CLARK RE NYT WHIG 1619 PROJECT

Tuesday, November 5, 2019

TOCQUEVILLE'S PIG'S BREAKFAST IN AMERICA

'The emotional and moral restraint of the American people...'

This was the wishful thinking of a democratic atheist revolutionary.

This is what he thought of America in a more sober moment, a real Pig's Breakfast:

'...in a word a society possessing no roots, no memories, no prejudices, no routine, no common ideas, no national character.' AT to Chabrol, See Clark, p. 61.

People think that colonists were long united against Britain prior to 1776. They were not. They were disunited, and usually at one another's throats over land or religion or trade, and more.

Colonial America "displayed the problems of England, Scotland, and Ireland in a more acute form." Clark, Ch 3 sec III. 

The unrest, disorder, and fragmentation inherent in the place did not improve with time and every increasing immigration of impoverished heterodox, later including even Catholic and Jewish disparate populations, developments unthinkable at colonial foundings.

They think that winning the American colonial Civil War resulted in an end to all manner of violent and wide ranging religious social and economic unrest. It did not. 

See, for example, T P Slaughter, The Whiskey Rebellion; Independence: The Tangled Roots of the American Revolution; J C D Clark, The Language of Liberty, Ch 3, Secs III, V especially.

Whigs read Tocqueville and then read ideas only becoming current by around 1830 back into 18th Century. 

R R Palmer had written at great length about a democratic revolution, all of which I read, but he couldn't figure out why they had not used that word! Clark explained why. See Our Shadowed Present, p. 230

Thursday, May 2, 2019

SEVEN YEARS WAR RESPONSIBLE FOR LOSS OF COLONIES

It was neither about nationalism, or about the white race in America, at least at first. 

At that point, Seven Years War, 1763,  it still had nothing to do with either early developing (British) monogenesis, or (colonists', and later, 19th century, Americans') polygenesis.  

Subsequent post Enlightenment, 19th 20th and 21st century scientific discoveries have shown conclusively, of course, that monogenesis was not how humans developed at all.  But that is a different topic.

Re Seven Years War, I haven't read the books, but this seems to make sense, chronologically, and tactically. Clark, in an aside.

The origin of the term patriot went back to the opposition Whigs of 1720s, (complicated story) and that is the source, and the time period, give or take 20 years, of much of later American rebel rhetoric. Clark, p 91.  Not Locke. Bailyn, Robbins, Palmer, Schroeder, Clark.

Wednesday, June 12, 2019

THE AMERICAN REBELLION IN CONTEXT

No longer enough to have read historians like Bailyn, Greene, Robbins, Palmer, Maier, Gay and various so called Enlightenment scholars and historians, historians of the French Revolution (an enormous corpus),  or the legions of American and European political science, constitutional, and political philosophy scholars, and the treasure trove of economists and economic historians and other social scientists like Weber who have underpinned some of them, etc.

Now it is necessary to have read Clark, The Language of Liberty.

SUFFRAGETTE CITY LET'S TALK HYPOCRISY

Wednesday, February 26, 2020

BRITISH CONTINUED COOLIE SLAVE LABOR UNTIL 1917 FAKED AMERICAN ABOLITIONISTS OUT ON ENDING SLAVERY IN 1833

After the British Empire ended slavery in 1833, plantation owners returned to indentured servitude for labor, with most servants coming from India,^[10] until the British government prohibited the practice in 1917.

Monday, May 21, 2018

BRITISH RAMMED HOME NEGRO ABOLITIONISM

then rammed home Whig Lockean contractarian indentured servitude, Chinese and Indian coolie labor, more or less the same as slavery really, but dolled up liberalistically, on the rest of the world, simultaneously.

This appealed much better to England's numerous militant abolitionist suffragettes!

Saturday, May 5, 2018

FERGUSON MR GLOBALIZATION

He acknowledges British Empire credit for starting liberal global income convergence (for Ferguson, a good thing, we need more of it), as well as free trade, free movement of labor, using as his best example the very widespread Empire use of so called indentured coolie Indian and Chinese labor.

