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Sears/Kmart

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Alexandra Cabot

Quote from: SAGG on January 29, 2017, 06:11:14 PM
Say what you want about Democratically-controlled California, but after Der Arnold left, Gov. Brown raised taxes on the rich, and the state went from huge deficits to huge surpluses. Now, contrast this with, say, Kansas, where taxes were slashed, bare-bones style. Result? Huge deficits.

You fail to mention that there is so much wealth centered in California because the snobby elitist scumbags that live there only care about investing in their psuedo-liberal utopia and wouldn't even dare consider investing in "fly over" states that actually need it like Kansas or even say Michigan.  In other states, we also put a preference on allowing people access to their own earned income instead of using it to increase the dependency of those that don't want to work.

QuoteNow, I think the soda tax might be a wee bit going too far, but hey, sugar can be as addictive as nicotine or alcohol, not to mention it can help to promote diabetes, which I have. For the sake of health, paying a tad more on a tax might just discourage enough people to cut back on taking in something that could affect their health. And I can't swim, nor do I want to...  :D

What you describe is the creation of a nanny state.  It's not the government's place to dictate behavior like diet.  If you need Big Brother to tell you to eat a balanced diet, you have problems, namely you still have the mental state of a child.  If you have diabetes for that reason, blame yourself and stop assuming others don't have self control and need a government baby sitter.  I've never seen anything more demeaning than people that actually support these Bloomberg-esque policies.  It's also a slippery slope that can never be stopped.  You'll go from that to a mayonnaise tax to government mandated exercise regiments, which I've actually seen suggested seriously on Democratic Underground.  It's just pure idiocy.

Quote...To answer just one parrt of your comment - As far as secession goes , do you remember all the people (especially in Texas) who went on and on about seceding during Obama,s terms ?
  If not , I,ll link to Web thiings about it .

Texas was also an independent nation that joined the United States voluntarily.


Captain Jetpack

Quote from: Alexandra Cabot on January 30, 2017, 12:49:14 AM
Quote from: SAGG on January 29, 2017, 06:11:14 PM
Say what you want about Democratically-controlled California, but after Der Arnold left, Gov. Brown raised taxes on the rich, and the state went from huge deficits to huge surpluses. Now, contrast this with, say, Kansas, where taxes were slashed, bare-bones style. Result? Huge deficits.

You fail to mention that there is so much wealth centered in California because the snobby elitist scumbags that live there only care about investing in their psuedo-liberal utopia and wouldn't even dare consider investing in "fly over" states that actually need it like Kansas or even say Michigan.  In other states, we also put a preference on allowing people access to their own earned income instead of using it to increase the dependency of those that don't want to work.

QuoteNow, I think the soda tax might be a wee bit going too far, but hey, sugar can be as addictive as nicotine or alcohol, not to mention it can help to promote diabetes, which I have. For the sake of health, paying a tad more on a tax might just discourage enough people to cut back on taking in something that could affect their health. And I can't swim, nor do I want to...  :D

What you describe is the creation of a nanny state.  It's not the government's place to dictate behavior like diet.  If you need Big Brother to tell you to eat a balanced diet, you have problems, namely you still have the mental state of a child.  If you have diabetes for that reason, blame yourself and stop assuming others don't have self control and need a government baby sitter.  I've never seen anything more demeaning than people that actually support these Bloomberg-esque policies.  It's also a slippery slope that can never be stopped.  You'll go from that to a mayonnaise tax to government mandated exercise regiments, which I've actually seen suggested seriously on Democratic Underground.  It's just pure idiocy.

Quote...To answer just one parrt of your comment - As far as secession goes , do you remember all the people (especially in Texas) who went on and on about seceding during Obama,s terms ?
  If not , I,ll link to Web thiings about it .

Texas was also an independent nation that joined the United States voluntarily.


1-- the diet thing is rooted in public ignorance. Quack remedies, pseudoscience, anti-vaxx-quacks & the rest of it.
2--The East/West Coasts do need to invest. Name-calling wont attract anybody.
Pie is my favorite Vitamin.

ASS-P

...First , fatually , c
California was an indpendent country too !
  Seond , and all for now , ou seem to call for no govrm
nmment regulation or suggestion infod or environment but seem to knok on the door of suggestin forced investmet by private citizens in places you feel need more investmet .
  What about : the free marketplace vs. the nanny state : there ?
  As far as the Republican Party,s status in California , the Reps were contenders and there was a Republican Governor when I moved here i ,97 .
  Maybe the Califoria Republican Party did something wrong ?

DeCarlo Rules

Just checking. Anyone know how many pages back I have to go to find the posts about Sears/K-Mart?  ???

