tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post1764957487788681224..comments2023-06-15T09:13:45.467-04:00Comments on Liberty's Torch: Stuff that we know.Francis W. Porrettohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05862584203772592282noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-4366268203528844812019-01-13T15:11:12.338-05:002019-01-13T15:11:12.338-05:00Mr. Day, I'll file that away. Thanks. I'm...Mr. Day, I'll file that away. Thanks. I'm liking "Crazy Eyes" more and more though. Everything she says is with those eyes right out of a vampire movie and they punctuate her socialist views perfectly.<br /><br />Her funding can only be endlessly fascinating. Col. B. Bunnyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09590364016079745156noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-19319009078745137152019-01-13T15:03:08.827-05:002019-01-13T15:03:08.827-05:00I am blameless as usual, sykes.1. I believe those...I am blameless as usual, sykes.1. I believe those are Mr. Krugman's words. However, in truth, I'm not too far from entertaining the same notion. The middle class is being squeezed in a terrible way and strong forces work against the affordability of family formation and preservation. Lots of our factories are STILL in China and was it Ford that just announced its intention to open a new factory in Mexico? Harley-Davidson? <br /><br />Trump wants to open the door to more H1B visa competitors for tech jobs and you can't swing a cat in any university student lounge without striking 3-400 Chinese students. All occupying seats that should have Americans in them.<br /><br />A giant bubble makes housing a perilous adventure for anyone in most places and student debt is crushing young people on the threshold of their working lives. Such jobs as they get are barista-quality jobs. <br /><br />Not to mention spending for entitlements, Medicare/Medicaid, war, pensions, and other gimmes is immense and as of the hour uncontrolled and quite distant from any place of control.<br /><br />Serious inflation is denied but can be seen in food prices, jobless citizens are hidden behind a curtain of statistical sophistry, and pension costs are through the roof and placing intolerable pressure on local tax bases.<br /><br />Trump has erred in equating stock market levels with overall economic vitality, whereas they indicate the deleterious effects of absurdly low interest rates and the malinvestment that goes along with them. He's done good work and his accomplishments are very real but, if we're not in a bona fide slump, we're a long way from returning to any kind of economic sanity. Any retreat from social justice, envirowacko, or other crazy regulation and expense is greeted with the anguished cry of "neoliberalism," whatever that is.Col. B. Bunnyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09590364016079745156noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-65002996419061254922019-01-13T12:33:25.054-05:002019-01-13T12:33:25.054-05:00Colonel, remember her name this way, "occasio...Colonel, remember her name this way, "occasional cortex", not "occasional whore". I'll pass over the topic of her political funding here, in the interest of good taste.daniel_dayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18399665251275194585noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-64645394741459933222019-01-13T08:07:11.601-05:002019-01-13T08:07:11.601-05:00"our current slump" ??
Are you kidding?..."our current slump" ??<br /><br />Are you kidding? What slump?<br /><br />We do have areas where our free trade and open borders policies have decimated local economies, and that does seriously impair the living standards of working class people whose parents could work at industrial jobs. It is also a major contributor to the opioid epidemic.<br /><br />[Doesn't anyone remember the heroin, pot and cocaine epidemics in the black underclass? Once upon a time it seemed every jazz musician was hooked on heroin. Miles Davis being the prime example.]<br /><br />But those same polices have greatly enriched the Ruling Class and produced an economy that really hums for them. Some drips and drabs fall down to the Middle Class, too.<br /><br />So, while averages hide problems, I don't see an overall slump.<br /><br />sykes.1https://www.blogger.com/profile/10954672321945289871noreply@blogger.com