What happens when NJ can’t afford to pay it’s own taxes anymore? Rampant (fraudulent?) mismanagement of assessments? Detroit offers a glimpse into what to come in NJ. From the Detroit News:
Study: Bad assessments prompt 10K Detroit foreclosures
One in 10 Detroit tax foreclosures between 2011 and 2015 were caused by the city’s admittedly inflated property assessments, a study by two Chicago professors has concluded.
Over-assessments causing foreclosure were concentrated in the city’s lowest valued homes, those selling for less than $8,000, and resulted in thousands of Detroit homeowners losing their properties, according to the study.
“The very population that most needs the city to get the assessments right, the poorest of the poor, are being most detrimentally affected by the city getting it wrong,” said Bernadette Atuahene, a law professor at the Chicago-Kent College of Law who has studied the impact of the city’s over-assessments on homeowners.
“There is a narrative of blaming the poor that focuses on individual responsibility instead of structural injustice. We are trying to change the focus to this structural injustice.”
The Wayne County treasurer foreclosed on about 100,000 Detroit properties for unpaid property taxes from 2011 through 2015, about a quarter of all parcels, as the city suffered the after-effects of population decline, the housing market crash and the Great Recession.
The study, co-authored by Christopher Berry, a professor at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy, is the first to publicly estimate how many foreclosures were caused by the city’s chronic over-valuation of city property, the authors say.
Atuahene and Berry acknowledged many things trigger tax foreclosure, anything from an owner’s job loss to a death in the family.
They estimated the number of foreclosures caused by over-assessments in part by calculating the foreclosure rate if all properties were properly assessed. The study also controlled for properties various purchase prices, neighborhoods and sale dates.
Detroit officials, including Mayor Mike Duggan, have acknowledged the city’s assessments were inflated for years but said accuracy has improved with double-digit reductions over the last four years. The city completed a city-wide reassessment in 2016, required by the Michigan State Tax Commission. The city had not done a complete reassessment since the 1950s.
State regulators launched an investigation in 2013 citing a series in The Detroit News that exposed rampant over-assessments, tax delinquencies and mismanagement in the city’s Assessment Division.
…
Atuahene, also a member of the Coalition to End Unconstitutional Tax Foreclosures, said the group wants the city to provide “reparations” for families who forfeited their homes in tax foreclosures, like she and community activists have done for the Bonnett family.The county foreclosed on Sonja Bonnett’s home in 2015 over $5,000 in unpaid taxes. Bonnett, 38, was purchasing the home on land contract for $20,000. Atuahene said Detroit taxed her home at a market value of $46,000.
The coalition recently partnered with a housing nonprofit to buy another foreclosed home and give it to Bonnett along with her husband and seven kids. They will celebrate her move in Thursday.
Bonnett said the city needs to repay homeowners who lost their homes because they could not pay tax bills that were artificially inflated by bad assessments.
“They wrongfully lost their houses,” Bonnett said. “It wasn’t just morally wrong. It was illegal.”
Frist. Maybe ever. Lol.
Have two items maybe of interest.
CBS This Morning clip on Lake Nona. ‘Neo-urban’. Engineering all the top community traits from the bottom up. Maybe there is a use for Salem County after all..
https://twitter.com/CBSThisMorning/status/1007949968907362304
On the oft discussed topic of college admissions and merits of certain backgrounds. Feel free to insert ‘NJ student’ for Asian American anywhere you like when demographics and ‘lopping’ are discussed. Comments interesting, links moreso.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/15/us/harvard-asian-enrollment-applicants.html
Good day all. Out to enjoy the weather.
Time for the Chinese to bear the brunt of the soci@list vision. Whitey has been there and done that. Once they reach a critical mass within the next generation Indians will be next.
Yet another unintended consequence of building a party on division. Will be interesting to see how these folks vote going forward.
