tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post3394969355408961747..comments2024-01-03T05:18:54.650-05:00Comments on CDR Salamander: How we got hereCDR Salamanderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05981221786954902349noreply@blogger.comBlogger56125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-57688611722764544732011-08-02T20:32:52.322-04:002011-08-02T20:32:52.322-04:00Mr T....
Unfortunately. I think we are closely fo...Mr T....<br /><br />Unfortunately. I think we are closely following the paths of the French Revolution. When Barry starts to lose in 2012 do you REALLY think he will not declare an emergency?<br /><br /> Do you really think he will not find a way to start committees of local community activists to judge the "worthiness" of voters?!?!?!<br /><br />I wish I did not, but I seriously doubt the ability of the current crew to willingly surrender power.Aubreynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-67201924718600507232011-08-02T20:28:23.595-04:002011-08-02T20:28:23.595-04:00(OK Sal, I hate this comment system!)
To finish m...(OK Sal, I hate this comment system!)<br /><br />To finish my thought:<br /><br />I think unions AND ope shops are what make all the difference.<br /><br />Closed shops are evil, socialist inventions to put an unqualified community-organizer in office. Open shops are smart, effective tools to help everyone growAubreynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-75492122244354452952011-08-02T20:25:21.733-04:002011-08-02T20:25:21.733-04:00I really wished I differ. No, I mean that I REALL...I really wished I differ. No, I mean that I REALLY wished I disagreed.<br /><br />Unforuntaty I don't.<br /><br />The older and wiser I have become, the more I have understood the wisdom of tarriffs and import duties.<br /><br />Unions are liberal. I don't like liberals. That being said, I think unions (private sector, anyway) are FAR FAR better for this country than he current environment.<br /><br />OK, unionsAubreynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-57906701729232911982011-08-02T20:20:09.678-04:002011-08-02T20:20:09.678-04:00URR, point, set and match.....
Hey Liberal-bunnie...URR, point, set and match.....<br /><br />Hey Liberal-bunnies, your arguments would be far more persuasive if you would invest in a touch of reality first!Aubreynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-52314009832819923882011-08-02T20:16:35.934-04:002011-08-02T20:16:35.934-04:00Oh, there are definitely others. URR is tall and ...Oh, there are definitely others. URR is tall and thin (from what I've heard). I, on the other hand, am a short, big, one-eyed bastard with a real short temper. <br /><br />I don't always agree with him (or Byron, or Lt B, or DB, etc...), but I do agree with a damn sight more than I agree with stinking TrollsAubreynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-49639586900701539842011-08-02T20:11:56.820-04:002011-08-02T20:11:56.820-04:00Yet, you come back, despite the danger. I do appl...Yet, you come back, despite the danger. I do applaud your raw courage.UltimaRatioRegisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-60089724126989652542011-08-02T18:09:08.927-04:002011-08-02T18:09:08.927-04:00The other people that read your personal threats. ...The other people that read your personal threats. It does appear that there are others here, or is it just you under a variety of names? That could explain the group think though. hmmm.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-12692028280973833282011-08-01T21:03:16.009-04:002011-08-01T21:03:16.009-04:00Guest, this mythical "we" you invoke? I...Guest, this mythical "we" you invoke? It is just you. Your incessant whining and oh-so-cleverly worded insults speak volumes. UltimaRatioRegisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-56270355638101208822011-08-01T20:51:17.406-04:002011-08-01T20:51:17.406-04:00It's ok, we're used to your personal threa...It's ok, we're used to your personal threats, cough I mean leadership.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-49616391530116211132011-08-01T09:50:18.386-04:002011-08-01T09:50:18.386-04:00What would Kipling know? He wasn't even on Fa...What would Kipling know? He wasn't even on Facebook. UltimaRatioRegisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-55353427842157636702011-08-01T01:34:47.668-04:002011-08-01T01:34:47.668-04:00<p>Big industries contract with little indus...<p>Big industries contract with little industries, job shops, tool and die,<br /></p><p>service. Jobs, pensions, health care, dental. Big industry goes overseas the TV costs less and the unemployed can't buy it. Flipping burgers. Raw materials, mining, farming, chemicals, petroleum is regulated until they die, inside our borders. Overseas cartels control the raw materials, because we wrote the law so they could. Why? Graft.<br /></p><p> <br /></p><p>How about the cheaper toys that poison the kids? Cheaper foodstuffs from unsanitary sources? Huge amounts of fiat money, unbacked, printed. Huge borrowing. Go to LA. Look at the ships unloading containers, everything under the sun in them. What's in the containers on ships sailing? Usually, NOTHING. Dead heading trans pacific for another load. What do we export? Food, timber, oil from Alaska, used clothing, used vehicles. and limited very high quality industrial goods. You've had fun telling it to the Marine, don't try it on me. I've worked the waterfront, as a civilian, in, and out of a union job.