He doesn't point out the hypocrisy of having fomented movements against slavery everywhere, even while it was the greatest slave merchant provider, against its Great Power rivals, and in the Empire, and while expanding the use of Asian coolies who were, in everything but name, slaves. Empire, 'Conclusion'.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN EARL OF DUNMORE REVOLUTIONARY COUNTERREVOLUTIONARY BOTH EMANCIPATORS

Sunday, July 8, 2018

ABRAHAM LINCOLN EARL OF DUNMORE REVOLUTIONARY COUNTERREVOLUTIONARY BOTH EMANCIPATORS

Dylan Matthews...slavery and revolution...

"...The revolutionaries understood this. Indeed, a desire to preserve slavery helped fuel Southern support for the war. In 1775, after the war had begun in Massachusetts, the Earl of Dunmore, then governor of Virginia, offered the slaves of rebels freedom if they came and fought for the British cause. Eric Herschthal, a PhD student in history at Columbia, notes that the proclamation united white Virginians behind the rebel effort. He quotes Philip Fithian, who was traveling through Virginia when the proclamation was made, saying, "The Inhabitants of this Colony are deeply alarmed at this infernal Scheme. It seems to quicken all in Revolution to overpower him at any Risk." Anger at Dunmore's emancipation ran so deep that Thomas Jefferson included it as a grievance in a draft of the Declaration of Independence. That's right: the declaration could've included "they're conscripting our slaves" as a reason for independence." DM

The very last thing the colonial rebel founding fathers, especially Jefferson, wanted was for their slaves to be queered by the British....

There has been a lot of bullshit about the Declaration etc holding these truths to be self evident, originalist, sola scriptura.

Don't believe a word of it.

Lincoln didn't, either. Look at the debates with Douglas....

HYPOCRISY WAS THE DEFINING FEATURE BUT TRUST ME IT WAS NOT RACIAL HYPOCRISY WHICH WAS ALWAYS BULL

"...Slavery evidently had nothing to do with the events that had led to fighting in Massachusetts, the convening of the Continental Congress, and the attempts to find some basis for peace within the British Empire.  Other issues—first, taxation, and then the imposition of military rule in Massachusetts, which threatened all the liberties of the colonists—had led to the rebellion..."

"...If the southern leaders had cared more about slavery than anything else, they could have handled Dunmore’s proclamation much more easily simply by submitting to his authority and preserving their right to their slaves.... 

"...In the last half century, many, though not all, historians, other academics, and now, journalists and op-ed writers, have gone in a different direction, arguing that hypocrisy was really the defining feature of what the American revolutionaries accomplished, and that none of it had (or will have) any real meaning..." DK

SOUTH FRANCE SUDAN BITCH KNIFE ATTACKER GET READY FOR MORE

Witnesses said the attacker entered a tobacconist in the town of Romans-sur-Isère, near Grenoble, and stabbed the owners and a customer.

He then went to a nearby butcher's shop and attacked more people.

According to French media, the suspect is a 33-year-old man who told police he was born in Sudan. He was not known to the police or intelligence services, news website France Bleu reported.

NICHOLAS WADE FOIBLES 13

The hormone of social trust and distrust is local, p 50: 

Guess what?

There is no "Globalization Hormone", only the West's fatal liberal globalization mutation.

MY OWN PERSONAL PREFERENCE TO HAVE LET THE GERMANS KICK THE ROOSKIES BACK TO THE URALS

Then it would have been easy to have come in, kicked the krauts' exhausted butts,  and then put hard partitions on the Rooskies' empire's ass!

The reason we didn't do that was Soviet communist penetration up our butt, with leftist FDR agents, especially the likes of Harry Hopkins, but also a cavalcade of others, giving the Rooskies everything they asked for.

Patton wasn't trying to coddle Nazis when he asked to use them as fighters to throw against the Rooskie onslaught into Eastern Europe. 

Only leftist fools thought that that was a bad idea, and the ensuing 50 odd years Cold War proved in spades that Patton, and also Montgomery and others, had been so right, all along.

For much of Europe, it wasn't a cold war at all, but rather a long standing hot war in many places that Americans seldom heard or cared about. 

It was not really a cold war at all except in the American imagination.

