tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2022452485619502579.post3971351553403974746..comments2024-03-28T09:38:52.661-04:00Comments on thwap's schoolyard: The Magic of the Multiplierthwaphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15399550285738440669noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2022452485619502579.post-84722028814535086242014-08-25T23:41:50.099-04:002014-08-25T23:41:50.099-04:00Oh yeah. Lotta money in being a procurer for rich ...Oh yeah. Lotta money in being a procurer for rich fucks.thwaphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15399550285738440669noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2022452485619502579.post-49077701518913965922014-08-25T20:37:43.405-04:002014-08-25T20:37:43.405-04:00Spoke to a law student to spent the summer helping...Spoke to a law student to spent the summer helping wealthy people send money offshore. I used to paint in the summer. I was also a camp counsellor. Both jobs I didn't excel at. Imagine, I could have been doing something worthwhile. Boy, did I miss out! gregnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2022452485619502579.post-84256576960268546972014-08-25T14:20:01.934-04:002014-08-25T14:20:01.934-04:00greg,
I took a break from playing with the 7 year...greg,<br /><br />I took a break from playing with the 7 year old to answer comments.<br /><br />I'll look for that Glob article later.<br /><br />Right now I'd say there wouldn't be an ISIS to worry about if not for the CIA and the Saudis. thwaphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15399550285738440669noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2022452485619502579.post-11667075860278783632014-08-25T14:18:51.735-04:002014-08-25T14:18:51.735-04:00LALI,
That's the thing isn't it? They sla...LALI,<br /><br />That's the thing isn't it? They slash and slash and there's still deficits. But they don't look to their idiotic tax-cuts as the cause of the revenue shortfall.<br /><br />We could all be living much, much better, but for the elites' greed and their puppets lavishing all our resources on them.thwaphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15399550285738440669noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2022452485619502579.post-2554550436687071202014-08-25T14:17:13.887-04:002014-08-25T14:17:13.887-04:00trog69,
Glad to find you going strong too! I wish...trog69,<br /><br />Glad to find you going strong too! I wish that I could say it's a US-American malaise; the shit-headdery that makes so many otherwise intelligent people take a doofus like Paul Ryan seriously.<br /><br />Then I think about the British groaning under the Conservatives. Europe infatuated with austerity. And Canadians embracing simpletons like Rob Ford and Jimbo Flaherty. With neo-liberal scum like Dalton McGuinty and idiot Maritime NDP governments. Or Thomas Mulcair, the neo-liberal NDP federal leader who refuses to raise taxes on the wealthy because he's an idiot.<br /><br />This stupidity gets propagated because in the short-term it means more power and a greater share of the pie for the ruling class.<br /><br />But it's going to continue to explode in everyone's faces.thwaphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15399550285738440669noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2022452485619502579.post-40085477534442895682014-08-25T13:29:54.510-04:002014-08-25T13:29:54.510-04:00I realize this is not a comment on this post, whic...I realize this is not a comment on this post, which is excellent, but I was reading an editorial by Michel Coulumbe -CSIS head- called "Canadians in terrorist armies threaten us all" in the Globe on 23rd. He said that possibly 100 Canadians have gone over to fight for Islamist causes . (I could fit that number in my living room.) He also feels they will come back and attack Canada. <br /> If you read the thing, maybe you could share your comments. It sounded like boilerplate CSIS stuff I guess. I just thought he would have said a higher number.<br /> Thanks gregnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2022452485619502579.post-39186484941831901042014-08-25T11:56:15.055-04:002014-08-25T11:56:15.055-04:00I still haven't forgiven the provincial Libs f...I still haven't forgiven the provincial Libs for not restoring us to pre-'Harris SlashnBurn' levels. <br />'Us' being the poor, that is.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2022452485619502579.post-50827890186343683602014-08-25T11:24:56.503-04:002014-08-25T11:24:56.503-04:00Good morning, Señor Thwap. It is with great pleasu...Good morning, Señor Thwap. It is with great pleasure that I find you still going strong. <br /><br />The wealthy and their enablers have become detached from the American worker, and our present malaise is directly due to this action. The tax moves with no shame or hesitation by the largest corporations in the US ( Alongside this is the utterly and without pause conspicuous consumption and dismissal of arguments suggesting they owe the populace a return on investment.); the ability to keep the employment situation dire for so many, thus keeping wages and bennies downsized or worse; the incredible durability of the completely debunked and proven disaster Chicago school economics via austerity policies from "Serious" people in D.C.; these and more are the fruit of Powell Doctrine and his cohorts. Authoritarians and Fascists were unsuccessful in the attempted coup previously, but they've managed to divide and conquer with sheer greed and avarice combined with ambitions that Genghis Khan would balk at attempting. <br /><br />Add to that the growing apathy of the younger generations still waiting to find the life boomers like me have enjoyed for decades, and I don't see a good result from the limited options. Anarchic rioting will only bring on a more authoritarian and militaristic rule, enshrined with drones and Sound Cannons. Yeeehaw!trog69https://www.blogger.com/profile/00448911131570383708noreply@blogger.com