Yeah, and Ditto on the ‘Like, a hundred yr ago‘ – !?!
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I’ve had an incredibly fun-fill, exciting, and adventurous life – gourging my pre-humble self on ‘the sweet and sour fruits of the tree of life’ mentioned in the Mundaka Upanishad. Hence, I have never paid much attention to what has happened ‘n gone on in the Middle East…heck, don’t even ask me about the Bosnian War. I remember something about the hero Hillary Clinton’s super special adventure there or in the area, lots of bombing, and some great movies. This shocked me this morning:
… my derision of “free trade” is a result of 21st century Principled Free Traders hijacking the historically understood definition of free trade, that being reciprocal free trade (which I generally supported), and replacing it with advocacy for non-reciprocal “free trade,” which is actually a unilateral surrender to foreign mercantilism, even when the economic surrender is to foreign nations that are hostile to the United States.
Far too many Americans, especially Libertarians, fall into the trap of purely looking at the bottom line on free trade. There is more to a nation and a culture than its economy. What about the well being of its citizens? The number and type of material possessions one has is not correlative with one’s mental and physical health. This is painfully evident in the United States today, especially to those of us who grew up in decades where Americans had less material wealth.
Humans need a sense of purpose and a sense they are contributing to a community, the more local the better.
Karmi, the history cited in your linked Breitbart article is correct. Trans-Jordan, which became just Jordan, is the homeland of Palestinian Arabs. It constitutes about 75% of the original British Mandate area established after WWI and the fall of the Ottoman Empire.
Trans-Jordan, which became just Jordan, is the homeland of Palestinian Arabs.
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About 1/3 of the population is descended from the pre-1947 population. About half is descended from refugee flow in 1947-49 and 1967. The remainder consists of migrants who have arrived since, often starting out as seasonal labor. The problem with the West Bank and Gaza is that the people who lived there who had skills and constructive objects migrated elsewhere.
advocacy for non-reciprocal “free trade,” which is actually a unilateral surrender to foreign mercantilism
Always a garbage take. Mercantilist countries are taking poison, and we should take poison too, that’ll show them…
Foreign mercantilism subsidizes our consumption by ripping off their own people. There are any number of other goods and services that America can produce, or can produce better, or produce cheaper and as long as there are human needs going unsatisfied this will be true. Ripping off our own people to make it “fair” only benefits a few of us at the expense of the others.
There may sometimes be a moral case against free trade–for example, not buying the products of slave labor–and there may sometimes be a security case–not buying all of our tanks from our enemies–and there may sometimes be a public health case, like not importing beef from countries rife with mad cow–but there is never an economic case.
You can only fake an economic case by focusing only on the interests of specific producers while ignoring consumers and the other producers who need these goods and services as inputs.
I’m totally fine with Trump using tariffs to negotiate with other countries, that’s not a fake economic case against free trade. I’m totally fine with across-the-board tariffs for revenue, which is again not a fake economic case against free trade. I’m totally fine with restricting foreign labor from entering our borders because people are not widgets and it’s not a fake economic case against free trade.
I just insist we do these things with our eyes open and not pretend we’re somehow making a shrewd economic calculation whereby the whole country profits. It’s okay to value other things higher than money, and the truth ought to be one of those things.
Choice is one of the key issues in the culture war right now millions of children are being lost to leftist indoctrination by the teachers union. One of the best initiatives of the administration is expanding school choice. See this article
White House Roundtable To Highlight School Choice With Top GOP Govs
“President Donald Trump wants parents throughout the nation to be empowered to direct their children’s education.”
The White House will host a Friday roundtable on school choice with top Republican governors amid sweeping victories on the issue across the country, The Daily Wire has learned.
Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who spearheaded a major victory for school choice in her state after taking office, will moderate the National School Choice Week Roundtable at noon on Friday, according to a White House official. Also at the table will be Governor Bill Lee of Tennessee, where the legislature just passed a universal school choice bill, and Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick of Texas, where school choice legislation is also expected to pass.“
The Texas story is interesting. Their school choice legislation was killed by rino Republicans and Democrats in the state assembly. Texas governor Greg Abbott primaried the opponents and most of them lost. The former assembly speaker Dade Phelan escaped by the skin of his teeth and lost the speakership in the current session. Texas politics are unpredictable so it’ll be interesting to see how it goes this year.
Representative Thomas Massie from Kentucky has reintroduced H.R. 899, legislation aiming to terminate the U.S. Department of Education by December 31, 2026. This one-sentence bill proposes a major shift in educational governance, advocating for the return of power to teachers and parents.
Thanks to the 21st century ubiquitous internet technology, yesterday, I got to see via cheap o security camera, a rare piebald deer walking around the driveway at my Mirrormont place. $34 camera detected motion and sent alert to my watch. One of the reasons Spacex is so fast at failure analysis is their rockets are practically festooned with cameras.