I just figured this out. The Trump “pulling children out of their Mother’s arms” narrative was supposed to be the late October emotional wedge between regular people and this successful administration, to swing the midterms. And it was a good one. Unfortunately for the left, Trump has had so much recent success that the Dems needed something big, stat.
They blew their load early, Methinks. Also, they had to quickly counter this boneheaded miscue:
http://www.businessinsider.com/migrant-children-in-cages-2014-photos-explained-2018-5
I saw this interview on CNN this week, their guest was not well vetted. On Tuesday he quit working in a detention center for kids on the border. When the CNN host asked him the ages of the kids in the center he said, “Four to Seventeen. Actually it was Four to Twenty-Six. There were a bunch of adults pretending to be minors, but they were eventually removed.”
Congrats. Handled graciously, and kudos for using the appropriate language.
Frist. Maybe ever. Lol.
Pumps – It’s the weekend! Wake up and smell the exhaust!
(modern equivalent of Warriors – Come out and play!)
Taking the kids to Quincy today. When we used to live in Quincy, Flag Day was always the big day. Parade, Fireworks. Nothing on July Fourth. Instead, a lot of parents bring their kids to the point on July 4th weekend where you can see the Boston Fireworks from about 4 miles away. I laughed out loud one year as the fireworks started as we viewed from our far away beach. After a couple subdued “oohs and ahhs” a little kid said, “They’re pretty small Mom! They’re pretty small!”
https://www.discoverquincy.com/events/city-quincy-flag-day-parade-celebration-0
LOL!!!
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-06-15/fbi-agent-called-hillary-president-while-investigating-her-texted-screw-you-trump
Hold,
One or two fertilizer applications a year is the bare minimum needed to keep your lawn majority grass as opposed to weeds. Won’t be nice, but it will be decent for avg Joe. Any questions, just let me know. I’m a wealth of knowledge on this subject.
I don’t care how much grass I have, just glad to have a free mower and a landlord who hires a black guy to do the major trimming of the shrubs and trees.
It’s great to be a renter (on a safe, slow road).
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-06-14/plunging-manhattan-rents-are-helping-renters-afford-larger-apartments
Keep telling yourself that. My home shows pride of ownership, something you know nothing about.
The Original NJ ExPat says:
June 16, 2018 at 9:53 am
I don’t care how much grass I have, just glad to have a free mower and a landlord who hires a black guy to do the major trimming of the shrubs and trees.
It’s great to be a renter (on a safe, slow road).
Pumps
Using bayer once or twice a year keeps my lawn looking nicer than yards that have those lawn treatment companies spraying the lawn a few times a month. My neighbor says watering the lawn a lot in the spring before the summer heat sets in makes a strong root system with thick grass. He also only does weed and feed twice a year and has the Nicest lawn on the street
Hold,
When I mean nice, I’m talking top of the line golf course type turf stand. My lawn is homegrown sod. You can literally cut my lawn up and sell for a huge profit and grow it again.
High speed curb appeal?
Keep telling yourself that. My home shows pride of ownership, something you know nothing about.
Shabbat Shalom Mother F$ckers
We used to call that grass.
My lawn is homegrown sod.
Maybe libturd could retire to Detroit? Cost of living is low, close to Canada. He could bulldoze some abandoned houses and start an organic farm.
Pumpkin
Why don’t you sell your lawn as sod and try to get your place reclassified as a farm for tax purposes. Or do you need 5 acres for that?
Law was created to help the ultra wealthy, and I’m not one of them. Lol
Hold my beer says:
June 16, 2018 at 6:34 pm
Pumpkin
Why don’t you sell your lawn as sod and try to get your place reclassified as a farm for tax purposes. Or do you need 5 acres for that?
Happy Father’s Day! Enjoy!
Gun battle in Trenton last night at a festival. 20 injured, 1 dead.
286k in property taxes. People just can’t comprehend the kind of money that is out there.
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1744-S-Ocean-Blvd-PALM-BEACH-FL-33480/46846919_zpid/
Why NY/NJ State AG will put Generalisimo Trumpito in jail.
