So I hired somebody to do some work on our property…
…here is a video of his smarter cousin:
Genius idea guys /sarc/
This one is straight out of California.
Residents at three public housing areas now have a mini-fleet of free Zipcars to make their way around Sacramento.
On Friday, Sacramento launched a pilot program that put eight shared electric Kia Souls at public housing sites. Up to 300 residents can apply for on-demand access to the vehicles, with no charge for maintenance, insurance or juicing up the battery.
The program is funded through a $1.3 million grant from the California Air Resources Board using cap-and-trade funds that businesses pay to offset their carbon emissions.
Let me see if I get this right:
People who live in housing paid for by tax payers will now have access to new cars, paid for by business taxes, which are paid for by consumers.
Is there any economic incentive to work in California?
Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg said the cars will help people get to doctors appointments, job interviews and school.
I doubt it.
“It’s providing accessible transportation to low-income people using the newest, cleanest technology,” said Steinberg. “This is the definition of environmental justice.”
Social justice with environmental flavoring.
I give it a week until every one of these cars is trashed and/or stripped down to nothing for scrap or chop-shop parts.
See, I used to live in a housing complex that was stocked with Section 8 tenants.
Rapid City sucked for apartment rentals. It was next to three Indian reservations. Landlords who maintained low cost apartments would fill up with subsided housing request from people coming of the Res. If you didn’t want anybody Section 8 in your apartment, you have to price yourself way above the goverment cost limit. That meant if you were a poor grad student, you either paid a lot for fancy apartment in a good development or you lived with a bunch of subsidized tenants as your neighbors.
I had a bunch of subsidized neighbors.
God I hated them. They would steal the appliances out of apartments and sell them to pawn shops before moving out at the middle of the night.
My plumbing backed up on several occasions because grandma would get the apartment and have half-a-dozen grandkids stay with her. They were “just visiting” for an indefinite period of time. Seven people in a single apartment sharing one toilet would back it up, and then back up the plumbing for the whole building.
Yeah, I’m a mean sumbitch who doesn’t like people on welfare/EBT/Section 8/etc. Having your neighbors bang on your door in the middle of the night wanting to come in and stay with you because they didn’t pay their gas and electric bills and the utility companies restricted their use; or come by and ask for food because they saw you carrying bags of groceries inside will do that to you.
Having lived through all that, I’m sure that the $1.3 million dollar grant is going to be turned into shit in a week.
Economists understand this, it is called the Tragedy of the Commons.
Here is EconPop to explain it to you.
https://youtu.be/g9Og4qkn67o?t=3m36s
Since California is where economic theory goes to get murdered by political ideology, nobody responsible for this when it turns into a disaster, will be held accountable. It was done with the best of “environmental justice” intentions.
All I can say is that after reading shit like this, I want to stop paying taxes, and instead just want to send a monthly check to NASA and the DOD. Fuck everything else. These people are too stupid to handle my money.
Have you ever had one of those days?
Today has been so frustrating, if I were to try to fall backwards, I am sure I’d miss the floor and kill the neighbor’s cat.
If anybody asks for me, I’ll be doing pretty much nothing.
Massad Ayoob » Blog Archive » THE PROBLEM WITH HANDLOADS FOR DEFENSE
I’ve found this to be perhaps the most visceral and contentious of gun forum debates. When I suggest to someone that the ammo he crafted himself might be a handicap in court, it’s as if they had just prepared a Thanksgiving feast for their family from scratch, and I’d told them “Don’t poison your family with that crap, go out and buy them some KFC.”
Source: Massad Ayoob » Blog Archive » THE PROBLEM WITH HANDLOADS FOR DEFENSE
Seriously, I keep hearing people still arguing this subject and for the life of me I can’t understand the stubbornness. Go read the article and follow the links in there.
I finally got a reply from a State Senator!
Sort of… actually from an aide… on the last day of the 2017 session… and literally the last possible minute… and a mass email:
It feels like “Thanks for playing. We are going home now & you don’t even get a box of Rice A Roni. Now fuck off.”
Georgia Moms Demand: Pure class.
Carol Allen is a Moms Demand Operative for the State of Georgia. Since the Governor over there signed into legislation Campus Carry, she does not seem to be very happy about it.
Not quite the picture of a Southern Lady, is she?
Hat Tip Jeff A.