tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post3204154812441780322..comments2024-03-27T18:24:19.683-07:00Comments on Steve Sailer: iSteve: How many Forbes 400 billionaires publicly oppose "immigration reform?"Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger48125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-51194124554547160742014-04-26T18:35:48.677-07:002014-04-26T18:35:48.677-07:00There has been a debate in Canada lately on a rela...There has been a debate in Canada lately on a related topic and the CBC is going to use its weekly call-in show to discuss it:<br /><br /><i><a href="http://www.cbc.ca/checkup/episode/2014/04/27/is-there-a-place-for-temporary-foreign-workers-in-canadas-economy/" rel="nofollow"> Is there a place for temporary foreign workers in Canada's economy?</a><br /><br />Temporary Foreign Workers: Businesses say they want them because they do the work Canadians refuse to do. But some Canadians say they've been denied work or even fired because of them.</i><br /><br />They've compiled a whole bunch of links to relevant news stories at the link as well.<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04017589590769465615noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-66644034446379130892014-04-26T12:55:03.952-07:002014-04-26T12:55:03.952-07:00Why would anyone rich enough to be on the Forbes l...<i>Why would anyone rich enough to be on the Forbes list give a big rat's ass about being on any PC shit list?</i><br /><br />Because they're human beings, and human beings would rather, ceteris paribus, be liked? The better question is why would anyone rich enough to be on the Forbes list give a rat's ass enough about the causes that might land them in hot water to violate the taboos? Meaning, people need a reason to rebel, not a reason to conform.<br /><br /><i>Not necessarily. The elites are for gun control, too.</i><br /><br />But there's no money in gun control, and lots and lots of money in gun rights.<br /><br /><i>It is way past time to be able to save anything via immigration restriction or (paleo)conservative ballot box victories.<br /><br />The last chance was early 90's, and a string of defeats for the good guys, like passage of NAFTA sealed the fate of this nation.</i><br /><br />As you suggest, there's a lot of room between the extremes of the ballot box and the gun. E.g., the gov't could not resist a determined tax revolt by whites, even a substantial minority of whites. The gov't could not resist mass sit-ins, sit-downs, or other passive resistance movements by a substantial minority of whites. The Amish didn't get their waiver on social security (I think I have that right) by voting, or shooting; they got it by all being willing to sit in jail cells until they got their way.Svigornoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-53281379389189370822014-04-26T06:25:15.818-07:002014-04-26T06:25:15.818-07:00"Lauren Powell Jobs is a professed Democrat w...<br /><br />"Lauren Powell Jobs is a professed Democrat who is/was in a relationship with the Democratic mayor of DC."<br /><br /><br />eeewww<br /><br />Fenty's wife was better looking but got tired of his abuse. Why would Mrs. Jobs even want his nasty ass?<br /><br />weird<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-87426991993446761662014-04-25T22:02:33.045-07:002014-04-25T22:02:33.045-07:00http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/18/universit...<i>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/18/university-of-michigan-affirmative-action-brooke-kimbrough_n_5174029.html</i><br /><br />Wow - even at HuffPo, 90% of White commenters think it's ridiculous to have different college admission standards for different races.ben tillmannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-5856938192804840762014-04-25T21:47:47.484-07:002014-04-25T21:47:47.484-07:00Whoa komment kontrol, even a backahanded reference...<i>Whoa komment kontrol, even a backahanded reference to the French Revolution gets black holed now?</i><br /><br />Why don't youstart your own damned blog instead of whining about komment kontrol?<br /><br /><i><br />... There may be an opportunity for a patriotic appeal including immigration restrictionism getting the backing of the masses. However, such an appeal can't be isolationist. There has to be a promise that the US will effectively assert itself in the world</i><br /><br />Whiskey, that's you posting under another name, isn't it?David Davenporthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03315090179595817174noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-20010409307506735152014-04-25T21:31:35.578-07:002014-04-25T21:31:35.578-07:00Anyway, the unspoken agenda here should not be for...