After buying out the town elders, shooting McCabe and closing the red light district (laying off Mrs. Miller), George Romney would probably sell off all the town infrastructure and outsource the mines. Then he could move on with a tidy profit to the next mining town over the mountains.
laying off mrs. miller? so things stay the same for her?
His name...was Julio Iglesias!
Mrs Miller was a profit center. He just would have made her work a longer shift.
shareHe who says A must say B, so let's set aside the loser Romney and examine the actual incumbent's plan. First thing Obama would have done is jack the income taxes on every landowner and businessman in town. This would be followed by cap & trade laws and emissions regulations on everything save Mrs. Miller's whorehouse, which would already be going out of business due to Obamacare mandates (along with all the other businesses and their 19th Century "McJobs", which were still, like, <jobs>, you know?). Before long unemployment would skyrocket, land values would plummet, interest rates would tank, and fireplaces and outhouses would be fully stocked with worthless greenbacks. By 1930 everyone south of the 49th parallel would be saluting the Tricolorés, while everyone north of it would be paying tribute to the Queen again, eh?
So pardon those of us who'd prefer the alternative. That's just how we roll.
I think you mean Mitt Romney.
shareGeorge? Are you trying to insult Mitt, u lib?
shareWhat's this, a political thread from October 2012? Shall I update to 2016?
What would Trump have done? I mean Frederick Trump (1869-1918), Donald's grandfather. He lived a real life strikingly similar to that of the fictional McCabe.
Frederick Trump made his first fortune operating boom-town hotels, restaurants and brothels in the northwestern United States and western Canada. In 1891, Trump purchased a restaurant in Seattle’s Red Light District. The restaurant served food and liquor and was advertised to include "Rooms for Ladies", a common euphemism for prostitution.
In 1894, Trump moved to a gold mining town near Everett and built a hotel. His business was "mining the miners", since even if they never found any gold, they still needed a place to sleep at night when they were mining.
Trump joined the Yukon gold rush in 1898, but he had no plans to mine himself. He opened a tent restaurant along the grueling White Pass trail, where many pack horses died. A frequent dish at the restaurant was fresh-slaughtered, quick-frozen horse.
In the boom town of Bennett, British Columbia, Trump opened the Arctic Restaurant and Hotel, which offered fine dining and lodging in a sea of tents. The Arctic was originally housed in a tent itself, but demand for the hotel and restaurant grew until it occupied a two-story building. The Arctic was open 24 hours a day and advertised "Rooms for Ladies," which included beds and scales for measuring gold dust. The local Mounties were known to tolerate vice so long as it was conducted discreetly.
Trump began fighting with his business partner due to the latter's drinking. They broke their business relationship in February 1901, but reconciled in April. Around that time, the local government announced suppression on prostitution, gambling and liquor, though the crackdown was delayed by businesspeople until later that year. In light of this impending threat to his business operation, Trump sold his share of the restaurant and left the Yukon for Queens, New York, where he opened a barber shop.
On March 30, 1918, while walking with his son Fred in Queens, Frederick Trump suddenly felt extremely sick and was rushed to bed. He died a few hours later of pneumonia during the 1918 flu pandemic. He was 49 years old.