<br /></p><p> <br /></p><p>Here's the key. It can't go on. There is a limit. We're screwing ourselves, and we're screwing our kids, and we're screwing our soldiers and sailors. It does HAVE to stop, it is going to stop. <br /></p><p> <br /></p><p>Endgame, unsupportable, out of gas. Avoidable? Not for much longer. Keep it up and it is going to get ugly. Run the numbers, read the new laws. Do your homework, mon ami.<br /></p><p> <br /></p><p>The libs should all go by Trilby. Amy Winestien passionately believed a lot things. They weren't true. She's dead. <br /></p><p> <br /></p><p>Marxism isn't true, Rad Lib BS isn't true. They'll both kill you. No matter how much you want it to be true.<br /></p><p> <br /></p><p>Think. Don't feel, and follow charismatic folk who tell you what you want to hear.<br /></p><p> <br /></p><p>I've got no time for your theories. I've busted blisters and bones, working the reality.<br /></p>Grandpa Bluewater.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-64053362433879040482011-08-01T01:34:03.105-04:002011-08-01T01:34:03.105-04:00A few passing remarks as one works their way down ...A few passing remarks as one works their way down the page.<br /><br />I have worked since I was 16. Entry level non union and, gradually, better. Union generally pays better. I joined the Navy to pay for college, and worked every break. Spare me the BS about officers and first job evah upon retirement. I worked union and non union after retiring. Union pays better, has better benefits. One's job is more secure. There is a retirement, health care, dental. Non union, mmm, varies. So spare me the BS about never got my hands dirty.<br />Got 'em dirty in high school, college, in the boats, on the surface ships, as an inspector, when in command. Cozy staff duty, don't know, never had any. Ever. Closest was teaching, and teaching, mon ami, is work.<br /><br />Unless there are no tariffs, open, hidden or otherwise there is no free trade. Any place with a value added tax has a hidden tariff.<br />Basically, there is no free trade, just suckers who think there is.<br /><br />China works convict labor for exports. Should we? China manipulates the hell out of its currency. Should we (we are)?<br /><br />We manipulate the hell out of the tax code. We reward closing our industry and going overseas, creating unemployment. That TV is cheaper, and we have no steel industry, TV industry, textiles, furniture, small electrics, and have lost huge market share across the board.Grandpa Bluewater.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-3280827642996944302011-07-31T23:04:36.502-04:002011-07-31T23:04:36.502-04:00Come off it, guest. Not a threat anywhere. Just ...Come off it, guest. Not a threat anywhere. Just a hope that, if he wishes the tragedy of domestic upheaval to the point of civil war, that he suffers first. <br /><br />If he doesn't? Well, he has no worries.UltimaRatioRegisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-51327201432854522212011-07-31T22:39:46.911-04:002011-07-31T22:39:46.911-04:00Wow, direct threats. Stay classy SanDiego.Wow, direct threats. Stay classy SanDiego.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-34290740833099141212011-07-31T21:31:14.735-04:002011-07-31T21:31:14.735-04:00Steve,
Should class warfare come, may the bodies ...Steve,<br /><br />Should class warfare come, may the bodies of bolshevik subversives like you be the very first to swing from the lamp posts. And perhaps, the last.UltimaRatioRegisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-2261083796830024322011-07-31T14:34:58.014-04:002011-07-31T14:34:58.014-04:00Value is the delta between the cost of raw materia...Value is the delta between the cost of raw materials and labor (and other costs such as overhead) and the price of the finished product. <br /><br />"<span>I just don't think such distortions are terribly common."</span><br /><br />Among our biggest competitors, those distortions are by far the rule rather than the exception. Not only China, but South Korea, Japan, and increasingly, Vietnam.UltimaRatioRegisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-42902044284602839702011-07-31T13:58:56.153-04:002011-07-31T13:58:56.153-04:00I use the term "wealth" where you use th...I use the term "wealth" where you use the term "value". I use the term "value" for the personal opinion of what something is worth. Thus the wealth created in a transaction is value minus price. It's a personal lexicon.<br /><br />As I said before, I'm not opposed to using tarriffs to counter other countries' distortoins of the market. I just don't think such distortions are terribly common. At least not the willfull ones you allude to. Primarily because whenever this debate comes up the pro-tarriff faction doesn't talk about unfair competition, they talk about jobs going overseas. At least until someone points out that keeping manufacturing jobs here necessarily makes everyone poorer.<br /><br />The big problem I see (which is by no means insurmountable) is that various countries have different standards. If we put a high import tarriff on Chinese goods because of their lax environmental laws the EU may put a high import tarriff on our goods because we don't have CO2 regulations.Jeff Gauchnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-68217149265898847202011-07-31T10:02:51.990-04:002011-07-31T10:02:51.990-04:00Ewok,
