State of the Union 2014

[garbon]

Secretary of Energy.  12th in succession.

And what a President he'd be, single-handedly bringing back the powdered wig look:

It really should be in the law that one of the top 4 cabinet officials has to be chosen.

Secretary of State    
Secretary of the Treasury
Secretary of Defense    
Attorney General

What?

[DontSayBanana]

And all those delicious Energon cubes.

Bah-weep-Graaaaagnah wheep ni ni bong, Mr. Secretary.

[Valmy]

And all those delicious Energon cubes.

Bah-weep-Graaaaagnah wheep ni ni bong, Mr. Secretary.

Awesome.

[Sheilbh]

I love Joe Biden:
https://vine.co/v/MuUdtTaJAJj

[Tamas]

My earliest and thus most impressive memory regarding minimum wage increases is the one which happened around 2001 or so in Hungary. There was an IBM hard disk factory in the city I worked at, which employed, like, most of the city. The government wanted to be re-elected so they raised the minimum wage.
Fast forward a month or two and the factory announced it would relocate to China, which it did.

[Ideologue]

Fast forward ten years.  Tamas learns all the wrong lessons, pledges undying support to capital whatever its form.

[derspiess]

Don't ever change, Ide

[Ideologue]

I'm probably more the same now than ever before.

[Berkut]

My earliest and thus most impressive memory regarding minimum wage increases is the one which happened around 2001 or so in Hungary. There was an IBM hard disk factory in the city I worked at, which employed, like, most of the city. The government wanted to be re-elected so they raised the minimum wage.
Fast forward a month or two and the factory announced it would relocate to China, which it did.

Are you seriously trying to suggest that market forces play a role in wages? What kind of ridiculous idea is that?

[Berkut]

Fast forward ten years.  Tamas learns all the wrong lessons, pledges undying support to capital whatever its form.

It didn't take any years for you to learn all the wrong lessons, you have them ingrained as an article of faith, which requires no learning at all!

[Ideologue]

Your faith in the free market is far more distorted.  My solutions may not work; you refuse to recognize that there is a problem at all.  Who's using faith-based reasoning?  His name is Berkut.

[Tamas]

Your faith in the free market is far more distorted.  My solutions may not work; you refuse to recognize that there is a problem at all.  Who's using faith-based reasoning?  His name is Berkut.

Where is this free market? Whatever has been left of it in the US is getting gradually chipped at, me thinks.

[Valmy]

My earliest and thus most impressive memory regarding minimum wage increases is the one which happened around 2001 or so in Hungary. There was an IBM hard disk factory in the city I worked at, which employed, like, most of the city. The government wanted to be re-elected so they raised the minimum wage.
Fast forward a month or two and the factory announced it would relocate to China, which it did.

Are you seriously trying to suggest that market forces play a role in wages? What kind of ridiculous idea is that?

Next people will start claiming market forces play a role in the national economy in general.

[Ideologue]

Your faith in the free market is far more distorted.  My solutions may not work; you refuse to recognize that there is a problem at all.  Who's using faith-based reasoning?  His name is Berkut.

Where is this free market?

Evidently it's in the PRC, the country we should all emulate.  That was the moral of your story, right?

[Valmy]

Your faith in the free market is far more distorted.  My solutions may not work; you refuse to recognize that there is a problem at all.  Who's using faith-based reasoning?  His name is Berkut.

Are you kidding?  By his own admission Berkut is becoming a Left-Wing commie.