[AGL] hundreds on the street - no masks
Michael Eisenstadt
mike.eisenstadt at gmail.com
Sun Oct 25 12:19:41 EDT 2020
Frances,
Your figures are all mixed up. Check out this article in Forbes Magazine
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https://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/2020/09/28/yes-donald-trump-is-still-a-billionaire-that-makes-his-750-tax-payment-even-more-scandalous/#518af0dd2885
By their estimate Trump is worth about $2.5 billion dollars net of his
debts. Trump made poor investment decisions but made yet more canny
investments. He inherited it is said about $200 million dollars from his
father consisting of hundreds of residential apartment houses in
Brooklyn and Queens. However, those apartments were under rent control.
Trump liquidated those properties and put that money into building new
residential buildings in Manhattan which were not under rent control and
multiplied his inheritance many times over.
Bottom line - Biden is for bad things, Trump is good things. Biden voted
for the Iraq war, Trump has a very good record on foreign affairs: no
new wars. Trump is a patriot and is against the rewriting of American
history and the toppling of statues of our founding fathers, Biden is a
puppet in the hands of the left wing of the Democratic party which
supports Black Lives Matter, Antifa, critical race theory, which is
supported - surprisingly - by big business. Trump is against illegal
immigration which immiserates the working class, Biden is in favor of
legalizing resident illegals.
Mike
On 10/25/2020 10:28 AM, Frances Morey wrote:
> Dear Mike, et al,
> I do find much agreement with you, Mike. Yet Trump's $400 Million in
> Debt obliges him to someone, or someone's, for sure. Any "businessman"
> who inherits $4 Million from his father and ends up $400 Million in
> debt is questionable in my book as to his qualifications for the
> title, businessman.
>
> Yes Biden sold his soul time and again to remain capable and ready to
> "work across the aisle" yet it is our blessing that he, too, could be
> a one-term president. He and I are age-mates. He may make just half a
> term since our peers are dying like the actual flies, one of which so
> notoriously decorated Pence's hair.
>
> Biden's chance at redemption is at hand. He could win a chance to
> reunite the party and save the middle class, as well as the
> environment, through progressive legislation the populace demands.
> Such legislation could rightfully originate in congress where laws are
> made. He wouldn't dare neglect to sign the bills. His place in history
> is at stake.
>
> Best,
> Frances
>
> On Sun, Oct 25, 2020 at 6:55 AM Michael Eisenstadt
> <mike.eisenstadt at gmail.com <mailto:mike.eisenstadt at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> I naively assumed that Gov. Abbott was just looking out for the
> survival of the bar industry in an eleemosynary spirit. As Frances
> points out, the ploy of reimagining bars as restaurants and
> letting them reopen was simply to keep the sales tax monies
> flowing to the state the health of the public be damned. In a
> parallel universe, an enlightened public would rise up and recall
> Abbott from office. Don't hold your breath!
>
> What an election! Whoever wins Biden or Trump we lose: both
> crooks, the former in addition to being financially corrupt a
> captive of the worst tendencies of the age, namely the movements
> working to overthrow the intellectual and moral heritage of
> Western civilization. The latter, a narcissist as Frances notes
> yet strangely his own man and not in the pocket of special
> interests so far as is known unlike Biden who has been owned lock
> stock and barrel by the credit card giants domiciled in his home
> state of Delaware.
>
> On 10/24/2020 11:49 PM, Frances Morey wrote:
>> The state of Texas enjoyed a million dollars a day in alcohol
>> taxes collected by the bar keeps--that factoid I learned over a
>> decade ago. No telling what it is since then. The state's self
>> interest is at stake more than public health. The third spike is
>> under way. We'll see how closely the death rate follows.
>>
>> Trump as role model Narcissist in Chief disparaged face covering
>> turning it into a political statement. I sure hope he doesn't win
>> a second term. That could cause COVID-19 to linger in the
>> populace for the rest of my lifetime. I have learned to be
>> cautious, masking up in public and avoiding crowded
>> situations--so far so good.
>> Best,
>> Frances
>>
>> On Sat, Oct 24, 2020 at 8:05 PM Michael Eisenstadt
>> <mike.eisenstadt at gmail.com <mailto:mike.eisenstadt at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> litigated, not ligitated
>>
>> On 10/24/2020 7:30 PM, Michael Eisenstadt wrote:
>>> Jim,
>>>
>>> Yes, the deaths from Covid in Travis Co. and elsewhere are a
>>> very small number. Some have explained that as improved
>>> treatment regimens in the hospitals. Hospitalizations,
>>> though, are going up at a fairly steep curve and many
>>> midwestern states are running out of ICU beds. We need
>>> better statistics on the severity of infection, how many are
>>> unsymptomatic for example. If we take Dr. Fauci seriously,
>>> he suggested that wearing masks in public should be made
>>> mandatory. But AFAIK that is impossible in our system of
>>> government in which that sort of decision devolves on the
>>> states and cannot be ordered by the Federal government. Only
>>> during WW II did the Federal government take over overall
>>> direction of the country. That was possible because it
>>> reflected the will of the people. Nowadays, any presidential
>>> executive order mandating masks would be opposed and
>>> ligitated in the courts for god knows how long.
>>>
>>> Back to the facts: young people are not wearing masks in
>>> public as we saw today and it seems they will be infected in
>>> large numbers and will spread it to their families.
>>>
>>> Mike
>>>
>>> On 10/24/2020 5:07 PM, James Holland wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi Mike,
>>>>
>>>> What would you say to the rejoinder that although the
>>>> tested positivity rate is going up, that number by itself
>>>> may well be misleading, in that there's no corresponding
>>>> spike in deaths, even allowing for time lag? Ref:
>>>> https://txdshs.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/ed483ecd702b4298ab01e8b9cafc8b83
>>>> <https://txdshs.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html%23/ed483ecd702b4298ab01e8b9cafc8b83>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> All the best,
>>>>
>>>> Jim
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Austin-ghetto-list
>>>> [mailto:austin-ghetto-list-bounces at pairlist.net
>>>> <mailto:austin-ghetto-list-bounces at pairlist.net>] On Behalf
>>>> Of Michael Eisenstadt
>>>> Sent: Saturday, October 24, 2020 4:41 PM
>>>> To: austin-ghetto-list at pairlist.net
>>>> <mailto:austin-ghetto-list at pairlist.net>
>>>> Subject: [AGL] hundreds on the street - no masks
>>>>
>>>> We just drove to Whole Foods along 6th street. Lo and
>>>> behold, all the
>>>>
>>>> bars were open and the streets were full of hundered of
>>>> young drinkers
>>>>
>>>> none of them wearing masks. We could see many outdoor
>>>> tables full of
>>>>
>>>> revelers. Bars are allowed to retitle themselves as
>>>> restaurants - that
>>>>
>>>> means having to buy a $5 bag of chips. That arrangement is
>>>> ridiculous.
>>>>
>>>> Abbott cares more about bars open for business than he does
>>>> for public
>>>>
>>>> safety.
>>>>
>>>> Mask wearing is not obligatory in Texas - thanks Gov.
>>>> Abbott - and the
>>>>
>>>> rate of infections is increasing mightily, so we will never
>>>> be free of
>>>>
>>>> the pandemic at this rate, not in my abreviated lifetime.
>>>>
>>>
>>
>
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