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		When the revolution comes, it won't be started by protestors in city parks, it will come from people like residents of Jefferson County, AL, who, thanks to JP Morgan, now have to choose between affording electricity or running water (news.yahoo.com)		375
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Trelane

2011-12-19 01:09:16 PM

Or instead of only blaming JP Morgan, how about blaming their corrupt officials? It takes two sides for bribery, a giver and a receiver.

Not saying that JP Morgan is in the clear here, but they're not the only problem.

Weaver95

2011-12-19 01:14:33 PM

BravadoGT

2011-12-19 01:16:39 PM

Trelane: Or instead of only blaming JP Morgan, how about blaming their corrupt officials? It takes two sides for bribery, a giver and a receiver.

Not saying that JP Morgan is in the clear here, but they're not the only problem.

Exactly---JP was doing what they were supposed to do--turn a profit. Admittedly, they should not be using illegal methods, but that is still their goal. The Jefferson County officials betrayed their oath, betrayed their neighbors, and betrayed their constituents--to line their own pockets. Wanna take a wild stab what corrupt, inept party runs Jefferson County? Hint: It's the same party that runs just about every other major failing municipality in the US...

NuttierThanEver

2011-12-19 01:22:33 PM

cept the proletariat out there currently is so fooled by the GOP propaganda machine that is Fox news they'll go after the darkie in the White House instead of the corporate bastards who truly are to blame.

ZAZ

2011-12-19 01:25:05 PM

Are you in a "half full" or "half empty" mood?

Jail half empty: JP Morgan was able to buy off prosecutors.

Jail half full: At least county officials went to jail.

As I've said before, I want a legal rule saying that companies that pay off the SEC over fraud accusations are deemed to have admitted to the substance of the allegations, notwithstanding any language in the settlement to the contrary. Also I want a rule that patterns of misbehavior invoke the financial corporate death penalty (disbarred from playing the markets and making loans).

Magorn

2011-12-19 01:32:53 PM

Trelane: Or instead of only blaming JP Morgan, how about blaming their corrupt officials? It takes two sides for bribery, a giver and a receiver.

Not saying that JP Morgan is in the clear here, but they're not the only problem.

The corrupt officials can be dealt with easily at the ballot box, usually within a year or so. And once out of office there's little standing between them and a jail cell as poltiicans have modest personal means.

The corrupt JP Morgan executives yeild to no such simple remedy. Worse yet the have probably be rewarded for their behavior, and their company can muster enough legal might to let them seriously water down or avoid any real legal retribution.

It's not the injury that enrages most people, it's when the injurer seems to be able to get away with it, that they get angry

meanmutton

2011-12-19 01:45:32 PM

NuttierThanEver: cept the proletariat out there currently is so fooled by the GOP propaganda machine that is Fox news they'll go after the darkie in the White House instead of the corporate bastards who truly are to blame.

Think you could make a point without using the racial slur there?

melopene

2011-12-19 01:45:52 PM

I'm oh-so-glad that I'll be leaving JeffCo next summer. :)

Kar98

2011-12-19 01:48:08 PM

Mentalpatient87

2011-12-19 01:48:11 PM

BravadoGT: Trelane: Or instead of only blaming JP Morgan, how about blaming their corrupt officials? It takes two sides for bribery, a giver and a receiver.

Not saying that JP Morgan is in the clear here, but they're not the only problem.

Exactly---JP was doing what they were supposed to do--turn a profit. Admittedly, they should not be using illegal methods, but that is still their goal. The Jefferson County officials betrayed their oath, betrayed their neighbors, and betrayed their constituents--to line their own pockets. Wanna take a wild stab what corrupt, inept party runs Jefferson County? Hint: It's the same party that runs just about every other major failing municipality in the US...

It's both funny and very sad to watch people blame "the other party" for everything, while they completly ignore the fact that their party is right there doing the same goddamn thing. How many Ds and Rs do you think play golf together and laugh at the stupid poor people who still buy into this theater? Each and every one of them is farking you for their own gains, the only difference is the role they play on TV.

Satanic_Hamster

2011-12-19 01:49:00 PM

Eh, I don't think you can fully blame the feds; they're just a convenient excuse. I did public works projects for 10 years as a GC; SO MANY farking communities have ignored maintaining and upgrading their water and sewer infrastructure for decades.

For example:
Lynchburg, VA, estimated a few years ago that 40-60 percent of the drinking water they pumped out to residents was lost to leaks.

moothemagiccow

2011-12-19 01:49:18 PM

We need to keep the water running because we're women,"

WTF?

numbone

2011-12-19 01:49:34 PM

James F. Campbell

2011-12-19 01:49:35 PM

Meh, they're Alabamians. Who cares.

Magnanimous_J

2011-12-19 01:50:34 PM

$150 a month is a really high price for water and sewer. I love showers so much I would eat dinner in there if my girlfriend would let me, and we've never paid for than 25 or 30.