Look up Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-06-16/new-york-s-trump-lawsuit-may-be-a-map-for-mueller
Killer sentence
How does Underwood know campaign personnel were involved in spending decisions? Because the Trumpsters are so recklessly contemptuous of rules that they left a trail of this blatant violation of campaign-finance law on their emails. At least one email thread included Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski weighing in on where he wanted the foundation’s tax-deductible funds directed.
The foundation also made a $25,000 contribution to Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, who subsequently determined that fraud charges against Trump’s university were not a proper matter for her office. The foundation listed the contribution as going to a Kansas nonprofit with the same name as Bondi’s political committee.
“The Foundation has no credible explanation for the false reporting of grant recipients to the IRS and the State of New York,” Underwood concluded.
And the Clinton Crime Family Foundation?
Believe me, even if there is some FEC violation relating to the Trump foundation (and there can be absolutely nothing else, nobody drew any money personally, no salaries were paid, no expenses were claimed), nobody is going to jail. This is just deflection from the success of the Trump administration.
Democrats are truly, truly, deranged. They’re going to be sacrificing their own infants when the GOP gains seats in a couple months.
5:03 are you really that stupid….?
Essex – You truly believe that there was something so huge and nefarious going on inside this micro-foundation that it will end in jail sentences? If so, you are truly not in your right mind. Hillary Clinton paid the entire value of this foundation over a few month span to have an unregistered foreign agent collude with Russians to produce a bullshit document. If you are so truly stupid to ignore the hundreds of millions of dollars that the Clintons collected and the billions they spent to try to buy the last election, well….than who is the truly stupid participant in this conversation. My guess is it’s the guy who is so easily influenced by women that he was forced to sell his Harley.
5:03 are you really that stupid….?
My guess is it’s the person whose life is so fulfilling he’s posting comments at 3am.
As old as you are … are you ever going to mature to the point where you realize two wrongs don’t make a right?
A boy and father from Honduras are taken into custody by US Border Patrol agents near Mission, Texas.
Inside an old warehouse in south Texas, hundreds of children wait away from their parents in a series of cages created by metal fencing.
One cage had 20 children inside. Scattered about are bottles of water, bags of chips and large foil sheets intended to serve as blankets.
joyce – If your panties are already off, as I suspect they are, it’s probably your gray hair that’s in a knot.
Murphy signs gun law; Trenton goes wild! Another symbolic move by another useless, bleeding heart liberal.
@fakedansavage
Reminder that the people currently justifying tearing children away from their parents spend the last twenty years insisting
“every child deserves a mother and a father.”
@BillKristol
Trump: The Democrats made us do it.
Stephen Miller: It’s our policy to do it.
Sec. Nielsen: We’re not doing it.
Democrats are now posting pictures of Auschwitz comparing it to the Immigration centers. Never let a crisis go to waste.
@TheRickWilson
Paul Manafort is staring up at a gray,
concrete ceiling in a grey,
concrete cell inside a jailhouse today.
He will do this, every single day until he flips, or dies.
This is been a public service announcement from Karma.
These people are opportunists and invaders. They should be greeted with whatever means are necessary to deter them.
I don’t know why Trenton kept rolling the dice on that festival. A festival open til the late hours and NOT expecting the wrong element is stupid. Meanwhile, the LobsterFest in Bradley beach got cancelled because ONE person had an axe to grind.
In fairness to the shooter, he might not have known about the new gun laws.
Murphy signs gun law; Trenton goes wild! Another symbolic move by another useless, bleeding heart liberal.
NJ ExPat, your post below is FAKE news.
The FBI got involve, when George Papadapolous got drunk with some Australians diplomats in an event in London and starting blarting out about how the Russians had dirt on Clinton. The Aussies dutifully reported to their intelligence attache who forwarded to FBI HQ and then Counter Intelligence.
