Posted on 06/10/2009 9:02:33 AM PDT by FromLori
The great thing about the excess buildout of fiber optic cable back during the tech boom is that it didn't degrade, and a few years later we had it all there to use when online video and broadband got big.
Conversely, the tragedy of the housing boom is that the houses we built were total crap, and in five years, when the population is bigger, and more people are looking for homes, all those extra houses that we built will be deteriorating and weed infested.
And many of them will have used toxic Chinese drywall. It's a big public concern in Florida, as people complain of toxic fumes, sickness and horrible smells. Lou Dobbs has been all over it, playing up the communism angle. As one blog put it: communism is now seeping into American homes! Oh dear!
Like asbestos before it, it's already spawned its own cottage industry of lawsuits. Were you made sick by cheap, sulphuric-smelling Chinese drywall? You may deserve compensation.
Two things:
1 - Asbestos was NOT as horrible as is widely believed, the main statistics to prove its unsafeness were the miners who worked in it (particularly the particulates) without even those dust-masks!
2 - Rotten egg smells can come from busted gas-lines, the gas has a sulpher additive so that people can smell a leak and get out/help when they would, otherwise, be unknowingly in a dangerous environment... perhaps this rotten-egg smell should serve the same function for us, no?
Right on Target as usual, Lori - Fire For Effect!
Chinese Communist Capitalists?
Corporatism IS Collectivism IS Communism IS Fascism
Fasism - the mandated worship of, and servitude to, the collective structure of governance - is precisely the tyranny from which our American founders sought to extricate themselves.
Are we there again?
Hope all you trial lawyers have a fun time trying to collect from the ChiComs
Commies we don’t need no stinking bullets
Trial Lawyers and Home Ownership, private property and its legal defense - are strengths in our system.
Perhaps, as a wise warrior endeavors to do, the Chinese Communists and their mercantile oligarchic partners have turned these strengths against us?
Even worse is that we paid them to poison us.
Progressive Liberal Democrats LOVE King George III.
Somehow that sentiment should be used in a bumper sticker or on a tee shirt.
Anyone come up with one, FReepmail me, I’ll buy one.
ADD to that idea this idea: Progressives divide the world into victims and exploiters, and see themselves as saviors of the underdogs who are incapable of fending for themselves.
If you can tie the two together and create a teeshirt motif, I’ll buy at least one, maybe TWO.
On a limited income. But a maximum number of Opinions.
>>Progressives divide the world into victims
>>and exploiters, and see themselves as saviors
>>of the underdogs who are incapable of fending
>>for themselves.
Certainly true, and if there’s a shortage of “underdogs who are incapable of fending for themselves”, progressives will manufacture them.... by legal mandate or even by force if necessary.
Observe the relationship between predatory lenders and Acorn, for example:
“YOU WILL HAVE A MCMANSION - Even if we have to destroy you, your family, and the Nation to make you live in it.”
Freee Piiiiiie!
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