Originally Posted By FaMulan Yeah! What's taking so long for our new Republican Overlords to fix things! Oh, right, they're now out to repeal the health care bill that passed last year. Jobs aren't a priority because it would mean their corporate cash cow wouldn't be able to pay them so much.
Originally Posted By DAR Yeah the closing just happened, but they're going to want to repaint the house, maybe put in some new carpeting or a hardwood floor in the dinning room before moving in.
Originally Posted By alexbook There was a positive jobs report last Friday (based on numbers collected in October), and I half expected the GOP to try to take credit for it.
Originally Posted By hopemax They've done a good job of eliminating jobs, so far, with the killing of transportation projects.
Originally Posted By DAR I can only speak to where I live, but the proposals of a train from Milwaukee to Madison or light rail in Milwaukee will not go through. And to be honest here, in this city, Milwaukee Wisconsin that's likely a good thing. Rail transportation can be a good thing for the right city. I don't think this city is. There's no real central downtown location that everyone convenes to.
Originally Posted By plpeters70 <<There's no real central downtown location that everyone convenes to.>> One thing you might not be considering is that new rail lines could actually help create those new central downtown areas just by being there. When the interstate's were built, that lead to people spreading out and building homes further and further away from city centers because they now had easy access back to the areas where jobs/stores were by just jumping on the interstate. (I saw this happen in Florida when I-75 was built - every year it seemed like more and more people were moving further and further outside what used to be the city centers.) With new rail lines, you could create that same interest for people to live close to the transportation. With more and more traffic issues, and crumbling roads, it might actually start being fashionable again to live near public transportation systems. It won't happen overnight, but neither did our transformation into a society so dependent on automobiles to get anywhere. We have to start somewhere!
Originally Posted By disneydad109 it's hard to start the overhaul since the big guy has left town till the dust settles.
Originally Posted By Mr X You mean the Republicans need President Obama's help in setting their agenda? How does that work? They ask for and pay close attention to his input? Ha.
Originally Posted By ecdc Van Jones had a great line tonight: It wasn't "Yes he can," it was "Yes we can." Where are liberals to make change happen?
Originally Posted By JeffG >> "There's no real central downtown location that everyone convenes to." << In Milwaukee? What about The Safe House? -Jeff
Originally Posted By SuperDry <<< it's hard to start the overhaul since the big guy has left town till the dust settles. >>> You say that almost as if he left town in order to lay low after the elections. Was he supposed to just blow off the G20 summit?
Originally Posted By Mr X Hey should have, since it's costing us $200,000,000 every day he's on the road! He should just stay in the White House like all the other Presidents did! Geesh.
Originally Posted By Goofyernmost Again with the numbers...who the "H" is coming up with them and what do they use as a guide. I'm sick of hearing it. I doubt it is anywhere near that amount, no where near that many digits. Just another pile of crap put out by someone with too much time on there hands and a vivid imagination.
Originally Posted By DAR <<In Milwaukee? What about The Safe House? >> Only if you know the password. But most activities in the city aren't downtown proper, but on the edges.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 The $200M figure was instantly debunked (which I think X probably knows and was just goofing on the ridiculousness of it), as was the equally ridiculous claim that he brought 10 or 20 percent of the navy off the coast of India just because he was there. Typically, that didn't stop the usual suspects (Fox, Drudge, et al) from doing their usual "people are reporting that..." thang even after it had been debunked. It's a typically slimy way of keeping the accusation in the air without actually SAYING it's true (just that "people are reporting that..."), and before you know it millions of gullible people accept it as gospel.
Originally Posted By fkurucz "the G20 are no friends of ours anyhow." That's what happens when you become the world's bully. We threw our weight around unilaterally witout consulting our "allies". Now we come to them hat in hand expecting them to help us? Also, printing money like there's no tomorrow (Quantitative Easing 1 & 2), which devalues our currency makes those who hold our debt a bit angry as well.
