I mean, sure, it's political and stuff, and I guess a little old, but it's also really, really funny.
Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite. - John Kenneth Galbraith
Let's make jokes about them! Maradon! fucked around with this message on 04-13-2009 at 03:57 PM.
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Maradon! had this to say about Punky Brewster:
These protests are so ridiculous. Don't these people realize that there's an established status quo which says they're wrong?Let's make jokes about them!
Oh come on, going on talk programs and calling for "Teabagging the Whitheouse" is just low hanging fruit whatever you think about the argument itself.
She's a lesbian but not a vegetarian
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Maradon! got served! Maradon! got served!
I'd like to teabag rachel maddowShe's a lesbian but not a vegetarian
I'm sure "get teabagged by a cherub-faced lolbertarian" is pretty low on the list of things she wants to do. Actually, aside from Snoota, I don't think that's high on anyone's list, really.
Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite. - John Kenneth Galbraith
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We all got dumber when Naimah said:
In other political news... Texas, fuck yea!
this is hilarious.
they were OK with warrentless wiretapping, imprisonment without charges, ect, ect, but the minute a democrat gets in office "HOLY SHIT FUCK THER TRAMPLN ON MEI FRREDUMS!"
they were OK with warrentless wiretapping, imprisonment without charges, ect, ect
, but the minute a democrat gets in office "HOLY SHIT FUCK THER TRAMPLN ON MEI FRREDUMS!"
Oh man let me tell you about this other guy I know and the national deficit! Maradon! fucked around with this message on 04-14-2009 at 03:54 PM.
Blindy. fucked around with this message on 04-14-2009 at 05:00 PM.
Are you pro-Portuguese Water Dog or anti-Portuguese Water Dog
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Blindy. had this to say about Optimus Prime:
If he cuts the deficit like he says he will I don't see the problem. Similar economic policy under Clinton saw the only real deficit/debt reduction we've had since forever.
You mean reduces it to where it is only 20% higher then it was under Bush? There's change for ya.
Blindy. fucked around with this message on 04-15-2009 at 07:23 AM.
Vernaltemptress fucked around with this message on 04-16-2009 at 01:01 AM.
Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite. - John Kenneth Galbraith
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adding redundancy to the power grid
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replacing highway bridges,
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shoring up levees,
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improving water quality
And it would have been nice if he would have campaigned on I'm going to spend like hell but we have to do it instead of on fiscal responsibility. However, I understand that he's a politician and that is just too much to ask.
Basically if someone ever tells you electricity should be constructed on the state level or in a national centralized system they don't have the slightest clue what they're talking about.
Edit: Also since the voodoo economy is gone I suspect it will be a long time before the federal government runs a balanced budget. Pretty irresponsible of the current generation; they lived high on the tab of future generations. Noxhil fucked around with this message on 04-16-2009 at 11:04 PM.
All the while there is the added benefit that tax dollars from California, New York, and Florida aren't paying for a bridge in Alaska.
If you think of this country as a plot of land, and businesses as crops, it's important to plow the whole thing so that you can spread your corps around and minimize overcrowding. The difference being that once overcrowding occurs, your crops are gonna up themselves and move to a completely different field.
So yeah, I'm not exactly saying the bridge to nowhere was justified, but there are projects in rural areas that everyone loves to gripe and bitch about, and I am saying that most of these are absolutely vital to the ongoing growth of our economy here in America. It is in everyone, including Florida, California, and New York's best interest that these projects are executed. Blindy fucked around with this message on 04-17-2009 at 10:02 AM.
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Check out the big brain on Blindy!
Improving the infrastructure of our rural areas is one way to become more competitive and create more businesses here in America. Ask Toyota if they would have opened a plant in butt-fuck Kentucky if butt-fuck Kentucky didn't have world class highways, high speed internet access and a power grid that could support it. When infrastructure stops spreading, more and more businesses crowd into the areas with infrastructure, which causes competition over local resources to drive up overhead. Eventually, the cost of growing becomes too great and they decide to grow elsewhere where infrastucture is in place but overhead is lower like China, or India.
There's also the people who live in rural areas that like it because it's a rural area. No cars driving by every minute, huge yards, very quiet, great for animals. Not everyone wants to be in New York City.
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A thousand monkeys at a thousand typewriters couldn't ever match nem-x is SUPER gay:
There's also the people who live in rural areas that like it because it's a rural area. No cars driving by every minute, huge yards, very quiet, great for animals. Not everyone wants to be in New York City.
Then those people can get their local government to turn down the new business's proposal to buy land from the local government when it's offered.
Back to your point of infrastructure drawing business. Many times business will help with the outlays needed to develop the infrastructure they need. Why? Because they can still make money by doing it, and they can work out deals with local municipalities while doing things like that.
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Blindy probably says this to all the girls:
Improving the infrastructure of our rural areas is one way to become more competitive and create more businesses here in America. Ask Toyota if they would have opened a plant in butt-fuck Kentucky if butt-fuck Kentucky didn't have world class highways, high speed internet access and a power grid that could support it. When infrastructure stops spreading, more and more businesses crowd into the areas with infrastructure, which causes competition over local resources to drive up overhead.
I guess I've had some intuitive understanding of this but I've never exactly thought about it this way. I wonder if it's more cost effective to over-expand infrastructure and spend too much and also eat excess recurring costs or under-expand it and cause increased overhead and long term growth loss. On the other hand, expansion also increases urban sprawl which leads to higher costs in areas such as transportation.
I want to say I think it's better to over-expand, but the actual analysis seems rather complicated. Noxhil fucked around with this message on 04-17-2009 at 04:13 PM.
But it is also important to maintain the infrastructure we have now. We've got interstate bridges failing left and right, interstates with too few lanes to support the traffic that wants to use them, a chronic lack of rail-lanes in some major industrial corridors, almost no commuter rail lines, our power grid is years behind the power grids in Europe, and our telecommunications infrastructure is similarly out of date. Blindy. fucked around with this message on 04-17-2009 at 05:01 PM.
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Blindy. thought about the meaning of life:
I don't know about that. Ours sucks pretty hard.
It's okay. Shigeru Miyamoto is trying to revitalize the railroad industry.
