"War drained federal funding for public programs,"
I'd love to see the numbers that back up that crock of $#!+ lie.
Less education of workers is why there are fewer jobs? And we don't spend enough on education?
We spend virtually ALL the money on public education and it's a massive failure. Businesses have no incentive to make money and hire workers in this over taxed, over regulated, government teat sucking dependent nanny state run by such clueless clowns.
Depressing indeed for those who are not too scared of the truth.
I didn't get a chance to check out the stream. What about OHSU? The city dumped $125 million into the south waterfront, and the state chipped in another $200 million with the Oregon Opportunity. Did anybody mention them during the discussion?
Seriously...I've had to go to two separate casinos in Oregon and Washington in the last 6 months. Nothing is more sad and disgusting than the Emerald City Queen and Chinook Winds.
I agree that the collapse of the timber industry wasn't mentioned, either, nor that it's not coming back any time soon. The eternal dichotomy is that while you hear so much screaming about the damage being caused by logging, the pay was still enough to supply tax revenues to support services for all of the overly educated and willfully underemployed new residents in Portland. (As with Adams's usual yammerings about catering to the "creative class", he either doesn't know or doesn't care to know that said class is notoriously underpaid, mostly because many of its members are paid exactly what they're worth. Either way, you can't base an entire economy on hipsters selling bad paintings to each other.)
SAME OLD SAME OLD
I'd love to see the numbers that back up that crock of $#!+ lie.
Less education of workers is why there are fewer jobs? And we don't spend enough on education?
We spend virtually ALL the money on public education and it's a massive failure. Businesses have no incentive to make money and hire workers in this over taxed, over regulated, government teat sucking dependent nanny state run by such clueless clowns.
Depressing indeed for those who are not too scared of the truth.
Seriously...I've had to go to two separate casinos in Oregon and Washington in the last 6 months. Nothing is more sad and disgusting than the Emerald City Queen and Chinook Winds.