After decades of declining population, factory closures, middle-class flight to the suburbs, and a shrinking tax base, Detroit filed for bankruptcy Thursday, leading to uncertainty about how the city will continue to provide essential services and meet its commitments to retirees -- nah, just kidding, it doesn't have to do any of that. Somehow, the largest
Why move? You can have civilians wandering around as part of the game, and have collateral damage subtracted from your score. (Or added, if you pay extra for the GTA mode.)
Going the way of HuffPo, where the neanderthals and teabaggers also took over the comments. "TL,DR" now stands for "Too Loony, Didn't Read."
Gee, if only we could have a single retirement system for everybody, government employees and private industry workers alike, that was solvent and fair and not threatening to bankrupt the entity that runs it. If we did, the larger the pool of worker/members would provide a greater "mortality credit" available to finance payments to those who live long after retirement age.
Wait, what, we <i>do</i> have such a system, and it&#039;s been solvent since 1935? And simple actuarial adjustments will keep it solvent forever, and allow us to expand benefits to provide a livable retirement income for all workers?
No way! Next thing you&#039;re going to tell me we have a government-run, single-payer health care system that everyone over a certain age participates in because it&#039;s such a good deal. Or a socialized medical care system with government-employee doctors working in government-owned hospitals that serves a particular segment of the population&mdash;veterans, for instance.
This is why it&#039;s all the fault of the unions. They kept making bad cars.
Of course the designers of those shitty cars weren&#039;t in the unions, but the less said about that, the better. Whenever they looked out the window at the parking lot, all they saw was Plymouths and Hudsons and Packards and Oldsmobiles....
And in America&#039;s lowest-density big city, you could <i> always</i> look out your window and see your car in the parking lot. At least, you could if you weren&#039;t one of those greedy union members on the factory floor.
Not possible.
Why move? You can have civilians wandering around as part of the game, and have collateral damage subtracted from your score. (Or added, if you pay extra for the GTA mode.)
Going the way of HuffPo, where the neanderthals and teabaggers also took over the comments. &quot;TL,DR&quot; now stands for &quot;Too Loony, Didn&#039;t Read.&quot;
But I doubt that he was called Clarence.
Gee, if only we could have a single retirement system for everybody, government employees and private industry workers alike, that was solvent and fair and not threatening to bankrupt the entity that runs it. If we did, the larger the pool of worker/members would provide a greater &quot;mortality credit&quot; available to finance payments to those who live long after retirement age.
Wait, what, we <i>do</i> have such a system, and it&#039;s been solvent since 1935? And simple actuarial adjustments will keep it solvent forever, and allow us to expand benefits to provide a livable retirement income for all workers?
No way! Next thing you&#039;re going to tell me we have a government-run, single-payer health care system that everyone over a certain age participates in because it&#039;s such a good deal. Or a socialized medical care system with government-employee doctors working in government-owned hospitals that serves a particular segment of the population&mdash;veterans, for instance.
Pension payments cut to 10% of the current amount, that is some serious pain for former city employees.
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I&#039;m sure that even the DC filters out their commentor&#039;s preferred version of that word.
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What&#039;s he butthurt about today?
Bob Seger LIBEL!
Or MC5. Or Smokey Robinson. Or the Four Tops. Or Diana Ross.
Damn, a lotta good music came out of all that decline. Or before the decline.
This is why it&#039;s all the fault of the unions. They kept making bad cars.
Of course the designers of those shitty cars weren&#039;t in the unions, but the less said about that, the better. Whenever they looked out the window at the parking lot, all they saw was Plymouths and Hudsons and Packards and Oldsmobiles....
And in America&#039;s lowest-density big city, you could <i> always</i> look out your window and see your car in the parking lot. At least, you could if you weren&#039;t one of those greedy union members on the factory floor.
No.
Rat Poison has nothing on the DC comment section.