tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post1969300772045670758..comments2024-03-27T18:24:19.683-07:00Comments on Steve Sailer: iSteve: The cure for all ills: Moar immigrationUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger32125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-76415352441763945702014-05-19T10:22:19.275-07:002014-05-19T10:22:19.275-07:00I'm starting to think that economists are the ...<i>I'm starting to think that economists are the single most stupid category of academic, surpassing even the "womyns studies" and "Afro-American studies" clowns.<br /></i><br /><br />You could line up all the economists of the world side by side and you would never reach a conclusion.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-30333973508343897112014-05-18T14:11:04.271-07:002014-05-18T14:11:04.271-07:00"You know, I realize this may come as a surpr..."You know, I realize this may come as a surprise, but we've actually had a certain amount of immigration during these recent decades of declining economic dynamism. So, before we rush into even more immigration, maybe we should consider the possibility that immigration discourages business formation and job relocation among Americans."<br /><br />The same could be said of "free trade," the capital gains tax loophole and other policies that favor capital over workers. <br /><br />The current situation, where policies that seem to have a strong temporal correlation and obvious mechanisms of causality with the bad economy are treated as unquestionable dogmas will not last much longer.ATBOTLnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-41256337936893238892014-05-18T12:14:16.606-07:002014-05-18T12:14:16.606-07:00"Anonymous said...
Steve I'm not sure ho..."Anonymous said...<br /><br />Steve I'm not sure how it is in SoCal, but us up here in NorCal can always tell a true believer lefty when they can't go 3 sentences without bringing up Prop 13 (passed in 1978).<br /><br />In the fevered lefty mind, Prop 13 is all that stopped California from becoming the liberal paradise. If it wasn't for Prop 13, Mexicans and blacks would outscore Asians and whites on the SAT."<br /><br />Yes, it's remarkable that some people still bleat on about Prop 13, as if it were the Nuremberg Laws or something. I remember that the antis were predicting the most dire disasters should Prop 13 pass. They said that the reduction in government "services" would result in - God knows what - calamity, certainly. However, I don't remember that any state or local employees lost their jobs after 1978, or that any government program or initiative was curtailed or eliminated.Mr. Anonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-46188166044927803692014-05-18T12:06:12.013-07:002014-05-18T12:06:12.013-07:00"But recent research shows that dynamism is s..."But recent research shows that dynamism is slowing down. Business churning and new firm formations have been on a persistent decline during the last few decades"<br /><br />How many homebuilders and banks when out of business after those two industries wrecked our economy? Not many. All the big names in my town are still in business. Our government spent hundreds of billions making sure they survived. If such businesses can survive after such massive incompetence, it gives you a hint of why dynamism has slowed.<br /><br />Great fortunes should have been obliterated, forever, as a result of 2008. For the most part, they weren't. <br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-24371387504556261702014-05-17T10:23:20.520-07:002014-05-17T10:23:20.520-07:00Prediction: Mexican and Mexican-American fertility...Prediction: Mexican and Mexican-American fertility is in the process of collapsing down to an Italian-Spanish rate of 1.3 or 1.4 TFR. All the ingredients are there: women in the workplace, access to contraception, plus a Catholic culture where the men are macho babies who expect their wives to coddle them like their mommies did. <br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-18485008120159085802014-05-17T10:02:39.784-07:002014-05-17T10:02:39.784-07:00"Anonymous said...
What happens if their is ..."Anonymous said...<br /><br />What happens if their is a technlogical break thru that kills francking, thousands of Mexicans and whites in Texas will be out a job this happen in the 1980's Texas is a Mexican growing state it is not getting white, sorry Sailer. An economic bust in a decade my send the white population to other states. Automation is lowering factory wages many factory workers in the south make under 20 an hr. What if automation kills the factory jobs coming home and the south has to go to service work which the Republicans refuse to rise the minimum."<br /><br />I glided over this post and paid it no heed as it was obviously not written in English.<br /><br />Take the time to compose a full sentence or shut up.Mr. Anonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-67410222316128388962014-05-17T09:57:24.924-07:002014-05-17T09:57:24.924-07:00"It's hard to compete when you are burden..."It's hard to compete when you are burdened with small town Midwestern values against businessmen who think Americans are chumps."<br /><br />The nation is managed and governed by people who think that Americans are chumps.<br /><br />As you pointed out, Steve, immigration levels have been high and increasing during the whole time of this decline in dynamism. So clearly, a lack of immigration is not to blame for the decline. Also during that same period, has been an explosion in the number of government regulations and government busy-bodies to enforce them. Did the Brookings nitwtis ever consider those as a cause for declining entrepreneurial dynamism?Mr. Anonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-65138171671376727902014-05-17T09:02:51.999-07:002014-05-17T09:02:51.999-07:00Tell it like it is broth'a!Tell it like it is broth'a!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-62952008406640430932014-05-17T08:03:15.128-07:002014-05-17T08:03:15.128-07:00Don't forget title loan outfits, whorehouses, ...Don't forget title loan outfits, whorehouses, and bail bondsmen. A rakish gentleman, of a Saturday night, might pawn his automobile title for the scratch to consort with interesting ladies and, once arrested by the duly constituted authorities, hire his freedom to roam the wide world once more, all in a little space.Davidhttp://david-passingparade3.