tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post3620762427572729849..comments2024-03-28T16:22:14.888-07:00Comments on Steve Sailer: iSteve: How Obama could improve the economyUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger49125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-34965780465041216682010-11-11T21:23:38.134-08:002010-11-11T21:23:38.134-08:00They don't necessarily have to be classical $1...They don't necessarily have to be classical $15 Billion carriers with classical $250 Million F22s [or F35s or whatever].<br /><br />Instead, they could be <a href="http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/stiletto-stealth-ships-look-different-ride-different-buy-different-01834/" rel="nofollow">stealth carriers</a> [partially <a href="http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?145214-DCNS-New-littoral-stealth-submarine-concept" rel="nofollow">submersible</a>?] loaded with [tens of ?] thousands of <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2009/12/09/usair-force-confirms-secret-stealth-drone-plane/" rel="nofollow">stealth drones</a>.<br /><br />Back in the day, Amurikuns used to excel at thinking outside of the box like that [and at making dadgum certain that each frickin stealth drone had a fricking laser on its frickin head].Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-29532492301340562262010-11-11T17:12:43.488-08:002010-11-11T17:12:43.488-08:00Hahahahahahaha.
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Ph...<i>Hahahahahahaha.<br /><br />Hahahahahahaha.<br /><br />Hahahahahah.<br /><br />Pheeew.</i><br /><br />My reaction exactly.corvinusnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-68951227916305281942010-11-11T15:11:29.991-08:002010-11-11T15:11:29.991-08:00Obama could cut immigration. Go for a moratorium....Obama could cut immigration. Go for a moratorium. <br /><br />Right, Latinos are just like Eastern European Jewish immigrants. Today's Nuyoricans remind me of the early 20th century tenement dwellers. How could I have missed that similarity?Tom Tancredo 4 Presidentnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-69931760574130530122010-11-11T11:10:45.912-08:002010-11-11T11:10:45.912-08:00Hahahahahahaha.
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Ph...Hahahahahahaha.<br /><br />Hahahahahahaha.<br /><br />Hahahahahah.<br /><br />Pheeew.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-79183359691169760212010-11-11T11:07:46.828-08:002010-11-11T11:07:46.828-08:00Whiskey sez:1. Keynesian pump priming that WORKS: ...Whiskey sez:<i>1. Keynesian pump priming that WORKS: Military spending. Build six new aircraft carrier battle groups, another 3,000 F-22 Raptors, a successor to the Shuttle, a moon program.<br /><br />Soaks up about 8 million unemployed right there.</i><br><br />....err. with what money? More of that printed FED fiat money?headachenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-69563811551717919042010-11-11T06:29:30.092-08:002010-11-11T06:29:30.092-08:00Build six new aircraft carrier battle groups
On a...<i>Build six new aircraft carrier battle groups</i><br /><br />On average, how many nuclear warheads, sorry Wiskey, NUKES, would China or Iran have to launch to take out a carrier battle group? Four, five? There's no target that more legitimately military than warships in the middle of the ocean. After the US lost a $15 billion carrier and a bunch of minor ships, would the navy ever risk losing any more fancy toys?robnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-46867221952523627102010-11-11T04:10:11.105-08:002010-11-11T04:10:11.105-08:00Hey Steve-
Have you seen this? The author Edwin Ru...Hey Steve-<br />Have you seen <a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/7995006/Cost-of-Diversity" rel="nofollow">this</a>? The author Edwin Rubenstein estimates the cost of "diversity" at $1.1 trillion a year.NLAnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-41104835941913755692010-11-11T01:39:22.043-08:002010-11-11T01:39:22.043-08:00Whiskey, how about end all wars for Israel?Whiskey, how about end all wars for Israel?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-69426631065073358652010-11-11T00:25:38.511-08:002010-11-11T00:25:38.511-08:00Whiskey's right-on with No. 2, the rest is rav...Whiskey's right-on with No. 2, the rest is raving lunacy.<br /><br />Steve, the last thing the economy needs right now is a boost in productivity. We have the jobless rate flirting with 10% (officially) while companies are throwing off cash and smashing earnings forecasts left and right. Smaller firms are getting scooped up like poker chips. If anything, the economy's too productive.Christopher Paulnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-57058492596701043072010-11-10T22:51:23.956-08:002010-11-10T22:51:23.956-08:00Btw Beowulf's idea is superb but could set a b...<i>Btw Beowulf's idea is superb but could set a bad precedent. What other federal hiring metrics might be imposed were it adopted?</i><br /><br />Not sure what you mean by "federal hiring metrics", unless you're referring to don't ask don't tell or a requirement to a be a natural born citizen.<br /><br />I did come across something after I posted about the ASVAB earlier, in the last year the military has added a new non-cognitive personalty test called TAPAS. While the ASVAB measures "can do", TAPAS measures "will do", so perhaps that'd be a useful hiring tool as well. Anything that allows candidates to signal ability instead of just credentials is for the good. <br /><br />Here's an Army presso (pdf) about TAPAS, "Screening for Attrition and Performance with Non-Cognitive Meaures"<br />http://tinyurl.com/284oysabeowulfnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-36653892348157612652010-11-10T22:28:23.322-08:002010-11-10T22:28:23.322-08:00Keynesian pump priming that WORKS: Military spendi...