Wednesday, April 5, 2017

Twisted Logic

Is social engineering a thing?  Are children being programmed?  There is some truth to these claims.  Watch the video.
I have made this point all along.  Nothing Trump is doing is pro Russia.  The loud claims that Trump is Putin’s puppet do not pass the smell test.  But then again, not much of what the media puts out there does.
“SpaceX’s actions yesterday reveal how innovative the U.S. commercial space sector can be when given the opportunity and necessary breathing room to experiment. The goal now will be to transform that historic launch and landing into a frequent occurrence. As SpaceX’s CEO Elon Musk has said, the company will be ‘successful, ironically, when it becomes boring.’ For rocket landings to become that commonplace, though, we need to work to allow the demand for them.”
Side note for those who don’t know about SpaceX:  SpaceX’s is the first private company to launch satellites into space for the government, developing the booster that launched the rocket vertically, and then re-launched the same booster.  Incredible stuff.  By a private company.  Not by the State.
This is cool stuff.  And I agree with the quote.  In fact, perhaps, this is the best case study of the power of the market.
Free trade has brought economic prosperity and lifted millions of people out of poverty in a way which is unmatched in human history. Free trade not only benefits all countries involved economically but also promotes peace and goodwill between those countries. Therefore, the UK should aim to pursue free trade with countries all over the world.
Absolutely.  Free trade > foreign aid.  Both morally and economically.
Cuba is sometimes idealized as a successful countermodel to capitalism. This month, however, the University of Chicago’s NORC released a study about the opinions of Cuba’s population. The findings of the poll were clear: Cubans want capitalism.”
I submit that the people of virtually all socialist countries want the same thing. Free markets > State Control.
You’ve got nice ideals Bernie, but get a reality check.  The State is not the answer.
There is never a strong argument for government involvement in the market, however, there is a better argument for subsidizing robots and artificial intelligence than there is for taxing them as the economically illiterate Bill Gates would tell you.
“The stakes are high: If the U.S. government ignores or avoids globalization and automation, it will stifle innovation. Americans can figure out how to strengthen society while integrating robotics into the workforce, or we can leave the job to China.”

I’m with Mark Perry on this one.
Two important quotes:
“… there may be a window of opportunity to turn the anti-Trump rhetoric into a review of the failed policies of the last decade and a half.”
No matter who pulls the trigger — Bush, Obama or Trump — civilian deaths are not accidental, but a policy of preventable accident. The new drone rules under Trump are simply another example.”
As Jacob Honrberger says in his blog post today
Not only have they started the fires and poured fuel on the fires in the Middle East, they have then used those fires as the excuse to suspend civil liberties here at home, purportedly to keep us ‘safe’ from the terrorist blowback their fires produce over there. There is also the impending bankruptcy of the U.S. government owing to out of control federal spending and debt to consider.”

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