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-130014365682619812014-05-17T07:42:04.276-07:002014-05-17T07:42:04.276-07:00On a broad scale, I care about the environment, .....<i>On a broad scale, I care about the environment, ...</i><br /><br />They are going to take that from you too. Who do you think is going to win the debate between mestizos needing places to live and throw out their trash and setting aside millions of acres for a few white hippies to walk around in? That's why the Left has moved on to 'climate change.'The Anti-Gnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04386593803225823789noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-28151949185996587242014-05-17T06:54:28.925-07:002014-05-17T06:54:28.925-07:00"This is conservative bull...Texas is doing t..."This is conservative bull...Texas is doing the same except for the Fracking and professional jobs. Texas is a poverty state unlike California in 1970... which was highly regulated and tax more because this was before prop 13..."<br /><br />Steve I'm not sure how it is in SoCal, but us up here in NorCal can always tell a true believer lefty when they can't go 3 sentences without bringing up Prop 13 (passed in 1978). <br /><br />In the fevered lefty mind, Prop 13 is all that stopped California from becoming the liberal paradise. If it wasn't for Prop 13, Mexicans and blacks would outscore Asians and whites on the SAT. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-46712043815697233282014-05-17T03:39:30.223-07:002014-05-17T03:39:30.223-07:00"Perhaps of more concern, the businesses owne...<i>"Perhaps of more concern, the businesses owned by Mexican-Americans tend to be much smaller<br />and less successful than either African-American or white-owned businesses"</i><br /><br />Or the "reported" turnover and profits are smaller. No one likes paying taxes, but at the low end of business some are more likely than others to see what they can get away with. At the high end, of course, nearly every large company seems to keep most of the profit offshore.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-44403394387499086252014-05-16T22:32:31.090-07:002014-05-16T22:32:31.090-07:00"In fact regulation and taxes with little to ..."In fact regulation and taxes with little to do with economic output, the Bay Area has more regulation than Kern County it has lower unemployment and lower poverty" - if the area were an economic dynamo you'd expect unemployment(people officially looking for work), and poor people(see above) to be present in large numbers, considering America has quite a few of both these days.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-79147249510781877502014-05-16T22:29:31.378-07:002014-05-16T22:29:31.378-07:00Americans are chumps, and we have to do something ...Americans are chumps, and we have to do something about that.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-66643532833977369062014-05-16T19:48:12.145-07:002014-05-16T19:48:12.145-07:00"While the reasons explaining this decline ar..."While the reasons explaining this decline are still unknown"<br /><br />Mass immigration and off-shoring destroys the middle class which destroys the velocity of money which creates a hidden deflationary spiral.<br /><br />The downward spiral can't be stopped without halting immigration and rebuilding the industrial base.<br /><br />The only possible way I can see this happening is if the military figure out what the problem is and throw Wall St. into the sea.<br /><br />Otherwise it's all going down.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-38287043462999177822014-05-16T18:45:11.635-07:002014-05-16T18:45:11.635-07:00"...Mexican-American
business ownership rates..."...Mexican-American<br />business ownership rates and performance are only slightly better than African-American rates and performance. Estimates reported below indicate that only 5.1 percent of Mexican-American men are business owners, compared to 4.4 percent of African-American men and 12.6 percent of non-Latino white men. <br /><br />Perhaps of more concern, the businesses owned by Mexican-Americans tend to be much smaller <br />and less successful than either African-American or white-owned businesses....Average<br />sales are less than one third of those of white owned businesses, $137,980 annually compared to $437,870 (U.S. Census Bureau 2006b)."<br /><br />http://ideas.repec.org/a/bpj/bejeap/v10y2010i1n10.html<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-6648586624116158552014-05-16T18:05:48.025-07:002014-05-16T18:05:48.025-07:00"I believe that the United States of America,..."I believe that the United States of America, that proud, vain but dear country, guided by a constitution that still meant something, into which I was born is dead. Dead, dead, dead. I don't worry about it anymore and mourning is pointless. All my allegiances now are contingent. I support what is commonsensically good for me and mine, otherwise forget it. On a broad scale, I care about the environment, that's it. I can't be shamed or humiliated anymore as I behold my affections trashed."<br /><br />--------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br />Indeed. What's left of the United States is little more than a jumped-up bazaar with an anthem and a flag.<br /><br />And even that won't endure for much longer.Oswald Spenglernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-15675045610180343942014-05-16T17:53:29.428-07:002014-05-16T17:53:29.428-07:00Immigration is the leechcraft of cultural Marxism....Immigration is the leechcraft of cultural Marxism...it'll cure anything.<br /><br />When in doubt, import a few million more unassailable and unassimilable immigrants.