Hypocrisy is the compliment vice pays to virtue.
George Rebane
Socialist economists don’t understand why millions of workers’ real wages have not increased in the last, say, thirty years. The answer is simple. Labor is a cost, why increase that component of cost when it has contributed nothing to the increase in productivity. That wages are tied to delivered productivity is an economic concept totally lost on socialists, and even more distant for their local double dummies who believe that somehow you should be paid more the longer you can hang on and keep fogging the mirror.
The Bumblebrain Bunch doesn’t think that Republican governors who cut off government checks to the unemployed had anything to do with the big increase in July’s employment number. This is another illustration of inter-ear density by the Left that can’t connect consumer money flows to their economic behavior. For them it has been an eternal mystery since the days of Marx.
Texas governor Greg Abbott is being dunned by the Democrats for the state’s spike in C19 cases. None of these worthies are aware of the ongoing border crisis and the hundreds of thousands of illegals, thousands of whom are infected, being gratuitously released into the country. The more important aspect of this is that their millions of terminally ignorant constituents have no idea that this has been going on and is only getting more critical with every passing day. All part of their anti-American program to destroy the US as a sovereign nation-state.
[7aug21 update] ‘College Was Supposed to Close the Wealth Gap for Black Americans. The Opposite Happened’. “Black college graduates in their 30s have lost ground over three decades, the result of student debt and sluggish income growth.” Nowhere in such articles is pointed out the kind of degrees obtained by blacks vs whites/Asians. For example, the ratio of black-to-whites who graduate from college is pitiful, and of those black graduates, how many get degrees that provide employable skillsets. Not all college degrees are created equal, and that goes double in today’s academe awash with ‘soft majors’. To that we add intellectual demographic distributions, the impact of which is most devastating. And finally, today it’s not possible to examine this problem to discover its real contours and where public policies can do most good. (more here) The Left will stand for none of it; they depend on the status quo of victimhood.
[8aug21 update] African-Americans in TV commercials. Ever notice that the overwhelming majority of TV commercials, say 80%, feature blacks and often other people of color. Blacks make up about one of eight Americans, yet they are extremely prominent, way beyond their ‘equity’, in our public face. That I and other non-blacks don’t mind this nor demand equity in such displays should be accepted as more strong evidence that America is not a racist country. I just wish that people would take more notice and joy from such evidence.
[9aug21 update] More on C19 vaccines, vaccinations, and face masks. To demonstrate how unsettled science is about this dreaded pandemic, here is a video of some expert testimony from a physician and virologist. (H/T to correspondent)
[10aug21 update] The march of the double dummies gathers momentum. Oregon governor Kate Brown quietly signed a bill last month that made reading and math proficiency optional for the state’s high school graduates – ‘Oregon governor signs bill suspending math, reading proficiency requirements for HS graduates’. Our Democrat proto-Marxists are firming the foundations of the United Socialist States of America by ramping up the level of ignorance and control of the next generation of their compliant constituencies. And they know that people with even vestiges of critical thinking skills would object to this blatant demolition of our public education, so it all happened hush-hush. Let’s see how fast the other states start picking up such advances in equity.
[11aug21 update] The CBO on Trump’s tax cuts as reported on Fox Business. Just out from the Congressional Budget Office, Trump’s corporate tax cuts paid for themselves in 18 months, and his personal income tax cuts almost paid for themselves by the eve of the pandemic (and would have easily provided more government revenues had the pandemic not happened). This should silence our liberal readers who have long maintained that tax cuts, especially Trump’s, never pay for themselves, therefore more taxes are always necessary to pay for more vote buying (aka government “investments”). And the takeaway is still, ‘corporations don’t pay taxes, people do’. (more here)
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