Mayor Riordan calls for revolution in California!

[Karmadillo]

See! The left isn't dead! Revolution! Finally, the oligarchs are going to get what's coming to them. Ha! Oh. Wait. He meant a pro-business revolution. I guess that means cuts in benefits, cuts in taxes etc. Yawn. No need to up the insurance coverage for the Winter Palace, I guess.

If the Republicans can use the "R" word, does that mean the Democrats can call for a pro-worker revolution (a living wage, progressive taxation, health care for all etc)? Or do we need a note from the oligarchs before we're allowed to say it?

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/politics/july-dec03/recall_10-08.html

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FMR. MAYOR RICHARD RIORDAN: Yes, I do and I step back and put it in context. To say we need a revolution in California. California is the most business -- anti-business government in the country. We are -- the biggest deficit in the history of our country of any state, and we need a revolution and this was a way to shake this state apart and saying we're mad as heck and we won't stand any more of it.

JIM LEHRER: Do you think, Mayor Brown, that the state needed a revolution if it wasn't the recall it needed some kind of revolution, do you agree with Mayor Riordan that things were in that bad of shape?

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MAYOR BROWN: ...I believe that the PR as offered by Mayor Riordan is exactly what does more damage, the perception and the idea that somehow we have got to attract business by giving them tax breaks, by not having them pay their fair share, by not having them cover workers fairly and comfortably, by not having them provide health care. I think that's all wrong.

JIM LEHRER: Your response to that, Mayor Riordan, and then I want to move to Schwarzenegger.

FMR. MAYOR RICHARD RIORDAN: Well, let me just say Willie, we have like three times the cost of workers comp of any state in the union. Our electricity costs are like three times also of any other state. Our health care is dramatically more than other states. They particularly affect small to medium sized businesses owned by minorities and I will say, just to get a good word in for Los Angeles, Los Angeles is doing better economically than any other part of the state.

[maggrwaggr]

1. Gee, Dick, EVERYTHING's more expensive in California

and if you took your head out of your ass, you'd notice that.

California has a completely different economy than the rest of the country. You can't compare Los Angeles to Abilene. A house in Abilene probably costs 90,000, here in Santa Monica the average price is 800,000.

So of course things cost more. Gas even costs more. I was just in Nashville and gas there is 50 cents less expensive there.

And electricity costs more in California? Hmmmm, wonder why THAT is?

[lostnfound]

3. The same Rick Reardon that met with Enron Ken Lay, right?

according to the memos from the Palast site.

[Karmadillo]

8. Amazing how those memos don't exist in the world of the free press.

You can, however, learn all you want about charges against Kobe Bryant without moving from the vicinity of your television.

[markses]

2. Never doubt the capacity of the Right Wing

To appropriate the most salient aspects of Left discourse. As soon as you even begin to believe that there could have been a "Reagan Revolution" (meaning, of course, that the powerful became MORE powerful - what a change!), you are sunk into the lie.

There is only one kind of political revolution....

[Democat]

4. California is more expensive than Alabama because of Liberals?

Then let all of the conservatives move to the South and let's see how great they do with their rules there.

Riordan is full of shit and he knows it.

The right wingers always know they're full of shit, but it pays well.

[DieboldMustDie]

5. "...electricity costs are like three times also (sic) of any other state."

Gee! I wonder why that is. :evilgrin:

[Resistance Is Futile]

6. Charming doublethink

"California is drowning in debt therefore we must reduce government revenues and this will make the debt go down."

Anyone who believes the crap this guy is peddling should be beaten about the head with a macroeconomics textbook.

[regnaD kciN]

7. Of course not!

If the Republicans can use the "R" word, does that mean the Democrats can call for a pro-worker revolution (a living wage, progressive taxation, health care for all etc)?

Why, that would be...class warfare!

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