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    Two cops shot at in North Carolina.

    Where is the outrage that two honkeys could do such a thing. Father and Dad team. I bet they are real proud of themselves.

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    Now this is the type of disrespect of Police that we all can believe in. A white boy does it, and no one on the right wants to know if he is a right winger.

    Not only a disgraceful action on the kids part but also disgraceful that right wingers bury their heads in the sand on this type of stuff.

    Why wasn’t he shot?

    http://www.nydailynews.com/new.....-1.2063450

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    NYPD on work slowdown – arrests down 66%.

    Again, nice to know that Police know how to act like criminals, blackmail.

    Pathetic action on their part.

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    @4 they don’t know what wrong is, never will be, they will always be stupidly correct.

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    Through Q3 2014 the U.S. economy added over 800K jobs in sectors considered as IT/Professional/Finance.

    Through Q3 2014 the U.S. economy added over 650k jobs in other professional categories such as manufacturing/education/health care.

    Through Q3 2014 the U.S. economy added about 550K jobs in industries classified as Food Service/Retail

    One or more of our resident trolls will bring up the low-wage recovery in the next week or so…

    http://www.theatlantic.com/bus.....08/381083/

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    @7

    One or more of our resident trolls will bring up the low-wage recovery in the next week or so…

    Naw, let’s talk about the high-wage recovery.

    There is a metaphor in here somewhere:

    Non-union Tesla now owns former Fremont UAW Hall

    http://www.autoblog.com/2015/0.....ll-ironic/

    Through September (Tesla’s figures, so YMMV), during 2014 GM sold 14,540 Chevy Volts. Tesla moved 11,000 Model S units.

    We’re doing around 1,000 miles in our leased Nissan LEAF. It’s a great car although another 20 miles of battery range would be nice. In 2016 or so Nissan will probably offer 3 different battery options. Tesla’s less expensive model will be out by then, or close to it, as well. We’ll probably extend our LEAF lease until the newer models come out – Nissan seems to expect this.

    An awful lot of government-funded credits available to people with the means to acquire electrical vehicles, courtesy of the federal and WA state governments. The LEAF came with a $7,500 credit, and there’s no WA sales tax on the lease payments.

    Meanwhile, there will potentially be an increase in the regressive gas tax to help pay for the mandated increase in education funding in WA, not to mention the regressive-as-it’s-passed-on-to-the-consumer tax on ‘polluters’ in WA, both of which will dispropropionately affect the lowest-paid people in our economy.

    I guess I ended up talking about the low-wage aspect of the recovery, after all.

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    @8

    Funny you bring up Tesla and the boogieman Unions.

    Why is Tesla attracting top talent? Well it must be they don’t have to pay Union Dues so the take-home pay is more attractive. Why is Tesla profitable? It must be they don’t have to pay high Union wages so they are able to maximize profit.

    Whoops:

    Average pay of UAW represented Mechanical Engineer
    $64,853 ( http://www.payscale.com/resear.....eer/Salary)

    Base salary of Mechanical Engineer at Tesla $97,600

    ( http://www.glassdoor.com/Salar.....O13,32.htm )

    Tesla seems to have banked on paying people better wages attracts better workers. If they slip behind UAW wages I expect Tesla workers would try to organize.

    (Truthiness in action.)

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    @ 10

    Interesting approach.

    Both companies are recipients of government largesse. GM has a $50B tax-loss carry forward generously granted to it by, um, well, I can’t say Obama so let’s just say it’s unusual to have companies granted this when the majority of their debt is wiped away during bankruptcy.

    And Tesla is no saint – they get tons of credits to add to their bottom line, government-sponsored loans, and all of the other goodies that come with being a ‘green’ manufacturer.

    I’m very sure I will never own stock in either company. Take away all the free shit given to each, and I don’t perceive the value in either one.

    Do your links measure work product per engineer for each firm?

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    @ 10

    Why is Tesla profitable?

    Let me help you out here. Tesla is or isn’t profitable, depending on whether you choose to include goodies.

    A better way of framing your question is:

    Why is Tesla’s electric vehicle selling so well in such a short period of time, while GM’s version is struggling and is sold or leased with the aid of substantial incentives?

    Because Tesla makes something that people actually want to buy, with or without incentives. I don’t think that’s because Tesla has better engineers. I think it’s because Tesla has a better concept. If you look at the history of the Volt, and how the Volt survived the government takeover, it becomes clearer.

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    Now, Steve, when I mentioned differential work output per engineer, I didn’t expect that you would take it personally.

    It’s so nice to be up here in the Pacific Northwest, where we can produce so much with energy generated 80% by hydropower.

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    @7 Yeah, the economy is ripping along, depriving GOPers of yet another issue …

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    @8 nope just pointing out that racism exists on the right, that’s all. And bigotry, don’t forget those pesky gay people.

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    You have to start somewhere. Courageous for GM to start with the Volt. Someone has to lead or no one follows.

    Plenty of sun out there today – free electricity for me today. Oh it’s practically been free electricity since June. Can’t wait for April, that’s when the electric company sends me my check!

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    Sloppy Travis Bickle @ 9,

    “Meanwhile, there will potentially be an increase in the regressive gas tax to help pay for the mandated increase in education funding in WA,”

    Oh, Bobbie, Bobbie, Bobbie, I was hoping you would start out 2015 by turning over a new LEAF.

