Some history and context. It’s nothing new. He was raised as a Marxist, and he’s never changed.
[Afternoon update]
No, Adam Gopnik, Adam Smith would not have agreed with Barack Obama.
Category Archives: Business
Credentialed, Not Educated
Employers have finally caught wise to the academic scam:
Employers, because they realize that many college graduates aren’t really educated, now routinely quiz job seekers on what they majored in and what courses they took, a practice virtually unknown a generation ago. Good luck if you majored in gender studies, communications, art history, pop culture, or (really) the history of dancing in Montana in the 1850s.
They themselves got scammed by con artists like Barack Obama, who told them that they had to get a degree, even if they have to go into unaffordable debt undischargable in a bankruptcy, while not bothering to tell them that what they get a degree in matters out in the real world.
[Update a while later]
“This is a terrible social policy. It is deeply destructive.”
Unfortunately, that’s been true of many, if not most of our social policies over the past eighty years, and particularly over the past twenty. And we’re starting to reap the whirlwind.
“You Didn’t Build That”
Obama’s latest plagiarism from Atlas Shrugged is providing a lot of graphical fodder. And he did earn that. More devastating, I think, was Romney’s response.
[Update a while later]
The ultimate takedown of Obama’s speech:
When Obama implied at the Roanoke, Virginia rally that some businessmen refuse to pay for public works from which they benefit, he presented a thesis which, like a three-legged stool, relies on three assumptions that must all be true for the argument to remain standing:
1. That the public programs he mentioned in his speech constitute a significant portion of the federal budget;
2. That business owners don’t already pay far more than their fair share of these expenses; and
3. That these specific public benefits are a federal issue, rather than a local issue.If any of these legs fails, then the whole argument collapses.
And all of them fail. As he notes, it’s significant because it really was revealing, and an Atlas Shrugged moment.
[Update late morning]
It’s a miracle!
The Dependency Agenda
The latest from Bill Whittle (yes, I am back in LA, got in late last night from Silicon Valley).
Light And Scattered Posting
I’m off on a three-day business trip to Dryden, Mojave and Silicon Valley, so I’ll probably check in occasionally, but unpredictably. I’ll keep an eye on comments, though…
Going Paleo
The government has been a disaster for our health. And as he points out, it’s no coincidence that people who eat paleo tend to be libertarian. There’s a good reason for it.
Killing California
Destroying the economic hopes of low income people in order to stoke the self esteem of entitled Boomers is not Via Meadia’s idea of progressive politics, but that just goes to show how backwards we are by the exalted moral standards of the California elites.
The destruction of California isn’t a victimless crime. Millions of low income California residents are trapped in decaying cities where, thanks in large part to narcissistic green unicorn chasers, the manufacturing base has withered away. And anything that blights California, blights us all. America and the world need California back on line; the Golden State has too much to offer for anyone to remain indifferent to its fate.
Unfortunately, for now, the lunatics continue to run the asylum in Sacramento.
A Preview Of The New Space Age
A report on commercial progress with the Lunar X-Prize, over at Popular Mechanics.
Fossil-Fuel Democrats
How they became an endangered species. This is going to be a key factor this fall.
Another Scandal In Unhappy Valley
I have some thoughts on the Jerry Sandusky affair. And Michael Mann…