GREAT CLASSIC POST SOMEONE SEES NOT YOUR RIDENOUR PRIZE POODLES

Saturday, August 28, 2010

RE MR PATERSON EDITORIAL SAME OLD MEDIA HYPE TO SELL PAPERS: BUILDING A NATION OF KNOW-NOTHINGS; PROTECT PORNOGRAPHY AND VIOLENCE

Call it, after the later post topic, The Drew Pearson Fallacy:

The decadent American media feeds on federal, state, and local government. It has no higher mission or calling. Once in a while it even says so.
The print and television media have, over decades, in some respects since the beginning really, shown as little interest in taking up hard issues of political reform, of advancing from the political status quo, as have the politicians it covers for its bread and butter.

Just commenting on state (or local) government corruption or mismanagement, and pointing out self fulfilling things like how much time, proportionally, public officials must spend to try to cover up mistakes, while seemingly a good office,

(because officials know that the powerful and adverse media itself has nothing more constructive to do than seek out such things),

(and by implication, how little time, really, has been left over for substantive government administration and nuts and bolts government work),

has been what freedom of the press, and government in the sunshine, have been all about.

The bottom line, it doesn't get Americans 'better government'.

That's the dirty media secret, in all of this, decade in decade out, because better run governments, federal, state, local, or consolidated, that correspondingly would need or countenance less media coverage, and for which less media coverage, rather than more, would be well justified, is the last thing these old media darlings have wanted to hear.

They have been by far the strongest defenders of free press and open government, and have tirelessly lobbied the American people and bullied their politicians, because they have had the most powerful vested interests in such a laissez faire regime.
It is a corporate thing, not a good government thing.

That has been seen most clearly in the difficulties even most conservative Americans, and organizations, have had in instituting even basic protections from pornography, or pervasive violent prurient or obnoxious programming, or aggressive marketing of bad products targeted directly to children rather than to adults, and other things.

Politicians, of all people, are terrified to challenge freedom of press or sunshine laws, even though they, of all people, have long known, been rudely confronted by, and cowtow slavishly, to these truths.

The media even goes so far as to point out things like how successive administrations, in various states, recently NYT editorials re Illinois, long a snake pit of political vice, and here now New York state, fail to improve, over decades, without however drawing larger obvious positive conclusions or suggestions about the systems they cover,...... maybe state governments need radical overhaul, consolidation, a different political set up, whatever.

In this they have inadvertently indicted the media itself, because for what other higher reasons would one investigate, and report, such things, over and over again, decade in decade out, except in some hope, and with some suggestions, for fundamental changes.

Answer: to distract, to entertain, but above all, to appeal to lower interests causing the public to buy newspapers, etc.
They have been deleterious to the general welfare and political edification of Americans; helping keep already relatively weak governments, at all levels, weak, fragmented, unfocussed, and often on the defensive; while rendering media wealthy and powerful(ALTHOUGH DECIDEDLY LESS SO WITH THE RECENT ADVENT OF INTERNET SOURCES OF INFORMATION).

If you look at issues like truth and falsehood, the failure of media to self police, and the weakness of government to chastise it, has lead to the rise of demagogues, who themselves provide fodder for other media to contradict, even on basic facts.

This is a situation the media itself created, pundits like Limbaugh, and Fox News, and fodder of this type is what has always fueled the media.

The rise of these media sources spreading falsehoods, especially on the right, but on both looking back historically, is a natural product of the American media system, not a mere aberration. The fact that false statements and innuendo can flourish, can become the mainstream substance, is a commentary on the bankruptcy of American freedom of speech and press itself.

The Casanova hand of the unfettered, laissez faire, free market for news, yet again.

KENNEDY CANOE LARGE BODY OF WATER YOUNG CHILD HELLO

A lifeguarded swimming pool is almost too dangerous for a Kennedy.

Mr McKean told the Washington Post that his family was staying at a waterfront home in Maryland owned by his wife's mother. While playing by the water at 16:00 local time (20:00 GMT) on Thursday, Mrs McKean and Gideon "popped into a canoe" to chase after a ball that had rolled away, Mr McKean said.

HOW MANY INFECTED CHINKS HAVE THEY SENT INTO RUSSIA?

WHO COULD KNOW?

NO ONE.

MEDCRAM UPDATE 49 70% OF ICU PATIENTS ARE OVERWEIGHT

Thursday, April 2, 2020

ACCESSIBILITY LAWYERS LL BE SUING HOSPITALS OVER 400 TO 800 POUND CLIENTS DENIED EMERGENCY CARE

Fat shaming, any shaming.

