This post made possible by the Patty Dumpling Endowed Chair For Can You Even Believe This Bullshit? Tom Ashbrook's NPR show On Point is a national treasure, and if you're not listening to it, then you can't party with us. Yesterday's episode focused on a disturbing
But . . . but . . . but you're acting like the Kochs understand, or care about, the GLOBAL part of this!! I just find it safest to assume they have secretly discovered another planet capable of sustaining billionaires.
I listened to the broadcast, and this Lewis cretin had me yelling at the radio. The free market can adapt - if you call property owners losing trillions of dollars "adjusting". Coal and oil producers facing higher taxes, on the other hand, can't possibly adjust. Never mind that their products are responsible for the trillions of dollars in losses.
The free market sucks when it comes to accounting for <i>other people&#039;s losses.</i>
The genius of the Koch strokers is that when seawalls, levies, dikes, and other public works have to be built around the Isle O&#039; Manhattan and from Pensacola to Fernadina Beach, they will claim that taxes are too high for these &quot;make work&quot; projects.
Marlo Lewis probably looks at Las Vegas as the perfect example - anything built more than 5 years ago is old, anything more than 10 is ancient and anything older than 20 years is rubble.
Sea Level is not settled science. Tides go in and out. Nobody can explain it because they are paid not to.
DON&#039;T AD HOMINEM ME, BRO
Because the Parthenon lasted only 50 years.
But . . . but . . . but you&#039;re acting like the Kochs understand, or care about, the GLOBAL part of this!! I just find it safest to assume they have secretly discovered another planet capable of sustaining billionaires.
But he has a policy, even if he doesn&#039;t understand when to use it, so that&#039;s nice.
But does he think we think he thinks it means what he thinks it means?
All that water will undoubtedly have a cleansing effect.
I listened to the broadcast, and this Lewis cretin had me yelling at the radio. The free market can adapt - if you call property owners losing trillions of dollars &quot;adjusting&quot;. Coal and oil producers facing higher taxes, on the other hand, can&#039;t possibly adjust. Never mind that their products are responsible for the trillions of dollars in losses.
The free market sucks when it comes to accounting for <i>other people&#039;s losses.</i>
Roger that.
Rupert too.
&quot;So you&rsquo;re saying move New York, move Miami, move Southern Florida, move Boston?&quot; I can SO hear Tom saying that!
The genius of the Koch strokers is that when seawalls, levies, dikes, and other public works have to be built around the Isle O&#039; Manhattan and from Pensacola to Fernadina Beach, they will claim that taxes are too high for these &quot;make work&quot; projects.
As much as I like Terry Gross, I agree Tom Ashbrook is a national treasure and having met him, a genuinely nice person.
<blockquote>Lewis: Well, Tom, I kind of make it a policy not to respond to <strike>ad hominem</strike> arguments.</blockquote>
Marlo Lewis probably looks at Las Vegas as the perfect example - anything built more than 5 years ago is old, anything more than 10 is ancient and anything older than 20 years is rubble.
<i>but we probably weren&rsquo;t going to need those big coastal cities anyway.</i>
&quot;Some of the people, all of the time&quot;
It&#039;s a known category.