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Care to expound upon how this is Pelosi's fault? Or how it in any way relates to her legacy? Try and use logic and facts if possible.
by phlipski 3y ago
Care to expound upon how this is Pelosi's fault? Or how it in any way relates to her legacy? Try and use logic and facts if possible.
- awel24t 3y ago[dead]
- therealdkz 3y agoand preferably citation
- klipklop 3y agoShe is one of the most powerful people in the country or even world. She has a lot of influence that could fix this...yet that does not happen. If you are as "up there" as Pelosi and you still have no ability to change the district you run for election out of, who does?
- mickdeek86 3y agoSo is the Pope, who also does not set policy in the municipality of San Francisco. To reply to your question: the mayor and city council (which is a group of humans, a species which is famously given to disagreement between individual members) of San Francisco have some power to improve the situation, but even they have precious few examples of cities to have attracted and generated tremendous wealth without also having tremendous poverty and depravity, frequently sited literally across the street from said wealth. What US cities have done so humanely?
- dventimi 3y agoSF voters don't get to vote for or against the Pope.
- Rebelgecko 3y agoA dude in Menlo Park did, IMO that's close enough
- dventimi 3y agoThat makes no sense.
- dventimi 3y ago> but even they have precious few examples of cities to have attracted and generated tremendous wealth without also having tremendous poverty and depravity Have you considered the possibility that the poverty is a consequence of the wealth?
- freedude 3y agoMy gut feeling is the reference to Pelosi was due to the name of the building. Or because she is from that area and represented it for so many years. Regardless, the irony is amusing to some of us.
- TMWNN 3y agoThe Federal Building is named for Pelosi. She is, besides being the former Speaker of the House, the Representative for most of the city, and has been since 1987. EDIT: Correction, as per splendor_spoon's comment
- splendor_spoon 3y agoShe is the speaker of the house? Someone should let Kevin know.
- TMWNN 3y agoSorry; you are correct. Her title is, however, "Speaker Emerita" given her impending retirement from the House. I had seen mention of same earlier and that stuck in my head.
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- dventimi 3y agoOk. She and her liberal cohorts in SF, in Sacramento, in DC, and on Sand Hill Road opened the floodgates to an ocean of money pouring into and through the city, got rich doing it, and ruined the city. The only thing to say in their favor is that it had not much to do with them being liberal
- x1ph0z 3y agoSo no concrete action she did/did not do at her level. Gotcha.
- vuln 3y ago36 years is a long time to do/not do things.
- dventimi 3y agoNo you don't gotcha. There's plenty of concrete action at her level that led to SF's benighted circumstances.
- vajrabum 3y agoGreat! If there's plenty could you please cite one or two?
- dventimi 3y agoSure. What's your rubric for judging citations? We need to know so that you don't move the goalposts.
- vajrabum 3y agoI dunno, but it's certainly higher than a bald assertion about something that is a factual matter. And move the goalposts? You made specific claims about Nanci Pelosi and the liberal establishment. Plus I think it's interesting that you claim liberals opened a spigot of money without mentioning the Federal Reserve's zero rate interest policy of more than a decades standing under both Obama and Trump appointed Fed Chairs. That might have had something to do with junky startups getting funding, and why the funding dried up and a lot of startups went south when the interest rates went up.