<i>Anyway, the unspoken agenda here should not be forgotten: the US faces the huge problem of a falling worker/retiree ratio that makes entitlements (SS, medicare) due baby boomers, who are now beginning to retire en masse, unpayable. They figure to fix this problem by importing millions and millions of workers. Without paying too much attention to where the jobs for all of these people will come from.</i><br /><br />That canard won't fly anymore since it is no secret that a big chunk of the newcomers are net tax consumers who will only exasperate the problem you mention. If needing more workers to pay SS was the primary reason for immigration, then it would be easier to encourage the native population to have more children than to import unassimilable third worlders. After all the natives are already acclimated to the society, and it would be more efficient to pass laws and policies that were more indusive to them having kids. <br /><br />The driving force behind mass third world immigration is demographic change to water down the local populations to make them easier to control.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-86098580283924913832014-04-25T21:05:49.794-07:002014-04-25T21:05:49.794-07:00"Making an economic case for a pathway to cit...<i>"Making an economic case for a pathway to citizenship, Buffett said Sunday that the reform package should "certainly offer [undocumented immigrants] the chance to become citizens" to deepen the talent pool of the labor force."</i><br /><br />I apologize for belaboring this point, but no one has ever proposed to make them citizens. The proposals are always to make them super-citizens with all sorts of preferences, privileges, and immunities that White Americans don't have.ben tillmannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-76997084414155093482014-04-25T20:59:48.262-07:002014-04-25T20:59:48.262-07:00Will Hilary name Mrs Jobs "Education Czar&quo...<i>Will Hilary name Mrs Jobs "Education Czar" in her administration?<br /></i><br /><br />Who is this Hilary guy?<br /><br />Hillary is still the chick's version of the name while Michele has become the rich version of Michelle causing quite a bit of confusion in countries where there are Latin origins of languages.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-13587139330973241872014-04-25T12:31:42.747-07:002014-04-25T12:31:42.747-07:00"Lauren Powell Jobs of course didn't earn..."Lauren Powell Jobs of course didn't earn her fortune"<br /><br />Oh, I imagine you could say that about Mrs. Bill Gates, but Mrs. Steve Jobs?Steve Sailerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11920109042402850214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-37058896749576151312014-04-25T12:26:14.657-07:002014-04-25T12:26:14.657-07:00>Would've been classier on your part to hav...>Would've been classier on your part to have just stated Lauren Powell Jobs is a professed Democrat who is/was in a relationship with the Democratic mayor of DC.<<br /><br />No. Classy is the two of them getting married.Davidhttp://david-passingparade3.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-53996094279180642132014-04-25T11:36:40.757-07:002014-04-25T11:36:40.757-07:00Actually, employers deciding where to produce the ...Actually, employers deciding where to produce the next generation of widgets may not need to look to the South. Plenty of factory jobs in Northern states—even in the former high-wage stronghold of auto—are already “competitive.”<br /><br />Ford’s flagship Dearborn Truck plant outside Detroit, for example, contracts non-union workers to do inspection and repairs—long the coveted jobs, that workers could get only with many years’ seniority—at $10 an hour with no benefits.<br /><br />That’s more than the Chinese average now, but less than what’s projected for 2015.<br /><br />Brad Duncan, who worked at the plant last year, said it seemed like dozens of small companies were involved. Many pay people as “independent contractors,” he said, and are essentially fly-by-night operations.<br /><br />“I worked for 10 bucks an hour with no overtime for around 66 hours a week,” Duncan said. “Then I’d get laid off for a week or more at a time with no notice.”<br /><br />At a GM plant in Lake Orion, Michigan, north of Detroit, contractors hire young third-tier workers at $10 an hour or less to gather parts for assemblers, work done very recently by GM employees.<br /><br />These kids are union members, though they don’t have a contract yet. The United Auto Workers convinced the contractors to let them organize the workforce through card check.<br /><br />“There are more people there handling parts than building cars,” said Dan Theisen, a plant electrician.<br /><br />Many of the union assemblers are themselves second-tier workers paid less than the U.S. manufacturing average, with wages of $14.60 and no pensions.<br /><br />“It makes it hard to do anything for the second tier when the third tier is so bad,” said Theisen, a dissident who’s spoken against lowering GM wages.