<i>Keynesian pump priming that WORKS: Military spending</i><br /><br />Well if the Army Corps of Engineers (instead of, say, the DOT) is cutting the checks, then infrastructure projects are, technically, military spending. <br /><br />For example fixing the 26% of US bridges that structurally deficient or functionally obsolete would cost about the same as a single Gerald Ford-class carrier ($15 billion or so) and is a better use of the money-- it'd provide a public good, increase employment in every state (there are no shipyards in landlocked states) and would be rather more difficult for the the Chinese Navy to sink.<br />http://www.infrastructurereportcard.org/categoriesbeowulfnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-20997581749915223502010-11-10T19:50:40.081-08:002010-11-10T19:50:40.081-08:00Except for the high tariffs, I like everything* th...Except for the high tariffs, I like everything* that Whiskey said.<br /><br />BTW, did anyone catch how that rough draft of the Deficit Commission report turned out to be so Libertarian?<br /><br />Increase the age threshold for SS & Mediscare, and slash tax rates in return for giving up all tax breaks?<br /><br />I don't know that the Gipper could have done any better.<br /><br /><br />*Personally, I'd like for the F-22s to have the metaphorical frickin lasers attached to their frickin heads, but even plain old ordinary F-22s would be better than nothing.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-10017513941313789872010-11-10T19:43:19.710-08:002010-11-10T19:43:19.710-08:00http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46OVBvkL_Vk&fea...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46OVBvkL_Vk&feature=player_embedded<br /><br />We finally have the answer!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-17982734950730550282010-11-10T18:31:34.916-08:002010-11-10T18:31:34.916-08:00"Whiskey said...
1. Keynesian pump priming t..."Whiskey said...<br /><br />1. Keynesian pump priming that WORKS: Military spending. Build six new aircraft carrier battle groups, another 3,000 F-22 Raptors, a successor to the Shuttle, a moon program.<br /><br />Soaks up about 8 million unemployed right there."<br /><br />Yeah.......all those middle-aged people who have been laid off from America's many shuttered apparrel factories, furniture mills, and car plants can move right in to those high-paying jobs and aeronautical engineers, machinists, and shipwrights. And with all those new aircraft carriers and helicopter gun-ships, we'll be able to strafe and bomb even more brown people into the american way of life. And to think, they gave Paul Krugman the phony Nobel in economics. You know, Whiskey, your enthusiasm for fighting the last war (or even several wars back) is commendable. You missed your calling.........being a WWI french field marshall.Mr. Anonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-48520935375159095172010-11-10T18:21:22.052-08:002010-11-10T18:21:22.052-08:00"Anonymous said...
How about closing som..."Anonymous said...<br /><br /> How about closing some of the 700+ overseas empire of military bases that the USA keeps all around the world?"<br /><br />And then issue "Whiskey" an M-1 and a bayonet and send him to the now empty base at Diego Garcia to keep the flag flying. Mind the motor-boats, Whiskey......we're countin' on ya'.Mr. Anonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-42628610910453552352010-11-10T17:46:16.486-08:002010-11-10T17:46:16.486-08:00Airtommy, Conan O'Brien yesterday joked he was...Airtommy, Conan O'Brien yesterday joked he was the Whitest guy in showbusiness on the second Blackest network. So that attitude (White guys lacking) is baked into the culture. Even uber-Irish guys like Conan share it (he regularly riffs on how White he is).<br /><br />The idea of dumping disparate impact will help on the margins but things are so bad now we need far greater measures.<br /><br />1. Keynesian pump priming that WORKS: Military spending. Build six new aircraft carrier battle groups, another 3,000 F-22 Raptors, a successor to the Shuttle, a moon program.<br /><br />Soaks up about 8 million unemployed right there.<br /><br />2. Kick out all illegals. Result? Car washes in LA pay $8 not $3 an hour, White/Black teens get the jobs not illegal guys from Michoacan. Bonus: welfare, prison, education costs move lower.<br /><br />3. Stop printing money and exchange old dollars for new, silver dollars and multi-dollar coins. Old paper dollars go out. Screw over the foreigners (particularly the Chinese) and benefit only US citizens. That's what a government is for: screwing foreigners and benefiting your own people.<br /><br />4. High tariffs to keep out junk Chinese consumer goods, phased in. Stimulate manufacturing.<br /><br />5. Screw the whales and polar bears, drill everywhere. High paying jobs, low gas prices.Whiskeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01854764809682029464noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-43283523766840975052010-11-10T17:21:36.880-08:002010-11-10T17:21:36.880-08:00To Contemplationist: There is no doubt that vigoro...To Contemplationist: There is no doubt that vigorous enforcement of anti-discrimination laws acts as a drag on business. A good many lawsuits and administrative proceedings (i.e., those before a state or local government civil rights agency) are settled for nuisance value, often less than $50,000. Some of these are meritorious, not all. But what is a nuisance to General Mills, for example, can be a real danger to a small business that is hurting from this depression we're in(there, I said it... so call me a pisher).