http://clatl.com/freshloaf/archives/2012/07/17/a-millenials-argument-for-the-t-splost Comments On: A Millennial's argument for the T-SPLOST by Thomas Wheatley en-us Copyright 2013 Creative Loafing Atlanta. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, Creative Loafing Atlanta readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact Creative Loafing Atlanta. wil@desert.net (Creative Loafing Atlanta Webmaster) Tue, 21 May 2013 00:00:01 -0400 Tue, 21 May 2013 19:00:00 -0400 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Posted by EJ]]> Wed, 01 Aug 2012 09:41:06 -0400 Creative Loafing Atlanta
@Drew Love: they need to put a streetcar on georgia avenue/abernathy/state that goes between the west end station and cherokee avenue in grant park.
Posted by kiteless]]> Mon, 30 Jul 2012 01:41:27 -0400 Creative Loafing Atlanta Posted by Drew Love]]> Sun, 29 Jul 2012 20:53:17 -0400 Creative Loafing Atlanta
Dear Members of the National NAACP,

On behalf of those who wish to reverse the socio-economic disintegration of the Greater Atlanta region – one so immense central to the country’s civil rights history and so important to the continued emancipation of African Americans – I appeal to you to intervene in Georgia, post haste.

As you are doubtless aware, the Georgia NAACP is opposing a tax measure to radically integrate and expand infrastructure in a city the West and South of which have been, for the past years, on a painful and dramatic decline into racial isolation and economic despair. Whereas one could perhaps expect this in other urban centers, but in majority-Black “alpha-world city” Atlanta, fourth in the number of US cities with Fortune 500 headquarters across many economic sectors, the world’s busiest airport, major ports on both the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, and an important aviation, and an important middle class of color, the proposed tax represents a golden opportunity to integrate the struggling lower- and underclass African American populations.

The 1%tax, awkwardly dubbed TPLOST for short, has the support of the business community, the City, and forward-thinking citizens throughout the region, who realize what is at stake and who know that the immense Atlanta region must have precisely the kind of multi-layered and visionary transportation and community development plan to put the devastating effects of the recession behind it and live up to its realistic potential of once leading the South in inclusion and development and head off movement into de-facto re-segregation and poverty for millions.

In this context, what does the Georgia NAACP do?
Posted by Inclusivist]]> Sat, 28 Jul 2012 06:53:27 -0400 Creative Loafing Atlanta
There is no denying the return gold has provided over the past 8 years, and you have sat on hands saying the same wrong shit, and the people you "advocate" for have lost further wealth to those who, quite frankly, think advocates are fucking idiots....

Fact is, under Obama Gold, stocks, and even real estate has provided some very good returns, and the lottery has provided -75% annual return year in, year out...Hence, the wealth gap has doubled between blacks and whites under Obama....I mean, you just can't fix stupid.

Posted by The Truth]]> Sun, 22 Jul 2012 17:01:08 -0400 Creative Loafing Atlanta
As usual, a member of the “older generation” has a bit of a selfish egoist perspective.

"We have a situation in Atlanta that is a very difficult problem to solve. Literally millions of us have made personal lifestyle decisions: we prefer to live in suburbs - or farms - or lakes, even if those locations mean a long commute."

and long subsidies, which you choose to ignore in order to construct a bad argument

" I feel little or no obligation to subsidize the next generation’s lifestyle preferences.
Posted by eric pfeifer]]> Fri, 20 Jul 2012 12:48:30 -0400 Creative Loafing Atlanta
First, my parents did not build the current transportation network. By the time it got going good in the 1960’s, they were well beyond paying heavy taxes.
Posted by A Better Way]]> Fri, 20 Jul 2012 11:56:12 -0400 Creative Loafing Atlanta Posted by eric pfeifer]]> Fri, 20 Jul 2012 01:28:35 -0400 Creative Loafing Atlanta Posted by Stephen Reid]]> Thu, 19 Jul 2012 23:43:29 -0400 Creative Loafing Atlanta Posted by ReneathaCloppers]]> Thu, 19 Jul 2012 10:19:43 -0400 Creative Loafing Atlanta
But...

investing in gold is fine. Just like any kind of investing, you have to know what you're doing.
Posted by oydave]]> Thu, 19 Jul 2012 10:14:15 -0400 Creative Loafing Atlanta
glenn beck advises people to buy gold coins, which only carry numismatic value (the bouillon value is tiny compared to the list price of the coins)

and numismatic value won't hold shit for value in an economic crisis

so glenn beck was shilling for a scam firm and his legions of idiot followers is and were too stupid to realize they're being fleeced

http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/wp-content/up…

anyway tell us more about the killer guaranteed investment strategies pitched to you during the commercial breaks on fox & friends
Posted by eric pfeifer]]> Thu, 19 Jul 2012 01:01:40 -0400 Creative Loafing Atlanta Posted by Russell Campbell]]> Wed, 18 Jul 2012 23:59:00 -0400 Creative Loafing Atlanta Goes to show you finding the easy way out for an entirely curable condition tends to be where the money is at.
Posted by Voxpopuli]]> Wed, 18 Jul 2012 23:21:26 -0400 Creative Loafing Atlanta Posted by The Truth]]> Wed, 18 Jul 2012 21:24:42 -0400 Creative Loafing Atlanta __________________________________________

Either I didn't word my 3:25 pm post well or you just don't get it. The comment was not about the lottery specifically, but about the ways the system is intentionaly manipulated to benefit one group of people over another.
Posted by Mark from Atlanta]]> Wed, 18 Jul 2012 20:18:47 -0400 Creative Loafing Atlanta Posted by InAtl]]> Wed, 18 Jul 2012 19:28:43 -0400 Creative Loafing Atlanta
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Posted by zedsmith]]> Wed, 18 Jul 2012 19:14:34 -0400 Creative Loafing Atlanta http://i.imgur.com/D3lON.gif

i don't understand what noted communist journalist carl sagan has to do with any of this
Posted by eric pfeifer]]> Wed, 18 Jul 2012 18:05:27 -0400 Creative Loafing Atlanta Posted by Stephen Reid]]> Wed, 18 Jul 2012 17:51:17 -0400 Creative Loafing Atlanta
Poverty at or near highs: check
Disparity of wealth at historic highs: check
Minority crime rate as % at highs: check
Prison population at a high: check
% people of welfare at high: check
Couple of unending wars with the poor as fodder: check
South dominated by conservative government: check

Great track record, no reason to mess with such successful tactics.
Posted by Voxpopuli]]> Wed, 18 Jul 2012 17:40:44 -0400 Creative Loafing Atlanta Posted by The Truth]]> Wed, 18 Jul 2012 16:47:49 -0400 Creative Loafing Atlanta http://i.imgur.com/D3lON.gif
Posted by NadVertising]]> Wed, 18 Jul 2012 16:24:41 -0400 Creative Loafing Atlanta Posted by eric pfeifer]]> Wed, 18 Jul 2012 16:10:37 -0400 Creative Loafing Atlanta
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Posted by InAtl]]> Wed, 18 Jul 2012 16:08:42 -0400 Creative Loafing Atlanta