Say, what's the address of the Socialist Party headquarters?

"I am a capitalist. Come on. I believe in markets. What I don’t believe in is theft, what I don’t believe in is cheating. That’s where the difference is. I love what markets can do, I love what functioning economies can do. They are what make us rich, they are what create opportunity. But only fair markets, markets with rules. Markets without rules is about the rich take it all, it’s about the powerful get all of it. And that’s what’s gone wrong in America."

Interview with John Harwood, CNBC, 7/24/18

"I believe in markets and the benefits they can produce when they work. Markets with rules can produce enormous value. So much of the work I have done—the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, my hearing-aid bill—are about making markets work for people, not making markets work for a handful of companies that scrape all the value off to themselves. I believe in competition."

Interview with Franklin Foer, Atlantic, 8/28/18

I missed the part where she declared her support for state control of the means of production. Where was that again?

Really?

By Stevil
Wed, 11/06/2019 - 11:10pm

You're obviously either not paying attention or drinking too much kool aid.

She has literally proposed govermnent control of AT LEAST 50% of the economy with hyper-regulation of about another 25%.

The math is simple and starts with the fact that government is already about 35% of the economy. Dothe math to figure out the rest.

If you want Trump 2.0, vote Warren.

Trump 1.0 is nazis, babies

By anon
Thu, 11/07/2019 - 5:56am

Trump 1.0 is nazis, babies being ripped from their mom and a limited vocabulary.

Doesn't sound like Warren.

Because she won't beat him

By Stevil
Thu, 11/07/2019 - 10:12am

Warren won't be Trump 2.0.

He'll get a second term.

She's like Hillary. About the only Dem that can lose to Trump. Maybe Bernie too.

Aside from you playing loosy goosy with facts and figures

By whyaduck
Thu, 11/07/2019 - 8:21am

If you have a capitalistic society, as we do, you need regulations at the Federal level to level that good ole playing field that, historical speaking, is coveted and controlled by the wealthy and people with power and position.

Now, I could give you a history lesson on all the whys (using our past history of what happened with regulations were loosened or non-existent) but I don't want to.

Warren is pushing for corporate regulations, mostly. And for good reasons. You might of remember what happened in 2008?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_crisis_of_...

Or perhaps you are ok with:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/climate/t...

Or perhaps you think people should drink toxic water:

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2019/11/05/toxic...

Lack of regulations, my friend, can cause harm, pain and suffering of your fellow human beings in a capitalistic society such as ours.

Read some history and figure it out for yourself.

R u joking

By Stevil
Thu, 11/07/2019 - 10:09am

I work in the second most regulated industry in this country-the one that warren is most critical of -as am I.

We'll see, but my guess is if she gets in I'll need to raise prices significantly to pay lawyers for paperwork that serves no purpose other than creating government jobs.

U have no clue what u are talking about and neither does she.

Don't get me wrong, I want Trump out. But replacing him with her is getting something equally bad on the other side of the fence.

WON'T SOMEBODY PLEASE THINK

By ZachAndTired
Thu, 11/07/2019 - 10:13am

WON'T SOMEBODY PLEASE THINK OF THE POOR SMALL BUSINESS TYRANTS??

Obviously...

By Stevil
Thu, 11/07/2019 - 12:04pm

You don't run a small biz.

Especially a small financial services biz.

Obviously...

By ZachAndTired
Thu, 11/07/2019 - 1:47pm

You've never been driven to financial ruin by medical debt.

Non-...

By Stevil
Thu, 11/07/2019 - 6:01pm

...sequitur.

But whatever.

the harvard professor has no

By berkleealum
Thu, 11/07/2019 - 12:58pm

the harvard professor has no idea what she’s talking about, but the guy who admittedly has a vested interest in avoiding government regulation does. lol

I'll take that bet

By Stevil
Thu, 11/07/2019 - 5:33pm

My academic pedigree and integrity vs. hers and I'll win all day long, hands down.

No doubt you're correct

By Scratchie
Fri, 11/08/2019 - 8:23am

Since you'll never have to actually prove it. But in your fevered little brain, you're the king.

I gave you the formula

By Stevil
Fri, 11/08/2019 - 9:26am

If a simple Google search and plug is beyond your logical and mathematical skills, well....

Sure you did

By Scratchie
Fri, 11/08/2019 - 11:52am

Now run along and play.

Not that hard

By Stevil
Fri, 11/08/2019 - 12:31pm

(Federal expenses + state + local + everything additional warren wants to give away)/total GDP

Guess you missed it below?

Or are you just afraid of the answer?

You're not very good at this

By Scratchie
Fri, 11/08/2019 - 1:11pm

If it's so easy... show me the numbers!

