I was trying to recite the Gettysburg Address the other day . . .
Fore score and seven years ago our fathers who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name . . .
I tried several times and realized I just couldn't do it without mixing up The Lord's Prayer with it. Why is my brain on autopilot?
Like many American voters . . .
I am struggling with the idea here in Pittsburgh, that we are giving tax credits to the makers of the Batman movie; yet Pittsburgh Public Schools (and may other schools around the state) have to cut back on our pre-K program, leaving many young children out of the Early Childhood Development Program that is vital to their learning.
I am struggling with womenfolk like Sarah Palin. Why is she upstaging the other candidates with Town Hall meetings, and yet still not officially running? Is she trying to make a case for 2016? Is Michele Bachmann her doppelganger? Will Debbie Wasserman Shultz run in 2016 to even things out for the Democrats?
Fore score and seven years ago our fathers who art in heaven . . .
It is interesting that this speech was not met with rave reviews until later. What made it good, later? Did people wake up one day and think to themselves, "Boy that crappy short speech Abe gave the other day was actually quite impressive."
When we look back, what will we learn?
Maybe it wasn't such a good idea to give tax credits to movie makers, now that those 4year olds are 18, working, driving, and voting.
Maybe letting Marcellus Shale companies dump shit in our rivers wasn't such a great idea after all!
Wait, I can't hear you. I have cancer in my eardrum from my cell phone. Did cell companies forget to mention studies done in the 80's about cell phone use and cancer? Their bad.
I'm rambling again.
Fore score and seven years ago, our fathers who art in heaven . . .
"Youz better stop shooting each other n at," declared our Mayor after more shootings by rival gangs happened in the city (Beltzhoover, et. al.). The mayor assembled some gang committee almost a year ago. "It's stupid. To shoot. Each other," the mayor reasoned (btw, I'm more or less speaking in the "character" of the mayor). More on that committee . . . Gang Group Outreach and the Pittsburgh Initiative to Reduce Crime
And what the hell is wrong with being promiscuous and having STDs? If it's in the Bible . . .
Fore score and seven years ago, our fathers who art in heaven . . .
3 comments:
We're not giving tax credits to the Batman movie. It's not spending enough of its budget here to qualify.
Still, you miss the point on the tax credits. The reason they exist, and continue to be renewed, is that they bring in more money than they cost. They are revenue generators for the commonwealth. Without them, and the films they attract, we would have less money to spend on schools. Or fracking. Or whatever.
Those films also provide a lot of jobs for local women and menfolk. They're good for us in every way but the traffic disruption. No need to fret here.
Shooting. Bad?? Just thinning the herd. Get'm
Befour they breed.. Job security for cops coroners undertakers gravediggers. Win win
Anon 18th: I usually like others to point out mistakes, but I cannot resist . . . you are kind of proving my point:
If we give tax credits to movie companies because they would go elsewhere if we didn't and because we make money off of them . . . get where I am going? Not to Ohio, that's for sure.
Batman, according to you, received no tax credits, yet still chose Pittsburgh to make their movie. So did Silence of the Lambs, so did a number of other movies. Sell location, not tax breaks.
Elected officials really need to be a bit more creative . . . and taxes from movies . . . is the revenue stream really coming back to Pittsburgh, and going to our schools or transportation? Or is the money going to the film office to promote more movies to come to the area to give the film office an even bigger budget to promote more movies?
On your "jobs" claim. I do not consider a four-week job as "job growth." That's a temporary job. That gets someone off of unemployment for a bit.
Similar to companies moving in and out of the city. "They are creating jobs." No, they are just transferring them around from one place to another; they are creating a construction job for 6 months. They are vacating a building in a part of the city that will now cause an eyesore, and cripple the area's business from the residual effects of moving.
Look, I love movies. I am thrilled Batman is here. But a revenue stream it is not. All it is, is hype.
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