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-3394723661096929292010-11-10T16:28:25.685-08:002010-11-10T16:28:25.685-08:00Hopefully commenters are joking when they say the ...Hopefully commenters are joking when they say the suggested policy would have a negative effect on the economy since "diversity trainers" would be out of a job. Removing rats from the grain only improves everything.<br /><br />Btw Beowulf's idea is superb but could set a bad precedent. What other federal hiring metrics might be imposed were it adopted?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-61788344197125836602010-11-10T16:16:41.354-08:002010-11-10T16:16:41.354-08:00"Yeah, right, Steve. That would make sense if..."Yeah, right, Steve. That would make sense if everyone had voted for Obama, but exit polls indicate that some percentage of the population did not. Businessmen are suspected to be among the worst offenders. Obama is supposed to just leave racists like these to mind the store themselves?"<br /><br />Okay, how about no affirmative action and disparate impact policies on whites and rich people who did vote for Obama.<br /> <br />(But then, it's already like that, since affirmative action affects poor and working class whites more than rich whites and Jews.) Rich whites wash away their sins by sacrificing poor whites at the altar of political correctness. And since smarter Jews count as whites and since affirmative action targets whites who aren't as smart as Jews but smarter than blacks, it's win-win for Jews and lose-lose for whites. Whites lose out to both smarter Jews and to less smart blacks.dsfasdfasdfnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-19215159425714689572010-11-10T16:10:05.751-08:002010-11-10T16:10:05.751-08:00Surely Mayor Bloomberg can fix this problem.
htt...Surely Mayor Bloomberg can fix this problem. <br /><br />http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_upshot/report-black-boys-lagging-badly-in-schooldfasdfasdfnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-9814390151362625552010-11-10T16:07:08.221-08:002010-11-10T16:07:08.221-08:00Good idea. I'm holding my breath now waiting f...Good idea. I'm holding my breath now waiting for it to happen.<br /><br />Holding....<br /><br />Holding....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-82036811851258480822010-11-10T15:51:02.591-08:002010-11-10T15:51:02.591-08:00Of course Steve's proposal would improve the e...Of course Steve's proposal would improve the economy.<br /><br />But Obama's supports aren't the ones who would be active participants in that economy, and require it be re-distributed to them.RandyBnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-61772706265063337202010-11-10T15:29:03.979-08:002010-11-10T15:29:03.979-08:00How about closing some of the 700+ overseas empire...How about closing some of the 700+ overseas empire of military bases that the USA keeps all around the world?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-78436007613427416732010-11-10T15:12:16.284-08:002010-11-10T15:12:16.284-08:00The local party machines lost out when the New Dea...The local party machines lost out when the New Deal federalized their patronage systems. What happens when you de-federalize such systems?<br /><br />All the diversity consultants would flock to the states which enable lawsuits, or they'd push state legislatures to enact the same policies recently suspended at the federal level.<br /><br />Corporate bureaucracies have a culture created by such lawsuits. Thus, you'd have big businesses proving their enlightenment by demanding enforcement of laws into which they've sunk compliance costs.<br /><br />Do any of the "free market" think tanks study the business costs of anti-discrimination laws? Or is that another one of those taboos?<br /><br />Typically you hear lots of people claiming that enacting anti-discrimination laws will *attract* business from enlightened areas of the country. And they actually believe what they're saying.Anony2noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-39894129369007638022010-11-10T14:03:58.681-08:002010-11-10T14:03:58.681-08:00Public option, Steve, think public option. Simply...Public option, Steve, think public option. Simply create a safe harbor from disparate impact claims for any employer that use the US Government's own ASVAB exam and composite scores. After all, Uncle Sam (Pentagon personality) has spent much money validating those suckers. It would be rather difficult for the self-same Uncle Sam (Civil Rights enforcement personality) to turn around and say they are worthless.<br /><br /><i>Air Force Composite Scores:<br />Goes by Standard AFQT score AR + MK + (2 x VE)<br /> * G - General: Verbal Expression (WK plus PC) and Arithmetic Reasoning (AR)<br /> * M - Mechanical: Mechanical Comprehension (MC), General Science (GS) and 2 times Auto & Shop Information (AS)<br /> * A - Administrative: Numerical Operations * (NO), Coding Speed * (CS), and Verbal Expression (WK plus PC)<br /> * E - Electrical: Arithmetic Reasoning (AR), Mathematics Knowledge (MK), Electronics Information (EI), and General Science (GS)</i><br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armed_Services_Vocational_Aptitude_Batterybeowulfnoreply@blogger.com