There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
Peter F. Drucker
Image of the Day
Reason's Nanny of the Month
You have to vote for it to see what's in it: fascist grab bag....
Facebook Corner
(Ron Paul). Bernie Sanders does not believe in private property, voluntary exchange, individual responsibility, supply & demand, or even the proper definition of the word "right."
http://bit.ly/1DWrjNj
He may have different views than me, but he isn't a sell out corporate shill like all the other candidates (including your son)
I have some policy differences with Rand Paul, but anyone who thinks he's a corporate sellout is a retard. He has pulled in a fraction of his competitors and much of that is small donations. From USA Today:
"In a report filed Wednesday night with the Federal Election Commission, the Paul campaign reported raising $6.9 million between April — when Paul announced his candidacy — and June 30.
Of that total, $3.2 million came in small donations of $200 or less. Within the group of 15 GOP presidential candidates, only retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson has raised a higher percentage of his contributions from small donors.
"Fundraising for Paul has been lackluster, especially because his team has not lassoed a big-dollar donor like the billionaires bankrolling other candidates...Paul campaign spokesman Sergio Gor declined to comment to The Courier-Journal. But he told Breitbart News last week that 108,205 individual donors have given to Paul, with the average contribution of $65."
(Cato Institute). "Immigration is a benefit to the U.S. economy....More immigrants...expands the size of the economy...More people buying things means the rest of the economy needs more workers."
Why Bernie Sanders' anti-immigrant economic protectionism is flawed economic policy....
Legal immigrants are a good thing, illegal immigrants are a bad thing for the economy. Legal immigrants pay taxes and contribute to the economy and their community. Illegal immigrants drain the economy thru criminal actions and demand welfare. Keep the ones that do it the right way and get rid of those who refuse to.
The OP is an economically illiterate, morally corrupt, know-nothing right-fascist. Most of these anti-immigrant quote Friedman out of context. Friedman was all for "illegal" immigration: "Look, for example, at the obvious, immediate, practical example of illegal Mexican immigration. Now, that Mexican immigration, over the border, is a good thing. It’s a good thing for the illegal immigrants. It’s a good thing for the United States. It’s a good thing for the citizens of the country. But, it’s only good so long as its illegal." (He didn't want immigrants exacerbating unsustainable domestic welfare programs)
The moron is wrong on literally everything he said. In fact, hundreds of billions of payroll taxes paid by undocumented aliens and their employers have kept our senior entitlements in better shape than they would be otherwise. The fact of the matter is every credible economic study bears out the benefits of immigration and our economy became the biggest and fastest growing in the world under unrestricted immigration. I could go on and on but Nowrasteh doesn't need my help.
Mischaracterization of an opposing point of view is beneath a valid position. Sanders is for LEGAL immigration. That is not anti-immigrant anymore than having secure borders. And it is a hell of a lot better than flooding the country with millions of new welfare recipients like the man in the Whitehouse, who you SUPPOSEDLY oppose, is doing. Now we have to wonder about CATO.
Oh, listen to the morally corrupt anti-immigrant troll argue "some of my best friends are immigrants...." You need to stop reading derangement syndrome propaganda and read REAL economics. What about the fact that until WWI (with some notorious anti-Asian exceptions) we had essentially unrestricted immigration--and had become the world's largest economy? The unions (who Sanders represents), the xenophobes and bigots want to manipulate the labor markets by restricting competition. All of you anti-immigrant fascists are un-American at your core; all people have an unalienable right to migrate--this is supposed to be the "land of the free". It's none of your business who lives and works in this country. You only have say over who is invited to your house.
(continuing exchanges of a "progressive" troll ranting against LFC's opposition to anti-price gouging laws)
LFC, the same DC's that supply the water are the same fucking ones the other stores ship their goods to ship to your local store. Do you even know what the fuck logistics are?
What LFC knows, and you don't, is State intervention is part of the problem, not the solution; your "solution" is prohibit voluntary transactions from buyer to seller.. Logistics is a major reason why Wal-Mart is the industry leader.
Just for the sake of making a point, you could book planes, barges, trains, beyond existing distribution channels--perhaps at higher costs. And LFC doesn't really talk about the distributions; it could be a case like a limited supply of Tickle Me Elmo dolls delivered daily but they sell out quickly because of artificially low prices. Eventually we get to an equilibrium level, but this is like the madness of the economically illiterate fascist FDR's ludicrous handling of the Great Depression. Retarded government adds economic uncertainty to the economic context--that's EXACTLY why this economy has sucked under the current Fascist-in-Chief. Everyone wants to blame Bush for the fiasco of Katrina but it was Blanco and Nagin who failed to act on evacuation plans, etc. The government, as I cited above, actually turned back supply trucks. Central planning at its finest hour, buses left in low-lying area to be flooded out, unused..
I guarantee what will not work is some fascist logistics "expert" in a state of denial about the reality of spontaneous order. And another thing: the fascist troll has never passed Accounting 101. One of the first things they teach you is past costs are irrelevant.
Political Cartoon
 |
| Courtesy of Michael Ramirez via Townhall |
Kenny Rogers, "Through the Years"
