BAGHDAD (AP) -- The Associated Press has learned that the Obama administration is abandoning plans to keep U.S. troops in Iraq past a year-end withdrawal deadline.
Saturday, October 15, 2011
Out
I'm not sure why we need to leave a small city of civilians there, either, but...
Build Stuff
Yes we need to spend money on infrastructure, yes Teh Marketz will lend money to the US government basically for free these days.
It should be seen as a tremendous opportunity.
It should be seen as a tremendous opportunity.
Friday, October 14, 2011
Things Can Get Worse
I'm not making a prediction here, if pressed I'd be more in the 'things will continue to suck much as they are' camp, but there isn't actually any real reason to have my sunny optimism.
Oh Jeebus
Rich drunk people stumble out of bar at closing time and shit ensues with some other assholes. This scene is repeated 3 billion times every weekend everywhere. We do have real problems in Philadelphia. This just isn't one of them.
Stu should go back to writing about the evils of bike lanes.
Stu should go back to writing about the evils of bike lanes.
9.1% Unemployment Forever
One thing which our elites, especially but not limited to the sociopathic ones, have not come to terms with is there is no reason to expect the unemployment situation to improve...ever... absent serious action. We might be stuck.
Waiting For The Drama
Unlikely, except maybe for Wall Streeters going to medical marijuana dispensaries.
Happy to be wrong.
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner suggested Friday that a new round of “dramatic enforcement actions” against Wall Street wrongdoing is coming.
“Stay tuned for that,” Geithner said.
Happy to be wrong.
ACA
I imagine it will, in practical terms, be harder to undo the ACA as time goes on, but one thing would have made it really hard:a public option. At least, a public option that was around for a few years.
Anyway, perhaps some of us didn't say it quite so loudly when the debate was on, but the basic reason for wanting a public option is that private health insurers are incredibly wasteful. They're costly skimmers. They don't actually do anything useful. Perhaps vanquishing an entire industry with the stroke of a pen wouldn't be such a good idea, but the public option would've let it be phased out slowly.
Anyway, perhaps some of us didn't say it quite so loudly when the debate was on, but the basic reason for wanting a public option is that private health insurers are incredibly wasteful. They're costly skimmers. They don't actually do anything useful. Perhaps vanquishing an entire industry with the stroke of a pen wouldn't be such a good idea, but the public option would've let it be phased out slowly.
I Use Every Road
There's a weird mentality out there among some transit opponents, which is basically that mass transit isn't near me, so I won't use it, so don't spend my tax money on it. On the other hand, spending money on roads anywhere will benefit me, whether or not I use them, because I'm a driver. It doesn't quite make sense.
Sme people are just mass transit hater and they're entitled to oppose such projects. But often the reasoning is just weird.
Tea party leaders assailed the plan as “a mass transit tax targeted at financial Titanic MARTA.”
“We all agree there is a traffic problem in metro Atlanta, and we support infrastructure improvements” on roads, read the statement from the Georgia Tea Party Patriots and Atlanta Tea Party. “The project list is not targeted to benefit the majority of citizens in the areas they need relief the most.”
Sme people are just mass transit hater and they're entitled to oppose such projects. But often the reasoning is just weird.
Purpose
Yes, people who devote their lives to opposing abortion never want to face up to the consequences of what that would mean. Laws designed to let women die? That's not what they do! Laws which criminalize abortion? Well we don't really want people to go to jail! And on and on.
But It Doesn't Matter Matter Matter Matter Matter Matter
Is Josh suggesting that talking about the deficit for 18+ months shifted the conversation to the deficit? I thought that was unpossible.
Yet despite the fact that Senate Republicans were able to block a vote on his jobs bill, it seems to have gone with relatively little notice -- probably because it's right there in plain sight -- how much the president's day in and day out push on jobs has simply shifted the national conversation, the focus on what the issue is that requires solving.
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