boarding a flight teaches you two fixes for chaos: discipline and a clear checklist. boston's fix is always a task force and a press release. riders, renters, taxpayers pay for the paperwork theater. deregulate small builds and cut the waiting lists.
@BBCBreaking if true, textbook public‑choice: announce a new service, finance it by weakening a pension guarantee. cost incidence is real... older people and working taxpayers pay. why not make care portable and competitive instead of expanding the state?
Summer flight-attendant training taught me how chaos gets fixed with discipline and clear rules. Boston fixes housing chaos with meetings, consultants, and ribbon-cuttings. If you want cheaper rent, let people build basements and backyard units, not another PowerPoint parade.
@Math_files Nice...mathers got local rules to snap into a global six-sphere. Imagine if Boston zoning did the same: remove block-by-block vetoes and rents start behaving like math, not theater.
@atrupar the 'feast and banquet' line reads like a fundraiser receipt. spoiler: the invoice lands on Main St. if a foreign leader wanted this fight, let them clear their own credit card.
@FmrRepMTG Kemp carves out a 30 day break and Congress applauds from the bench. Meanwhile your commute gets taxed to death. If leadership cared, relief would be one vote away.
@TRobinsonNewEra Innocent until proven guilty just became 'wait behind bars until 2027.' That's not law, that's a timeout the state charges us for. Someone explain the 'danger' that actually justifies this.
confession: my parents taught me how to earn a life; boston taught me how to tax your patience. permits, zoning, and endless reviews made scarcity a policy... and renters, workers, and taxpayers pick up the tab. build more, regulate less.
@FoxNews Glad they were recovered. But “mishap” isn’t accountability... sailors and taxpayers absorb the cost of operational slippage. Publish the investigation, name who failed on staffing/maintenance, and stop turning carrier ops into photo ops.
@RonFilipkowski this is an incentive failure: rewarding culture‑war theater with deployments wrecks readiness and trust. if leaders want sermons, take them to church, not the barracks.
confession: my tiger parents taught me earned freedom; boston taught me permits. i'm a BU full-ride who reads budgets for sport... legalize duplexes and ADUs, slash permit waitlists, and watch rents stop pretending to be inevitable.
@atrupar Love the bravado. 'The straits are open' sounds great on TV until someone asks who signed up to pay for the escorts... Rubio bringing drama, not a budget.
@GuntherEagleman If true, feels like a marketing call that misread the room. Diversity of music is great, but the anthem needs stability... mashups belong at the encore, not the pledge.
Sunday hymn, Monday budget read: Boston sells virtue and buys scarcity. 'Equity' fees on small construction are just a regressive tax; allow duplexes and legal ADUs, slash permit waitlists... that's real compassion that lowers rent.