Why Are States So Strapped for Cash? There Are Two Big Reasons

[Coronita]

Seeing Harvey, Brian, Phaster, CAR getting it on…..all we are missing is spdrun and BG.

[FlyerInHi]

Flu. glad you can’t ignore the entertainment.

[phaster]

[quote=flu]Seeing Harvey, Brian, Phaster, CAR getting it on…..all we are missing is spdrun and BG.

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uh,… aren’t you forgetting listing your own nom de plume as one of the usual suspects in the peanut gallery???

[quote=flu]

April 7, 2018 – 7:58pm

[quote=harvey]

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and considering I am half drunk with buddies writing this I don’t give a shit what you think lol…

seems like my reading comprehension while half Drunk is still better than your reading comprehension fully sober lol.

https://piggington.com/100k_minimum_wage#comment-280666

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[quote=flu]

April 6, 2018 – 8:49pm

Oh pri-dik, or whateever your orginal handle is…Sorry man, Since BG left, someone has to fill in her show to annoy the fuck out of you with long paragraphs of useless shit with 0.000001% truth buried in it…on a real estate blog… I’ll make it a point to do this every friday, after happy hour 🙂

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[quote= scaredyclassic]

April 7, 2018 – 8:33am

WWJD

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PS FWIW WRT WWJD? IMHO,…

[Coronita]

Did someone say anything? Cliff notes version please.

Because my piggington shades were down….

[CA renter]

[quote=FlyerInHi][quote=CA renter][quote=harvey][quote=CA renter]
As much as you, zk, and Brian like to complain about Trump and the people who voted for him (I voted for Jill Stein, not Trump, BTW), it’s people like you who are the reason Trump won. I have yet to see you win over a single person with all of your emotionally-based, ill-informed, and hateful rhetoric. If anything, you’ve made them feel more entrenched in their beliefs. Do you do this on purpose?[/quote]

This is a beautiful example of your “logic”:

– You did not vote for Trump.

– I did not vote for Trump.

– Therefore: I’m the reason he was elected.

It makes perfect sense, in your mind.[/quote]

Just review the vicious attacks, on any of your/zk/Brian’s anti-Trump threads, on those who think differently or are in a different position than you are. Look at how you refer to those other people. You, and people like you, are the reason that Trump won. Keep it up, and he’ll win again in 2020.[/quote]

CAr, this is weirdest logic and reeks of entitlement and inability to take responsibility on the part of Trump voters.

Trumpistas are responsible for the votes they cast. Nobody else can be blamed, except that Russia played their low IQs.

It would be easier to argue that your own association with Trump supporters and your sympathies with them enable them. You are guilty by association.[/quote]

You clearly have no clue as to why people voted for Trump. Look in the mirror.

FYI, most of my friends and family members voted for Jill Stein. You keep making assumptions — completely erroneous assumptions — that you’ve pulled straight out of your behind.

That being said, I spent the campaign season talking to people from various backgrounds and understand far better than you, Pri, and zk why people voted from Trump. You might want to try stepping out of that self-congratulatory echo chamber of yours; you might learn something for a change.

[gogogosandiego]

This is timely.

“Meanwhile, a few things did correlate with support for Trump: a voter’s desire for their group to be dominant, as well as how much they disagreed with Clinton’s views on trade and China. Trump supporters were also more likely than Clinton voters to feel that “the American way of life is threatened,” and that high-status groups, like men, Christians, and whites, are discriminated against.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/04/existential-anxiety-not-poverty-motivates-trump-support/558674/

[FlyerInHi]

[quote=CA renter]
That being said, I spent the campaign season talking to people from various backgrounds and understand far better than you, Pri, and zk why people voted from Trump. You might want to try stepping out of that self-congratulatory echo chamber of yours; you might learn something for a change.[/quote]

Please tell what you learned. I suspect it will be something like they feel condescended to and disrespected…. seems like entitlement not to get feelings hurt by people who believe in telling it like it is.

[Coronita]

^^^

[FlyerInHi]

[quote=gogogosandiego]This is timely.

“Meanwhile, a few things did correlate with support for Trump: a voter’s desire for their group to be dominant, as well as how much they disagreed with Clinton’s views on trade and China. Trump supporters were also more likely than Clinton voters to feel that “the American way of life is threatened,” and that high-status groups, like men, Christians, and whites, are discriminated against.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/04/existential-anxiety-not-poverty-motivates-trump-support/558674/
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That’s very interesting. But of course, the studies are by social scientists at universities so they are to the dismissed as elitist.

Maybe CArenter will tell us exactly what she heard from the horses’ mouths.

[phaster]

[quote=CA renter]
April 23, 2018 – 2:16am.

It’s obvious that you have no clue what you’re talking about. You read some newspaper articles (placed there by anti-union privatization advocates — not “taxpayer advocates,” as they like to claim) regarding the pension issues and think you’re a genius. You’re clearly not that smart, and you totally lack an understanding of how government budgets work — especially how the various stakeholders’ interests intersect.
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huh,… another “delusional” statement!

de·lu·sion·al – characterized by or holding idiosyncratic beliefs or impressions that are contradicted by reality or rational argument, typically as a symptom of mental disorder.