Did mommy do your homework too

By Stevil
Fri, 11/08/2019 - 1:50pm

I said - if you do everything Warren wants you'll have about 50% of the economy under the control of government - and probably another 25% highly regulated - finance, technology, food, environment, medicine and more (which will largely be in the 50% above if Warren gets her way).

Which is why I'm praying Bloomberg gets in - but good chance he gets primaried by a Warren or maybe Sanders because the Dems have gone too far left.

Prove me wrong.

Citation?

By Scratchie
Thu, 11/07/2019 - 8:28am

literally proposed govermnent control of AT LEAST 50% of the economy

You forgot to show your work.

Simple math

By Stevil
Thu, 11/07/2019 - 9:58am

Plus a couple of google searches if u r ignorant of government spending stats. Add in medicare for all, free childcare and free everything else shebis proposing and you easily get to 50% of the economy. If that's beyond ur skills, back to 3rd grade with you.

If it's so simple, it should

By Scratchie
Thu, 11/07/2019 - 10:08am

If it's so simple, it should be beyond easy for you to post the actual figures you're using to come to that conclusion.

Do ur own work

By Stevil
Thu, 11/07/2019 - 10:13am

And I'll grade it.

"I'm going to throw a bunch

By ZachAndTired
Thu, 11/07/2019 - 10:16am

"I'm going to throw a bunch of nonsensical numbers out into the ether and it's on you to back them up for me" is not a great way to make a convincing argument.

Sure, sure

By Scratchie
Thu, 11/07/2019 - 10:25am

Do ur own work

That's what I thought.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%27s_teapot

Pardon ur ignorance

By Stevil
Thu, 11/07/2019 - 11:08am

(Federal expenses + state + local + everything additional warren wants to give away)/total GDP

It's about half, maybe more.

Then add the size of industries warren wants to heavily regulate and re-run that.

If you want to get fancy, subtract out what you don't think she can get through congress.

Need any more help from teacher?

Clarification

By Scratchie
Thu, 11/07/2019 - 11:11am

Federal expenses + state + local + everything additional warren wants to give away

And this "everything additional" would be... ??

Educate yourself

By Stevil
Thu, 11/07/2019 - 12:01pm

Google is ur friend.

Congratulations

By boo_urns
Thu, 11/07/2019 - 4:27pm

On your one (1) friend.

You have to hand it to Stevil

By SamWack
Thu, 11/07/2019 - 4:16pm

for showing a real spirit of self-reliance, which even goes so far as to hand-crafting his own statistics. None of those store-bought statistics for him! He'll bake his own, in his own thinking-oven.

Do you have alternative statistics?

By Stevil
Thu, 11/07/2019 - 5:34pm

Or do you just rely on alternative facts?

2x post

By Stevil
Wed, 11/06/2019 - 11:28pm

Sorry!

Location is Park Square.

By Xanadu
Wed, 11/06/2019 - 2:19pm

Location is Park Square.

Park Square?

By anon
Wed, 11/06/2019 - 2:24pm

I found references to The Georgian Cafe in in Park Square in the 1911-1912 time frame (President Taft apparently ate there, but where didn't he eat?).

With Taft

By jmeltzer
Wed, 11/06/2019 - 3:45pm

it was "what didn't he eat"...

7 Park Square, Boston, MA

By Xanadu
Wed, 11/06/2019 - 2:25pm

More specifically 7 Park Square, Boston, MA.

"The Georgian" building was built in 1912. Later, it was purchased by the "Laymen's League" whose address was 7 Park Square.

11 something

By dd808
Wed, 11/06/2019 - 2:27pm

11 something

Funny But Accurate?

By Suldog
Wed, 11/06/2019 - 3:34pm

Current Democratic Party HQ is 11 Beacon.

Suldog

I'll Say...

By Suldog
Wed, 11/06/2019 - 3:32pm

... Tremont Street (although my original guess was a higher number than probable, so edited to take that out.).

Of course, "Warren's campaign HQ" was also MY first thought.

Suldog

Waldorf Lunch system

By downtown-anon
Wed, 11/06/2019 - 3:29pm

An article about its presence in Boston from June 1918.

https://cambridge.dlconsulting.com/cgi-bin/cambrid...

I hadn't heard about the

By anon
Thu, 11/07/2019 - 3:33pm

I hadn't heard about the Waldorf Lunch System. Googling found this article about the former Hayes-Bickford in Harvard Square, which was a Waldorf before that. When Clover was renovating the space, they discovered historic wall tiles depicting banners from various colleges:
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2017/03/clo...

I'll have to check this out!

Say, what's the address of the Socialist Party headquarters?

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