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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Margins are very thin, especially when leverage (borrowing money against stock and buying more stock) gets out of control. Small wins go huge (and are divided among the profiteers who made it happen), small losses snowball (and cause the profiteers to be given golden parachutes and hired at other companies while the original company goes bankrupt or gets bailed out).
Yes there is: where the hell are they going to find the space for the necessary government offices; the Pentagon, Capitol, White House, and all the other government buildings DC has?
edited 31st Jul '15 2:52:24 PM by Ramidel
There's arguments to be made for relocating things like the Pentagon to a location mostly separate from a new national capitol. And preferably the Congress shouldn't be able to override local lawmakers the way they currently do to DC's city council. (I read something about how they could just nearly automatically veto anything the council tries to do in their own city. This seems unfair.)
Another compromise solution would have been a split similar to South Africa (awaits Euo's PM about the real nature of South Africa), except in our case we could have put the three branches in different cities, like if Congress was in Baltimore, the President in New York, and the Supreme Court in Charleston.
But DC can self-govern much as any city in a state can self-govern: cities have no rights, per se, and are totally at the mercy of their state constitution and their state legislature. The only difference with DC is that their overseers are people from all over the country, some of whom are proud of how little they care about the city.
Oh good, we can lord over being the capital of the US for the second time.
Hugging a Vanillite will give you frostbite.![]()
Nah if we do that it means we cannot govern ourselves and have to be overruled by congress in local maters.
New York tells the filthy hippy to shut the fuck up and go back to deluding itself that it is as awesome as us.
edited 31st Jul '15 6:23:52 PM by JackOLantern1337
I Bring Doom,and a bit of gloom, but mostly gloom.Learn how to make a decent burrito!
Putting aside the Empire State's criminal lack of decent Mexican food, here's some actual political news: Several presidential candidates attend the National Urban League's annual convention.
He has said he would repeal the Affordable Care Act, commonly called Obamacare, and replace it with "catastrophic coverage" that would kick in when people can't afford to pay for health care.
A pending case in North Carolina
may or have an effect on voting next year. After SCOTUS removed the voting requirements across the former Confederacy, a whole bunch of Republican state legislatures instantly started repealing measures used primarily by minorities, such as early voting and certain registration measures. And there's also pending lawsuits in Texas about voting as well.
The strikedown of the VRA was a wilful denial of political reality by SCOTUS: they are correct that this is something congress could easily rectify, knowing damn well that the Republicans are glad to have a gutted VRA and will never do a thing to fix it.
So another thing we'll have to wait for a Democratic majority for (or, i'll be in my mid-thirties, at least, before something is done about this).
edited 1st Aug '15 9:43:43 AM by Canid117
"War without fire is like sausages without mustard." - Jean Juvénal des Ursins

If the capital of the USA is not going to be Washington DC, there is no argument against making it New York City.
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