tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post610987875417555894..comments2024-03-29T07:33:41.566-04:00Comments on The Silicon Graybeard: The Chicago Teacher's StrikeSiGraybeardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00280583031339062059noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-12909754619767813602012-09-16T09:36:11.413-04:002012-09-16T09:36:11.413-04:00It's pretty much what the administration did w...It's pretty much what the administration did with coservative-owned GM dealerships: they were weeded out in favor of those run by obama supporters.Cheesynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-60082094267600711282012-09-15T11:13:33.920-04:002012-09-15T11:13:33.920-04:00Don't think about what is best for the US and ...Don't think about what is best for the US and the people as a whole, think about what is best for the political class.<br /><br />At the national level congressmen, senators, POTUS and appointees get to increase their own power by expanding what is covered by law and regulation; they get lots of campaign contributions or outright bribes to modify\make\block laws and regulation, eg friends of Angelo; make money in the "free" market through insider trading, knowing what the laws will say before their published; get jobs for the boys or Mrs, like Michelle Obama's $300k pa in a role that was created for her when Obama was a senator and abolished when she left; and well paid jobs as lobbyists after they leave.<br /><br />At the local level the sums are smaller but everything else is the same, from bribes for building contracts to campaign contribution, why else licence hairdressers?<br /><br />As for thinking about the next move, controls breed controls. Creating problems is a feature not a bug, as it creates public demand for them to do things later on down the line. How many gun laws are there, and how effective have they been at disarming criminals and reducing crime? A better question is how effective have they been in providing politicians a nice distraction and someone else to blame for crime? <br /><br />Black voters have strongly voted left since the new deal 80 years ago, as they are typically poorer, more likely to be unemployed, more likely to have a lower paid job, have less stable families, are more dependent on government for benefits and are therefore more likely to look to government and the politicians who want to enlarge government to look after them. As long as they are kept poor and dependant on the government then won't the left have a steady supply of voters (dead and alive!) for at least the next 80 years? <br /><br />"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard" H.L. Mencken<br /><br />mikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-68953180830333823702012-09-14T19:02:20.134-04:002012-09-14T19:02:20.134-04:00You're obviously enough of a business person t...You're obviously enough of a business person to see that, which is more than we can say for pretty much all of the executive branch and 90% of the legislative. SiGraybeardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00280583031339062059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-50950319709769631452012-09-14T16:00:30.879-04:002012-09-14T16:00:30.879-04:00I am not a small businessman, and I don't play...I am not a small businessman, and I don't play one on TV, but I think many jobs would remain in this country even at the higher wages if it weren't for having to try to navigate the regulatory swamp created by EPA, DOE, IRS, Work Comp, Equal Opportunity, etc., etc. Not to mention the political whorehouse, ala Gibson vs Martin with the Lacey Act being applied vigorously to those who lean Right (without the benefit of KY Jelly).RegTnoreply@blogger.com