The last I heard, 84000 businesses had been licensed in Iraq, but lack of a modern banking system was a huge pain. Can you believe a New Deal for the world? Only a hippy who’s been smoking dope for 30 years would be advocating that.
When I lived in Los Angeles, I picked up the local hippy rag, the LA Weekly, whose founders got very rich on ads for phone sex, fancy restaurants and expensive boutiques. I liked it because it was free, and because I thought they genuinely cared about local issues in a place where the population at large is mainly indifferent.
What always amazes me is that publications like the LA Weekly will probe deeply into the nastiness of how the Los Angeles City Council really runs, and then suggest you vote for people who want to expand the Council’s ability to tax and spend.
Surely it should have been obvious that giving money to those folks is like giving a loaded gun to an infant, but somehow their touching faith in what would happen if, say, Antonio Villagrosa became Mayor, continued.
Well, Antonio is now Mayor. He’s certainly vibrant and that’s a nice change. Anyone know how he’s done? I’ve left LA and am now out of touch.
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