Comments on: NYT writer endorses fascist economics! http://sistertoldjah.com/archives/2009/04/06/nyt-writer-endorses-fascist-economics/ Don't dis or dismiss this miss! Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:25:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Carlos http://sistertoldjah.com/archives/2009/04/06/nyt-writer-endorses-fascist-economics/comment-page-1/#comment-760120 Carlos Tue, 07 Apr 2009 15:00:38 +0000 http://sistertoldjah.com/?p=12723#comment-760120 It's easy! All the guvmint has to do is change definitions (i.e., change the rules). For instance, one can make crime statistics go up or down, whichever is preferable for one's audience, by adding or subtracting certain actions as crimes. For instance, if one were to make possession of any amount of marijuana not a crime, then the rate of crime would go down. If possession of any firearm under any circumstances were suddenly to become a crime, the crime rate would soar. In the same way definitions for employment/unemployment can be massaged for His Hollowness to get any results he wishes because he wants to and, gosh darn it, he's president (and he'll tell you so without you even having to ask). And David, you're right. Employment isn't the question, productive employment is, and a government job, however worthy and good at it the worker is, is not productive. It’s easy! All the guvmint has to do is change definitions (i.e., change the rules). For instance, one can make crime statistics go up or down, whichever is preferable for one’s audience, by adding or subtracting certain actions as crimes.

For instance, if one were to make possession of any amount of marijuana not a crime, then the rate of crime would go down. If possession of any firearm under any circumstances were suddenly to become a crime, the crime rate would soar.

In the same way definitions for employment/unemployment can be massaged for His Hollowness to get any results he wishes because he wants to and, gosh darn it, he’s president (and he’ll tell you so without you even having to ask).

And David, you’re right. Employment isn’t the question, productive employment is, and a government job, however worthy and good at it the worker is, is not productive.

]]> By: david foster http://sistertoldjah.com/archives/2009/04/06/nyt-writer-endorses-fascist-economics/comment-page-1/#comment-760046 david foster Tue, 07 Apr 2009 00:35:51 +0000 http://sistertoldjah.com/?p=12723#comment-760046 It’s easy to “solve unemployment.” All you have to do is pay people to dig holes in the grounds and fill them up again. What’s more difficult is to solve unemployment while raising the general level of prosperity. The columnist didn’t include any actual *numbers* justifying his conclusions, but it’s not at all clear that actual standards of living rose in the Nazi era. In his history of the 1930s, “The Dark Valley,” Piers Brendon says the German unemployment problem was indeed solved by 1936, BUT “Third Reich living standards rose little, if at all, about the levels of 1929, though they were naturally an improvement on those of 1932? and “the quality of food eaten by the average citizen deteriorated. This was the era of ersatz, and Germans had their own wry jokes about it; margarine was known as “Hitler butter.” Also, workers were forbidden to change jobs without permission and severely punished for absenteeism. the employment of women was greatly restricted..easy to increase your employment percentages if you decrease the workforce. It’s easy to “solve unemployment.” All you have to do is pay people to dig holes in the grounds and fill them up again. What’s more difficult is to solve unemployment while raising the general level of prosperity. The columnist didn’t include any actual *numbers* justifying his conclusions, but it’s not at all clear that actual standards of living rose in the Nazi era. In his history of the 1930s, “The Dark Valley,” Piers Brendon says the German unemployment problem was indeed solved by 1936, BUT “Third Reich living standards rose little, if at all, about the levels of 1929, though they were naturally an improvement on those of 1932? and “the quality of food eaten by the average citizen deteriorated. This was the era of ersatz, and Germans had their own wry jokes about it; margarine was known as “Hitler butter.” Also, workers were forbidden to change jobs without permission and severely punished for absenteeism. the employment of women was greatly restricted..easy to increase your employment percentages if you decrease the workforce.

]]> By: steveegg http://sistertoldjah.com/archives/2009/04/06/nyt-writer-endorses-fascist-economics/comment-page-1/#comment-760038 steveegg Mon, 06 Apr 2009 20:35:42 +0000 http://sistertoldjah.com/?p=12723#comment-760038 That reminds me of an attempt (reversed only after a lot of attention from the Cheddarsphere) by Wisconsin's Public Service Commisssion to force a utility to support a bunch of Gorebal "Warming" legislation sight unseen as a condition of approval of a rate increase. That reminds me of an attempt (reversed only after a lot of attention from the Cheddarsphere) by Wisconsin’s Public Service Commisssion to force a utility to support a bunch of Gorebal “Warming” legislation sight unseen as a condition of approval of a rate increase.

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