<br /><br />- See more at: http://labornotes.org/2011/08/next-low-wage-haven-usa#sthash.Qnyh2ifq.dpufAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-48675988344679241162014-04-25T11:03:36.640-07:002014-04-25T11:03:36.640-07:00"Why would anyone rich enough to be on the Fo..."Why would anyone rich enough to be on the Forbes list give a big rat's ass about being on any PC shit list?" - social networks.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-26923023428332921692014-04-25T10:51:32.323-07:002014-04-25T10:51:32.323-07:00It's not like they can have the profile that g...It's not like they can have the profile that goes with top o' the Forbes list and say something different without fear of drawing the lightning. If Gates had been publically anti immigration when he first became No.1 on rich list, would he even be in top 10 now.<br /><br />Buffett sees the long term trends. Look at the foundations (Carnegie, Ford ect). Those turning the foundation's financial hosepipes on the immigration expansionists are not capitalists. <br /><br /><br />There is only one thing that causes the elite to lose control, a serious foreign policy threat. "<a href="http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/books/europe-the-struggle-for-supremacy-1453-to-the-present-by-brendan-simms/2004835.article" rel="nofollow">SIMMS</a> shows how both winners and losers were preoccupied, more or less effectively, with enhancing their economic capacity and administrative efficiency in order to withstand external pressure, or to exert it. Sometimes the domestic changes were revolutionary:" <br /><br />The American revolution was motivated by a desire to expand and tackle the " threat of French and/or Spanish control of the continental heartland." Getting on for a half of Andrew Jackson's speeches as president were about foreign policy.<br /><br />Germany has always been the key. Germany is now, and for the first time, without unfriendly states on it's borders, so it has no need to participate in checking Putin. they are building windmills and scrapping nuclear power. And Merkel is temperamentally and politically for a totally pacified Germany. <br /><br />The US thinks economic sanctions will work because they think Russia is like the US run by billionaires , but the difference is Russia sees itself as under threat. So there is the prospect of Putin triumphant or at least defiant against the US's will, and N. Korea nuking up its missiles, which all makes for the US looking weak. There may be an opportunity for a patriotic appeal including immigration restrictionism getting the backing of the masses. However, such an appeal can't be isolationist. There has to be a promise that the US will effectively assert itself in the worldSeannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-17286103924808391262014-04-25T10:26:22.097-07:002014-04-25T10:26:22.097-07:00Interesting to look at the list and see that most ...Interesting to look at the list and see that most did earn their fortunes and didn't inherit as say Sam Walton's descendants did. Lauren Powell Jobs of course didn't earn her fortune. Trump comes from a real estate/development family, but he surpassed his dad. Don't enough of the Koch Brothers history to know how big the business was before they came into it.RAZnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-16963894460502927542014-04-25T08:57:21.960-07:002014-04-25T08:57:21.960-07:00"Making an economic case for a pathway to cit..."Making an economic case for a pathway to citizenship, Buffett said Sunday that the reform package should "certainly offer [undocumented immigrants] the chance to become citizens" to deepen the talent pool of the labor force."<br /><br />Sure! By scoring above 600 math and verbal on the english language SAT. All others repatriate.BurplesonAFBnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-73140041754680729142014-04-25T08:29:30.627-07:002014-04-25T08:29:30.627-07:00David Brooks just wrote a wildly ridiculed article...David Brooks just wrote a wildly ridiculed article on Piketty. Looking at it I saw this. When I think of Brooks I think of hipsters....<br /><br />http://tinyurl.com/l8mc8n4<br /><br />Enjoy!dnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-51566267826013857732014-04-25T08:16:25.598-07:002014-04-25T08:16:25.598-07:00If you think that is good, check out what lewrockw...If you think that is good, check out what lewrockwell.com and economicpolicyjournal.com have to say about the Koch Brothers!<br /><br />Speaking as a libertarian, calling the Koch brothers libertarian is like calling George w bush or McCain a conservative. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-2475774361986983422014-04-25T07:48:13.478-07:002014-04-25T07:48:13.478-07:00Well, the Koch brothers are the biggest problem th...Well, the Koch brothers are the biggest problem they fund Tea party groups or politicians and while the Tea Party based is opposed the Koch money has influence.