Fake News alert – Hillary Clinton paid the entire value of this foundation over a few month span to have an unregistered foreign agent collude with Russians to produce a bullshit document
or at least a trafficker.
Reminder that the people currently justifying tearing children away from their parents spend the last twenty years insisting
“every child deserves a mother and a father.”
StillStuckinNJ – And why was Papadapolous in London? And who took him to that bar, to get him drunk and introduce him to that Australian multimillionaire (hint: both on the US govt payroll)? Do you know the name of the spy that invited and paid Papadapolous to come to London?
Let me help you with your knowledge gap.
Days later, Halper contacted Papadopoulos by email. The professor offered the young and inexperienced campaign aide $3,000 and an all-expenses-paid trip to London, ostensibly to write a paper about energy in the eastern Mediterranean region.
https://nypost.com/2018/05/19/cambridge-professor-outed-as-fbi-informant-inside-trump-campaign/
The FBI got involve, when George Papadapolous got drunk with some Australians diplomats in an event in London
Deportation Separated Thousands Of U.S.-Born Children From Parents In 2013
They hold particular significance as President Barack Obama faces pressure to change his deportation policies to keep families together. Obama’s deportation policies are under increased scrutiny by those in both political parties as the House stalls on immigration reform and the government scrambles to deal with an influx of unaccompanied minors crossing the U.S. border illegally.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/25/parents-deportation_n_5531552.html
Can anyone find pictures of the protests in support of the neglected American kids?
The Department of Defense’s Office of Net Assessment — a shadowy think tank that reports directly to the secretary of defense — paid Halper $282,000 in 2016 and $129,000 in 2017.
Waste of time. Their parents can’t stay off opioids imported from Mexico long enough to vote, much less vote Democrat. It’s easier to lure criminal alien motel maids and lawn workers to the polls to vote illegally.
Can anyone find pictures of the protests in support of the neglected American kids?
Stuck, except the info that popadopolus allegedly shared was very likely provided to him by an intelligence asset(misfud). Still a few pieces to shake out, but When yu put al the pieces together it becomes evident that the trump campaign was targeted by an intel op. Nunes is working on this right now.
Expat, halper was in phase 2 of the trap. Phase 1 was to get compromising info in the hands of someone from the campaign. Papo didn’t have any foreign contacts. he was working for the intel covertly or was spoon fed the info from someone in intel. Entrapment if the campaign plain and simple.
I don’t like that Palm Beach house that much . Highway in front yard. Only one acre of land. House looks more like a bed & breakfast than a home. Not enough parking for your guests, too big for a 3 car garage. 61 million price looks delusional.
How many Hollywood mansions does it take to house a few thousand illegal kids? Can someone ask the Meeka and Joe Variety Show?
If you guys believe all of that then fine. If you hate the blacks, hispanics and any brown skins so much, that you will lose the constitution for it?
Just realize you just fell for one of the ego driven (Clintons/Trump) accidentally started but greatest intelligence ops against the USA ever. The consequences of which will be really ugly, because the result of the ops is to ensure all parties throw out the window “the rule book aka The Constitution and The Rule of Law” and what will replace it is “the law of jungle – might makes right”. But have you really thought it out.
Whoever takes over after Trump will use the same “I’m above the law” meme. That will create more reactions and lead to splits.
If the country starts separating like that – ALL Capital and I mean everything will flee. So what is going to be left behind is a shell (Venenzuela like ). The right wing militia types soon will face other animals of the jungle, mean ones. Like the ones that have challenge the military in Central American and taken over whole states in Mexico. Joe Bubba’s little AR-15 and pick-up truck will mean nothing compare to the other animals in the jungle.
Finally a lot of these jungle animals will be heavily financed by Russia/China. To make sure nothing of the “constitution driven USA” can rise again.
Hell, if JJ Angleton was alive. He would be up Murdoch’s, Jones, Beck’s finances – because that right wing bullhorn crowd is behaving very much like the KGB financed communis sympathizers did in the 30’s. AKA Agents of influence.