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Like, a hundred yr ago
Yeah, and Ditto on the ‘Like, a hundred yr ago‘ – !?!
******************
I’ve had an incredibly fun-fill, exciting, and adventurous life – gourging my pre-humble self on ‘the sweet and sour fruits of the tree of life’ mentioned in the Mundaka Upanishad. Hence, I have never paid much attention to what has happened ‘n gone on in the Middle East…heck, don’t even ask me about the Bosnian War. I remember something about the hero Hillary Clinton’s super special adventure there or in the area, lots of bombing, and some great movies. This shocked me this morning:
“Jordan IS Palestine” – !?!
Am not even going to quote any of it since I just dunno…
The time seemed to be slow prior to 1/20 and then post 1/20 just went into hyper-drive.
A new video just popped up on the web that shows different angles of the collision.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/exclusive-cnn-obtains-videos-showing-new-angles-of-dc-plane-crash/vi-AA1yb3zZ?ocid=socialshare&cvid=018e4ecc3f0946b3b732179166ba54d0&ei=6
Buck Throckmorton at ace of spades wrote a very good post on free trade today: https://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=413480
Far too many Americans, especially Libertarians, fall into the trap of purely looking at the bottom line on free trade. There is more to a nation and a culture than its economy. What about the well being of its citizens? The number and type of material possessions one has is not correlative with one’s mental and physical health. This is painfully evident in the United States today, especially to those of us who grew up in decades where Americans had less material wealth.
Humans need a sense of purpose and a sense they are contributing to a community, the more local the better.
Karmi, the history cited in your linked Breitbart article is correct. Trans-Jordan, which became just Jordan, is the homeland of Palestinian Arabs. It constitutes about 75% of the original British Mandate area established after WWI and the fall of the Ottoman Empire.
Trans-Jordan, which became just Jordan, is the homeland of Palestinian Arabs.
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About 1/3 of the population is descended from the pre-1947 population. About half is descended from refugee flow in 1947-49 and 1967. The remainder consists of migrants who have arrived since, often starting out as seasonal labor. The problem with the West Bank and Gaza is that the people who lived there who had skills and constructive objects migrated elsewhere.
advocacy for non-reciprocal “free trade,” which is actually a unilateral surrender to foreign mercantilism
Always a garbage take. Mercantilist countries are taking poison, and we should take poison too, that’ll show them…
Foreign mercantilism subsidizes our consumption by ripping off their own people. There are any number of other goods and services that America can produce, or can produce better, or produce cheaper and as long as there are human needs going unsatisfied this will be true. Ripping off our own people to make it “fair” only benefits a few of us at the expense of the others.
There may sometimes be a moral case against free trade–for example, not buying the products of slave labor–and there may sometimes be a security case–not buying all of our tanks from our enemies–and there may sometimes be a public health case, like not importing beef from countries rife with mad cow–but there is never an economic case.
You can only fake an economic case by focusing only on the interests of specific producers while ignoring consumers and the other producers who need these goods and services as inputs.
I’m totally fine with Trump using tariffs to negotiate with other countries, that’s not a fake economic case against free trade. I’m totally fine with across-the-board tariffs for revenue, which is again not a fake economic case against free trade. I’m totally fine with restricting foreign labor from entering our borders because people are not widgets and it’s not a fake economic case against free trade.
I just insist we do these things with our eyes open and not pretend we’re somehow making a shrewd economic calculation whereby the whole country profits. It’s okay to value other things higher than money, and the truth ought to be one of those things.
Choice is one of the key issues in the culture war right now millions of children are being lost to leftist indoctrination by the teachers union. One of the best initiatives of the administration is expanding school choice. See this article
White House Roundtable To Highlight School Choice With Top GOP Govs
“President Donald Trump wants parents throughout the nation to be empowered to direct their children’s education.”
The White House will host a Friday roundtable on school choice with top Republican governors amid sweeping victories on the issue across the country, The Daily Wire has learned.
Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who spearheaded a major victory for school choice in her state after taking office, will moderate the National School Choice Week Roundtable at noon on Friday, according to a White House official. Also at the table will be Governor Bill Lee of Tennessee, where the legislature just passed a universal school choice bill, and Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick of Texas, where school choice legislation is also expected to pass.“
The Texas story is interesting. Their school choice legislation was killed by rino Republicans and Democrats in the state assembly. Texas governor Greg Abbott primaried the opponents and most of them lost. The former assembly speaker Dade Phelan escaped by the skin of his teeth and lost the speakership in the current session. Texas politics are unpredictable so it’ll be interesting to see how it goes this year.
Massie Moves to End Federal Education Department
Thanks to the 21st century ubiquitous internet technology, yesterday, I got to see via cheap o security camera, a rare piebald deer walking around the driveway at my Mirrormont place. $34 camera detected motion and sent alert to my watch. One of the reasons Spacex is so fast at failure analysis is their rockets are practically festooned with cameras.