Lt. Col. Angus

2011-12-19 01:50:38 PM

Kar98: meanmutton: NuttierThanEver: cept the proletariat out there currently is so fooled by the GOP propaganda machine that is Fox news they'll go after the darkie in the White House instead of the corporate bastards who truly are to blame.

Think you could make a point without using the racial slur there?

You'd kike that, wouldn't you?

Not a dagos by that he doesn't!

Sin_City_Superhero

2011-12-19 01:51:39 PM

I pay my sewerage bill, then I'm going to slack on my groceries. Then what am I going to eat?"

Wait, I know this one...

NuttierThanEver

2011-12-19 01:51:50 PM

meanmutton: NuttierThanEver: cept the proletariat out there currently is so fooled by the GOP propaganda machine that is Fox news they'll go after the darkie in the White House instead of the corporate bastards who truly are to blame.

Think you could make a point without using the racial slur there?

oh I apologize to your tender sensibilities if I offended them. Perhaps I should have used the prefered nomenclature of IslamofacistNaziNotevenborninthiscountry label. My point still remains that the color of the President skin is the driving force behind the Tea Party and their ilk more so than any policy.

Magnanimous_J

2011-12-19 01:52:08 PM

Lt. Col. Angus: Kar98: meanmutton: NuttierThanEver: cept the proletariat out there currently is so fooled by the GOP propaganda machine that is Fox news they'll go after the darkie in the White House instead of the corporate bastards who truly are to blame.

Think you could make a point without using the racial slur there?

You'd kike that, wouldn't you?

Not a dagos by that he doesn't!

That was spictacular.

Sin_City_Superhero

2011-12-19 01:52:21 PM

moothemagiccow: We need to keep the water running because we're women,"

WTF?

Biatches LOVE water.

Mad Scientist

2011-12-19 01:52:23 PM

JP Morgan...and a long, long line of JeffCo County Commissioners, who through their incompetence and corruption are for the most part now in Federal prison.

JeffCo residents are merely the morans who kept electing the same sorts of clowns over and over.

/Shelby County resident, and glad of it.

ZAZ

2011-12-19 01:52:38 PM

numbone

Massachusetts banned outhouses in the 1990s as part of a rewrite of "title 5" septic regulations. Old ones may be grandfathered until the property is sold.

meat0918

2011-12-19 01:52:38 PM

That's the idea, citizen.

Get the people so riled up that they start to openly rebel, then crush them, and impose authoritarian rule over the states.

The only hard part is they had hoped to have a Dominionist in office when the powder keg finally goes off.

Sin_City_Superhero

2011-12-19 01:53:24 PM

Magnanimous_J: Lt. Col. Angus: Kar98: meanmutton: NuttierThanEver: cept the proletariat out there currently is so fooled by the GOP propaganda machine that is Fox news they'll go after the darkie in the White House instead of the corporate bastards who truly are to blame.

Think you could make a point without using the racial slur there?

You'd kike that, wouldn't you?

Not a dagos by that he doesn't!

That was spictacular.

Wop are y'all talking about?

Lt. Col. Angus

2011-12-19 01:53:38 PM

cleveralthere

2011-12-19 01:53:38 PM

I Mash Grains

2011-12-19 01:53:52 PM

groppet

2011-12-19 01:54:05 PM

My roomate used to piss me of with her long ass showers. Then I just started cutting off the hot water after a while. Problem solved.

cleveralthere

2011-12-19 01:54:20 PM

Magnanimous_J: That was spictacular.

dammit i need to refresh more often

proteus_b

2011-12-19 01:54:37 PM

how many thousands of gallons of water per day are these tards using?

birchman

2011-12-19 01:55:02 PM

Damn you Obama.

ringersol

2011-12-19 01:55:07 PM

Paltry fine and no admission of guilt?

Sounds familiar.

wmoonfox

2011-12-19 01:55:13 PM

I predict that this thread will be a well-mannered example of Americans' empathy for their brothers and sisters in strife.

skullkrusher

2011-12-19 01:55:25 PM

NuttierThanEver: meanmutton: NuttierThanEver: cept the proletariat out there currently is so fooled by the GOP propaganda machine that is Fox news they'll go after the darkie in the White House instead of the corporate bastards who truly are to blame.

Think you could make a point without using the racial slur there?

oh I apologize to your tender sensibilities if I offended them. Perhaps I should have used the prefered nomenclature of IslamofacistNaziNotevenborninthiscountry label. My point still remains that the ~~color of the President skin~~ letter after the President's name is the driving force behind the Tea Party and their ilk more so than any policy.

Lt. Col. Angus

2011-12-19 01:55:37 PM

Sin_City_Superhero:

That was almost the bestest simulpost evar.

Parthenogenetic

2011-12-19 01:55:57 PM

FTFA:

Sewage and water rates (on average) have increased faster than inflation because the federal government has demanded that cities replace their "worn-out" sewer facilities to meet federal clean-water standards.

When a federal judge forced Jefferson County to upgrade its outdated sewer system, officials decided to finance the project with bonds.

Outside advisers suggested a series of complex deals with variable-rate interest that were later shown to be laced with bribes and influence-peddling. Loan payments rose quickly because of increasing interest rates as global credit markets struggled, and the county could no longer afford its payments.

