Monday, November 3, 2008

Election tomorrow

On the ballot tomorrow, all of us outraged at government bailouts should beware of Proposition 10. In the guise of being for the environment it is really a huge $10 billion taxpayer subsidy for T. Boone Pickens' natural gas fueling company. More at No on Proposition 10.

On the positive side, all of us interested in better transit should be interested in Measure R, which would fund the Expo Line to Santa Monica, Wilshire subway to Westwood, a rail line from Westwood to the Valley, and other important projects across Los Angeles County (More on Measure R).

That's all I'm saying about the elections. Which will finally be over in only one more day.

15 comments:

Anonymous said...

please also vote yes for RIFT

that means vote yes for proposition T

Anonymous said...

We're ALL SAVED! The Messiah has been elected!

I can't wait for my check! Barack will save our economy from those greedy capitalist pigs and now all of us regular people will be able to feed at the government trough.

The real estate crash will be ending soon.

I get a tingle up my leg just looking at "The One".

Anonymous said...

me mad at election. me like guns. grunt. smart people bad. me like folksy presidents that spend trillions of dollars on wated efforts that kill thousands of people and ruin the economy

Anonymous said...

Hey! leave guns outta this. I'm a liberal lefty Democrat, but guns are A-OK. They're fun to shoot at targets. And if someone with a gun were to break into your house, would you prefer to:
A- let them take all your stuff and god knows what else?
B- Shoot them.

I choose B.

Anonymous said...

Guns aren't bad. Illegal, unregistered, semi-automatic guns in the hands of uneducated, gang member teenagers are bad.

And to the sour grapes Republican: Jealously masked by sarcasm is really pathetic. This mess we are in happened on your watch, with your President and your Congress. Give it a rest.

Anonymous said...

"Guns aren't bad. Illegal, unregistered, semi-automatic guns in the hands of uneducated, gang member teenagers are bad."

agreed. Problem is, even though it's a cliché, preventing educated responsible adults from owning certain weapons does *nothing* to solve that problem. I want a machine gun!

Now, back to RE. Listings high, foreclosures appearing on the westside, sellers refusing to budge, knifecatchers still sort of active.zzzzzzzzz :-)

Anonymous said...

"I'm a liberal lefty Democrat, but guns are A-OK."

I'm not positive, but I think that your belief in guns disqualifies you from being a liberal lefty democrat. You're more like a centrist midWest kind of democrat. I'm not saying you can't believe whatever you want, but if you were to ask real progressives what they thought about your violent approach to the problem of crime, they would probably disagree.

Anonymous said...

"You're more like a centrist midWest kind of democrat."

Nah, dyed in the wool east coast lib. Like guns though. Got no problem with gun registration etc. I'm just sayin' that all gun owners aren't neocon mouth breathers.

Anonymous said...

"Nah, dyed in the wool east coast lib"

Not if you think the best way to protect your house is with violence and gun ownership.

Not telling you what you believe, just saying you are not a liberal. Voting for Obama doesn't punch your ticket to that club.

Anonymous said...

The mortgage mess was caused by REPUBLICANS?!!!!

The crash Fannie and Freddie was done by Republicans?!

What have you been smoking?

The democrats started this whole mess by litigating and legislating laws to expand home ownership to a bunch of poor people that should not have been allowed to buy a home.

But Barack the most merciful will save the day with his presence alone!

Look at how well the stock market is doing!

Anonymous said...

"The mortgage mess was caused by REPUBLICANS?!!!!

The crash Fannie and Freddie was done by Republicans?!

What have you been smoking?

The democrats started this whole mess by litigating and legislating laws to expand home ownership to a bunch of poor people that should not have been allowed to buy a home."


It's really scary how much in denial of reality some people are. As far as I understand, the last 8 years we had a Republican regime in this country, and guess what- under the watch of this regime, those 8 years corresponded *exactly* with the rise of our housing bubble.

Why don't you move to Kentucky, my friend, to live among your Republican pals? There you can spill your hatred and bigotry to your heart's content all day long. And you can dream of the return of *your* "one" and "most merciful", Ronny Reagan, or Georgie W. Bush.

Anonymous said...

"What have you been smoking?

The democrats started this whole mess by litigating and legislating laws to expand home ownership to a bunch of poor people that should not have been allowed to buy a home."

Hows that Fox News Cool-Aid tasting?

Westside Bubble said...

A credit bubble, created by Alan Greenspan's very low interest rates plus lessening of regulation of Wall Street under the George W. Bush administration, is what mostly created the housing bubble.

Anonymous said...

>>>A credit bubble, created by Alan Greenspan's very low interest rates plus lessening of regulation of Wall Street under the George W. Bush administration, is what mostly created the housing bubble.<<<

Yeah, you're right. The fact that millions of Americans bought homes that they couldn't afford or leveraged themselves into oblivion had nothing to do with the housing bubble.

After all, your reason puts all the responsibility on everything except the people.

Anonymous said...

"After all, your reason puts all the responsibility on everything except the people."

Speaking of responsibility- why not hold the banks equally responsible for wasting their investments in dubious mortgage-backed securities, rather than bail them out with billions of taxpayer money?

So what is it that you're saying? Survival of the fittest? That was exactly Hoover's stance at the beginning of what was to become the Great Depression. I'm not sure you'd want a repeat of that.