Yup, that’s because Seattle sucks so badly, right?
Well, if sailing up the West Coast a conservative might end up being searched for contraband straws…
Perhaps you could refresh my memory as to who introduced that letter to a thread that was primarily about California?
Perhaps if you had actually read my post you would have known that the letter was not about San Francisco or California, it was about poop on the street in Portland … which was in context to the preceding posts it replied to.
That’s where it all started to go down hill.
Deinstitutionalization of people in need
of mental healthcare support without ever providing said support can only result in homelessness.
The Republican way.
I would actually say it wasn’t WW2 that bailed us out but the how the wealth of the West … and Japan … flowed towards us as they rebuilt from rubble after the war.
in other words, WWII.
Minus the straws. Strawless in Seattle
A technical difference.
The war, the government spending during the war, did not create wealth for the country.
But selling stuff after the war did.
Now, there are other important aspects of this that had long term implications – such as how we emerged from the war with an expanded industrial base often made up of new physical plants that were still older technology – but what made us a true economic superpower was the capitalism after the bombing and, domestically, people finally being able to spend their money again.
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Heheh … Man-Braless in Houston (supposedly America’s fattest city)
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our plants didn’t get blown up. Europe’s did. Then we had a humongous socialist program called the GI Bill.
I’m accounting for that.
Also, the GI Bill (its effect wouldn’t be felt till the boom was underway) was at least related to actual service … and not hand outs just because people are here. It is actually lawful for the federal, as an employer, to set pay and benefits for service … but not for welfare.
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Houston, wow no idea. Never been there. I thought it might be where Stacy Abrams and her sister are from.
Btw … good work with Strawless in Seattle.
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The “boom” was caused by the GI Bill. The government printed money and distributed it to the millions of people who returned from the war – most of them, anyway. Some might call that a handout.
Heh, that’s pretty good.
This thread makes Scott Mckenzie sad.
And Tony Bennett.
Yes, it’s odd how they can see capitalism work everyday all around them and still worship the biggest cause of poverty in modern history, socialism…
But we have a homeless problem in California… is that due to socialism? Or capitalism?
Well, that’s poverty for all the right- er, Left reasons.