Archiecomicxfan215

Its in the middle of page 2 about Sears/Kmart

ASS-P

...I am doing this on a tablet , at this poit in a hospital waiting room ,
  Some mis-types were made , I hope yo can understand what I intended , it get,s hard to always retype ! :buck2:

SAGG

#36
So I should invest in a state where they don't think much of me, AC? No thank you. I'll go where I'm wanted. There are plenty (more) of rich Republicans that can do just that in Kansas and other deep-red states. Why don't they get involved? Let them prove that all this tax-cutting on the rich works, the same for investing in America. So far, I haven't seen it doing too much. Yeah, some states like Florida and Texas don't pay state income taxes, but don't think for a second they don't bite you in the butt somewhere else. They WILL get their revenue. It's a scam for the demagogues... 

Alexandra Cabot

Quote from: SAGG on January 30, 2017, 05:31:06 PM
So I should invest in a state where they don't think much of me, AC? No thank you. I'll go where I'm wanted. There are plenty (more) of rich Republicans that can do just that in Kansas and other deep-red states. Why don't they get involved? Let them prove that all this tax-cutting on the rich works, the same for investing in America. So far, I haven't seen it doing too much. Yeah, some states like Florida and Texas don't pay state income taxes, but don't think for a second they don't bite you in the butt somewhere else. They WILL get their revenue. It's a scam for the demagogues...

I don't think you understand what I was saying.  For eight years, President Obama talked about the tech industry being the future of American employment to replace previous kinds of employment, and the tech industry was by and far his biggest supporters and campaign contributors.  The tech industry does indeed make a pile of money, and it has also never left one area of California.  The people that control it talk about the rest of America like this, explaining why they don't leave California:

http://dailycaller.com/2017/01/08/tech-company-founder-middle-america-is-a-shthole-filled-with-stupid-people/

Meanwhile under the leadership of previous administrations like Obama's, all gainful employment left everywhere else that isn't on a coast due to things like NAFTA and globalization redistributing that work to other countries who can pay workers peanuts.  So yeah, bragging that California balanced it's budget by taxing rich people unlike those terrible plains states that have no income shows a certain lack of self awareness that is pretty much a Californian trait imo. 

Californians also reacted to a bunch of blue states in Middle America rebelling against your party, not by asking why it happened, but by crying that the electoral college should be illegalized so California can determine every future election while at the same time calling everyone that lives outside California terrible bigoted racists even though they elected the African American spineless man of inaction twice.  So no, I don't have a problem with saying bad things about California.  Everyone that doesn't live on a coast hates the state's guts for very good reasons.


steveinthecity

Has California not been wildly progressive in their politics the last few decades?  Holy Cow.  I hate everyone in Connecticut, by the way.  They just don't look like proper Americans to me.  They smirk sometimes in photos. Connecticut is full of communist sympathizers, by my account. They're probably all commies. Every last one of them. North Carolina is also on my list, as is Maryland.  I'm just getting warmed up. South Dakota better hope I don't look your way!
Comics!

SAGG

Quote from: Alexandra Cabot on January 30, 2017, 06:38:27 PM
Quote from: SAGG on January 30, 2017, 05:31:06 PM
So I should invest in a state where they don't think much of me, AC? No thank you. I'll go where I'm wanted. There are plenty (more) of rich Republicans that can do just that in Kansas and other deep-red states. Why don't they get involved? Let them prove that all this tax-cutting on the rich works, the same for investing in America. So far, I haven't seen it doing too much. Yeah, some states like Florida and Texas don't pay state income taxes, but don't think for a second they don't bite you in the butt somewhere else. They WILL get their revenue. It's a scam for the demagogues...

I don't think you understand what I was saying.  For eight years, President Obama talked about the tech industry being the future of American employment to replace previous kinds of employment, and the tech industry was by and far his biggest supporters and campaign contributors.  The tech industry does indeed make a pile of money, and it has also never left one area of California.  The people that control it talk about the rest of America like this, explaining why they don't leave California:

http://dailycaller.com/2017/01/08/tech-company-founder-middle-america-is-a-shthole-filled-with-stupid-people/

Meanwhile under the leadership of previous administrations like Obama's, all gainful employment left everywhere else that isn't on a coast due to things like NAFTA and globalization redistributing that work to other countries who can pay workers peanuts.  So yeah, bragging that California balanced it's budget by taxing rich people unlike those terrible plains states that have no income shows a certain lack of self awareness that is pretty much a Californian trait imo. 

Californians also reacted to a bunch of blue states in Middle America rebelling against your party, not by asking why it happened, but by crying that the electoral college should be illegalized so California can determine every future election while at the same time calling everyone that lives outside California terrible bigoted racists even though they elected the African American spineless man of inaction twice.  So no, I don't have a problem with saying bad things about California.  Everyone that doesn't live on a coast hates the state's guts for very good reasons.
Before you generally blame the Dems for NAFTA, don't forget that the Republicans share the blame for it, and some of them are just as "elitist". The Dems don't have the copyright on it. And President Obama did what he could, while the Republicans sat on their hands and did nothing, period, except be obstructionist. You see what you want to see, don't you, so it's pointless to take up this issue with you. DR's right. Let's get back to Sears/Kmart on this thread, and agree to disagree. Your call...

