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Skriven 2015-02-09 00:05:00 av Bill McGarrity (13177.2fidonews)
  Kommentar till text 21049 av Lee Lofaso (2:203/2)
Ärende: Re: Assumptive questions
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-=> On 02-08-15 23:11, Lee Lofaso wrote to Bill McGarrity <=-

Hiya Lee....

 BM>>>> We've certainly learned how to kill to perfection.

 BF>>> Ouch! Yes indeed. And how much of our ingenuity we've wasted on
 BF>>> inventing machines to do just that.

 BF>>> What if we'd rather spent all that ingenuity on inventing machines
 BF>>> that would feed us all or make our moving apparatuses move without
 BF>>> burning fossil fuel?

 BM>> And put the likes of Halliburton and General Dynamics out of business...
 LL>> God
 BM>> forbid. But Monsanto would get us in the long run.. we're doomed.

 LL>> Life in The Oil Patch will never be the same ...

 BM> It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood...

 LL> Tell that to the 5,000+ workers who were laid off
 LL> the other day in the Oil Patch.  And that is just
 LL> the beginning of the layoffs if prices continue
 LL> to be as low as they are now.

Someone stole your ability to pick up sarcasm?

 LL> The state of Louisiana is broke.  So broke that
 LL> our colleges and universities have become nothing
 LL> more than glorified high schools.  With the current
 LL> price of oil being what it is today, those same
 LL> colleges and universities will have their budgets
 LL> cut even more, making them more like grammar schools
 LL> than anything representing higher education.

 LL> And then there is health care, or rather access
 LL> to quality health care, which has become virtually
 LL> nonexistent for the poor and middle class.  The
 LL> governor has already done away with our charity
 LL> hospital system, and he refuses to make any kind
 LL> of allowance for expanded medicaid, so the poor
 LL> are better off dead.  As for the middle class,
 LL> the costs for premiums has continued to rise to
 LL> the point of being unaffordable, with higher
 LL> deductables to go along with those higher costs.
 LL> As such, the middle class are paying more for
 LL> less.  If something is not affordable, it is
 LL> not accessable.

 LL> You see, the state of Louisiana, like most other
 LL> states, must have a balanced budget.  And the
 LL> Louisiana legislature, in all its infinite wisdom,
 LL> balances the budget by estimating the cost of oil.
 LL> Or rather, estimating what the cost of oil will
 LL> be for the upcoming fiscal year.  The governor
 LL> of Louisiana, who is really a king rather than
 LL> a governor (thanks to Huey P. Long), underfunds
 LL> projects he does not like (or cuts the funding
 LL> out altogether).  And then he gets to blame
 LL> somebody else when he gets criticized.  Today,
 LL> that somebody else is always Obama, but that's
 LL> another story.

 LL> When the state of Louisiana wants to be rich,
 LL> with roads paved with gold, it estimates the price
 LL> of oil as being $150 a barrel or something like
 LL> that.  And then, after it wins the bid to host
 LL> the Super Bowl, the governor makes a deal with
 LL> the owner of the New Orleans Saints to let him
 LL> rent out office space to the state.  Not to
 LL> mention giving him free rent for use of the
 LL> Superdome on game day.

 LL> We do not need oil to survive in this state.
 LL> What ws need is football.  And the way to do
 LL> that is to do away with all those needless
 LL> degree programs that colleges and university
 LL> programs offer and just have one degree in
 LL> football.  Along with basketball, given that
 LL> New Orleans does have an NBA team called
 LL> the Pelicans.

 LL> I would add baseball, but only LSU has a
 LL> decent baseball team, having won six NCAA
 LL> championships.  New Orleans does have a
 LL> minor league team called the Zephyrs, but
 LL> they remind me of a roller coaster I used
 LL> to ride when I was a kid at Ponchartrain
 LL> Beach.  That was a wicked roller coaster,
 LL> called The Zephyr, which went really high,
 LL> and then almost a straight drop to the
 LL> bottom, making your stomach so queasy
 LL> you almost drown in your own vomit on
 LL> your way down.

 LL> And to think Mayor Nagin wanted to bring it
 LL> back after Hurricane Katrina.  Aaarrgghhhh!

Regarding the above, write to Jindel... I'm sure he gives a shit.

BTW, impressive portrait outside his office. 


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Bill

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