September 8, 2022
Who is threat to Democracy
Tweet below from one who preaches systemic racism is the primary cause of disparities. Liked by 16000 before Twitter removed. Who are these people.
September 7, 2022
College Free Speech
Admittedly it was a while back that I attended the schools but my two alma mater‘s rank first and third in free speech. Interestingly, my woke niece’s school, Wesleyan who thinks I’m a racist ranks 127th.
COVID - How did we do? Not so good.
COVID - How did we do? Not so good.
There are many factors that might be considered when evaluating how we handled COVID including, but not limited to, mortality, loss of learning and economic disruption.
We have recently learned that the closing of in person schooling has had a horrible effect on children in the US with this effect worse for children with lower socioeconomic support.
We saw the devastating effects of "two weeks to stop the spread" that lasted months on small businesses and jobs.
With respect to mortality, I decided to look at performance of the US and the EU with respect to Sweden. Why Sweden? It is a developed country that minimized the disruption to business and education. Schools were open. Masks weren't mandated. Businesses were not closed.
What we see is that as of January 21, 2022 the US was close but still had 18.1% more deaths than Sweden which was close but slightly higher, 5.8%, than the EU.
What is interesting is to see how things have been since January 21, 2022. If we look at the relative change in performance of the US and EU with respect to Sweden we see that during this period the US was 63.6% worse than Sweden and the EU was 33.5% worse. Note this is not an effect of the time after the date because we are looking at the change in cumulative deaths relative to Sweden.
My conclusion is that the US slightly under performed before January 21, 2022 and significantly underperformed after that period.
What is particularly sad and disappointing is that the Administrative state of the FDA and CDC, the main stream media and social media all worked together supported by Democrats that relished in the disruption to business, education and society, to prevent any discussion of an alternative approach that may have been much closer to Sweden's than the one followed by the US. Most obvious and significant was The Great Barrington Declaration in October 2020, a document now signed by almost 16,000 medical and public health scientists and 47,000 medical practitioners whose key point was: "As infectious disease epidemiologists and public health scientists we have grave concerns about the damaging physical and mental health impacts of the prevailing COVID-19 policies, and recommend an approach we call Focused Protection." See https://gbdeclaration.org.
This effort was opposed by the FDA and CDC and squashed by the main stream media, social media and Democrat leaders.
September 5, 2022
I’m a threat to Democracy?
What I believe
- Use open competitive transparent markets to allocate limited resources to meet unlimited demands, minimizing politicial influence and crony capitalism
- Use market forces to allow families to control their education, not politicians and teacher unions
- Recognize the responsibility/accountability of the individual and stop the systemic racism false narrative
- Guarantee equal opportunity not outcome
- A social welfare system that incents working designed for unlucky people recognizing lazy people exist
- Fix the greatly distorted market for health care, do not put it into the hand of politicians
- Simpler taxes, minimal regulations and mandates on individuals and businesses
- Supreme Court that will interpret the laws as written, not invent laws that are not written
- Congress writing specific laws and not delegating legislation to the administrative state
- Right to freedom of speech and religious beliefs without harassment, cancellation
- Work to minimize excess police force but recognize need to respect law enforcement
- Right to own a semi-automatic gun with 30 rounds to defend myself, others and property
- Control our own borders, increase immigration with mix of targeting and open
- Fund research to reduce the costs of alternative energy and impose minimal economics costs (taxes) on CO2 today proportional to the future risk, do not Impose extreme economic costs (regulation) on CO2 today in extreme excess of future risk
- Honor our founding and our history while learning from our past, stop rewriting history to distort the uniqueness and exceptionalism of our country
- Foster capitalism and Democracy worldwide
- Fair free trade
September 4, 2022
Actually- Biden increasing insulin cost.
Consumers will have less choice and pay more as a result of the Inflation “Reduction” Act.
http://caseymulligan.blogspot.com/2022/06/how-incumbents-capture-price-controls.html?m=1
September 2, 2022
I'm a racist?
Just a picture of me and all of the other "racists" that understand that racism exists (though not widespread), it’s bad, and we should continue to work to reduce it BUT it is not the primary cause of the disparities (murders, incarceration, teen mothers, fatherless households, income, wealth, etc.) between blacks and whites.
