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| David P. Goldberg: Trump Deserves a Darwin Award |
| 2015-08-02 |
| [PJ Media] My inbox is full of emails touting Donald Trump's "Time to Get Tough" book, now with Rush Limbaugh's endorsement. He blames most of America's problems on a "tidal wave" of illegal Hispanic immigrants and unfair Chinese trade practices. He reminds me of H.L. Mencken's classic one-liner: "For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple and wrong." One might add, "dangerous," because Trump appeals to our desire to blame someone else for problems we created. If you want something to worry about, have a look at the math questions that Chinese high school students have to answer to qualify for college admission. Let's review the facts. Goldberg attacks the consumer as well as messengers Trump and Limbaugh. Nicely done, if you can find a believer. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #10 I wonder if he and Tom Friedman trade dim sum recipes? I thought they traded sum dum ideas. |
| Posted by: gorb 2015-08-02 22:14 |
| #9 From Wikipedia David Paul Goldman is an American economist,[1] music critic, and author, best known for his series of online essays in the Asia Times under the pseudonym Spengler. Goldman says that he writes from a Judeo-Christian perspective and often focuses on demographic and economic factors in his analyses; he says his subject matter proceeds "from the theme formulated by [Franz] Rosenzweig: the mortality of nations and its causes, Western secularism, Asian anomie, and unadaptable Islam."[2] As of March 14 2015, Goldman and long time Asia times associate, Uwe Von Papart, took control of Asia Times HK Ltd. I found his How Civilizations Die (and why Islam is dying too) thought-provoking. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2015-08-02 21:58 |
| #8 It's Goldman, or Spengler, if you wish... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2015-08-02 18:09 |
| #7 Goldberg or Golman? Who the hell is this guy? McCain called Trump's supporters crazies and Goldberg is calling them simpletons. As far as I'm concerned his answers are the ones that are a little too easy because they don't answer anything at all. So Goldberg is a pillar of wisdom? First of all he presents these charts purporting to show that illegal immigration from Mexico is less now than it was before 2008. His source is the Pew Hispanic Center and I never heard of them either. So, right off the bat, he has a credibility problem. Besides, the border is still wide open. Drugs and illegals are still flowing freely. A lady in San Francisco was recently murdered by an illegal alien and a drug lord who just escaped from a Mexican jail has threatened to assassinate Trump. How many months ago was it that we had that little Children's Crusade? You want some anecdotal evidence? Try visiting a school or a hospital emergency room in southern California. You better learn Spanish. Then he says the Chinese are intellectually superior to us and besides, the growth in trade with China has slowed. Oh yeah? Who invented the Internet? Which country put the first men on the moon? But maybe they are smarter because these days you simply cannot buy a computer that wasn't made in China. Go to a Target, WalMart, Macy's or any other store of your choosing and try to find an item that wasn't made in China. Well, you can. But you'll have to look pretty hard. But no. I don't blame the Chinese or the Mexicans. I blame crooked morons like McCain and Goldberg for saying that anyone who wants to do something about it is either crazy or a simpleton. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2015-08-02 15:44 |
| #6 Remember, he's a Wall Street guy first, last and always. Wall Street is all in on free-for-all immigration. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2015-08-02 15:44 |
| #5 and dey smell funny |
| Posted by: Shipman 2015-08-02 14:01 |
| #4 Everything they do is smart, but if we want to do the same things we're stupid? I wonder if he and Tom Friedman trade dim sum recipes? |
| Posted by: Pappy 2015-08-02 13:04 |
| #3 Does he mention that immigration from the low productivity people will a) reduce wages for those aboriginal inhabitants of a similar productivity to the migrants, thus making higher profits for employers. b) increase rents making the cost of living for inhabitants higher while those who live off rents will be richer. Only someone being deliberately ignorant of basic economics could say immigration was cost free. So I assume he's lying by ommision because he's in the group that benefits from the subsidy caused by not charging migrants for the right to work. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2015-08-02 10:32 |
| #2 Too many nuanced credentialed thinkers never heard of the Gordan Knot. Remember these are the same 'thinkers' who believed that by integrating China into the world economy they'd give up thousands of years of aggressive culturally based nationalism. BTW, I was taught by the esteem credentialed lecturers that the tariffs and trade restrictions of the 20s and 30s were a contributing cause of and/or the extension of the effects of the Great Depression. Given by the employment metrics of the 30s we are in a Depression and do not have similar trade obstructions, maybe its time the 'conventional' wisdom be reexamined as instead of thinking about importing goods in trade, it's time to think of exporting unemployment. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2015-08-02 10:05 |
| #1 Funny thing is, these Chinese that Goldberg enjoys telling us are so much smarter than we are are have been aggressively protectionist for the last forty years. Everything they do is smart, but if we want to do the same things we're stupid? |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2015-08-02 09:47 |