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So you acknowledge that Obama sucked at being a Senator before he bailed and became a crappy President?

CaptainShuddup says

That's the spirit guys, suck it up and love the suck.
It sucks in SF California, but hey you guys won "TWICE", and yeah I'm over it. But you clowns will never be, by the looks of things.

Certain parts of the country excel at specific things. For instance, nyc has wall street, so. cal has hollywood and SFBA has high tech. These regions have "core competencies" that facilitate this development. I have not seen any evidence that any of this stems from politics of area residents.

bgamall4 says

at least California isn't overrun with snakes and alligators and bugs

And humidity, miserably hot weather, hurricanes, poor beer choices, sheer boredom, and seas of big box stores.

I love the excerpt:

On the day of Twitter’s public offering this month, 150 demonstrators protested outside the company with signs reading “People not profit” and “We’re the public, what are you offering?”

Basically what they're saying is "You're all rich...what free stuff will you give us?"

dublin hillz says

I have not seen any evidence that any of this stems from politics of area residents.

DO you really want to stand by that?

Miami is steeped in Cuban social club politics, you can't even get a job at the city if you don't wear a guayabera that three generations before you wore, on Calle Ocho and won a few Domino completions in.

Miami is the Latin American hub, but all Latin Americans not Cuban must stop and kiss the Cuban Mafia, ring before your business gets approved.

City Politics is only second to Federal, State politics is just a side show so the other districts in your state don't get bent out of shape about another successful city in their state. Well there's that, then there's property taxes, they need to squeeze out of those districts to fund the show in those "specific things" that certain cities excel at, as you put it.

CaptainShuddup says

So you acknowledge that Obama sucked at being a Senator before he bailed and became a crappy President?

Yes. That must be it! That's why he was heavily scrutinized, was re-elected in his state offices, and won his US Senate seat by the largest margin in Illinois history. Because nobody knows this guy with a long career. That's why they re-elected him to the highest office in the country.

What a charlatan!

When you have facebook and twitter choosing the opposition, by smearing all other contenders but Romney, it was in the bag after the straw polls. My god man have you not been listening?

CaptainShuddup says

When you have facebook and twitter choosing the opposition, by smearing all other contenders but Romney, it was in the bag after the straw polls. My god man have you not been listening?

Ohhh...That makes more sense. Social Networking laid it all out for O, even back when he beat McCain, or Jack Ryan! And Ryan's naughtiness wouldn't have even been found out, had it not been for the Facebookings!

CaptainShuddup says

and twitter

Did facebook and twitter smear playa cain who is probably the only one who significantly matched up better than mr bain? I doubt it.

OH I see, so every thing is just fine and Dandy in SF, so what in the hell are ya'll bitching about then?

Eat your shit sandwich and STFU then. ...as long as Obama is making it and all..

At least those rich nerds have good taste.

http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2013/11/25/mac-pro-goes-jony-ive-marc-newson-charity-auction/?intcmp=features

It's the government's fault for caving to corporatist interests which oppose free market capitalism, like house owners who want to limit density and landlords who want to preserve their profit margins.

Get rid of zoning limits which restrict density, let people replace single-family homes with low-rise apartment buildings, let companies replace low-rise buildings with high-rise, and you'd get a _LOT_ more than the 120 new housing units this year and 6000 new rentals next year to go with 68,000 new jobs like we got last year.

With enough additional units housing prices would drop to fit peoples' budgets although they might not be happy with how much space (indoors and outdoors) and common wall/ceiling/floor they get compared to places where people don't want to live and land is nearly free.

There is no other path to affordable housing in places people want to live because anything you do legislatively making some housing stock affordable to some people (those who moved in first and got rent control or those who are poor and get low income housing) reduces the supply (or its rate of increase in the case of new units designated low income) and increases prices for other people.