Essential Economics for Politicians
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Hüsker Dü
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You continue to show your ignorance and you seem proud of it.
Bruddah IZ
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I see X10 making up for your diminishing word count. Well done. Pat yourself on the back.
Sheriff Joe
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I am waiting.
Bruddah IZ
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Close the Loophole Legalizing Union Violence
There are no "legitimate" circumstances for aggressive violence.
by Emily Top
Some might be surprised to know that labor union violence, exploitation, and coercion are still legal today as a result of a loophole in the 1946 Hobbs Act.
It is absurd that under so-called “legitimate” circumstances, such as seeking higher wages, union members can potentially get away with slashing tires or detonating pipe bombs in order to coerce their opponents. U.S. laws do not fully protect employers, nonmembers, and non-striking members from union threats.
There are no "legitimate" circumstances for aggressive violence.
by Emily Top
Some might be surprised to know that labor union violence, exploitation, and coercion are still legal today as a result of a loophole in the 1946 Hobbs Act.
It is absurd that under so-called “legitimate” circumstances, such as seeking higher wages, union members can potentially get away with slashing tires or detonating pipe bombs in order to coerce their opponents. U.S. laws do not fully protect employers, nonmembers, and non-striking members from union threats.
Easy money...that's your post Daffy.
"Don't remember any santa ana's in late January in my almost 57 years here . . . but of course you know more than me (and the scientists), just ask you."
Next!
From the LA TIMES:
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
Santa Anas may join the parade
December 31, 2007 | Scott Gold, Times Staff Writer
The Rose Parade and the Rose Bowl have long served as Southern California's annual infomercials, as millions of people around the world gather around their television sets to marvel at the floats and the football -- but also to wonder how it could possibly be so darn sunny in the middle of the winter. This year, though, the parade and the game could feature another trademark of Southern California weather: Santa Ana winds.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
Red-flag fire danger lurks under blue skies in Los Angeles
January 11, 2009 | Hector Becerra
Santa Ana winds left Southern California skies sunny and blue Saturday but kept firefighting strike teams on the lookout for any hint of fire as brush-covered hillsides quickly dried out in rising temperatures. No major brush fires were reported in the region by Saturday night. A red-flag warning issued by the National Weather Service for Los Angeles and Ventura counties is expected to persist until about 4 p.m. today, when temperatures are expected to reach the low 80s in some places.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
Word for the Week: Warm : Santa Ana Winds and Sunny Skies Are Expected to Stick Around
February 25, 1992 | KRISTINA LINDGREN and AJOWA N. IFATEYO, TIMES STAFF WRITERS
Dig out a few more warm-weather clothes, because balmy temperatures and sunny skies are expected to dominate Orange County this week. Unseasonably warm winds blowing from the northeast continued to push moist marine air out to sea Monday, meteorologists said. That allowed the mercury to climb to 87 degrees in Santa Ana, which shared the mantle as the nation's hot spot. But the warm Santa Ana winds that had raked the Southland with gusts to nearly 60 m.p.h.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
3 Die as 75 M.P.H. Santa Ana Winds Bowl Over Trucks
January 8, 1986 | SEBASTIAN DORTCH and JERRY BELCHER, Times Staff Writers
Two Florida men were killed Tuesday when 75 m.p.h. Santa Ana winds overturned their tractor-trailer truck on Interstate 8, 40 miles east of San Diego. Another driver was killed in Riverside County when the wind slammed his twin-trailer truck into a guard rail on Interstate 15 east of Ontario. The California Highway Patrol reported that six other vehicles were also bowled over by high winds roaring out of the desert in Southern California.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
86--L.A. Record Set With Aid of Santa Ana Winds
February 7, 1987
As might have been suspected, the temperature set a record in Los Angeles Civic Center on Friday, reaching 86 degrees as hot Santa Ana winds whipped down out of the deserts. The previous maximum reading for Feb. 6 was 34 years ago, when it was 84. Winds were strong below the canyons. Some gusts in the Tehachapis and around the mountains of San Diego County were 60 m.p.h. Wind advisories were also issued for many other Southland mountain areas, where gusts were 20 to 40 m.p.h.
more articles:
http://articles.latimes.com/keyword/santa-ana-winds
Multi Sport
DA
Sunshine is currently scouring the internet to try and figure out what fake news outlet you used. It may take him a few days to figure it out...
Bruddah IZ
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He was a bit of a speed bump. E, Wez, and Du were just annoyances when Laced and I were posting. But for sure Du was just lost.
Hüsker Dü
DA
So show me, should be easy.
Bruddah IZ
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Wrong
Multi Sport
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Who was Du? And what ever became of Grandpa Duck?
Du was Rat Patrol.
Multi Sport
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Lol... makes sense. All that was missing was the R, N and K.
