Colorado Springs: A Teabagger Paradise

[k-onmmunist]

Why can't I take the term 'teabagger' seriously?

[k-onmmunist]

A similar thing happened state-wide when they adopted the Taxpayer Bill of Rights in the '90s. Thankfully, they were able to suspend most of those provisions to, you know, rebuild their state. But even so, Colorado has some definitely screwed up folks who clearly don't know what the hell they're doing when they vote.

[k-onmmunist]

This thread is like one massive circle jerk.

Except everyone is already dry.

[k-onmmunist]

Another paper, yet another, came out today, by two Harvard economists, that just spending more in an economic downturn, in a cross country analysis, does not work nearly as well as tax cuts.

The CBO disagrees.

The CBO isn't God, and it isn't omnipresent. In fact, it's related to Congress, so it's probably even less trustworthy.

[k-onmmunist]

Why do the Democrats hate free trade so much? It's inane, especially when nearly all modern economicists agree it is good.

[k-onmmunist]

Why do the Democrats hate free trade so much? It's inane, especially when nearly all modern economicists agree it is good.

Of course it's a good thing, but real competition is the last thing the labor unions want.

Hmm, I see your point. It's quite sad that they can't see how free trade would benefit them and everyone though.

[k-onmmunist]

This thread is like one massive circle jerk.

Except everyone is already dry.

Stop trolling.

Ain't trolling if it's true.

[k-onmmunist]

Why do the Democrats hate free trade so much? It's inane, especially when nearly all modern economicists agree it is good.

Of course it's a good thing, but real competition is the last thing the labor unions want.

Hmm, I see your point. It's quite sad that they can't see how free trade would benefit them and everyone though.

That's actually something that bothers me about Giannoulias in Illinois, he seems to be going into attack mode on companies that hire people abroad.

I hope Democrats don't start advocating protectionism as an election strategy this year.

The whole protectionist thing is nearly as stupid as the right-wing hatred of immigration - trade is the world's biggest business and if you cut into it, you inadvertently cut into yourself.

[k-onmmunist]

Detroit (as in the area inside its formal municipal boundaries) would be a shithole even if the car manufacturing industry had been doing wonderfully over the past few decades. It is, I repeat, just an extreme example of the sort of thing that happened to most large American cities in the latter half of the twentieth century.

To be fair, large areas of Britain have become like Detroit Lite; Coventry, where I was born, for example, has been shrinking for some time, and all the industry is gone. Such is the global division of labour.