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Topic: Are we living in the Hunger Games? |
Are we living in the Hunger Games?
USA Today, by Glenn Harlan Reynolds
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Posted By:garnet, 11/27/2012 3:45:11 PM
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| You know the story: While the provinces starve, the Capital City lives it up, its wheeler-dealer bigshots growing fat on the tribute extracted from the rest of the country. We don´t live in The Hunger Games yet, but I´m not the first to notice that Washington, D.C., is doing a lot better than the rest of the country. Even in upscale parts of L.A. or New York, you see boarded up storefronts and other signs that the economy isn´t what it used to be. But not so much in the Washington area, where housing prices are going up,
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
bkt23, 11/27/2012 4:01:08 PM (No. 9036462)
May the odds be ever in your favor.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
steph_gray, 11/27/2012 4:14:22 PM (No. 9036478)
Nice to see Instapundit in USA Today. Good article!
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
nosillod, 11/27/2012 4:19:44 PM (No. 9036483)
Did the editors of USA Today read this before allowing it to be published? Good article.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Persecutor2, 11/27/2012 4:32:02 PM (No. 9036505)
Haven´t seen "The Hunger Games"--but I have seen "Apocalypto", where the decadent leaders and their sycophant hangers-on were extracting the literal blood from the denizens of the surrounding countryside in order to secure their own prosperity. Sounds familiar to me...
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
mean Gene, 11/27/2012 5:35:32 PM (No. 9036571)
Been looking to get out of CA when hubby retires soon.
Just got back from Utah.
Very clean.
Excellent roads.
Smart and kind young people.
Virtually no empty store fronts.
Lower cost of living.
In the whole state I only saw 4 street beggars (and they looked like they might be doing a school project).
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Where I live now:
FILTHY.
Homeless people living in tents under EVERY bridge and freeway overpass. (Doing their bathroom duty everywhere!)
Every road and street needs work, some with really deep 3 foot across holes.
Nobody is friendly and most are proud of their stupidity.
One empty store front after another everywhere.
Prices are too high for what you get.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
cherie, 11/27/2012 6:15:02 PM (No. 9036613)
´The Hunger Games´ is how Communism works and I guess that is what we are turning into.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Question_Assumptions, 11/27/2012 6:47:54 PM (No. 9036642)
No, things didn´t *start* to go wrong with the New Deal. They started to go wrong more than a decade earlier, with the 16th and 17th Amendments to the Constitution ratified in 1913 and the freezing of the House at 435 member in 1911.
The 16th made it easy for the government to go after weath creation for taxation and the 17th eliminated the representation that state governments had at the federal level, both changing parts of the Constitution deliberately placed there by the Founders to prevent exactly what´s been happening.
Finally, by freezing the House at 435 members (by legislation), each Representative now represents over a half-million people, which makes it incredibly easy to gerrymander "safe" districts that protect incumbants. It is no mistake that the one issue that George Washington spoke out about at the Constitutional Constitutional convention concerned not raising the minimum size of a House district from 30,000 to 40,000 yet each House seat is now represents more than 15 times the number of people that Washington thought too high.
So put the blame where it belongs, in the hands of the first batch of "progressives" than broke the delicate balance created by the Founders before WW1.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
curious1, 11/27/2012 7:07:34 PM (No. 9036662)
Amen #7. Good things to ´reset´ in the constitution, just as we did prohibition.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
LanieLou, 11/27/2012 8:46:23 PM (No. 9036744)
Well, this week I learned my doctor & affiliated hospital no longer participate in my health plan... AND the plan will cost me $80 more per month in 2013.... to see one of the Puerto Rican docs that are still approved by the plan. I´m sure the medical practices in PR are just the same as here....
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