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Post by fauxmaha on Jul 6, 2015 0:26:01 GMT -5
My brother, foolishly as it turns out, hitched his wagon to the State of Illinois. He owns a company that manages assisted living facilities. The state is currently implementing cuts in nursing home reimbursement for Medicaid patients. Absent a turn of fortune in Springfield, he's pretty well hosed. Or at least in for a challenging few years.
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Post by godotwaits on Jul 6, 2015 4:44:53 GMT -5
As regards the EU, it's telling that the UK and Switzerland abstained from euro participation.
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Post by millring on Jul 6, 2015 7:14:32 GMT -5
We may have more to base an economy on than does Greece: "...the most complete productive country on the planet. We make more stuff, grow more stuff, invent more stuff, and have more stuff than anyone." But we also have the attitude, the politics, and the economic philosophy in power to take us down the same road. And a commensurate debt. 18 -- soon to be 20 trillion dollars.
We've already passed the tipping point of dependency -- and we've cleverly coupled that dependency with an attitude of entitlement (to ensure a juggernaut of one party rule in perpetuity) ... rather than gratitude or <gasp> patriotism that such generosity should engender.
We've inflamed class envy to an all-time high. We've completely ignored the extent to which credit is destroying not just our economy but our collective psyche.
We're drowning in a sea of contrarianism, ridicule, and a pendulum swing from foundationless morality to celebration of all that is naughty. We're the very picture of the frustration, unrest, and whirling dervishness of doing anything to feel significant in a population that makes doing the outrageous the only way to assure it's illusion. Pursuing excellence it too hard. Ken's "Nope" thread is but a mirror.
Brian and I were standing around talking before a show in Indiana earlier this year. A mutual friend from Michigan, Michael, walked up to us and started right in, "Well, I can tell THIS show is going to suck. Indiana is so...Republican." he said with such disdain he nearly spit as he said it. He went on to explain, "As I'm driving down here I see all these houses festooned with their flags and red, white, and blue bunting across their cute little porches in their neat little rows of small town, hick houses. Republican." He might as well have been describing the unattended bathroom of a rundown gas station.
We've sowed the wind.
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Post by Marshall on Jul 6, 2015 7:34:01 GMT -5
Illinois just has to figure out a way to get rid of Chicago. You're just jealous
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Post by epaul on Jul 6, 2015 9:00:00 GMT -5
... Brian and I were standing around talking before a show in Indiana earlier this year. A mutual friend from Michigan, Michael, walked up to us and started right in, "Well, I can tell THIS show is going to suck. Indiana is so...Republican." he said with such disdain he nearly spit as he said it. He went on to explain, "As I'm driving down here I see all these houses festooned with their flags and red, white, and blue bunting across their cute little porches in their neat little rows of small town, hick houses. Republican." He might as well have been describing the unattended bathroom of a rundown gas station. We've sowed the wind. John, you spend too much time around artists and not enough around farmers. And stay away from Facebook.
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Post by theevan on Jul 6, 2015 9:26:08 GMT -5
Gosh...lot's of intelligent posts that cover the gamut. I love you folks.
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Post by Doug on Jul 6, 2015 10:28:48 GMT -5
Gosh...lot's of intelligent posts that cover the gamut. I love you folks. We just pretend to be intelligent, good disguise isn't it.
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Post by fauxmaha on Jul 6, 2015 11:01:42 GMT -5
Gosh...lot's of intelligent posts that cover the gamut. I love you folks. We just pretend to be intelligent, good disguise isn't it. You had me fooled.
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Post by fauxmaha on Jul 6, 2015 11:05:28 GMT -5
Interesting possible side-effect from the Greek situation: Since government can not be trusted to provide currency that is both liquid and a reliable store of value, some Greeks are turning to Bitcoin.
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Post by majorminor on Jul 6, 2015 11:24:35 GMT -5
Interesting possible side-effect from the Greek situation: Since government can not be trusted to provide currency that is both liquid and a reliable store of value, some Greeks are turning to Bitcoin. I'm surprised the CIA hasn't already whacked everyone associated with Bitcoin. If this takes hold in Greece it's polonium blow dart time folks.
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Post by fauxmaha on Jul 6, 2015 12:02:00 GMT -5
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Post by millring on Jul 6, 2015 12:07:47 GMT -5
KRUGMANIA!!!
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