Wade characterizes shame and guilt as cultural racial societal naturally selected defense/offense mechanisms, rather than what liberals call them, bias, prejudice, discrimination, racism, abuse.

The West has put its prick in its rectum in terms of genetic selection protection processes.

This post is dedicated to Nicholas Wade.

SNOWDEN RIDENOUR PEARSON ATKINSON FALLACIES

Sunday, June 30, 2013

re WHAT I NOW CALL THE DREW PEARSON FALLACY

An old rant on the topic:

http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2010/08/re-mr-paterson-editorial-same-old-media.html

Unfortunately, people like Snowden are not an appropriate

' antidote ' for the fallacy.

Congressman Adam Schiff, who chaired the House impeachment hearings, said "the president's dead of night decision puts our country and national security at even greater risk."

"President Trump's decision to fire intelligence community inspector General Michael Atkinson is yet another blatant attempt by the president to gut the independence of the intelligence community and retaliate against those who dare to expose presidential wrongdoing," he said.

The Zaandam cruise ship, with dozens of ill passengers on board, docked in Florida after several South American countries refused to accept it

I LOVE THAT

Coronavirus outbreak eats into EU unity

WHY MAKE VACCINES AVAILABLE IN AFRICA

Coronavirus: France racism row over doctors' Africa testing comments

Two French doctors have been accused of racism after a TV debate in which one suggested trials in Africa to see if a tuberculosis vaccine would prove effective against coronavirus.

During the debate on TV channel LCI, Camille Locht, head of research at the Inserm health research group, was talking about a trial in Europe and Australia.

Jean-Paul Mira, head of intensive care at Cochin hospital in Paris, then says: “If I can be provocative, shouldn't we be doing this study in Africa, where there are no masks, no treatments, no resuscitation?”

“A bit like as it is done elsewhere for some studies on Aids. In prostitutes, we try things because we know that they are highly exposed and that they do not protect themselves.”

Dr Mira had earlier questioned whether the study would work as planned on healthcare workers in Europe and Australia because they had access to personal protective equipment to prevent them catching the virus.

ITALIAN GOVERNOR RACIST SINOPHOBE

Posted by

u/winniejinping

1 day ago

Local Report: Italy

Italian Governor: I Was Called ‘Racist’ for Wanting to Test China Travelers in February

Senator is calling on the director of the World Health Organization (WHO) to step down as for what they say is a role in a Chinese cover-up of its coronavirus statistics.

Local Report: Italy

Boris Johnson's government is reportedly furious with China and believes it could have 40 times more coronavirus cases than it claims

The Milan Governor worried to death about his culture, wants to test China Travelers. 
Guess what?
Great Idea!
Not your Amherst Common Language Guide Correct.

This post is dedicated to Nicholas Wade.

IN MY JUDGMENT WEST SIDE STORY SHOULD NOW MORE THAN EVER BE STAGED AS ORIGINALLY CONCEIVED CATHOLICS AND JEWS

Just see if you could get that done now, in Amerika.

THEY LOVE THIS ONE SOMEWHERE THESE SPOOKS ARE EVERYWHERE

Sunday, September 1, 2019

IS SIMONE GAO A CHINESE AGENT? TAIWAN

ANTHROPOLOGISTS POINT OUT THAT THE NEANDERTHALS DID NOT EVOLVE MUCH FOR HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF YEARS

See the issues raised in the posts below.

The really really huge question, given that prehistoric genetics and even historic genetics shows that natural selection often results in significant changes even over relatively short periods of time, like a hundred years, is why Neanderthals apparently failed to evolve very much for such a relatively very very long period (hundreds of thousands of years) of time?

Thursday, April 2, 2020

SEE DAVID REICH P 257 ICELAND IS THE WEST SINCE 1517 OR BEFORE 1776 A MACROCOSM OF THE ICELAND EFFECT?

