I think Dallas and Austin are really nice.

. . .but there are also a significant number of voters who don’t vote because the state or federal gov’t makes it hard to do so.

You mean 3 of the 14 donor states that give more federal money than they receive? Sure, go tell them to suck a dick.

Visiting ain’t the same as living, but we’ll give you some credit for time served. Or something.

you posted this on the internet. who paid to develop that.

Of course 401k costs less for the employer. That’s the point. What it doesn’t do is provide anywhere near the promised value for labor. When the guy who invented the 401k says that it’s a bad deal for most workers, I tend to believe him.

Oh, did you have a comprehension fail? Joke fly over your head. It’s okay, though. You are the second most clever person in this conversation. Stay in Texas, slugger. You’ll feel smarter.

Yup. My 1%-er parents are not pro-gun, pro-life, religious...any of the basic tenets of Republicanism. But they sure watch Fox News a lot and proudly vote straight R every time for one reason - lower taxes. It’s infuriating to listen to their justifications of voting for Trump.

I work in the workforce development field, which coordinates business needs with jobseekers to train people to fill the immediate and long-term hiring needs of businesses. It is a program that focuses on preparing people with barriers for careers, while being led by business owners. In every way, it is a…

Okay I’ve disagreed with most of what you said, but insinuating that Houston is a “pretty nice” city is just plain wrong. I lived in Houston and Dallas, have traveled the country heavily for work, and live in Denver. Houston is the worst place with over 200k people I’ve ever been.

Yes but the problem with unregulated capitalism is you eventually run out of a taxable Middle class.

Nah, state pension issues are not correlated to electoral support. Kentucky and Kansas are way more fucked than California. You’re reaching. https://graphics.wsj.com/table/Connecticut_102015 

In the next 10-20 years, its all gonna come crashing down, despite the fact that we’ve seen this train heading towards us for almost as long. I imagine the thought process of the Paul Ryan’s of the world is that both he and his ilk have their finances in order and thereby so should everyone else. That if it crashes…

But let us also note that these pensions are fucked into a cocked hat because of my favorite tune in American politics: The Ballad of the Shitty Baby Boomers. It goes something like this:

If you choose not to decide you still have made a choice.

Which is why Republicans are fucking brilliant for using non economic tactics that make people vote based on their fear of darkies, homos and losing their guns.

What is amazing though, is the amount of backlash his articles attract; given that the economic problems he writes about should be common knowledge.

“It’s true, I guess, as long as you assume that anyone making below the median income needs to die.”

Bullshit. It’s only a class war when both sides are fighting. Till then it’s just systematic oppression and theft.

I think that we (the regular readers) are all very frustrated by people continuing to vote against their interests or not vote at all. What is the solution though? How do we get these people to wake up and get their heads out of their asses?