August 31, 2022
Why no BLM riots?
Early this week an unarmed black man was shot by a white policeman in Columbus Ohio. Anyone else wonder why there are no BLM protests or riots? It couldn’t be because the Democrats use these instances to their political advantage. Under Trump they loved to incite anger and emotions regarding police and blacks. Now they pretend all is well.
August 26, 2022
CA will be even more expensive
The average amount of power used by gasoline cars in CA today is ~74,000 MW per hour.
The current electrical generating capacity in CA is ~80,000 MW.
I guess that means they think they will switch to electric vehicles powered by wind and solar. If the build fossil fuel plants there is really no benefit to global warming. And it seems impossible that they would go nuclear.
If this is the case there will be a dramatic cost to do this including:
1. The cost of doubling their power generating capacity.
2. The cost of energy storage. The sun doesn’t shine at night and the wind often dies at night, when cars will need to recharged.
3. The cost of having to install all of the infrastructure to transport additional electricity.
4. The cost to build all of the charging stations.
5. The additional cost electric vehicles versus gasoline vehicles.
6. The external costs associated with manufacturing and disposing of batteries.
How smart is this?
August 24, 2022
Suckers!
For all of those that put off going to college until they could pay for it, those that saved and then paid for college, those that borrowed and then paid their loans and those that did not go to college because they could not afford it, Biden says: “SUCKERS.”
Biden’s student loan cancellation will cost all of us taxpayers $500 billion to $1 trillion and the benefit will primarily go to people with good paying jobs.
And of course this will also hurt inflation.
And increase the cost of college as more more people learn they can borrow money for free.
And one of its largest cost are hidden. It’s the new way the commit limits what students have to pay. https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2022/08/the-student-loan-giveaway-its-much-bigger-than-you-think.html
And last but not least, help increase the money flowing to the woke university professors and administrators destroying our country.
August 23, 2022
August 15, 2022
BLM-what about this life?
Where’s the outrage? Where’s BLM? Where’s Lebron?
Another week and more lives lost. Until the Democrats stop propagating the false narrative nothing will change.
Black lives matter - I support the words but cannot support the organization because it propagates the false narrative that systemic racism is the primary cause of the disparities(murders, incarceration, teen mothers, fatherless households, income, wealth, etc.) between blacks and whites.
Racism exists (though not widespread), it’s bad, and we should continue to work to reduce it. Excess police force exists (though rare), it's bad and we should continue to work to reduce it.
BLM organization’s positions and policies do not address the problems (murders, fatherless households, teen pregnancy, lack of agency) and do not address the key root causes (it’s not excessive police force or systemic racism.)
https://moxlosllc.blogspot.com/2021/10/wheres-biden-lebron-blm-102521.html
August 11, 2022
Biden raises insurance premiums
Biden raises insurance premiums
Obama made a bad healthcare system bigger. He distorted the market for insurance (risk pools) resulting in much higher premiums.
Now, Biden succeeds in making it even worse. The Inflation “Reduction” Act will increase the demand for insurance BUT decrease the supply. Prices will increase.
August 10, 2022
August 7, 2022
We have time
Climate change is not an existential threat. There is plenty of time for adaptation and innovation. We do not need to stifle the economy today. We should be funding research to lower the cost of alternatives and developing nuclear.
Inflation Reduction Act - a big lie
The Inflation Reduction Act is a big lie. It will hurt the economy. It does not reduce inflation. And doesn’t even help fight climate change.
August 5, 2022
People still not working
Yes jobs are being added. BUT people are still not working. This is a problem.
August 4, 2022
Biden pays off unions
Biden’s union payoff
The inflation reduction act doesn’t reduce inflation, it actually raises taxes on everyone. And now we learn it’s also a payoff to unions. Why Biden wants to distort market forces and use our precious tax dollars so inefficiently is obvious: he’s paying off unions.
Solar
The new base tax credit for solar and wind production would be $5.2 per (MWh).
Investors in projects that use union labor would be able to claim $26 MWh
Investors using 100% steel made in the U.S get $28.6
C Sequestration
The base tax credit for carbon sequestration is $17 per ton
For projects using union labor it is $85 per ton.
Nuclear Power
The base tax credit for nuclear power is $3 per MWh.
It is $15 per MWh if union labor.
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