Open Thread

“I will also smack the ever-lovin’ shit outta people who move to NYC and feel it’s appropriate to pay/are willing to pay $4k for a studio with no sink in the bathroom :-)”

Now here is a platform all can unite around!! I suggest that you bring in Tybur6 as your campaign manager.

Oh, & I should mention that along w/ being red-lined for health insurance, I also couldn’t get a loan for my co-op w/o a guarantor because I was uninsurable. And paying off medical bills doesn’t count towards your credit rating.

Thanks, Benson! You wouldn’t guess to look at me that all those thousands have been invested in this body, would you? But I’m alive 40 years after they said I wouldn’t be.

According to New Balance 25% of their shoes sold in N. America are proudly produced in the U.S.

Posted by: Joe from Brooklyn at October 29, 2009 2:51 PM

That would basically equate to 25% of revenues spent on marketing. I bet there’s little to no profit margin on these shoes and all the profits are handsomely made from the shoes made in China. It’s a marketing ploy. People are gullible.

Still real people making them in real factories.

PS, Snaps, I was gonna write in The Naked Cowboy, but now you’re my write-in vote