I have a pretty good grasp of historonics re...Ewok,<br />I have a pretty good grasp of historonics regarding Napoleon thank you. <br />His expeditions in Egypt against the British were e result of his success at Toulon where the civilians were scared to death he would rise to power. It was hoped with the most highest anticipation that he would become a victim of Nelson, disease, or even himself. He succeeded (or not considering he left his men and expedition to ROT in North Africa) and rose to even higher power.<br />I recommend you read "Bonaparte - Alan Schom"MR T's Haircutnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-91612862236401270182011-07-31T09:47:13.875-04:002011-07-31T09:47:13.875-04:00Guest,
Why don't you go visit skippy, and you...Guest,<br /><br />Why don't you go visit skippy, and you and he can discuss why the solution to runaway government spending is more government spending. Then, you can produce charts and graphs of dubious relevance and quote Paul Krugman and Thomas Friedman and convince yourselves of the infallibility of Harry Reid, Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, and other similar giants of economic theory.UltimaRatioRegisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-61896968373622968132011-07-31T09:42:18.166-04:002011-07-31T09:42:18.166-04:00Which is not to say, however, that the welfare sta...Which is not to say, however, that the welfare state has not disincentivized massive numbers of US workers. Because it has. Making a bad situation infinitely worse. <br /><br />Like complaining that you cut the board twice and it is still too short. So your plan, like Obama's, is to cut it again.UltimaRatioRegisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-60142224872729736892011-07-31T04:35:44.916-04:002011-07-31T04:35:44.916-04:00Plus, might I add, it is no longer only unskilled ...Plus, might I add, it is no longer only unskilled labor siphoning out workplaces... you can have a good programmer anywhere in the world where is net connection that would do the work of SoCal geek at half the price. Ask the Indians and Eastern Europe.ewok40knoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-80660057216092959392011-07-31T04:32:42.832-04:002011-07-31T04:32:42.832-04:00History check, MrT... He was specifically requeste...History check, MrT... He was specifically requested to help bring down the terror of Robespierre - and he did set up the standard for clearing streets from angry (not yet muslim) mobs by employing well placed grapeshot. His warfare was mostly fuelled by the England's incessant efforts to create next coalition against him. If for nothing else, we should remeber him for a new food conservation method, called at the time Appertization, by the name of the inventor. It consist of boiling food locked in airtight container, and is now known by the name of , coincidentally another French guy that did discover why it works, namely Pasteur...ewok40knoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-50286727412867727142011-07-31T04:26:20.281-04:002011-07-31T04:26:20.281-04:00Football analogies, also easier than thinking. Gr...Football analogies, also easier than thinking. Grab a Bud, complain about Democrats.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-8105485227320157502011-07-31T01:11:06.880-04:002011-07-31T01:11:06.880-04:00I don't know anyone who thinks they have a rig...I don't know anyone who thinks they have a right to have a 50" plasma (I wish, I've only got a 40" LCD). I do know plenty of people who think they have the right to buy what they want for the cheapest price they can get.<br /><br />You keep throwing out numbers that make no sense. Let's say a US-made TV can be sold at a profit for $1000. An Asian-made TV will cost less (otherwise we wouldn't be having this argument), say $800. If we put a 100% import tarriff on TV's an Asian TV will cost $1600. Congratulations, you've just kicked everyone who could pay $800-999 out of the TV market and made every remaining TV consumer in the US $200 poorer. And that's assuming there's enough domestic production to keep the price from rising toward the import price. And for what? A TV factory in the US that is inefficient in using its resources? What Brazil is doing is nothing more than mercantilist corporate welfare. Mercantilism works only slightly better than Socialism.<br /><br />There seems to be a common misconception that manufacturing is the only "true" economic activity. Wealth isn't created in factories alone. Pretty much any time money willfully changes hands wealth is created.Jeff Gauchnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-55464989212687050052011-07-30T22:21:11.651-04:002011-07-30T22:21:11.651-04:00I always find it interesting when someone tells me...I always find it interesting when someone tells me what I know and what I have done, and what I haven't. UltimaRatioRegisnoreply@blogger.com