tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22563831.post5763374453046494949..comments2024-02-15T15:25:04.287-08:00Comments on Losing the War on Humor: Robert Reich Omits Solution for Getting Americans Back to Work2Truthyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06621258620190540140noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22563831.post-34488275217264407722009-11-04T16:50:42.529-08:002009-11-04T16:50:42.529-08:00Red "Feversham" Oak, PTL for our comfort...Red "Feversham" Oak, PTL for our comforting economists and their infinite wisdom. Alas, I am reminded of the brick in the window fallacy.<br /><br />A guy throws a brick (or a divining rod) through the local bakery's huge stained glass window that also messed up his signange that reads "Calvin's Carbon Footprint Cream Horns" very badly. (Big hit with the kids.)<br /><br />The baker, who had planned on spending the $18K to replace it on a medical tourism trip to Sri-Lanka, is forced to spend it instead by hiring the local glazier, who then contracts the work out to four subbies new to the area who are more than happy to receive on the job training PLUS the added bonus of pay at the minimum wage.<br /><br />This also causes the baker to lose customers as the shop is closed two weeks longer due to the slower, inexperienced labor. The transaction involves a total of 5 workers, excluding the women and kids in China who made the glass (freight included.)<br /> Who gets the better bang for their buck? Whose economy gains? Let's do the math:<br /><br />Instead of supporting one or two Sri-Lankan doctors, a nurse, two receptionists, and a lab technician along with a bevy of airline, TSA creeps, ground transport, hotel/restaurant and entertainment professionals, it is easy to see how the U.S. shouldn't bother having any bakeries.<br /><br />Besides, no educated single mother needs all of those cream horns to distract her from finding her man.2Truthyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06621258620190540140noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22563831.post-86875493454619141822009-11-03T20:32:59.189-08:002009-11-03T20:32:59.189-08:00You, Red Oak, have more sense than the tenured pro...You, Red Oak, have more sense than the tenured professor Reich. This guy with a resume longer than anyone's...thing.<br /><br />I used to like this guy. When he was teamed up with Clinton, he rocked! How can someone so smart be so dumb? O, wait, can I hear <i>sycophant</i>?prezdumasnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22563831.post-79919571273669841662009-11-03T16:07:11.419-08:002009-11-03T16:07:11.419-08:00But 2T, you know perfectly well that every visa re...But 2T, you know perfectly well that every visa recipient creates elebenty billion new jobs for Americans. And every offshored job creates another elebenty billion domestic jobs. So relax. An administration that makes jobs, Job One, will strive to import as many new workers, and export as many jobs, as possible. In no time we will have all the funds we need for health care, and the American middle class can easily foot the medical bills for half of Mexico, too, which they'll be required to do if the bills in the pipeline pass in their current form.<br /><br />Sweet zombie Jesus I hate these people. Sorry to be so testy but I just finished getting my evening's dose of Angry over at <i>Economist's View</i>, where I learned from the Brookings Institute that immigration and trade policies had nothing to do with increasing poverty, inequality, and economic stagnation in the U.S. It's all caused by poor mothers not getting married, doncha know. As if that had nothing whatever to do with poor men being unemployed or being offered shit wages due to labor-market glutting. And we all know single motherhood is such a huge problem among educated middle class people.<br /><br />And the people who write this moronic shit have jobs. Well paying jobs. JFW.Red Oaknoreply@blogger.com