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To: tejek who wrote (45766)	11/25/2008 3:56:56 PM
From: Mac Con Ulaidh	Respond to of 149317

Now if we can get Birmingham, AL onboard. ah, to heck with them. and I can't find your post about the black American Muslims giving that AQ #2 guy whatfore, but excellent strong message. thanks for posting it.

To: tejek who wrote (45766)	11/25/2008 4:06:46 PM
From: Mac Con Ulaidh	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 149317

p.s. - I caught a bit of talk of the autos today and I think it was the woman who headed up HP (and did badly) who was saying Michigan state was partly to fault because of their tax policy, that they should be more like Alabama. If I could have reached thru the tv for her throat... wait wait... reached thru with my callllllllllllm voice and said wtf? tho another woman set her a tad straight, without however explaining why alabama is not a state to immulate. It just isn't. love it for many reasons, would die for it... however... our state legislature is yet again taking up trying to stop taxing food. the white dems are finally getting on board. only the black dems have supported that in that past. we suck. we pay in the range of 175,000 dollars for every car job created here. yet we tax food and won't raise property taxes as that upsets people with big houses and lots of land. $175000 for each person put to work. part of that is for training cause too many of our workers can't pass reading and writing tests that foreign countries expect. the worker here is a joke to foreign companies. they come because we give it all away for free. the land, the roads, the sewage, the whole shebang. if it is humanly possible, or there is some drug i can drink that makes it possible, i really will go into the tv next time some ass holds Alabama up as what they want the rest of the nation to be. not cause we don't have decent people... cause we have poorly educated people, poorly paid people, people who die young for lack of healthcare and suffer too long in life for the lack of it, etc. don't think i need to tell you this... but their point is they do want the rest of the country to be Alabama... whipped serfs proud just to make a dollar a day and still scared the bossman might take the job to a country where he can pay a penny a day.

To: tejek who wrote (45766)	11/25/2008 4:39:10 PM
From: Mac Con Ulaidh	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 149317

p.s.s. - There is a way that Alabama can be held as an example. We used to have more jobs here... for instance, sewing jobs... jobs that were taken overseas to sweat factories. That icky woman holds us up as example over tax-policy but she is missing the point, imo. Our govs over the years have done all they could to bring some jobs, and foreign car company jobs are daym decent for these parts, down here. And they paid thru the nose for them. And they took on themselves to help train some dumb-ass southerners well enough to be able to do them. the downside is... we don't get enough in taxes to fix anything or make our schools better. but a lot of people have jobs like they never would have otherwise. but they aren't the middle-class jobs that that in-ways icky Ford created... realizing that it makes no sense to build cars if people can't afford them. I'd do something for the American companies way before I do anything for Wall St. or the banks. but the latter have our hands tied and a knife at our throats. I think my opinion of Summers has been expressed, but I will say for him that unlike most, he did not leave govt. work (where he formed dereg and other things) to then go off and make an obscene fortune of WS. And he is showing the capcity to change. A scientist works a theory... sees if it works or not... then changes if need be. In theory an economic theory might 'work' but are the results what you would hope for? ala 10's of millions thrown into bare-existence poverty? so... he might work out okay, so long as didn't have his hands on our money. I don't question his brilliance. but brillance stunted by ideology is of no use. I hope it is true that his sees the way beyond that, and it seems he has no intent on lining his pockets... unlike Rubin and most others of the vein.