Posted on 06/04/2009 6:26:50 AM PDT by Rufus2007
As I understand it, Austin is one of TX’s few bastions of leftist rule.
Perry is in the right place. Austin! He’s a liar and an idiot. And a tree hugger.
Austin is filled with gays, muscians and movie people. The latter two play the game so they can get work. It’s like a lot of Hollywood folks would be conservative if it wouldn’t kill their careers. Doesn’t say much about principle, does it.
Ping!
OK, so I'll repeat: A bunch of Texas conservatives need to move in!
Rather than wish, change the place with a conservative majority. If there was a concerted effort by Texas conservatives, it could be done.
The only business I have with Austin is renewing my PE license - howveer that’s state government, not city. Fortunately the PE board has not signed on to this Gaia worship insanity - yet.
Austin is the state capital, is it not? Is that it, the libs controlling the center of state power, or is it just that UT is there? Or both?
Notice that they are not moving to Austin. Had they moved to Austin, they would be in the same boat that they are fleeing.
If you want to go to Austin for a night out, chances are you will be served by a mutilated and fully tattoo'd two legged hepatitis host. Amy's Ice Cream can't hire enough of them.
Texas needs to move the state capital to Ft. Worth. Austin is not Texas.
Are you kidding me??? Do NOT let Michigan politicians find out this is possible. I've joked about it in the past but it's not funny.
Given that so many people in Michigan do have wells and a lot of water systems, especially Detroit's, are getting a lot of scorn because of their fees and costs, I think that would be an issue that would finally fire up the peasants.
Glad I'm not the only one who's noticed.
The City Council and Mayor of Austin has no control over the Texas House and Senate which is located in Austin. UT has many campuses across Texas. The Austin location is the flagship campus of the UT system.
Since this is truly "shovel ready," Austin might even get some of bHo's simulus money. He might even visit Austin and give a speech, apologizing to Austin for the rest of Texas.
The authorized diggers and fillers could charge $1,000 each way so the laborers would only have to work 100 days a year to gross six figures. This would not only create lots of jobs, but lots of six figure jobs.
This is a variation of the broken window fallacy...
Now, to the question of the day: do global warming initiatives "create" "new green" jobs? The short answer, I would say, is that they might do so, but only at the expense of other jobs that would otherwise have been produced by the free market. Further, I'd suggest that the end result would be significantly less jobs on net, less overall economic growth on net, and most likely, the loss of existing capital as a by-product.The fallacious idea that one can make jobs by destroying others is a variation of Bastiat's Broken Window fallacy. As Bastiat explained, imagine some shopkeepers get their windows broken by a rock-throwing child. At first, people sympathize with the shopkeepers, until someone suggests that the broken windows really aren't that bad. After all, they "create work" for the glazier, who might buy food, benefiting the grocer, or clothes, benefiting the tailor. If enough windows are broken, the glazier might even hire an assistant, creating a new job.
Did the child then do a public service by breaking the windows? Would it be good public policy to simply break windows at random? No, because what's not seen in this scenario is what the shopkeepers would have done with the money that they've had to use to fix their windows. If they hadn't needed to fix the windows, the shopkeepers would have put the money to work in their shops, buying more stock from their suppliers, or perhaps adding a coffee-bar, or hiring new stock-people.
Before the child's action, the shopkeepers had the economic value of their windows and the money to hire a new assistant or buy more goods. After the child's action, the shopkeepers have their new windows but no new assistant or new goods, and society, as a whole, has lost the value of the old set of windows.
The analogy holds just as well when it is the government that comes, and by regulatory fiat "breaks the window" of a company successfully goods and services into a free market. When the government establishes a regulation favoring product A over product B, what is seen is the new sales of product A, and the jobs associated with such sales.
What is not seen is the lost sales of product B, and the lost jobs that go with it. Because the market is superior at efficiently identifying and providing what people want than are planners, it is virtually certain that the lost jobs in any regulatory scenario will outnumber the created jobs in a regulatory scenario.
Kenneth P. Green testifying before the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, September 25, 2007
No, we need to make all the liberals move OUT of Austin!
This is part of the "Smart Growth Initiative" the city implemented several years ago. Goes right along with their motto: "Keep Austin Weird". The first time I heard about this, I thought it never would pass.
That's just like the saying: Just when you think people can't get any dumber, they prove you wrong.
Keeping Austin Weird - Texas interest ping.
Say hello to the new Texas license plate
http://austinist.com/2009/06/03/say_hello_to_the_new_texas_license.php
Don’t be naive. The leftists are working furiously to complete the US takeover by taking over holdouts like Texas. They’ve already taken over the city governments. The damned DemocRats have been gaining ground for years here with the help of the fake-conservative-RINOs. I hope they all rot and burn in hell.
You have to have energy efficient AC units, doors, windows, etc. Low flow toilets and all leaking pipes must be repaired. Insulation must be a certain R value,
and on, and on, and on, and on
and on, and on, and on, and on
and on, and on, and on, and on
and on, and on, and on, and on
and on, and on, and on, and on
Seller pays before home can be sold.
Funny thing is - you don’t have to fix any problems that your house might have. Just gotta shell out the $300 and get the audit. When I sell my house, the sales price will have a $300 line item to cover the cost.
An ordinance that went into effect June 1 stating if you sell your home in Austin, Texas and you fail to get a clean energy "green" audit, you will likely face criminal charges.
I was thinking that the libs would have to be purged after the “grand divorce”.
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