Bruddah IZ
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– let’s say that Beijing subsidized the successful development of a pill that cures all cancers. The pill need be taken only once, it has no ill side-effects, and it is sold globally by Chinese pharmaceutical companies for $10 apiece. This pill would destroy the comparative advantage long enjoyed by American oncologists. Do you believe that Uncle Sam should obstruct Americans who are victimized by cancer from having access to this pill on the grounds that its development is the result of foreign-government intervention that destroyed the comparative advantage of some very high-wage American workers? If not, why do you think that Uncle Sam should obstruct Americans who are victimized by, say, unnecessarily high prices of steel or of solar panels from having access to steel and solar panels whose prices are made lower on global markets by foreign-government subsidies?--Donald J. Boudreaux
Bruddah IZ
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Stop "Protecting" Us from Affordable Washing Machines
More "American Consumers Last" trade policy.
by Mark J. Perry
In his latest Boston Globe column, Jeff Jacoby (“Donald Trump protects Americans from affordable washing machines“) explains how Donald Trump’s “American Consumers Last” trade policies are an act of economic aggression that victimize US consumers and make America poorer, not more prosperous:
In his Oval Office statement announcing the tariffs on imported solar cells and washing machines, President Trump said their purpose was to “uphold a principle of fair trade and demonstrate to the world that the United States will not be taken advantage of anymore.”
This is the way protectionists [scarcityists] always talk. They portray foreign sellers as economic aggressors, who “dump” their wares on the US market and “take advantage” of Americans by engaging in “unfair” trade.
Yet the overseas manufacturers have taken advantage of nobody. Samsung and LG don’t force Americans to buy their machines — they encourage them to do so, by offering features and designs that Americans like at prices Americans find attractive. Not a single Samsung or LG washer enters the United States unless a buyer has chosen to import it. The only party engaging in economic aggression here is the White House. Trump’s tariffs will penalize the Korean companies not for doing something wrong, but for supplying Americans with choices Whirlpool wasn’t giving them. Consumers will be the losers, victimized by a government more interested in protecting a peevish company from lively competition than in protecting the gains that lively competition yields.
More "American Consumers Last" trade policy.
by Mark J. Perry
In his latest Boston Globe column, Jeff Jacoby (“Donald Trump protects Americans from affordable washing machines“) explains how Donald Trump’s “American Consumers Last” trade policies are an act of economic aggression that victimize US consumers and make America poorer, not more prosperous:
In his Oval Office statement announcing the tariffs on imported solar cells and washing machines, President Trump said their purpose was to “uphold a principle of fair trade and demonstrate to the world that the United States will not be taken advantage of anymore.”
This is the way protectionists [scarcityists] always talk. They portray foreign sellers as economic aggressors, who “dump” their wares on the US market and “take advantage” of Americans by engaging in “unfair” trade.
Yet the overseas manufacturers have taken advantage of nobody. Samsung and LG don’t force Americans to buy their machines — they encourage them to do so, by offering features and designs that Americans like at prices Americans find attractive. Not a single Samsung or LG washer enters the United States unless a buyer has chosen to import it. The only party engaging in economic aggression here is the White House. Trump’s tariffs will penalize the Korean companies not for doing something wrong, but for supplying Americans with choices Whirlpool wasn’t giving them. Consumers will be the losers, victimized by a government more interested in protecting a peevish company from lively competition than in protecting the gains that lively competition yields.
So you're a Globalist?Stop "Protecting" Us from Affordable Washing Machines
More "American Consumers Last" trade policy.
by Mark J. Perry
In his latest Boston Globe column, Jeff Jacoby (“Donald Trump protects Americans from affordable washing machines“) explains how Donald Trump’s “American Consumers Last” trade policies are an act of economic aggression that victimize US consumers and make America poorer, not more prosperous:
In his Oval Office statement announcing the tariffs on imported solar cells and washing machines, President Trump said their purpose was to “uphold a principle of fair trade and demonstrate to the world that the United States will not be taken advantage of anymore.”
This is the way protectionists [scarcityists] always talk. They portray foreign sellers as economic aggressors, who “dump” their wares on the US market and “take advantage” of Americans by engaging in “unfair” trade.
Yet the overseas manufacturers have taken advantage of nobody. Samsung and LG don’t force Americans to buy their machines — they encourage them to do so, by offering features and designs that Americans like at prices Americans find attractive. Not a single Samsung or LG washer enters the United States unless a buyer has chosen to import it. The only party engaging in economic aggression here is the White House. Trump’s tariffs will penalize the Korean companies not for doing something wrong, but for supplying Americans with choices Whirlpool wasn’t giving them. Consumers will be the losers, victimized by a government more interested in protecting a peevish company from lively competition than in protecting the gains that lively competition yields.
Bruddah IZ
DA
What does that mean?