Add Spain to the list of countries now sullied and ready to lose it’s culture-rich history.
^^^This reads like a bot spam post.
Not Eddie, the one above that.
If you guys believe all of that then fine. If you hate the blacks, hispanics and any brown skins so much, that you will lose the constitution for it?
Just realize you just fell for one of the ego driven (Clintons/Trump) accidentally started but greatest intelligence ops against the USA ever. The consequences of which will be really ugly, because the result of the ops is to ensure all parties throw out the window “the rule book aka The Constitution and The Rule of Law” and what will replace it is “the law of jungle – might makes right”. But have you really thought it out.
Whoever takes over after Trump will use the same “I’m above the law” meme. That will create more reactions and lead to splits.
If the country starts separating like that – ALL Capital and I mean everything will flee. So what is going to be left behind is a shell (Venenzuela like ). The right wing militia types soon will face other animals of the jungle, mean ones. Like the ones that have challenge the military in Central American and taken over whole states in Mexico. Joe Bubba’s little AR-15 and pick-up truck will mean nothing compare to the other animals in the jungle.
Finally a lot of these jungle animals will be heavily financed by Russia/China. To make sure nothing of the “constitution driven USA” can rise again.
Hell, if JJ Angleton was alive. He would be up Murdoch’s, Jones, Beck’s finances – because that right wing bullhorn crowd is behaving very much like the KGB financed communis sympathizers did in the 30’s. AKA Agents of influence.
Sounds like Alex Jones meets the left.
What the progressive types refuse to acknowledge is that trump is a response to a lot of their tactics. Political correctness, stifling political discourse , bamas executive orders all had a blowback consequence.
Today’s progressives are yesterday’s birthers.
The majority views both of the groups the same way they see religious fundamentalists. That is, that they all base their lives on non-credible information.
Those who follow politics like most “real men” follow sports are truly an embarrassment.
re: Trenton. It was 2:45 AM during a 24 hour arts festival. One of the shooting victims was 13 years old.
No curfew for a 13 year old? That is progressive…
No way, that’s a pro business regime.
Fast Eddie says:
June 18, 2018 at 9:54 am
Add Spain to the list of countries now sullied and ready to lose it’s culture-rich history.
Social!sm and communism have never existed. They were labels applied by leaders to gain control of a populace. True communism and social!sm has never existed on this planet. Never.
@chrislhayes
Currently, the Trump administration is arguing that its family-separation policy:
– is a deterrent
– is biblically compliant
– is the Democrats’ fault
– does not exist.
Social!sm and communism have never existed. They were labels applied by leaders to gain control of a populace. True communism and social!sm has never existed on this planet. Never.
It doesn’t matter. Your ideal utopia is impossible to construct. Capitalism on the other hand, has been responsible for incredible increases in the standard of living.
The more I learn about this the angrier I get.
http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2018/06/trenton_shooting_suspected_gunman_killed_at_art_al.html#incart_most-read_
The only person killed in the shooting actually went to jail for killing a man. He used a gun with an extended “illegal” magazine. Now we’re hearing some of the people shot may have been hit by police gunfire.
But hey, if you had a perfectly legal 15 round magazine after undergoing multiple background checks two weeks ago, you go to prison for possessing it today.
Better bury this story quick.
@AnneFrankCenter
This is callous. This is inhumane. This is immoral. Separating children from their parents is not an immigration policy. This erodes our nation’s heart, our soul and our commitment to civil and human rights.
These are children, not political pawns.
Absolutely.
In the early cycles, nothing more powerful than capitalism as we have seen. Late advanced stages of capitalism we have no answer for. It would be wise to figure it out, but I won’t hold my breath.
Blue Ribbon Teacher says:
June 18, 2018 at 12:17 pm
Social!sm and communism have never existed. They were labels applied by leaders to gain control of a populace. True communism and social!sm has never existed on this planet. Never.
