Comments on: It Doesn’t Always Compute

By: fornetti

fornetti — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 17:58:32 +0000

I do not believe this

By: BRussell

BRussell — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:21:08 +0000

Brett,

Is it your contention that Japan’s markets are open?

By: Brett_McS

Brett_McS — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 08:48:24 +0000

“you can’t have free-trade without open borders”

Nonsense. Japan, Switzerland are obvious counter-examples. High capitalization per worker countries such as these (and the US) can trade perfectly well with cheap labor countries on a sustainable basis. Check out David Ricardo.

By: BRussell

BRussell — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 04:35:21 +0000

Clark is running for, and will probably get, the VP nomination.

By: TLM

TLM — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 02:53:08 +0000

Yet another disgrace to the great state of Arkansas, General Wesley Clark, stepped in it this weekend. Gen Clark, former Clinton supporter now Obama surrogate, called into question McCain’s qualifications to be Commander-in-Chief, “refuting the argument” that his time as a POW gives McCain special expertise in national security matters. Defending his remarks on CNN tonight, Clark sounded like he was running for president himself, mentioning his tour as NATO Commander during that little war in the Balkans. As I recall, Bill Clinton relieved his fellow Arkansan for upstaging him during that time period. I’ll skip the pro forma “while I appreciate his service to our country” bit and simply call Clark what he is, an ambitious self-centered idiot. It’s McCain’s 20 plus years in the Navy, 24 years in Congress involved in national security affairs, and dedicated study of history that gives him his understanding of security issues. His time as a POW merely shows what one man can endure when he is fortified with the faith of his fathers, an absolute dedication to duty, and an uncompromising belief in the greatness of his country. Of course, for the liberal Left those are not necessary qualifications or even desirable characteristics in a President.

By: BRussell

BRussell — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 02:05:30 +0000

My Lord the revisionism is in full tilt today.

The United States is enjoying the greatest amount of “Free-access” in the last 100 years of history. Okay, forget that we used to make the Chinese buy our goods, we have the “free-trade” economy the Utopian-Free Traders promised us.

And all it has gotten us is $$$t. Sorry, but I remember the promises that Newt, Clinton, Bush, Lott,etc., made to use about how all those “deals” would be great for America.

What hog-wash. By industrializing India and China-”Just think of all those consumers just waiting to buy all our Hummers and Caterpillars”- all we’ve done is put the energy noose around our neck. The American dollar is near 50 year lows in value, gasoline is regressively destroying what little income/equity the lower and middle class has and all the “Free-traders” can do is incorrectly re-call the mistakes of “Smoot-Hartley”.

Sorry, besides the bogus “free-trade” agreements (now we know why they didn’t attempt to pass them as treaties, the light of day being shined on them in the Senate hearings would have revealed the folly of these scams), we had a mortgage industry running wild in a manner not seen since, oh the stock market crash of ‘29. Yep, you can buy a house, no money down! Just like buying stocks with only 10% down in ‘29. Any moron could have seen a repeat of this crash coming.

And finally, you can’t have free-trade without open borders my friends.

You wanted cheap goods from China? Well how do you think we can compete with that if not by importing millions of illegals?

Happy now? You sold your birthright as Americans for cheap goods from China and for your lawn to look nice.

Now you have nothing but $5 a gallon gas and a crash that will replicate 1929 if we’re unlucky.

Oh yeah, and now the Republicans are going to get their hat handed to them and we’ll have raging socialists in their place.

Thanks Free-traders.

By: Chicago Boyz » Blog Archive » Sustainability of Progressive Politics

Chicago Boyz » Blog Archive » Sustainability of Progressive Politics — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:39:53 +0000

[...] Hanson wrote at his Works and Days blog about the sustainability of San Fransisco–no, not the ecological [...]

By: David

David — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:35:28 +0000

Living in the Valley, I sometimes go to S.F. for a game, a play, etc. If all the world’s a stage for players, then the City must be center stage. Each character category: urban professional, gay, fringe drop-out, street person, 20-something person in flipflops airily supported by invisible means, whatever…they are all there strutting their identity. Full agreement here–rarely do I see parents with kids-in-tow except in the outlying districts and not many there.

Nope, mostly just lifestyle players by vocation busily being their assumed S.F. identities. Despite his noisy company, I’m happy to return to my working class neighbors with their teeming kids and generous “lifestyle”.

By: Sustainability of Progressive Politics « Smitten Eagle

Sustainability of Progressive Politics « Smitten Eagle — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 23:46:48 +0000

[...] Hanson wrote at his Works and Days blog about the sustainability of San Fransisco–no, not the ecological [...]

By: TurfMonster

TurfMonster — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 03:55:58 +0000

Good question, John. San Francisco doesn’t appear to be very healthy from a demographics point-of-view. Good thing for them that they have other things going for them, like the view, but how that can be sustained is a good question to ask.