DAMN YOU TAXBONGO AND YOUR CABAL OF LIBERAL ACTIVIST JUDGES!

/yes, I know it was in the 1990s
//DAMN YOU BILL CLINTON AND YOUR CABAL OF LIBERAL ACTIVIST JUDGES!

Tergiversada

2011-12-19 01:56:22 PM

"This is not even a race issue, if I'm telling the truth," said Tyson. "It's just so happens that it's affecting black people. It's a class issue. They don't give a doo-doo about poor people period."

Unfortunately, with the sewer rates going sky-high in Jefferson County, they're going to have more doo-doo than they can deal with.

BurnShrike

2011-12-19 01:56:56 PM

All these racist puns are making me cracka'p laughing.

skullkrusher

2011-12-19 01:57:27 PM

cleveralthere: Lt. Col. Angus: Kar98: meanmutton: NuttierThanEver: cept the proletariat out there currently is so fooled by the GOP propaganda machine that is Fox news they'll go after the darkie in the White House instead of the corporate bastards who truly are to blame.

Think you could make a point without using the racial slur there?

You'd kike that, wouldn't you?

Not a dagos by that he doesn't!

just make sure no one spicks one thats too offensive

you guys should nip this one in the bud. You're on a slippery slope

King Something

2011-12-19 01:57:29 PM

Sin_City_Superhero: Magnanimous_J: Lt. Col. Angus: Kar98: meanmutton: NuttierThanEver: cept the proletariat out there currently is so fooled by the GOP propaganda machine that is Fox news they'll go after the darkie in the White House instead of the corporate bastards who truly are to blame.

Think you could make a point without using the racial slur there?

You'd kike that, wouldn't you?

Not a dagos by that he doesn't!

That was spictacular.

Wop are y'all talking about?

The latest NBC/WSJ pole.

OnlyM3

2011-12-19 01:57:43 PM

FTA:

Sewage and water rates (on average) have increased faster than inflation because the federal government has demanded...

hahahaha you voted for change, enjoy it.
// no sympathy at all.

HotWingConspiracy

2011-12-19 01:57:49 PM

BravadoGT: Exactly---JP was doing what they were supposed to do--turn a profit. Admittedly, they should not be using illegal methods, but that is still their goal.

Yeah, they're really the victims here.

You little wanna-be capitalist kings are endlessly amusing.

BurnShrike

2011-12-19 01:58:16 PM

skullkrusher: cleveralthere: Lt. Col. Angus: Kar98: meanmutton: NuttierThanEver: cept the proletariat out there currently is so fooled by the GOP propaganda machine that is Fox news they'll go after the darkie in the White House instead of the corporate bastards who truly are to blame.

Think you could make a point without using the racial slur there?

You'd kike that, wouldn't you?

Not a dagos by that he doesn't!

just make sure no one spicks one thats too offensive

you guys should nip this one in the bud. You're on a slippery slope

You're letting the chink in your tough-guy facade show.

JustGetItRight

2011-12-19 01:58:46 PM

Sorry subby, Jefferson County's situation is completely and entirely of their own making. They've elected openly corrupt officials for at least two decades. The commission chairman that oversaw a good part of the bond issue is already doing federal time (so are several other former commissioners).

If JeffCo residents are looking for someone to blame, the best place to start is in the mirror.

Matthew Keene

2011-12-19 01:59:06 PM

I think everyone in Jeff Co ought to just start taking dumps in the storm sewers, and buy bottled water. That would fix 'em.

SomethingWitty84

2011-12-19 01:59:26 PM

wmoonfox: I predict that this thread will be a well-mannered example of Americans' empathy for their brothers and sisters in strife.

I have the utmost sympathy for my American brethren that live in cities or suburbs north of the 35th parallel.

Debeo Summa Credo

2011-12-19 01:59:57 PM

Trelane: Or instead of only blaming JP Morgan, how about blaming their corrupt officials? It takes two sides for bribery, a giver and a receiver.

Not saying that JP Morgan is in the clear here, but they're not the only problem.

No, no, no. EVERYTHING BAD IS 100% THE FAULT OF BANKS AND WALL STREET!! Any time a government official or ordinary citizen of the 99% makes an imprudent decision it's only because they were tricked by the greedy banks and their CEOs.

HotWingConspiracy

2011-12-19 02:00:20 PM

OnlyM3: FTA:

Sewage and water rates (on average) have increased faster than inflation because the federal government has demanded...

hahahaha you voted for change, enjoy it.
// no sympathy at all.

Obama and his time machine are at it again, apparently.

spentmiles

2011-12-19 02:00:23 PM

Wow, only $14 dollars a month for a sanitation company to come out and suck out your port-a-potty? There are always a lot of construction workers in my neighborhood and I always see them using the port-a-potties. Sometimes I sneak in there and just sit for a few hours. It's peaceful until the local children throw rocks at it.

netcentric

2011-12-19 02:00:38 PM

poor people are funny....

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