FWIW there is something you posted awhile back that I agree w/ 100%

[quote=CA renter]
January 10, 2016 – 3:21am

There are far too many people walking around who think that they know what they’re talking about when they really have no clue.
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Taken together w/

[quote=harvey]
April 22, 2018 – 5:21pm.

[quote=ucodegen]
April 22, 2018 – 5:00pm.

All I can say, is that I am not a psychiatrist.
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That’s unfortunate, because CAR really needs one.

https://piggington.com/ot_should_pridkharveygogogosandiego_be_banned#comment-280780
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perhaps w/ in the “data” there is a pattern that explains your overall “odd” behavior (that is not based on political left or right leaning outlook)

basically if one looks at the time stamps of your posts on just this thread alone we see:

Submitted by CA renter on April 16, 2018 – 3:00am.

Submitted by CA renter on April 19, 2018 – 4:59am.

Submitted by CA renter on April 20, 2018 – 2:54am.

Submitted by CA renter on April 21, 2018 – 3:50am.

Submitted by CA renter on April 21, 2018 – 3:46am.

Submitted by CA renter on April 23, 2018 – 2:16am.

Submitted by CA renter on April 23, 2018 – 2:14am.

DISCLOSURE: I’m not an MD but do have family that are MDs that are kinda researching something (we’ve casually discussed over dinner, etc.) I suspect might be a factor,…

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The Spooky Effects of Sleep Deprivation

It’s no surprise that a night without enough Zzzs can lead to a groggy morning. But bleary eyes and gaping yawns aren’t the only things that can happen when your body needs more shut-eye.

Indeed, there are more nightmarish side effects to sleep deprivation.

If a person is deprived of sleep, it can lead to “tremendous emotional problems,” said Dr. Steven Feinsilver, the director of the Center for Sleep Medicine at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City. “Sleep deprivation has been used as a form of torture,”

…research over the years has shown that people can be physically and psychologically damaged from not getting enough sleep, said David Dinges, a professor of psychology and the director of the Unit for Experimental Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania.

…People often say they feel loopy after a night of no sleep. But in more extreme cases, losing sleep may cause delirium.

…Seeing things that aren’t there can be a side effect of chronic sleep deprivation,

https://www.livescience.com/52592-spooky-effects-sleep-deprivation.html
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https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/sebin/r/z/effects-of-sleep-deprivation.png

NOTE looking at quotes from years ago the abnormal “time” pattern also shows up,…

[quote=phaster]
April 22, 2018 – 9:11am

as I see things,… your basically a dumb$hit hypocrite that is in denial that you had a hand putting all of us (i.e. harvey, flu, your own family, etc.) in the position of increased danger,… AND the reason I say this is because on one hand you specifically mention economics should trump politics

[quote=CA renter]

September 4, 2014 – 6:04pm **ANOMALY**

I don’t get distracted by non-economic issues where politics are concerned. That’s not to say that these issues are unimportant, but that they pale in comparison to economics.
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and on the other had you’ve clearly demonstrated you have little or no ability to grasp basic middle school math (which is needed to lessen the probability of failure),… ALSO there are various indications that you don’t grasp the amount of B$ w/ in the ratings system for muni bonds,…

[quote=phaster]
October 22, 2016 – 8:30am

[quote=CA renter]
October 9, 2016 – 1:07am

BTW, you’re not educating or informing anyone of anything. The pension issue was beaten to death LONG before you ever came into the picture.
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really???

https://piggington.com/how_will_unfunded_pensions_affect_economy?page=5#comment-262974

https://piggington.com/how_will_unfunded_pensions_affect_economy?page=6#comment-264989
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[phaster]

[quote=gogogosandiego]This is timely.

“Meanwhile, a few things did correlate with support for Trump: a voter’s desire for their group to be dominant, as well as how much they disagreed with Clinton’s views on trade and China. Trump supporters were also more likely than Clinton voters to feel that “the American way of life is threatened,” and that high-status groups, like men, Christians, and whites, are discriminated against.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/04/existential-anxiety-not-poverty-motivates-trump-support/558674/
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anxiety all around,… is the new normal

[CA renter]

[quote=phaster][quote=gogogosandiego]This is timely.

“Meanwhile, a few things did correlate with support for Trump: a voter’s desire for their group to be dominant, as well as how much they disagreed with Clinton’s views on trade and China. Trump supporters were also more likely than Clinton voters to feel that “the American way of life is threatened,” and that high-status groups, like men, Christians, and whites, are discriminated against.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/04/existential-anxiety-not-poverty-motivates-trump-support/558674/
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anxiety all around,… is the new normal[/quote]

You can change it to this, and it would be equally true:

Meanwhile, a few things did correlate with support for Clinton: a voter’s desire for their group to be dominant, as well as how much they disagreed with Trump’s views on trade and China (globalization). Clinton supporters were also more likely than Trump voters to feel that “[their version] of the American way of life is threatened,” and that low-status groups, like women, Muslims (or athiests, or other religious faiths), and illegal immigrants (or any other “minority” group), are discriminated against.”