It doesn’t matter. Your ideal utopia is impossible to construct. Capitalism on the other hand, has been responsible for incredible increases in the standard of living.
Situation is messed up, but what kind of parents put their kids in this kind of situation? Why would you illegally go into another country? Why? It’s illegal, plain and simple. Heart goes out to these families, but have some common sense when it comes to making decisions about your family.
Very Stable Genius says:
June 18, 2018 at 12:22 pm
@AnneFrankCenter
This is callous. This is inhumane. This is immoral. Separating children from their parents is not an immigration policy. This erodes our nation’s heart, our soul and our commitment to civil and human rights.
These are children, not political pawns.
When has the left cared for the well-being of kids? They’re outraged when kids are “ripped” from parents but it’s okay when an infant is ripped from the womb.
Pumpkin – As always the truth is somewhere in between. The Trump administration did not change the law for people crossing the border illegally. Those laws remain the same. Separation only happens if Border Patrol find that the adult is falsely claiming to be the child’s parent (child is used as a crutch to avoid being detained), or is a threat to the child(yes a threat), or is put into criminal proceedings aka deportation or other serouis crimes.
The catch and release program was modified for “families” crossing illegally, it was being abused, pretty much none of the adults would show up willingly to court for deportation proceedings if the border patrol just let them go (catch and release) just because they brought children with them.
Hey, you feckless, leftist cunts, explain this:
Obama administration officials are rushing to explain photos from 2014 that went viral this weekend showing locked-up immigrant children
http://www.businessinsider.com/migrant-children-in-cages-2014-photos-explained-2018-5
Juice,
Good breakdown.
If you are illegally crossing into another country, why should you have any rights? That’s the bottom line. There is a legal means to enter.
Eddie, That pic those are the lucky ones. The sheer numbers of people illegally crossing on FOOT is somewhere around 300,000 expected this year, it is a humanitarian crisis.
In Arizona the migrant trail from Sonoyta Mexico to Gila Bend Arizona there is a 10 mile trail of death hundreds of people including children die there each year.
About 70,000 children from Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador are crossing the border on foot every year.
What to do about it?
What to do about it?
Go through the process like my grandparents did.
Captialism doesn’t happen in stages
Sure it does. Why would you think, otherwise?
Blue Ribbon Teacher says:
June 18, 2018 at 1:54 pm
Captialism doesn’t happen in stages
https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamandrzejewski/2018/06/04/the-exclusive-100000-club-meet-30000-members-at-the-illinois-teachers-retirement-system-trs/#1dd0bbe36129
The legal corruption is so bad even union bosses are muscled into the teacher’s pension system. Unions are private-sector organizations but, in Illinois, the unions received a special legislative carve out making them members of the government pension system.
For example, Reginald Weaver was the President of the National Education Association (NEA) in Washington, D.C. – the de facto national teacher’s union. Today, Weaver’s Illinois teacher’s pension is $24,869 per month, or $298,437 annually. During his working career, Weaver’s total investment into his pension was only $287,107. Now and every year, Weaver pulls out more than he ever paid into the system.
In 2014, a pair of union lobbyists substitute taught for one day in the public schools, and then we found them collecting over $1 million of lifetime public ‘teacher’ pension payouts despite a state law expressly designed to stop them.
(Expanded upon)
In Illinois, Substitute Teaching For One Day Reaped Nearly $1 Million in Taxpayer-Funded Pension Money
https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamandrzejewski/2014/10/14/one-day-sub-nearly-1-million-in-teacher-pension/#13a309e27014
^They need to bring back vigilante justice.
joyce: I was telling relatives over the weekend……as bad as NJ is, CT is worse off, and IL is the leading edge of the crisis. Everything will blow up in IL and it will be the impetus to change things in NJ. We can complain and whine, but until there is a crisis, no elected official in NJ wants to be held responsible for forcing the populace to behave like adults. The state needs its back up against the wall, so there is an excuse to mete out the tough stuff…..
