Not knowing how to be social in a society that has imposed punishing costs on doing, well, everything, many turn to statan to save them; all the while unaware that the state is the cause of said costs. However, it is a cold, uncaring breast to nurse from most places; now not only do they want their needs taken care of by the welfare state, they want their social lives to be wholly consumed by the same organization. Just join the Hitler Youth and get it over with, losers.

A sign of dropping standards of living and incomes. Communal property is always a crutch to be used until each member has capital stock of their own.

They act as if this is awesome in and of itself, as if people would prefer this over the alternative, "alienation!" they cry. History teaches the opposite lesson. People get along and are plenty social in their own private property.

Regrettably, for the wrong reasons. Henry Ford offered unprecedentedly high wages to attract the best and brightest from around the country, and was ruthless about letting go low performers. This guy sounds like a utopian idiot, and will likely fail due to such fuzzy-headedness.

As always, people don't compile the numbers unless they want to change them.

All measures to tackle it are stupid. Only the market mechanism could have stopped this.

Immediately people sold, as expected.

We live, he sleeps?

Great Idea. I have a computer with a flaky wired and wireless connection; this would be perfect for that use case.

Mullah Omar's son seems miffed that he didn't get to be 'leader of the faithful'.

The BOJ should arrest themselves

Could be coincidental, but interesting nonetheless.

As always, the cities are hives of collectivist ninnies.

In other words, by obligating all localities receiving HUD funding to compare their demographics to the region as a whole, AFFH effectively nullifies municipal boundaries. Even with no allegation or evidence of intentional discrimination, the mere existence of a demographic imbalance in the region as a whole must be remedied by a given suburb. Suburbs will literally be forced to import population from elsewhere, at their own expense and in violation of their own laws. In effect, suburbs will have been annexed by a city-dominated region, their laws suspended and their tax money transferred to erstwhile non-residents. And to make sure the new high-density housing developments are close to “community assets” such as schools, transportation, parks, and jobs, bedroom suburbs will be forced to develop mini-downtowns. In effect, they will become more like the cities their residents chose to leave in the first place.

Smart cities will tell HUD to shove it. I honestly hope this pushes a city to just secede and call it a day. The author's call for 'republicans will fix it' is beyond foolish. They love this plan too.

He's managed to survive pretty well it seems.

Great news. IF Merck could be trusted with their quality control record in Africa, that is...

It's not helping me usher in my utopian commie idiocy, so it must be re-worked to be old and stupid like me.

As usual, keynsians forget that the drop in productivity has gone lockstep with the debasement since we went off the gold standard. Productivity has risen more slowly than inflation, which means the government has overwhelmed us with negative productivity.

Excellent news.

Guess he's really dead this time then.

Y'know, to stop ISIS, yeah...

In which the Germans, being the good guys, will likely be jingoed until a French invasion occurs.

No bailout 4U. They should try to secede and see Uncle Satan engage in 360 head spinning.

Clearly Frau Merkel is taking a page from her own history with the BND and deciding to be more like her buddy Petro Poroshenko.

Who'd have guessed, right?

Hilarious that the article blames Venezuela as crowding out US supply when they can't even stock their own grocery shelves in Maduro's "workers' paradise".