Comments on: Our glorious American future!

By: Consumer Unit 5012

Consumer Unit 5012 — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 07:12:26 +0000

Tony: “Before the New Deal there was widespread prosperity and contentment. “

…

What?

Whatwhatwhat?

WHAAAAAT?!

Tell me, does a little something known as the Great Depression ring any bells?

By: deering

deering — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:25:26 +0000

“They took me to Georgetown Hospital, where I was soon joined by my friends and co-workers Moira Bagley, Tucker Carlson, Neil Patel, and Laura Baños. All of whom I love.”

Carlson alone makes this a death panel, sorry…

By: deering

deering — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:23:28 +0000

“I would pay a great deal to see Meggers and Mangalangadingdong in a Thunderdome match.”

NBC has absolutely no excuse for not jumping all over this idea…

By: tommy walker

tommy walker — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:16:55 +0000

If the government didn’t start all these worthless programs perhaps they could afford police officers and firefighters.There may be an answer though ,since you already invited the drug dealers they could legalize and regulate the sale of substances and tax them for increased revenue (then they wouldn’t need so many cops).

By: actor212

actor212 — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:02:31 +0000

How could I have been so wrong?

I blame the Reagan education cuts, myself.

By: purvis ames

purvis ames — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 09:37:06 +0000

I’m sorry but you can’t blame Megan McArdle for everything… except destroying the English language.

Megan: “This specter always haunts pundits, and every time I’m tempted to make predictions about products that are too firm, I recall William Goldman’s famous adage that “No one knows anything”. If Steven Spielberg had realized that 1941 was going to flop, he wouldn’t have made it. But he couldn’t tell, and there you are.”

By: zombie rotten mcdonald

zombie rotten mcdonald — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 04:14:08 +0000

Some trolls are easier to ignore than others.

By: Spiny Norman

Spiny Norman — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 03:30:21 +0000

I just want to see how the Springs would do without (1) the Air Force Academy; (2) federal water subsidies.

Especially (2).

By: Brandi

Brandi — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 03:11:30 +0000

Shorter Tony: You were right, Twoofie, the dicksucking here’s great!

By: jim

jim — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 01:57:27 +0000

Reasonable troll is just being reasonable … on a comedy blog.

Oddly enough, this did not make me LOL at all.

Sorry to be blowing up a perfectly good troll-smackdown here, but I don’t see this story as having much to do with Randroids or objectivism at all.

Just sounds like the usual pack of overly-parsimonious conservative shitstains too greedy – & too idiotic – to spend money on things they really need.

Keep in mind that this is still the dull formal phase of Teh Tragicomic Saga Of Colorado Springs … wait another few months, until the time of year when it isn’t freezing cold anymore, as word gets around among a, um, not-so-nice bunch of folks about a magical place in Colorado that’s intentionally cutting back law-enforcement to the bone while it kills a bunch of city streetlights at night … then it’s going to get VERY INTERESTING.

By: Stag Party Palin

Stag Party Palin — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 01:56:58 +0000

Tony says, “I keep hearing a common thread in all the arguments, starting with the parent post. That is, that the “Randroids” want to eliminate all these services, and replace them with NOTHING! It would be mass hysteria! These people must be INSANE!”

Bullshit. For you to use this argument is pure bullshit. Our argument is that you want to take away service X and replace it with the Blanche Dubois Theory: relying on the kindness of strangers. Your faith in human nature is very touching, but no thanks.

You’re the one making this a Manichean choice of All Government or No Government. Most of us (my assumption) would prefer a system of private enterprise and ***better*** government regulation. Personally, I prefer lousy government regulation to none at all. Bernie Madoff eventually got caught; in Randamerica he would lasted a lot longer. In a well-regulated country he would have been caught a lot sooner.

By: The Tragically Flip

The Tragically Flip — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 01:54:21 +0000

Who knew FDR was responsible for Grover Norquist’s TABOR state constitutional amendments?

By: The Tragically Flip

The Tragically Flip — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 01:51:36 +0000

on preview: Widespread prosperity and contentment? Is that what we’re seeing in Colorado Springs?

You’re really using the anti-tax wingnut capital of America as an example of the failure of liberalism? These people voted against a $78 per $100,000 property tax increase. Somehow I don’t think welfare queens are to blame.

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 01:45:00 +0000

“Many people still don’t have decent access to healthcare, not because hospitals can still turn people away, but because of the mounting cost of healthcare. This is due in part to the heavy regulation which the government imposes, which also serves to deny many people from what may be life-saving treatments.”

Scuze me, Tony. You, and the rest of the right wing, claim that government regulation makes the cost of health care go up. Let’s grant the premise.

Therefore, a country where the government had interfered for longer and much more deeply than ours in the marketplace of healthcare (for example, with regulations like “You’re a doctor not an accountant, stop looking for preexisting conditions and treat the fucking patient”) would have proportionally even higher costs of medecine. According to your theory. Right?

THEN WHY IS IT THAT EVERY OTHER COUNTRY IN THE WEST HAS SOMEHOW MANAGED TO GUARANTEE UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE AND NOT ONLY ARE PRICES NOT HIGHER, THEY’RE CONSIDERABLY LOWER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: J—

J— — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 01:22:36 +0000

privatize governmenting We can do this!

By: zombie rotten mcdonald

zombie rotten mcdonald — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 01:05:50 +0000

H.L. MCGRAVITAS-PUTTGRASS SIGNING OFF AND HEADING FOR THE TUB!!

By: Substance McGravitas

Substance McGravitas — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 01:02:26 +0000

You know what irks me? When the government don’t privatize governmenting, that’s what. AND THE ENGOVERNMENTAL LOBBY IS IN CAHOOTS!

By: Oregon Beer Snob

Oregon Beer Snob — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 01:02:22 +0000

Tony the wankstain that would pull himself up by his bootstraps if only he could reach them said:
@ Oregon Beer Snob:

“Tony the malfunctioning Randroid troll”? I refuse to resort to the name calling that I’ve seen from you and the other wonderful people here, so let me just say that your BEHAVIOR is childish.

It’s somewhat interesting how these rugged individuals get the vapors at the first hint of language that offends their delicate sensibilities. I’m sure they’ll do well out in the world on their own, trying to get shit done, everybody’s always so civil everywhere in the real world, dontchaknow. I’m also certain it wasn’t just a lame excuse to ignore the actual post. Ah, trolls, so hard not to feed…

By: J—

J— — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:45:10 +0000

It's feels good!

By: Whale Chowder

Whale Chowder — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:43:53 +0000

Imagine a world where there are no regulations: You get up. It’s your one day off from the six 12-hour days your employer demands, so you decide you need to do some grocery shopping. You spend four hours online researching the meat, poultry, dairy and other food products on your shopping list. This is especially difficult because you lost your dominant hand in the auto accident you had in the unsafe car you were riding in, thanks to the defective brakes installed by the repair shop.

You give loyal Fido III (Fidos I and II died thanks to melamine in their dogfood) a good-bye pet and shuffle down the broken sidewalk to the neighborhood grocery store. Well, “grocery store”, since it’s in the open air since the old grocery store’s building collapsed in the last quake. You still miss Paul, your friend who died in the collapse.

Etc. This is your libertarian paradise? Please include me out.