[CA renter]

[quote=FlyerInHi][quote=gogogosandiego]This is timely.

“Meanwhile, a few things did correlate with support for Trump: a voter’s desire for their group to be dominant, as well as how much they disagreed with Clinton’s views on trade and China. Trump supporters were also more likely than Clinton voters to feel that “the American way of life is threatened,” and that high-status groups, like men, Christians, and whites, are discriminated against.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/04/existential-anxiety-not-poverty-motivates-trump-support/558674/
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That’s very interesting. But of course, the studies are by social scientists at universities so they are to the dismissed as elitist.

Maybe CArenter will tell us exactly what she heard from the horses’ mouths.[/quote]

FWIW, I don’t disagree with that post, and I’ve never dismissed someone because they were social scientists or “elitist.” BTW, in 2015, this same publication, The Atlantic, claimed: “Class, not ideology, has boosted Trump’s unconventional rise.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/09/the-billionaire-candidate-and-his-blue-collar-following/432783/

So, which one is right? 😉

But this is yet another example of how you project your thoughts, opinions, and perspectives onto other people. It also states the following in that article:

“Clinton defeated Trump handily among Americans making less than $50,000 a year.”

…which goes against your entire narrative about Trump’s voters being a bunch of dumb, white, unemployed rednecks (the majority of them make pretty decent money).

“For example, a March 2016 NBC survey that we analyzed showed that only a third of Trump supporters had household incomes at or below the national median of about $50,000. Another third made $50,000 to $100,000, and another third made $100,000 or more and that was true even when we limited the analysis to only non-Hispanic whites. If being working class means being in the bottom half of the income distribution, the vast majority of Trump supporters during the primaries were not working class.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2017/06/05/its-time-to-bust-the-myth-most-trump-voters-were-not-working-class/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.0502779f05ee

But I would argue that Trump’s support is not based on “racism,” but survival instincts. Remember that almost 30% of the Hispanic voters voted for Trump, and this was after spending a year and a half hearing about how they were “racist, xenophobic bigots” or “white supremacists” or “Nazis” if they voted for him. I’ve known a lot of immigrants in my time, and know very few legal immigrants who favor illegal immigration. The conflating of illegal and legal immigrants is often offensive to those who’ve spent years of their lives and thousands of dollars (and taken English classes, studied for the test, etc.) to become U.S. citizens. And they are the first group to bear the brunt of the burdens caused by illegal immigration — they compete directly for the same jobs, housing, public resources, etc.

Americans (defined as U.S. citizens, including U.S. citizens who immigrated here) are trying to protect a particular way of life, one where dedication and hard work can provide economic and social opportunities that are seldom found in other countries (though that’s changing more and more these days). They want to protect their “tribe” (U.S. citizens, not necessarily race-based) from what they perceive as an attack on their culture, economy, religion, and way of life. That is a perfectly natural response to what they perceive as a rather vicious attack against them, and this belief is not unfounded…your (and Pri’s and zk’s) many posts provide ample evidence of what they’re talking about.

You can label them any way you’d like, but they are acting no differently than any other group of people would act if they were in the same situation.

[FlyerInHi]

[quote=CA renter]
They want to protect their “tribe” (U.S. citizens, not necessarily race-based) from what they perceive as an attack on their culture, economy, religion, and way of life. That is a perfectly natural response to what they perceive as a rather vicious attack against them, and this belief is not unfounded…your (and Pri’s and zk’s) many posts provide ample evidence of what they’re talking about.
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Problem is that this has nothing to do with principles, merit and hard work.
It’s a culture of entitlement that things will remain like you’re used to them.
In reality, you don’t get to protect a certain way of life. You have to earn it everyday and you need to work and pay for it.

The real reason they’re upset is because the world is changing faster than they can keep up. They don’t want policies to adapt to change. They want to stop change. Sounds like a personal problem to me.

[phaster]

[quote=FlyerInHi][quote=CA renter]
They want to protect their “tribe” (U.S. citizens, not necessarily race-based) from what they perceive as an attack on their culture, economy, religion, and way of life. That is a perfectly natural response to what they perceive as a rather vicious attack against them, and this belief is not unfounded…your (and Pri’s and zk’s) many posts provide ample evidence of what they’re talking about.
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Problem is that this has nothing to do with principles, merit and hard work. It’s a culture of entitlement that things will remain like you’re used to them. [/quote]

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San Diego County Sues Pension for Not Cutting Benefits

Retirement association says enacting lower tier of benefits would be illegal.

https://www.ai-cio.com/news/san-diego-county-sues-pension-not-cutting-benefits/
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what I still find unbelievable is past dishonest

http://www.TinyURL.com/SanDiegoSpikingPension

and dumb

http://www.TinyURL.com/PensionRebuttal

behavior WRT managing a pension portfolio,… which created the problem(s) in the first place

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