Monday, September 25, 2017

SILICON VALLEY IS FAR TOO POWERFUL: Defining crony capitalism. When innovative startups become extremely successful and profitable, the trouble often begins.  It begins with a protection racket that involves buying political influence to "protect" their success and morphs into a corporate culture that demands group think on the part of their employees.  We saw this recently at Google which fired an employee for criticizing employment practices of the company deemed to be politically incorrect.  Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. Therefore these companies that are a part of the Silicon Valley cartel and their ruling oligarchs have to be reigned in to protect the capitalist system.  VDH has identified an important issue for the Trump administration to pursue.

HISTORY DISTORTED AGAIN BY DEMOCRATS:The faux posturing by millionaire athletes is faux. The problem with lying is the truth is out there and nowadays there's always someone who will bring it to light.  Once and for all it's the Democrats who supported and fought for slavery over many years.  Once and for all it's the Democrats who have gotten us into all those destructive wars over the years.  Why don't Republicans point this out more often?

NBA COACH AS SJW:POPOVITCH IS NBA MOST SUCCESSFUL COACH:That doesn't prevent him from commenting on politics and current events as an expert as well. Since he's looked up to as a father figure by many of the players in the NBA his comments here are not productive.  He's clearly a Progressive who voted for Obama and Hillary.  He seems to be unaware of the long time goals and objectives of Progressives and Socialist to create discord and chaos in society as a means to effect the change Obama spoke of in his first campaign for President.  He's also seemingly unaware of the growth of the Administrative State, the chaos on college campuses, and all the other hallmarks of the collapse of structure and order going on in our society today.  His diatribe is that of a man who has been in a highly compensated position in the entertainment industry for many years and is simply unaware of the sources and consequences of these changes.  Part of his diatribe was a defense of those who support the racist claims of the BLM movement.  While he alleges to understand why those who voted for Trump did so, he wonders how they (voters for Trump) must feel now after his first nearly year in office. This position clearly misreads why people elected Trump in the first place.  His is a ridiculously naive presentation by an out-of-touch liberal leading from his sentiments.  Here's an analysis from Ben Shapiro:

But don’t worry, Popovich isn’t the divisive one, even though Popovich endorsed Colin Kaepernick’s kneeling for the national anthem long before Trump addressed it.

There are a bevy of problems with Popovich’s perspective here. First, talking constantly about race does not alleviate racial problems — it exacerbates them. That’s why polls show consistently that race relations were better before President Obama took office: by elevating racial discourse back to the center of our national consciousness, we reopened wounds that had been healing. And the notion that being born white in the United States represents an unspoken privilege is unsupported by data. If that were the case, Asian-Americans would not be the highest-earning group in the United States; if that were the case, single white mothers would be better off than married black parents (they aren’t, by a long shot); if that were the case, we would expect to see white life expectancy continuously rising, rather than falling again. Judging people’s circumstances based on color rather than actual individual background is racism.Finally, connecting all of this with Charlottesville rather than a natural backlash to the cultural warfare waged against patriotism by the hard-core left is myopic at best.But at least Popovich continues to win brownie points with the leftist media.

HOW THE DEEP STATE/ADMINISTRATIVE STATE WORKS.PRETTY grimm stuff.

THE FACTS ARE THE FACTS:The sports protests are a farce. The progressives are wrong again. Cops are victims, set up by race mongers.

LIBERAL FOOLISHNESS ON LIBERAL CAMPUSES: Going to take a long time to unravel this mess: Of much more interest than this particular "news" item are the responses.  Here you find many, many disgruntled alumni of many liberal campuses recording their displeasure with what's going on in these schools.  Unfortunately the rot is advanced.  Seems this all started with Affirmative Action (AA) in the '60's and the admittance of under-qualified blacks to these schools who to accommodate this cohort were required to lower standards and even create studies (gender, sexuality, etc.) that functioning 8th graders could pass.  Ward Connerly, a former University of California Regent warned of this effect many times.  He was adamantly opposed to AA and he is black. I believe it was his contention that overmatching students in schools did them no favors and led to higher dropout rates, failure rates, etc.  He was ignored by other Regents and the result we see in these schools, and many others throughout the country, in the form of silly courses that require no effort to pass.  Welcome to equal outcomes.  Welcome to Socialism.

HERE'S THE REAL ANSWER TO KAEPERNICK ET AL:The race baiters, i.e., Sharpton, NCAAP, are winning. And the rest of us, particularly the cops, are losing.  These demonstrators and their enablers are all brain-washed zombies doing the bidding of the race mongerers who are in it for the money.  More unrest means more money from the timid politicians, corporations and so forth.  This is all bad news for the country.  It has zero to do with Trump.

IS THE CANADIAN HEALTHCARE MODEL THE ONE?: It is according to this writer. Could he be right? There are questions.  There is no discussion of the general impact on taxation in this article therefore its presentation is incomplete.  There is no doubt that the HMOs are adding to the cost of medicine in this country all the while attempting to control costs.  But, as doctor cousin John says medicine for profit may just be the problem since healthcare costs are often uncontrollable and largely random.  Maybe what's called for is a national referendum on whether healthcare is a right or not.  Once this question is answered going forward with market based- healthcare or socialized healthcare would be possible.

PROGRESSIVISM VS CAPITALSIM:This author reflects my views on Progs vs capitalism. It should be noted that Capitalism has been compromised to some extent by Big Government and that any comparison between Progressivism and Capitalism must take this into consideration.  The Regulatory State negatively affects Capitalism by severely limiting competition and thereby disrupting free market prices in many cases.  This fact artificially drives prices up and then protects that pricing from the natural market forces representing an important cause of inflation.  Inflationary pressure then results in the FRS artificially meddling with the price of money to control the inflation which leads to further meddling at the first hint of deflationary forces.  We then have the buildup of debt by the government in the interest of an attempt to prevent economic stagnation and in the Misean sense the elimination of malinvestments.

COLLUSION BY BIG BANKS:The connection between Obama and large, large banks is not good.Problem is this is a long term problem because these lefty organization have built-in cash flow with which to disrupt commerce and the operation of free markets.  Not good for long haul.  It's all about the transformation of the US that O talked about before he was elected in 2008.