<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BD2kWCfTcaU<br /><br />The stuff we sell is just the best<br /><br />Passing all consumer tests, oh-ho<br /><br />Days of heaven, nights of sin<br /><br />Voodoo stick and shark's fin<br /><br />When all around you seems like hell<br /><br />Just one sip will make you well, oh-ho<br /><br />Multi-purpose in a jar<br /><br />If you ain't ill it'll fix your car<br /><br />In days of yore, for all bad feelings<br /><br />Washing socks and stripping ceilings<br /><br />Nowadays, it's used medicinally<br /><br />For all known human malady, ohOswald Spenglernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-73120848579312986702014-05-16T17:42:10.866-07:002014-05-16T17:42:10.866-07:00Our biggest immigrant group, Mexicans, are extreme...<i>Our biggest immigrant group, Mexicans, are extremely nihilistic. I don't blame them, I share their perspective. The paradox is that they have so many kids.</i><br /><br />No they don't. The Hispanic-American fertility rate is 2.35 and trending down. I couldn't find Mexican-American in isolation, but most of those are Mexican descent. In Mexico it's even lower 2.29.tsothahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11004465145630145453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-5339935671425927812014-05-16T16:54:00.565-07:002014-05-16T16:54:00.565-07:00What happens if their is a technlogical break thru...What happens if their is a technlogical break thru that kills francking, thousands of Mexicans and whites in Texas will be out a job this happen in the 1980's Texas is a Mexican growing state it is not getting white, sorry Sailer. An economic bust in a decade my send the white population to other states. Automation is lowering factory wages many factory workers in the south make under 20 an hr. What if automation kills the factory jobs coming home and the south has to go to service work which the Republicans refuse to rise the minimum.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-27694488277095738582014-05-16T16:50:46.437-07:002014-05-16T16:50:46.437-07:00" the Bay Area has more regulation than Kern ..." the Bay Area has more regulation than Kern County it has lower unemployment and lower poverty."<br /><br />I would imagine that the Bay area has less poverty because only the more well-to-do can afford to live there. This might be by design.Stealthnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-90298098847433276672014-05-16T16:42:31.134-07:002014-05-16T16:42:31.134-07:00Fourth, California imposes numerous regulations an...Fourth, California imposes numerous regulations and taxes on businesses, which makes it a difficult business environment for law-abiding Americans. In turn, it attracts a large number of immigrants from cultures where everybody cheats. (Here's my jury duty story about the Iranian used car dealers who stole two million dollars in sales tax revenue.) It's hard to compete when you are burdened with small town Midwestern values against businessmen who think Americans are chumps.<br />This is conservative bull, California for years was the less regulated because thousands of illegal immigrants labored in the underground economy. Texas is doing the same except for the Fracking and professional jobs. Texas is a poverty state unlike California in 1970 which was highly regulated and tax more because this was before prop 13. In fact regulation and taxes with little to do with economic output, the Bay Area has more regulation than Kern County it has lower unemployment and lower poverty. In fact the southern states with lower cost of living have high black populations and most of their students are minority so over 50 percent of the kids are on free and reduce, your conservative evangelical nuts working for you.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-13911703325412091332014-05-16T16:16:38.601-07:002014-05-16T16:16:38.601-07:00What does it means that Russians(of all people)are...<i>What does it means that Russians(of all people)are at the other end of the spectrum in that study? Does it mean anything?</i><br /><br />I don't know.<br />I posted the link, but the results seem almost random to me. I'd be inclined to put Russians, Irish, Jews and the French up there with the Mexicans - I'll have to reassess some of my prejudices. I'm first generation Irish American, and I've never found the culture to be particularly optimistic. Oh Danny Boy!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-24716923338347114682014-05-16T15:47:42.284-07:002014-05-16T15:47:42.284-07:00>>>Third, lots of people make lots of mon...>>>Third, lots of people make lots of money owning small businesses in Los Angeles, but for an American outsider without many family connections, it can be a baffling maze of ethnic specialties and unfriendly extended family business networks.<<<<br /><br />Excellent and necessary point to make, but you know how the blowhards of the commentariat (right as well as left) will gleefully jump on this, declaring us racist retrogrades, social luddites, incapable of "competing" in this global community. Let them laugh, but keep making the point. It will sink in to those who truly matter. <br /><br />Another think which helps a lot: change your perspective on what this country is. I believe that the United States of America, that proud, vain but dear country, guided by a constitution that still meant something, into which I was born is dead. Dead, dead, dead. I don't worry about it anymore and mourning is pointless. All my allegiances now are contingent. I support what is commonsensically good for me and mine, otherwise forget it. On a broad scale, I care about the environment, that's it. I can't be shamed or humiliated anymore as I behold my affections trashed. I understand, now, the impulse for Jewish power and influence. It has little to do with intelligence. All along it was just an attitudinal perspective. It's lying there, pick it up, use if for yourself and likeminded, feel the powerDanielnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-58138546807261334272014-05-16T15:26:11.091-07:002014-05-16T15:26:11.091-07:00Our biggest immigrant group, Mexicans, are extreme...<i>Our biggest immigrant group, Mexicans, are extremely nihilistic</i><br /><br />What does it means that Russians(of all people)are at the other end of the spectrum in that study? Does it mean anything?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com