Alexander PhiAlipson wrote:No chicken tendies, no palatable water, skies still overcast with more rain on its way--if only I had a solar panel....Montegriffo wrote:I've been telling him to buy a solar panel for months. Off grid is the way forward.Speaker to Animals wrote:He's going to run out of power before long.
That'll make the fire ants happy.Speaker to Animals wrote:Alexander PhiAlipson wrote:No chicken tendies, no palatable water, skies still overcast with more rain on its way--if only I had a solar panel....Montegriffo wrote: I've been telling him to buy a solar panel for months. Off grid is the way forward.
The taco trucks are on their way up, though.
He has a fishing rod and a stove to boil water what he needs is enough battery life to keep him occupied while he works out where his next beer is coming from.Alexander PhiAlipson wrote:No chicken tendies, no palatable water, skies still overcast with more rain on its way--if only I had a solar panel....Montegriffo wrote:I've been telling him to buy a solar panel for months. Off grid is the way forward.Speaker to Animals wrote:He's going to run out of power before long.
Standing by for a mea culpa.Alexander PhiAlipson wrote:I hope you're not waiting for some sort of mea culpa.Speaker to Animals wrote:Looks like GCF's hateful fake news already collapsed:
https://newstalk1130.iheart.com/feature ... Y.facebook
Maybe the feds HAVE to do it. Maybe. With the level of crowding out and moral hazard going on, how could we every really know? The evidence we do have is pretty favorable to the efficiency of the greedy robber barons in helping people.apeman wrote:Not a libertarian, but I have noticed you have few "well-thought out" ideas, period, although a lot of snark, but want to point out why it HAS to be the federal govt doing most of the MASSIVE rebuild.KerningChameleon wrote:I'm sure Fife and the other resident libertarians have a well-thought out and perfectly reasonable argument for why government aided relief will always be strictly inferior to a purely private system to manage the crisis instead. Probably involving an anecdote about owners fining the water for illegitimately squatting on their toll roads.
With a side tangent denouncing all the people scavenging the flooded and empty Save-a-Lots for soggy bread loaves for violating ironclad property rights.
The money isn't coming from somewhere, we're not raising taxes nationally (in any meaningful way) to pay for Harvey, only the federal govt can metaphorically print up the piles of loot out of thin air to fund the effort. Obviously states don't print their own currency.
The libertarian response is probably along the line of: if we paid much less taxes, there would by much more $$$ to be donated to rescue, and donated/invested in the rebuild. Not sure if that's reasonable view, we'll never get to see it tried.
FYI private investors made a lot of money on teh Katrina rebuild, actually read about it this AM, but a lot of that is likely just front-running federal dollars, which is the surest way to wealth in our system
apeman wrote:The Baptists and the Bootleggers.
Can't always tell who is who, but both are present.
An outsider can only assume this is the case when you don't see anymore new news articles from Houston. But you never get the final news article that the flood is over.Nukedog wrote:Everything is fine. Sky is blue. Water receded. Went to work half a day and clean up a little. Been fishing all afternoon at the park.
Houston is a massive area. My area never flooded like I suspected it wouldn't, this having been the fourth flood in as many years nearly. Only thing that had me concerned was the damn levels.
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