For a few days at least. I have a funeral for a close friend of the family to attend.
Posted by Eric Earling at February 12, 2009 01:26 PM | Email ThisThe previous poster shows the typical insensitivity of way too many leftists. Ignore him (or her)
Posted by: RBW on February 12, 2009 10:48 PMThe man just said he's going to a funeral. A little respect to much to ask?
I know you guys don't have respect for the dead (I remember the leftie pep rally that broke out at the Wellstone funeral and of course there is the whole issue abortion) but maybe just once you can show a little tolerance for the feelings and beliefs of someone who isn't a terrorist, abortionist, illegal alien or long-term welfare recipient.
Posted by: johnny on February 13, 2009 08:34 AMThe man just said he's going to a funeral. A little respect to much to ask?
I know you guys don't have respect for the dead (I remember the leftie pep rally that broke out at the Wellstone funeral and of course there is the whole issue of abortion) but maybe just once you can show a little tolerance for the feelings and beliefs of someone who isn't a terrorist, abortionist, illegal alien or long-term welfare recipient.
Posted by: johnny on February 13, 2009 08:34 AMHe's just stupid!
Posted by: Medic/Vet on February 13, 2009 09:25 AMNewhouse to direct state Department of Agriculture
Yakima Herald-Republic
YAKIMA, Wash. -- State Rep. Dan Newhouse will be the next director of the state Department of Agriculture.
Newhouse, a Sunnyside Republican, said this morning that Gov. Chris Gregoire plans to appoint him to the position. Bob Gore is currently acting director, having taken that post when Valoria Loveland retired last May.
Newhouse, 53, is a Lower Valley hop farmer who has served in the state House since 2002. He has a degree in agricultural economics from Washington State University. His father, Irv Newhouse, served 34 years in the state House and Senate before retiring in 1998.
About your GDP/GNP chart: Check Richard Hofstadter's old book, The American Political Tradition, chapter on the Hudson River aristocrat as a hayseed farmer. Brookings determined that the gains of the First New Deal years coincided with the prolonged period in which AAA and NRA, twin towers of the New Deal, were invalidated by the Supreme Court.
(A contributor to your blog wrote that CCC was whacked by the Nine Old Men. No, it was AAA, FDR's lunatic farm plan that destroyed crops and plowed under millions of animals while "one third of a nation" was going hungry and while we were importing ag commodities from abroad, the same commodities FDR paid farmers to destroy.)
And think about "one-third of a nation" in destitution: I see one-third of a nation ill-nourished, said FDR in 1937, almost four years after the 100 Days. Yes, GPD/GNP posted enough gains to re-elect FDR in a landslide in 1936, but most of the gain trickled up to economic royalists such as the fat cat farmers that FDR's AAA paid not to farm. 1.5 million tenant farmers and sharecroppers, many black, were utterly immiserated or were plowed under by the New Deal.
And before NRA was killed by the Supreme Court, big business conspired with big government to kill competition from small business. An immigrant in New Jersey was famously sent to jail for dry-cleaning a suit for 35 cents. FDR's NRA had decreed that the logal price must be 40 cents.
Unemployment never got below 14%, officially, during FDR's eight New Deal years. Some temp workers in CCC, WPA, and PWA were not counted as workers, but almost 10% of Americans, the chronically unemployed, probably weren't counted at all. That's whjy we say the New Deal did not end the Depression.
The big public works program called WWII ended the Depression by conscripting surplus labor. About sixteen million Americans were drafted, and many were overworked and underpaid. Tens of thousands were plowed under while millions of Americans left behind at home were building bombs for Stalin. And why did that hyperKeynesianism work after VJ Day? Because most of our competitors' productive capacity was bounced rubble. For years we had captive markets and an open field.
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Posted by: mercifurious on February 17, 2009 04:51 PM