DAVID REICH NEXT QUESTION NICHOLAS WADE FOIBLES 10

POLITICAL INSTABILITY IS A DRIVER OF NATURAL SELECTION IN GENETIC SOCIAL BEHAVIOR

POLITICAL STABILITY IS A DRIVER OF NATURAL SELECTION IN GENETIC SOCIAL BEHAVIOR

One among many questions is: Is political instability always, or normally, or only occasionally, a negative, or a positive, natural selection genetic driver?

Is weak self deprecating Western liberal social behavior both self fulfilling, and natural selection self selecting, since at least, if not before, say, 1776, and then also 1789? 

Frankly: Why not start with October 31, 1517?

SEE DAVID REICH P 257 ICELAND IS THE WEST SINCE 1517 OR BEFORE 1776 A MACROCOSM OF THE ICELAND EFFECT?

DAVID REICH NEXT QUESTION NICHOLAS WADE FOIBLES 10

POLITICAL INSTABILITY IS A DRIVER OF NATURAL SELECTION IN GENETIC SOCIAL BEHAVIOR

POLITICAL STABILITY IS A DRIVER OF NATURAL SELECTION IN GENETIC SOCIAL BEHAVIOR

One among many questions is: Is political instability always, or normally, or only occasionally, a negative, or a positive, natural selection genetic driver?

Is weak self deprecating Western liberal social behavior both self fulfilling, and natural selection self selecting, since at least, if not before, say, 1776, and then also 1789? 

Frankly: Why not start with October 31, 1517?

CATS THE ONE ON THE RIGHT VERY WEIRD

ACCESSIBILITY LAWYERS LL BE SUING HOSPITALS OVER 400 TO 800 POUND CLIENTS DENIED EMERGENCY CARE

Fat shaming, any shaming.

Wade characterizes shame and guilt as cultural racial societal naturally selected defense/offense mechanisms, rather than what liberals call them, bias, prejudice, discrimination, racism, abuse.

The West has put its prick in its rectum in terms of genetic selection protection processes.

This post is dedicated to Nicholas Wade.

HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF HINDUS DEFECATE IN THE OPEN MANY NOW ALSO ISOLATE IN TREES

THEY WANTED TO MAKE THE WORLD SAFE FOR GLOBALIZATION

GLOBALIZATION WAS ALSO GOING TO MAKE EVERYONE SAFER AND MORE PROSPEROUS

GLOBALISATION GONE RIGHT UP YOUR ASSES LIKE THE VIRUS CAN'T GET IT OUT NOW TEAR YOUR ASSHOLE OUT

Will coronavirus reverse globalisation?

Just remember what I say about morality, culture, race.

Different cultures appear to be symbolocally and genetically viral or pathological for one another, especially under certain stressful conditions. 

See Wade, Control of Aggression.

classic cartoon where is blitt when you needed him?

Friday, March 18, 2016

TRUMP CHRISTIE REPUBLICAN PLATFORM DANCE CARTOON

The usual characters.
Trump, in devil aspect, very tall, is dancing wildly, but holding the hand of Christie, also in transports of dancing frenzy, on a large round table in the middle of a cabaret setting, say in a casino. 


Christie can be in a hula skirt, etc., and in drag, perhaps. He is happy. He might also ape a plump La Goulue, Can Can, etc.

Daumier's midgets from prior posts, Cruz, Rubio, Bush, all very visible at intervals, below the table, struggling to keep the table up. They are its only legs. For this one they can be both plump and naked but loin cloths.

Midgets need to look vaguely Daumier esque from the 1840s, or shall I say Barry Blitt esque..... 



1880s Moulin Rouge decor, Toulouse-Lautrec touches here and there.

Philipon .

DEAD CAT BOUNCE ON DOWN

NICHOLAS WADE FOIBLES 12 DAVID REICH NEXT QUESTION

He actually comes out arguing a genetic basis for both morality and religion, similarly to what I had predicted the research would eventually show. p 50.

David Reich, if pushed, would admit the same thing.

Wade goes further, arguing that morality, insofar as it is instinctual, is not universal but local (meaning societal, national, tribal, civilizational, cultural, or racial, or combinations of all these and more), and that this is now apparent at the level  of the gene.

Oxytocin is two edged: Throwing helmut or Muhammad under the train is ok for the Dutch!

EU SHOULD FIND SOME PLACE OTHER THAN EUROPE FOR THESE WHY NOT THE MIDDLE EAST OR AFRICA INDIA?

