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Rolls Royce Phantom Coupé.

Rolls Royce Phantom Coupé.

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chadborghini:me againvery ~

chadborghini:

me again

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"Above all, capitalism wastes human life. The U.S. spends billions to warehouse 2 million people—many..."

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Above all, capitalism wastes human life. The U.S. spends billions to warehouse 2 million people—many of them young Black and Latino men—in overcrowded prisons. It provides sub-par education to millions of poor students, sending a message that their lives will amount to nothing.

Are people homeless in America because there’s a shortage of homes? And if that’s the case, is there a shortage of homes because we don’t have the concrete, the wood and the steel to build them?

The truth is that under capitalism, there’s no incentive to build low-cost housing for the homeless—because it isn’t profitable to do so.

The same goes for the more than 800 million people in the world who go hungry. It isn’t profitable to feed them. So food is stockpiled or destroyed rather than distributed to them.

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- Is the free market efficient? (via humanformat)

It’s not a perfect system. But what’s the alternative? It seems to me far more would go hungry in a communist system. Just take a look at China circa 1970.

It’s human nature that drives economics and whether we like it or not, that means we will continue to live in an unfair world.

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Flexon Vale

I want to introduce my debut novel including what it means to me and what I think it will mean to readers. It took me about seven months from concept to final edits to complete the project. The name I chose is the combination of the last names of the protagonists, Julian Flexon and Chason Vale. Julian is young, in college, and reckless. Chase is older, established in his field, and reckless. The story starts out with a phone call from Felicia Sandorf, who works for Chase as his agent. Essentially, she uses her body and image to collect tips for him in order to profitably play the market. They are both addicted to money. The smell of it. The thrill of it. Everything about it. (Sound familiar, Americans?) Anyway, Zeno State is where both Julian and Chase went to college. It's not necessarily Penn State, though that's what most readers will believe. Julian's lifestyle and the pedophile scandal that consumes Chase's life closely resemble PSU. But, that's not what I'm going after in Flexon Vale. That lifestyle, that scandal, could occur at any major University in America where life is a constant cocktail hour and we worship the football programs as Gods. Sierra Vale, Chase's wife, is mortified by the scandal at Zeno State. That Chase still wants to drink the Kool-Aid frays their relationship, pushing him closer to Felicia Sandorf, and ultimately making him vulnerable. The novel slows down after the first two chapters but picks up with El Presidente, which is when Chase meets Felicia at a fundraiser in New York. The drama at the Javits Center sets the stage for the final act, which for obvious reasons I will not discuss here. In my opinion, the last 25% of the ~55,000 word novel is the fastest moving, most intriguing part; the conclusion is meant to shock and awe the reader.

If anyone on Goodreads is interested in a complimentary copy send me a message with your preferred format and contact information.

Hopefully I can improve on this work with my Sophomore effort, which will be a six part series and likely be complete around June or July 2013.

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blackcatds:Here’s a map of the countries that provide...

blackcatds:

Here’s a map of the countries that provide universal health care (and the U.S. still isn’t on it.. : http://goo.gl/JpS5y

What with our trillion dollar deficits may as well color us in green. (Yes, that means each year the US is spending at least $1,000,000,000,000 more than it produces. That’s totally sustainable though. Just ask Joe Biden.) But, at least in 2014 or 2015 or whatever year Obamacare goes into effect, we can pretend we have universal health care, like Europe does, right? (What with the fact that Europe has no problems right now whatsoever maybe they’ll be pretending to do the same thing at that point too.)

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