Tuesday Open Thread [5.22.12]
Before I get started today, I’d just like to bid George Tierney Jr. of Greenville, South Carolina a good morning and hope that things are going well with him and his Google problem.
Former Philadelphia Phillie and Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling in recent years became a very public champion of conservative “small-government” politics. How ironic is it that then that when he launched a video game production company that two years ago set up shop in Rhode Island thanks to $75 million in state guaranteed loans. The least Schilling could have done then was thank the government rather bloviate about how government was evil.
Well, two years later, because Schilling sucks as a businesman, his business isn’t going so well, and this month Schilling’s company 38 Studios missed a $1.1 million payment to the state. He’s now asking for more taxpayer help.
Oh, the irony.
What a dork.
@DD “The least Schilling could have done then was thank the government rather bloviate about how government was evil.”
But if the govt is giving money to the likes of him, maybe it really is evil?
Big Government is a favorite whipping boy of conservatives, but what they want is small or no government for all but guess who?
Seems as though the Fatman has finally lost it. As relayed to me by a friend: Today 5/22/12 at 5:25 pm on The Bill Colley Show, a caller called in to say that Mr. Colley cut off callers and was disrespectful. Mr. Colley responded: “blow it out your ass” and hung up.
Sounds like one of his more lucid moments considering he is a guy who has lost his last chance at talkster fame and fortune. Just sayin’
Another in the long,long,long line of examples why the government has no business lending, or guaranteeing loans to business or individuals. It is not, and should not be a function of government at any level what so ever.