EU court rules against three states over refugees

MEXICO COVID 19 HEAVEN RIGHT OVER THE BORDER

TRUMP SUDDENLY LOOKS LIKE A PRESCIENT GENIUS!

SOME OF MY CONTRIBUTIONS TO A CRITIQUE OF KRUGMAN A PROPOS FERGUSON'S

Tuesday, March 12, 2019

RE KRUGMAN CRUMBLING INFRASTRUCTURE INFRASTRUCTURE FOLLOWS PRODUCTION FACILITIES MOSTLY NOW OFFSHORED

The Achilles heel of the global market, infrastructure and distribution networks in countries no longer making much at all themselves.

Roads of all kinds, consumer delivery trucks of all kinds, limos to and from airports and train stations, and to and from major cities, undergrounds and trolleys, all these things become parasitic, secondary, third worldly, once major and minor industrial production has gone. Agricultural production can maybe make do, limp along.

Monday, April 16, 2018

RE KRUGMAN GRANT SIMON SAYS ECONOMICS THE CASE FOR OFFSHORING ECONOMISTS

RE: No Time For Credibility

Krugman has advocated infrastructure investment...

That seems to make sense, until you look at the structure of blind globalization, which he has also, flatly wrongly, also long advocated......

Then, it, domestic infrastructure investment, makes no sense, anymore: then your best investment in infrastructure is where you get the most bang for the buck, but that's not here anymore.

Another little problem Krugman has had is that his zero interest rate advocacy has generated almost zero federally funded infrastructure, except a very small amount of the wrong kind.

On the other hand, it has, once again, generated all kinds of large scale, private sector, bubble like, investments, everywhere in the world.

Grant objected to zero interest rates, not to discourage good cheap domestic infrastructure investment per se, but rather for other very good reasons, like how can you tell whether a private (or public) sector investment (domestic and or foreign, infrastructure or not) is worthwhile or not, with zero interest rates.

Bottom line: Krugman has long known that his profession is bottomed on pure sophistry, and he cynically plays it that way, having also learned that the average government Joe has no idea whether what he is talking about is true, and has no way of finding out one way or the other for sure from anyone else.

I should acknowledge that I am not a special fan of Grant, either, except that I like his style of exposition and argument, but let us save that story for another post.

Monday, November 28, 2016

RE INFRASTRUCTURE BUILD OR PRIVATIZATION SCAM PIKETTY NIGHTMARE

This is  much more complicated an issue than Krugman paints. 

You may recall that Trump had painted himself as a champion of condemnors and of condemnation for public purposes, as against the ultra right's, his own party's constituents', antagonism for the government being allowed to ever take any private property for any purpose whatsoever. 

Does anyone besides me recall that?

What would that, his position, have meant to someone in that narrow and recherche field of human endeavor, condemnation, eminent domain?

It would have meant that he was on the side of government in its role as public infrastructure development champion, using government to do the job that the right wing private sector abhorred and had shunned. Trump was viewed as an apostate. 

 

Now Trump wants to give that field entirely to the private sector directly, without the controlling involvement of government at all. Why, do you think, is he now advocating infrastructure projects in this format? Take a guess.

There are, to be sure, many constitutional issues with trying to give away government infrastucture work entirely to private developers wholesale, but Trump has not thought of those, and the average American neither knows nor cares about the fine points of law involved.
 

One of the underlying problems, to which Krugman fails to advert, one very near to the hearts of all investors, great or small, but  always uppermost on the minds of the better ones, is the perennial problem of uncertainty. Cf. Niall Ferguson, The House of Rothschild

 

The other underlying problem, related to the problem of uncertainty itself, is one which economists like Krugman, and also more conservative ones than him, have created for us all, in concert: the problem of even having or wanting a bigger, or god forbid a better, central government, capable of larger, longer term, infrastructure projects at all, not determined or called for by market forces in the first instance.

 

Our political system itself, with its potential for radical change every four years or so, tells against long term commitments, of any kind really, by any particular 4 year regime, however either effective or incompetent.

 

The fact that Trump had talked of dismantling ACA, among others, only adds to the inherent institutional uncertainty of such a system of governance, in the minds of greedy, or careful, or cautious, or timid investors.