Why is IL and CT and CA and NJ a mess? Because Dems think money grows on trees.
It’s like the immigration position. Their families. THAT is why we all should pay for them to stay here. We’ll just pluck some dollars from the ol’ money tree.
They’re! Sorry.
I concur. I’ve stated this similarly, even here, going back to 2015. You’re going to see it again this fall as it’s still not “cool” to say you support Trump, so you’ll get the same voter outcome once again. “Normal” people who support Trump will sit on their hands, say nothing, answer no polls, and vote for his team.
What the progressive types refuse to acknowledge is that trump is a response to a lot of their tactics. Political correctness, stifling political discourse , bamas executive orders all had a blowback consequence.
You’re seeing it right now with this “Trump is ripping breast-feeding babies right off the tit and throwing them in a cage” narrative. Not cool to say anything about it, even if you think the narrative is encouraging Four Seasons accommodations and concierge service for illegal aliens who show up with children, any children, even a dozen of them aged 15-16. Say nothing to tip your hand, keep quiet online, vote in November.
Sure it does. Why would you think, otherwise?
Because everyone has an iphone, macbook, internet access, and no one is starving, despite an ever expanding government. This fictitious day of the economy grinding to a halt because of “wealth disparity” does not exist.
Joyce,
This pisses me off. Scumbags like this give unions and govt a bad f’n name. Unions and govt are not the problem, it’s scumbags that come in positions of power and abuse the hell out of it that are. Human nature is pathetic.
Now this will be used as an example of why workers can’t form a union. Now everyone is worse off due to the actions of a few.
You are naive.
Since they have an iPhone, all is good in the hood.
Blue Ribbon Teacher says:
June 18, 2018 at 3:19 pm
Sure it does. Why would you think, otherwise?
Because everyone has an iphone, macbook, internet access, and no one is starving, despite an ever expanding government. This fictitious day of the economy grinding to a halt because of “wealth disparity” does not exist.
And even if the very poorest of the poor don’t have these things, they still have a 40″ flat screen TV and an Android phone for texting.
Because everyone has an iphone, macbook, internet access, and no one is starving, despite an ever expanding government. This fictitious day of the economy grinding to a halt because of “wealth disparity” does not exist.
They should award welfare payments by age and body weight, as measured in the public square.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpAOwJvTOio
Geezus Chr1st pumpkin, change the schtick already, will you? It’s painful. Change your handle to something else and come up with a new angle.
Ruh-roh!
https://news.gallup.com/poll/203207/trump-job-approval-weekly.aspx
[Verse 1]
My daddy left home when I was three
And he didn’t leave much to ma and me
Just this old guitar and an empty bottle of booze
Now, I don’t blame him cause he run and hid
But the meanest thing that he ever did
Was before he left, he went and named me “Pumps.”
[Verse 2]
Well, he must o’ thought that is quite a joke
And it got a lot of laughs from a’ lots of folk
It seems I had to fight my whole life through.
Some gal would giggle and I’d get red
And some guy’d laugh and I’d give him head
I tell ya, life ain’t easy for a boy named “Pumps.”
[Verse 3]
Well, I grew up quick and I grew up mean
My wrist got limp and my IQ got lean
I’d roam from street to street to hide my shame
But I made a vow to the moon and stars
That I’d search the ho houses and bars
And handy that man who gave me that awful name
[Verse 4]
Well, it was Wits End bar in mid-July
And I just hit Van Houten and my throat was dry
I thought I’d stop and have myself a dump
At that old saloon on a street of crud
There at a table, pulling his pud
Sat the dirty, mangy dog that named me “Pumps.”
[Verse 5]
Well, I knew that snake was my own sweet dad
From a worn-out picture that my mother had
And I knew that scar on his cheek and his evil eye
He was big and bent and gray and old
And I looked at him and my blood ran cold
And I said: “My name is ‘Pumps!’ I have to dump!
Now you’re going to watch!!”
