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Friday, September 23rd, 2011Case Hold
Our Municipal Dollars, Ourselves (Prospect)
"They don't know how to fix this," said New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg
about Occupy Wall Street on MSNBC yesterday, according to the _Daily News_.
"They want their government to fix. They don't even know what the problem is,
much less how to fix it, but they know that things aren't working well." He
says that like it's a bad thing.
Here's how it's not. Creating enduring conversations around complicated issues
is one of the hardest things to do in politics, and Occupy Wall Street has
managed to do it. Bloomberg and others go on about how Occupiers need to get
their ideas poured into legislative vessels and get themselves elected-- as if
those are the only way to participate in politics. They're not. Politics
presents plenty of roles to play, and what's happening in Oregon right now
with municipal banking reform shows how that's the case.
We have to go back to last year, when the Oregon legislature passed a bill, HB
3700, that takes on one of the reasons that local governments don't put more
of their public funds into local credit unions -- those institutions can't
hold much money. Banks can ...
Are you unable to perform simple multiplication? Are you really that f***ing dumb? You don't even have to do it yourself, the computer can do it for you, but still you go on Y!A to ask a multiplication question. I have now lost all my faith in humanity. God damn. (The answer is 33.36)
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