So does your mom!

It should be an upfront cost (auction), that buys you in for 5 years. 6th year is 20% of the original sum, 7th @ 40%, etc... increasing by 20% a year until they either surrender the allocation and walk away, or allow it to go back up for auction where they can bid on a new term.

Something along the lines of over promise and under deliver...

EVERYTHING is tasty wrapped in bacon and fried in butter.

Bacoin?

So what you're suggesting is beer?

It'll be the Higgs field polarity inverter.

It's value was lowered by a lot more than that when Obama won it.

My kingdom for a mod point...

+6 Truth

I feel your pain brother

I'll gladly demonize those that trample on the constitution they swore to uphold, liberal and conservative alike. They're equally guilty.

That tends to happen with age and real-world experience. I actually started off from the other direction. Was a Republican, realized they just a full of shit as the Democrats, and became a Libertarian (when I also realized that's what I really was the whole time). I have no love for the Tea Party, but sympathy for some of their arguments.

Echo chambers often look like agreement to those with a distorted worldview. Do you self-identify as a whiny liberal?

...wasn't disappointed.

Have an SLA? ...I didn't think so. You're SOL.