The city of Detroit, which has been basically issuing bonds to pay for daily expenses since 2005, is in such bad fiscal shape that even people who bought exurban McMansions in 2005 with reverse-money-down ARMs think the city is in a financial mess. That's why America's favorite pro-"right-to-work" nerd-governor, Rick Snyder, is going to appoint an emergency manager togut pensionsrestructure the city's finances.
Bob Hauk: There was an accident. About an hour ago, a small jet went down inside <strike>New York City</strike> Detroit. The President was on board.
Televise it, and you&#039;ll make a fortune. Don&#039;t forget the internet-enabled bulldozers: people will pay to use their wii controllers to demolish homes. So long as you tell &#039;em it was a blah home, you&#039;ll have teabaggers bidding for &#039;dozer time.
True that. And the same GOPtards in Washington who wouldn&#039;t give Detroit a dime (because handouts, lazy takers, etc.) would fall all over themselves handing Mitt billions, because they do luuuurve subsidies for rich fucks.
Rafalca ended up in Ikea&#039;s meatballs and some UK Burger Kings. Mitt obviously doesn&#039;t take well to failure, and his pollsters are a bit nervous at the moment.
<blockquote>As a presidential candidate, he barely polled 2% in Detroit.</blockquote>
Read the results more carefully. Mittens polled 2.09% of those who did not vote straight party lines. Only 1.52% of those who voted straight party lines voted R. You can see that the straight lines are not included in the Presidential totals, because UST and NLP candidates recorded fewer votes in their Presidential lines than they did in the straight party line voting. Also, compare the total ballots cast against the total in the President category, there&#039;s a huge gap.
If you add the Mittens-for-President votes to the R-all-the-way vote and divide by the total number of ballots cast (this will include some voters who did not vote for President at all, or whose votes were invalid), you get 1.62%. He fell way short of 2%.
Even if you only include voters who successfully recorded a vote for President, either directly or by a straight party line, he only got 1.84%.
Outsourcing the job of &quot;living in Detroit&quot; might be interesting: China would send over 100,000 peasants, Mitt would put them to work in a &quot;Foxconn USA&quot; factory (hey, Apple says they want to make stuff here!) and house them in abandoned homes, and thanks to special legislation from the state&#039;s teabagger contingent, they&#039;d get China-style wages and non-benefits. Naturally, the vaguely promised benefits to Detroit will fail to materialize (because taxes are bad), but I bet some rich people would get even richer -- which is, after all, the American Dream.
I just don&#039;t think stripping Detroit of everything of worth and selling the city for a profit will work in this case. What else does Mitt know?
Bob Hauk: There was an accident. About an hour ago, a small jet went down inside <strike>New York City</strike> Detroit. The President was on board.
Snake Plissken: The president of what?
Televise it, and you&#039;ll make a fortune. Don&#039;t forget the internet-enabled bulldozers: people will pay to use their wii controllers to demolish homes. So long as you tell &#039;em it was a blah home, you&#039;ll have teabaggers bidding for &#039;dozer time.
I thought he usually just left them voicemails later expressing his enormous disappointment that they hadn&#039;t thanked him yet.
True that. And the same GOPtards in Washington who wouldn&#039;t give Detroit a dime (because handouts, lazy takers, etc.) would fall all over themselves handing Mitt billions, because they do luuuurve subsidies for rich fucks.
Blah man elected to office, trying to find a way out of a massive mess, saddled with verifiably insane lawmakers, and opposed by frickin tea baggers.
Man, that sounds familiar.
Not quite yet.
Rafalca ended up in Ikea&#039;s meatballs and some UK Burger Kings. Mitt obviously doesn&#039;t take well to failure, and his pollsters are a bit nervous at the moment.
A problem that Mitt would love to solve.
Eddies in the space-time continuum.
<blockquote>As a presidential candidate, he barely polled 2% in Detroit.</blockquote>
Read the results more carefully. Mittens polled 2.09% of those who did not vote straight party lines. Only 1.52% of those who voted straight party lines voted R. You can see that the straight lines are not included in the Presidential totals, because UST and NLP candidates recorded fewer votes in their Presidential lines than they did in the straight party line voting. Also, compare the total ballots cast against the total in the President category, there&#039;s a huge gap.
If you add the Mittens-for-President votes to the R-all-the-way vote and divide by the total number of ballots cast (this will include some voters who did not vote for President at all, or whose votes were invalid), you get 1.62%. He fell way short of 2%.
Even if you only include voters who successfully recorded a vote for President, either directly or by a straight party line, he only got 1.84%.
What a loser!
I thought Somalia was just getting Belle Isle.
Outsourcing the job of &quot;living in Detroit&quot; might be interesting: China would send over 100,000 peasants, Mitt would put them to work in a &quot;Foxconn USA&quot; factory (hey, Apple says they want to make stuff here!) and house them in abandoned homes, and thanks to special legislation from the state&#039;s teabagger contingent, they&#039;d get China-style wages and non-benefits. Naturally, the vaguely promised benefits to Detroit will fail to materialize (because taxes are bad), but I bet some rich people would get even richer -- which is, after all, the American Dream.
More than 47% of the residents don&#039;t like Mitt.
I just don&#039;t think stripping Detroit of everything of worth and selling the city for a profit will work in this case. What else does Mitt know?