    (Just joking, I don’t want you to die by blunt force trauma, when there are so many more interesting ways that you would approve of…you know, ones that begin as “enhanced interrogation”…).

    Firstly, there is no “mandated increase” in the level of educational funding. Rather, the courts have found that the legislature has failed to meet the funding levels that have long been required by the Constitution, Article IX:

    It is the paramount duty of the state to make ample provision for the education of all children residing within its borders….

    Secondly, there is zero potential for an increase in the regressive gas tax to help pay for education funding. Hint: I should stipulate “zero potential, short of an extremely unlikely Constitution amendment….”

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    @10 They can do wonders with technology nowadays, although unfortunately for you, brain transplants are still some years away.

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    @11 Yep, the best way to keep unions at bay is by paying good wages and providing good working conditions. Works every time. The assholes get stuck with unions.

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    @13 “I don’t think that’s because Tesla has better engineers. I think it’s because Tesla has a better concept.”

    Who came up with the “better concept”? A kindergarten?

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    This blog needs better trolls. The ones we have are stupid. We get everyone else’s rejects.

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    @16 “It’s so nice to be up here in the Pacific Northwest, where we can produce so much with energy generated 80% by publicly owned hydropower.”

    Fixed.

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    @20 I was gonna point out to the stupid troll that in this state the gas tax is a dedicated tax that can only be spent for transportation purposes, but you beat me to it.

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    “It’s so nice to be up here in the Pacific Northwest, where we can produce so much with energy generated 80% by hydropower.”

    Sadly, Bob, whether it be hydro, solar, fossil fuel or whatever, it still requires an electrical engineer and a little electromagnetism to put the “pomp” in “pompous radiologist”.

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    @ 20
    Someone has made a New Year’s resolution, I see.

    Regarding ‘mandate’: Perhaps I chose my word poorly. Synonyms include instruct, order, direct, command, tell, require, charge, call on, so perhaps not. My assumption is that the WA supreme court has called upon the legislature to increase funding for education.

    Regarding the prospects of a gas tax, could the legislature not elect to increase the current gas tax, assuming Inslee agrees, particularly as there’s cover for it in that gas prices are falling rather quickly, with the specific intent that the money raised be spent on education to cover part of the underfunding? I realize that it has to get past the state senate, but I wouldn’t consider the potential for that to occur to be zero.

    Please explain, and use any and all derogatory terms to describe me that you see fit.

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    @ 20, 28

    If you please, what is the specific requirement that the fuel tax be placed into the Motor Vehicle Fund, and is there any descriptor of a fee, surcharge, etc., that can be levied – pump use fee, perhaps – that would enable the money to be used in another way, at least until the first legal challenge?

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    “Take away all the free shit given to each”

    For you Solyndra whiners, oh, and seeing as how you want to foist another Bush on us, where did you say the trillions of dollars for Bush Iraq Oil Wars I and II went? Did you put it in the pile with the rest of your petroleum industry subsidies? Or did you file it under “Wasted Blood and Treasure”?

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    Sloppy Travis Bickle @ 30

    “Regarding ‘mandate’: Perhaps I chose my word poorly. “

    “Mandate” isn’t the problem by itself. The courts are telling the Legislature to _restore_ funding to levels mandated by the Constitution.

    Suppose you take out a mortgage, but then start underpaying on the loan. The lender sues and the court demands you pay the full monthly loan amount. That isn’t a “mandated increase in your loan repayment”… rather it is a restoration of your payment obligation.

    “Regarding the prospects of a gas tax, could the legislature not elect to increase the current gas tax, assuming Inslee agrees, particularly as there’s cover for it in that gas prices are falling rather quickly, with the specific intent that the money raised be spent on education to cover part of the underfunding?”

    Nope. Absolutely not possible (without a Constitutional amendment–hint, hint).

    “If you please, what is the specific requirement that the fuel tax be placed into the Motor Vehicle Fund”

    The specific requirement is that fees for motor vehicles and all excise taxes collected by the State of Washington on the sale, distribution or use of motor vehicle fuel be placed in a special fund to be used exclusively for highway purposes.

    “…and is there any descriptor of a fee, surcharge, etc., that can be levied – pump use fee, perhaps – that would enable the money to be used in another way, at least until the first legal challenge?”

    A pump fee sounds like a tax or fee on “on the sale, distribution or use of motor vehicle fuel”…so not likely.

    As far as I know, you are the sole person in the State of Washington contemplating ways of funding education through taxes related to transportation!?!

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    @30 “My assumption is that the WA supreme court has called upon the legislature to increase funding for education.”

    And we’re all waiting with bated breath to see how the court plans to enforce its ruling, given a divided state legislature with the senate in the hands of a party that’s hostile to public education and is unwilling to raise any tax for any reason, ever.

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    Worrying about an increase in the gas tax is very stupid when you do the math. The increase has to be in the tens if cents to be negligible to anyone’s budget. Go buy a car that gets better gas mileage – beats any gas tax.

    Be stupid and stay stupid arguing about any gas tax increase. As cars get better mirages tax revenues plummet fro a gas tax, therefor they need to be raised to maintain revenue levels.

    Be smarter go buy a car that gets 40 miles to gallon. It will save you a thousand on gasoline and cut your gas tax in half.

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    @37 The rubes think if they buy cars that use less gas, roads will cost less to build and maintain, therefore there’s no reason for the thieving government to confiscate their hard-earned money.

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