[Verse 6]
Well, I hit him hard right between the eyes
And he didn’t blink, to my surprise
He come up with a knife and cut off a piece of my ear
Well I busted my sphincter right down my slacks
And liquid poop soaked into the floor cracks
Kicking and a’ gouging in the poop and the blood and the beer
[Verse 7]
I tell you, I’ve been really scared
My Nana was the only one who really cared
He kicked like a mule and he bit like a crocodile
I heard him laugh and then I heard him cuss
He went for his pud and I pulled mine first
He stood there lookin’ at me and I saw him smile
[Verse 8]
And he said: “Son, this world is rough
And if a man’s gonna make it, he’s gotta be tough
And I knew I wouldn’t be there to help ya along
So I give ya that name and I said goodbye
I knew you’d have to tighten your sphincter or die
And it’s the name that made you smoke a bong
[Verse 9]
He said: “Now you just pooped one hell of a load
And I know you hate me, but I have to hit the road
So why don’t you do the right thing and pick up my tab?
But ya ought to thank me, before I book
For getting deported because I was a crook
Because I’m the son-of-a-bitch that named you Pumps
[Verse 10]
I got all choked up and I let go my pud
And I called him my pa, and he called me a dud
And I came away with a different point of view
And I think about him, now and then
Every time I post, and lie, and pretend
And if I ever have a son, I think I’m gonna name him
Bill or George! Anything but Pumps! I still hate that name!
That’s rich, you calling someone naive.
Manila never ceases to amaze.
Population density to look forward to
3:32 Ooooooo you rock ribbed denizen of dorkiness
My johnson is The Epitome of density .
Once again, with the ATT-Time Warner combo, capitalism features its age-old, never-cured disease – combining into monopolies to control the economy and up profits. The solution is system change.
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-06-15/at-t-court-victory-revs-up-media-merger-hunt
For the ones that have families that survives communism, holocaust, etc -your familiar history should be enough.
For you others that think they are going to be able to prevail in their red neck technicals once the rule of law and constitution are gone.
Hear below what your lily white kids and grandkids will sound when they are put on some concentration camp by some really nasty people funded by Russia/China
https://youtu.be/PoncXfYBAVI
Opinion: A Movement Rises to Take Back Higher Education – The Wall Street Journal
https://apple.news/A0–Pl3_ZTjOR8LnGZsF85w
Nice line of storms about to pull through.
http://weather.cod.edu/satrad/?type=LongIsland-rad-1-24&checked=&prodDim=100&overDim=100
So sick of the new line that social1sm/commun1sm has never really been tried. It has been tried, it just didn’t turn out the way you dreamed.
Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen defended the Trump administration’s new “zero-tolerance” policy at a combative press briefing with reporters on Monday, falsely blaming the controversial practice of separating migrant families at the border on Democrats and “loopholes” in the US immigration system.
“This entire crisis, just to be clear, is not new. It’s been occurring and expanded over many decades,” Nielsen said. “But currently, it is the exclusive product of loopholes in our federal immigration laws that prevent illegal immigrant minors and family members from being detained and removed to their home countries.”
Nielsen said, incorrectly, that the Trump administration is simply enforcing the law by separating the families, and is “no longer [exempting] entire classes of people who break the law.”
If the progressives keep this family separation thing up, the obvious solution becomes The Wall!
I watched the press conference, Nielsen laid out a fairly measured and reasonable case.
You mistaken sociopaths hijacking movements as testament to whether these economic systems work. You want to obsess over the human nature factor, so be it. It is hard to ignore. Truth be told, if you can figure out a way from preventing human nature from corrupting the system, you just found utopia on earth.
Gobsmacked says:
June 18, 2018 at 9:06 pm
So sick of the new line that social1sm/commun1sm has never really been tried. It has been tried, it just didn’t turn out the way you dreamed.
I watched it too, and I concur.
I watched the press conference, Nielsen laid out a fairly measured and reasonable case.