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-34393162251096787132014-04-25T07:39:53.820-07:002014-04-25T07:39:53.820-07:00I never met Larry Ellison himself but I used to kn...I never met Larry Ellison himself but I used to know a couple of the early founders of Oracle. They couldn't stop talking about him.<br /><br />James Bond villain indeed.<br /><br />AlbertosaurusPat Boylehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13477950851915567863noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-69775507068681432062014-04-25T06:22:49.604-07:002014-04-25T06:22:49.604-07:00Whoa komment kontrol, even a backahanded referenc...Whoa komment kontrol, even a backahanded reference to the French Revolution gets black holed now?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-40966016518502085372014-04-25T05:20:48.184-07:002014-04-25T05:20:48.184-07:00My favorite billionaire/immigration story is that ...My favorite billionaire/immigration story is that fat Australian heiress, whose name I can't recall, who said that 'Australians need to be more like Africans, who are willing to work for $2 a day.'Cogswellnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-70826963781550488232014-04-25T05:05:14.564-07:002014-04-25T05:05:14.564-07:00[Billionaires] become one because either they, the...<i> [Billionaires] become one because either they, their former spouse, or their ancestors were very good about looking out for number one. That doesn't incline one to be much into sacrificing for the good of the country or the middle class.</i><br /><br />But so many of them contribute massively to left-wing causes, so they obviously don't mind throwing money around. It's striking that few, if any, support real conservatism. Even the billionaires that are conservative, like John Malone, direct their philanthropy to schools or hospitals--general, non controversial stuff. On the other hand, look at how Tom Steyer has almost single-handedly managed to stop the Keystone pipeline. Or look at the "Four Horsemen" in Colorado--Pat Stryker, Jared Polis, Tim Gill, and Rutt Bridges--super-rich leftists who have pushed the politics of the whole state leftward. Harry Baldwinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-6215960248046018612014-04-25T04:08:44.924-07:002014-04-25T04:08:44.924-07:00Contemporary neuroscience tells us that people who...Contemporary neuroscience tells us that people who self-identify as liberals tend to have a greater volume of gray matter in an area known as the anterior cingulate cortex, which enables a person to be more comfortable in uncertainty. Self-identifying conservatives tend to have a larger right amygdala, making them more aware of possible threats or impending harm. Both types of people are needed for a well-functioning society, a democracy. And to have one without the other leads to tyranny. My guess is that contemporary entrepreneurial minds-- the billionaires and one-percenters-- are closer to the former. The industrialists and capitalists who helped build this country were closer to the latter. And the middle class which made this country strong was a healthy distribution of both. With the elimination of the middle class, and this new entrepreneurial or cognitive elite class dictating our political and social policy, I can say, from the bottom of my larger right amygdala, it will not end well.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-71287710125909333822014-04-25T00:09:47.882-07:002014-04-25T00:09:47.882-07:00The Widow Jobs is now a major backer of Common Cor...The Widow Jobs is now a major backer of Common Core type Marxist boondoggles intended to close the gaps while being funded at taxpayer(ie white people's) expense .<br /><br />Hooking up with Adrian Fenty as testimony to her PC bonafides is both predictable and hilarious. Can't wait for double segment 60 Minutes and PBS Frontline profiles of the future reining Queen of the Upworthy. <br /><br />Will Hilary name Mrs Jobs "Education Czar" in her administration?<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-16604886855412857702014-04-24T23:55:35.783-07:002014-04-24T23:55:35.783-07:00Koch brothers are not libertarians. Not by Rothbar...<i>Koch brothers are not libertarians. Not by Rothbard or Mises standards, not even by Hayek standards. They are crony capitalists who use the GOP and govt for their own benefits.</i><br /><br /><br />Very well said.<br /><br />The blogger 24ahead.com refers to the Koch brothers hold on much of the Republican party and the more dimwitted Tea Party elements , think Freedom Works, as the "Kochtopus". <br /><br />However one really good thing about the David H. Koch fund is that they have helped PBS's science programing like NOVA finally move away from the Cultural Marxist legacy of the likes of Stephan Jay Gould. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com