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Setting aside for the moment that Beck's premise is flawed [[Japan has more powerful unions and a stronger welfare state than the US), the "Hiroshima" pictures he shows in his little slideshow are not...

Population growth in the metro area has largely been stagnant since the Seventies. Per-capita incomes in the state have been falling relative to the rest of the country [[top ten in 1990, down to 16...

The proposed "reforms" would've hurt Michigan education more than the extra money would've helped.

I remember hearing that was a source of conflict between the city and the suburbs. The city wanted a subway, which meant little of the line would have gone into the suburbs due to the high cost of...

Is $425 million enough to build the line out to 8 mile?

1.4G is the HAZMAT shipping class for consumer grade fireworks, indicating a minor explosion hazard. It is illegal to sell fireworks containing more than 50mg of pyrotechnic material [[with some...

If the building is such a money pit, why did the "Miami-based developer" buy it in the first place? It sounds like it was a recent purchase. Are they planning a major renovation/repurposing, or are...

A high deficit is just as much evidence that the tax rate is too low as it is that govenment spending is too high. You'll need to do better than that.

Richard Fuld, the former CEO of Lehman Brothers, earned more than $22 million the year before that company collapsed. According to your logic, this highly-apid god should have led the company to...

Rick Wagoner



Why should someone get paid $7 million a year to destroy the world's largest company? This is no joke, you could literally train a monkey to do that.

Because people like SStashmoo fetishize corporations and executives to such a degree that CEOs are viewed as gods, and any attempt to reign in such expolitation is a mortal sin. Corporatism is a...

Who decided whether compaensation is warranted or not? The holy corporation? Also, explain how workers deciding not to work for a certain wage is different from a corporation deciding not to pay...

Real wages have been stagnant for decades, while corporate profits have gone way up, yet you think the US pays its workers too much? You've really bought into the corporatist, right-wing propaganda....

Yeah, they'd be much, much worse.



More evolved societies have strong organized labor and a welfare state, this is true. Less evolved societies have laissez-faire capitalism. It is not a...

SStashmoo is the reason things are so bad in America right now. Every increase in the standard of living of Americans came either from independent labor unions or from the government [[spurred on by...

There's no reason you can't make the aisles wider.



1. Why wouldn't Detroit have room beneath the streets? There were many propsals for subways back in Detroit's boom times, so I assume the...

The focus on the demise of Detroit's streetcars seems wrongheaded to me. The streetcars of old were really no better than the buses that replaced them. They weren't any faster, since they shared a...

It's probably a good thing if Texans think poorly of your state.

Detroit, and Michigan more broadly, should not try to court businesses. They should try to court people. Keep in mind that while in the short term people follow jobs, in the long run jobs follow...

This is due mostly to the decline of organized labor. Whenever some right-wing asshole tries to say that unions are obsolete, show them this chart.

If anything, Michigan's compromised economic situation calls for more government services [[and higher taxes to fund them) since more people depend on the government when times are tough. Government...

Of course, nobody wants to live in a city with no services, so anybody with the means will move out. So, the only people who will be hurt by that are the poor. Basically, you want to screw the poor...

Heh, get a load of this guy. "Don't discuss macroeconomics! Don't you know we're in a macroeconomic crisis?"

Lots of folks itt are pretty ignorant about macroeconomics. In a recession, cutting government services is the worst thing you can do for a lot of reasons. Raising taxes, though not ideal, is...

There is effectively zero correllation between state income tax rate and state unemployment rate. This goes for both personal and corporate income tax. Just throwing that out there for the "cut...