Nanny State

Conservatives powerlessly ridicule and rail against the country's newest nanny, mayor Bloomburg of  New York City. The concept of restricting carbonated sugar drinks is the epitome of liberalism gone awry. Instead of dealing with real issues of corruption, cronyism, drug abuse, alcoholism, smoking (not just in public) etc... The nanny state chooses sugary drinks as it next objective.  What a joke this country's so called leadership has become. We have a president that can't speak coherently without a teleprompter and then he flubs his lines and is filling a book with them. We have a congress that is so busy picking every one's pockets and legislating against common sense that they don't even realize that they have become irrelevant. We have a public sector which has declared war on the private sector and doesn't care that their actions are destroying this union. We have and economic sector led by crooks and maintained by selfserving criminals for the purposes of stealing money and who could care less about the unborn generations who they are enslaving. We have a private sector which is made up of a vast population of people too stupid to manage their own affairs, too lazy to take care of themselves and too greedy to realize that their lives are bankrupt.

The problem with the nanny state is that it is founded in the principles of personal care. It makes sense to take care of yourself so the liberals go about forcing it and the conservatives have a hard time arguing against it accept at being forced to comply. Consequently the nanny state will continue to increase in deepth and breadth because the general public does not act responsibly.  By accepting public assistance you accept public control which is embraced by the liberal establishment, only marginally objected to by the conservative establishment, and a cost most people are seemingly willing to pay because of the benefits offered. Retirement and health care.

Living wage

I have a several considerations for you that was not mentioned in your article.First, consumerism. I think that as soon as the consumer, who is compelled by self-interest, expects to pay the real value of a product then business owners who are trying to stay in business, by meeting consumer demands for the lowest cost product, can be legitimately excoriated for their greedy and compassion-less business practices.  Second, what happens when a minimum cost of doing business is dictated? The minimum cost of the products are raised or lowered to meet that artificial number. In that case the living wage only causes the cost of living to raise for the poor and subsidizes everyone else. In a free market employment forces would negotiate the actual wage and the cost of everything would reflect the real cost of labor but because the government dictates a minimum wage business can factor that into their prices and artificially lower the labor cost of its minimum priced product and leverage that labor saving into their higher end products. The poor end up paying more for the artificially priced things while everyone else pay less for the super sized things.

Third, I think the real issue about illegals is that they would not willingly work for less or do the less desirable jobs if they were not confronted with the task of trying to stay alive and having to run the risk of getting caught violating the laws of the land. Conversely, it is only worth taking the risk for the farmer, contractor, or manufacturer to employee illegals because they can not stay in business if their products and services aren't the lowest priced. As a result government, unknowingly, has a contrived a situation which attracts people to enter the country illegally as a means of satisfying the need for low cost labor to meet the demand for low prices exacerbated by artificially minimizing wages.



Response to Desert Newspaper article by Eric Schulzke 6.10.12

Keynesian Econmics

The liberal economists and the administration's current talking heads don't seem to realize that their position and talking points are worthless. The theft of billions of dollars from our children's children, because they can't steal anymore from us or our kids, with the excuse that the economic machinery only works when cash is infused has proven to be wrong , again.

The suggestion that hiring more public sector workers will finance a private sector revival by putting more money into the hands of consumers seems to be missing the fact that the economy is much bigger than few messily teachers, fire fighter, and policeman and the stealing of money from the public and inflating the currency only harms the economy and raises prices.

The lack of understanding or the willingness to ignore the realities of economic freedom, innovation, and individual incentive allude the central planners of the government and their comrades as they persist in thinking that they know better and that the American people are predominantly idiots who can't take care of themselves.

The naive approach that the environment is separate from the economic engine of this country and it is okay to restrict access, regulate outcome, and reduce supply without affecting adversely the economy and impoverishing the society dependent upon it for their livelihood.  The notion that somehow inefficient, effective, an inequitable technologies are viable alternatives and that the economy and can accommodate the loss of bedrock processes and mineral resources without debilitating cost increases, severe service shortages, and unnecessary and ultimately unacceptable social consequence.

It is unfortunate that liberals are relying on subjugation as a means of imposing their ideals rather than providing leadership and inspiration.

Texas

Just returned from a trip to Texas. Drove from Idaho through Utah, New Mexico and some of Texas. My wife and I flew from Dallas to Denver then Salt Lake. I understand that this part of rural America is not representative of the population dense regions of the world but the relative crush of humanity was apparent. I understand that the living standards exposed to view are beyond most and way beyond the majority of the world's population. I question whether the world's resources are adequate for the potential demand. However, I am impressed by the ingenuity, creativity, and flexibility of human species. I am concerned at the incompetence of the collective leadership of this world. I am afraid of the evil that lurks in the hearts of man. In spite of that, I know that throughout the world, life is better than it has ever been so I guess I have hope for the future.

Liberal commentators

What would happen to liberal commentators if conservative bloggers stopped watching? Their audience would drop to zero. I am tired of being force feed liberal pablum by the conservative sites! I would, much, prefer to spend my time perusing a government exposé like the GSA boondoggle. I under stand the effort needed to investigate and report a credible story and the pressure to post hourly. If It weren't for conservative blogs, liberals wouldn't have an audience. The so called major media would eventually have to stop wasting money they weren't getting from non advertisers. If the conservative trolls would stop referencing the liberal trolls and directing visits to their sites some of the liberal trolls would have to find real work. Even Soros would get tired of wasting his money on blathering idiots posting to no one. Shutting one's mind to alternative points of view is a stupid thing to do but so is returning to one's own vomit. The challenge is to diversify and discriminate. Eat it once, throw it up once and move on to the next entree, pass up those items experience teaches you to ignore. If the item persists to be offered you may want to reconsider the possibility of having missed something or that there is no accounting for taste.

DOJ

The DOJ has decided to monitor the Wisconsin recall. How much are we willing to bet that the outcome will be decided by the SCOTUS? Even though the odds are 95% in favor of the incumbents retaining their offices. I am so frustrated by the circumstances which allow this country to sink into obliviation when its possibilities are practically endless. It is a shame to watch as the mindless are fooled by a few crooks, con artists, and clowns into thinking the government owes them something and the apathetic don't realize what we are losing.

Lost

all seems to be lost. The bad guys are in charge and are doing everything possible to retain power. Even if they are unable to keep power for now the circumstances insure their return. The American people as they were once characterized are no longer in control of the situation. The socialists are empowered when in the position to destroy things and incompetent at leading when in power which causes chaos in either case. I don't understand why this is happening or how it might be avoided as in the past but there seems to be no viable alternative where freedom and liberty can survive.