You may have noted that he talks about a toll road, in either scenario, meaning that it it kind of double taxation, and frankly a bad weak idea in itself, if government funded; and guaranteed, high private profit, if privately funded.

Either alternative shows the kind of Morton's Fork Americans are now in with their political and financial system.

You will note that he doesn't drag out either the hidebound Republican bogey of picking winners, gov cannot do anything right; or the alternative Democratic bogey that the private sector cannot do anything that is not corrupt, things like that.

Contrary to what he says, it is about taxpayer rip, off either way, either by the government directly through double taxation, tax and tolls; or by government in cahoots with the private sector with guaranteed tax breaks and toll profits. 

For sewers, restoration projects, etc., to which he refers, as a supposedly better alternative to Trump's plan, double and ongoing  taxation would be built into rent in perpetuity as he says, meaning user fees and charges, on a monthly basis, just like a toll, public or private....

You pay the tax that funds road construction, then you continue to pay through tolls. 

I fail to see any real difference in either infrastructure alternative, Trump's or Krugman's, either way.

You do the math.

In answer to his question how much thus financed wouldn't have taken place anyway, my answer, in this political environment, long bequethed by both parties,  is, frankly, not much, if any.

Re additionality, with so called public projects, but often really PPPs, you normally have foreign private contractors, not American firms, winning the lion's share of public infrastructure projects now anyway, for a variety of reasons.

This is a whole complex area, because of our political system such as it is, in which Krugman's discussion, of merely federal versus versus provate, scratches not the surface, and I that doubt Trump's does either.  

Why? Because it is too complicated corrupt and backward to face the light of day, to face, call it, the hot breath of ' close scrutiny '. 

So you get someone like Krugman, letting you eagerly lick his partisan surface icing off the very outmost surface of the real issues he claims to address.

Florida's first such PPP road project, for example, I believe it was federally funded, and went to a German company, as I recall.

Either way, we are in an evil, dark, economists' world, largely left out of Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century.

Wednesday, September 13, 2017

THE BIGGEST DAMAGE IN FLORIDA WAS TO THE HOBBLED POWER INDUSTRY

The second biggest damage was to local stormwater systems, hundreds of them, pathetically already overstretched in normal non storm conditions.

Florida bridges, the next shoe now to drop. I know all about it, the average person here has never had any idea. Both state and local level deferred maintenance....

 

If you are booming infrastructure, in the developmental attacker state world, directly or indirectly, to keep their sweated labor (slave labor, by, say, Lincoln's and American liberals' standards) on line for consumer products here, then why also boom infrastructure here, to protect against a hurricane or anything else, where few can find a decent relatively expensive job anyway?

 

Why?

I am going to tell you a dirty little globalization secret while we are on this tangential subject: 

You can't have abundant really really cheap products here, or even decent well maintained infrastructure here, and also have Samantha Power style human rights, or even a halfway decent standard of living by Western standards, there.

There is no free lunch, no Wimpy Bar, no McDonalds, no Walmart, Target, Amazon, you name it, anything, without a price, call it, for now, the China Price.

If you thought you were going to end up, one day, in a multicultural world, of wealthy multi color democratic liberals, you have long been in the Age of the Democratic Revolution dream land.

Monday, February 27, 2017

RE TRILLION DOLLAR INFRASTRUCTURE PLAN NOT INDUSTRIAL POLICY

Such a plan, even though he seems not to be going to do even it, big blind government infrastructure spending, helter skelter as it always has been, as distributed to and through each individual state, is not a federal industrial policy, and that point needs to be stressed when reading things I say about redevelopment, Marshall Plan, etc.

Lawton Chiles had a state loop road built around the quiet city of Lakeland Florida with federal money, which wasn't needed, and which almost no one used for decades.

Pork barrel politics, the only kind the American system is structured to do, is not national industrial policy. 

Moreover, it would be very difficult to reform the one to try to get to the other eventually.

Friday, January 11, 2019

THEY ARE TAKING YOUR STUPID ASSES OVER BABY

CHINA LYING DOG ON VIRUS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFftsn6izic

What are the actual numbers of virus infections and deaths in China?

My guess is that the numbers are huge and not well brought under control, because for many reasons they are hard to control there even with authoritarian measures.