Davis was being recalled.  Dumbest career move ever.

Every year since 1979 I have spent the month of April handling mass reduction in force cases for teacher unions.  In San Francisco this year the school district sent out 580 notices.  The union finally went to the bargaining table and agreed to concessions (including a shorter school year and furloughs during the year) in order to bring back the majority of those laid off.  Meg Whitman has a plan for California's job issues.  It consists of tax cuts to stimulate job creation.  Tha's a great plan, because the teachers who get laid off as a result of those tax cuts are going to have to find work.

All hail the great California property tax freeze of 1978! If I remember correctly, Warren Buffett once stated that he pays higher property taxes on his modest Omaha residence than on his large house in California.

In other news:

http://www.grist.org/article/2010-09-01-how-bad-are-the-next-few-years-going-to-suck/

Pretty bad.

Start with the fact that Democrats are going to get shellacked in the midterms.

Sounds pretty good to me.

It's possible that Republicans could come out of 2012 with the presidency, the House, and the Senate back in their hands...

Sounds even better.

And then what?

[CT III]

It's gold, Jerry!  GOLD!  My sis moved to CA a few years ago to become a public teacher right as Davis was being recalled.  Dumbest career move ever.

Every year since 1979 I have spent the month of April handling mass reduction in force cases for teacher unions.  In San Francisco this year the school district sent out 580 notices.  The union finally went to the bargaining table and agreed to concessions (including a shorter school year and furloughs during the year) in order to bring back the majority of those laid off.  Meg Whitman has a plan for California's job issues.  It consists of tax cuts to stimulate job creation.  Tha's a great plan, because the teachers who get laid off as a result of those tax cuts are going to have to find work.

All hail the great California property tax freeze of 1978! If I remember correctly, Warren Buffett once stated that he pays higher property taxes on his modest Omaha residence than on his large house in California.

In other news:

http://www.grist.org/article/2010-09-01-how-bad-are-the-next-few-years-going-to-suck/

Pretty bad.

Start with the fact that Democrats are going to get shellacked in the midterms.

Sounds pretty good to me.

It's possible that Republicans could come out of 2012 with the presidency, the House, and the Senate back in their hands...

Sounds even better.

And then what?

Profit.

[Chuck to Chuck]

Start with the fact that Democrats are going to get shellacked in the midterms.

Sounds pretty good to me.

It's possible that Republicans could come out of 2012 with the presidency, the House, and the Senate back in their hands...

Sounds even better.
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'Cause that's worked so well the last few times they had control.

Cheering for one PARTY (not a specific individual) to win is like cheering for a hurricane because you hate earthquakes.