Alexandra Cabot

#40
QuoteBefore you generally blame the Dems for NAFTA, don't forget that the Republicans share the blame for it, and some of them are just as "elitist". The Dems don't have the copyright on it. And President Obama did what he could, while the Republicans sat on their hands and did nothing, period, except be obstructionist. You see what you want to see, don't you, so it's pointless to take up this issue with you. DR's right. Let's get back to Sears/Kmart on this thread, and agree to disagree. Your call...

I'm not a Republican or a conservative.  You don't understand how out of touch the left is with people these days, so you're still going back to your binaries.  I don't think you realize what happened in the election at all honestly. 

As for NAFTA, it was the Clinton administration's fault, and people were still arrogant enough to put one of the policy wonks behind stealing everyone's jobs on the ballot.  You got the result unrestrained arrogance engenders. 

The left definitely has a market on elitism right now.  You are now represented by Marxist lunatics shouting at people about "white privilege."  The left is dead at this point.  What's left is some bizarre religion about virtue signalling to people on social media and places like California that are effectively a foreign country that thinks it will win back the people by having millionaire actors shout at them on television.   :2funny:

Obama didn't do jack.  He was an ineffectual coward.  Hell, his second term was pretty much one long lame duck session because he was hiding out in the White House hiding from congress like a wimp or outside the country half the time.  You can blame that on obstructionists, but the truth is he was an ideological hack with no people skills who couldn't work with a congress from an opposite party like other presidents like Clinton or Reagan did.  Also ISIS loves the guy considering his foreign policy decisions gave it the power vacuum to exist.


QuoteHas California not been wildly progressive in their politics the last few decades?  Holy Cow.  I hate everyone in Connecticut, by the way.  They just don't look like proper Americans to me.  They smirk sometimes in photos. Connecticut is full of communist sympathizers, by my account. They're probably all commies. Every last one of them. North Carolina is also on my list, as is Maryland.  I'm just getting warmed up. South Dakota better hope I don't look your way!

How are you enjoying having your party's teeth kicked down its throat in an electoral landslide?   ;D   I'm loving it.   :smitten:   


SAGG

You must be a Trump Republican, then. It's okay, Trumpian.: These things go on in cycles. Your party will overreach, and you'll be back on the outside. Enjoy it--for now...

DeCarlo Rules

Quote from: SAGG on January 31, 2017, 06:44:31 AM
You must be a Trump Republican, then. It's okay, Trumpian.: These things go on in cycles. Your party will overreach, and you'll be back on the outside. Enjoy it--for now...

Indeed... much like the comic book marketplace. We can look forward to the post-New Riverdale cycle of Archie by the time Trump leaves the Oval Office.

Alexandra Cabot

Quote from: SAGG on January 31, 2017, 06:44:31 AM
You must be a Trump Republican, then. It's okay, Trumpian.: These things go on in cycles. Your party will overreach, and you'll be back on the outside. Enjoy it--for now...

You have a problem with reading comprehension?  I said I wasn't a Republican.  You must feel really confused right now.   ;D   I don't think people on the left realize how much they poisoned their own party.  They let their grass roots radicalize to the point they are basically shark repellant to voters.  The fall out from that SJW, BLM, terrorists are the real victims, etc. stupidity isn't going be forgotten anytime soon, and they are still doubling down on it like the election never happened. Don't worry, I'm sure Nate Silver can lie about more polling data to make you feel better about it in the meantime.  Maybe he can make the Cubs win another World Series too.   ;D

QuoteIndeed... much like the comic book marketplace. We can look forward to the post-New Riverdale cycle of Archie by the time Trump leaves the Oval Office.

Archie Comics won't exist in eight years.   ;D   


DeCarlo Rules

#44
Quote from: Alexandra Cabot on January 31, 2017, 05:42:12 PM
QuoteIndeed... much like the comic book marketplace. We can look forward to the post-New Riverdale cycle of Archie by the time Trump leaves the Oval Office.

Archie Comics won't exist in eight years.   ;D

Well, it's quite possible (you might even say likely) that ARCHIE COMIC PUBLICATIONS won't exist in eight years. Or in four, which is pretty much what I meant by "post-New Riverdale". But where did I say it would? I highly doubt that would mean that Archie stories would cease to be printed by someone (probably not in the floppy comics format...). I'm okay with that idea.

PS - You think New Riverdale comics might last up to EIGHT years before putting ACP out of business?! That's almost as unlikely as Trump being re-elected.

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