WildUtah

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by WildUtah 11y ago
"Lincoln and Ulysses S Grant's opinion about the war, which is that it was unjust." The Republican Heritage foundation proposed Obamacare in 1994. Republican Mitt Romney pushed Obamacare into law in Massachusetts in 2004. But
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"Wonder how many Mexicans were in what is now America at that time" About 2-300k total population in CA, NM, AZ, NV, UT, and CO. That was well under the population of several native tribes on the same land. And the ones in NM were
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Oil money is down, but that always went to fund corruption and plutocrats. The market economy is growing enough to make up the difference. That's good news for Mexico's working families.
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I used to live in a small city in Mexico with rural farming villages around. I would bicycle through them on week-ends. A few men from a village would take the long trek to El Norte, work for a few dollars an hour at backbreaking work for e
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"China's manufacturing labor costs are now above Mexico's" China's wages and taxes are both still lower, but Mexico is enormously less corrupt and your trade secrets won't get stolen. It's a whole lot easi
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Obama is enforcing the immigration laws much more than Bush, who was an open borders radical. But neither has done much immigration enforcement. The Mexican economy has done very well over the past 30 years. It started very backwards but fi
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Mexico City is already safe. Mérida, a big city in the Yucatan, is extremely safe -- Japan level safe. Immigration is easy for educated professionals and teams. Urban living is cheap and has amenities comparable to SF or NY. Language is a b
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I was a US born baby once. Shouldn't they have counted me when I moved to Mexico? That's how you get a net migration rate. Or don't US Citizens count?
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The Mexicans that have stopped coming and started returning are more than replaced by Guatemalans, Salvadorans, and Hondurans that have started arriving in much greater numbers. Mexico's fertility rate is down to replacement level and
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Of course. And every time you leave your house, you should file a plan with the government so that bureaucrats can evaluate whether your travel plans are justified. The state needs documentation of your comings and goings. If you find yours
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Check out how many people[0] get elected to the Congress without one and you'll see that their organizational advantages outweigh their irrational issue agglomeration. [0] 2/100 senators, 0/434 congressmen
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"Did you oppose that bill at the time, on the grounds that it would lead to such ridiculous arguments? If you had, you would have been the only one." I was not the only one. [0][1] The AFL-CIO, the NRA, the ACLU, and Americans tha
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McCain isn't a nice guy. He's always been opposed to every kind of civil rights and in favor of total central government power and total war. He introduced the campaign finance bill that forced the government to argue before the S
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These island provide a valuable public service. If you've seen the Republican debates, you've heard Rubio declare war on Russia and Syria and ISIS, Fiorina reject diplomacy in all cases until we next decisively win a war, Kasich c
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There's no link to the Ferguson article in Humphries's attack piece. The Sunday Times has a paywall, even for a single article in the current edition. But Ferguson's piece has been syndicated. Here's a link at the Boston
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Do you think those things won't contribute to a happy life? I love open space and affordable housing and I'd like to have more. Sorry, but I can't tell what you're getting at. What do you suppose would be sarcastic? Your
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It's easy to get a work permit if you've bothered to get a decent education in all sorts of desirable first world countries. Japan is one. Canada, Mexico, Hong Kong, Korea. Probably lots of places in Europe, though I can't sa
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A recession is a general failure of businesses across all economic sectors. That's what the word has meant for three centuries. Some modern witch doctors have literally made up arbitrary economic statistics and defined a particular pat
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Okay, a handful of tiny countries with massive immigration of millionaire tax cheats may have more per capita cash. That's not meaningful in the context of a real sustainable large country. "Japan is not the type of country I woul
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This is a classic example of the problems with using real GDP as a measure of anything. The US GDP counts crime and corruption as positive contributors to the economy; the error is so deeply embedded in the idea of GDP that economists have
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Countries fail to police immigration, promising us that it will go well and we'll all benefit. Then they demand our civil liberties so they can police the immigrants they invited. And our taxes have to rise to pay welfare to them. But
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I have a friend who used to get erotic messages from her mathematician boyfriend steganographically encrypted on postcards. I had to show her how to decrypt them. It was pretty standard cryptanalysis once I guessed that the messages existed
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"So irrational" To me, it's transcendental.
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Japan's population is about 127MM people. Sustainable population with healthy natural fish stocks, abundant open space, sufficient rice stocks with diverse strains, a high quality of life, cheap spacious housing, and nature reserves, w
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It's an investment in the future. The Japanese will be much better off with a third or a fifth of their current population someday on their overstuffed islands; that's going to require some shrinkage. If you intend to encourage ev
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"Deflation, in the other hand can only be solved by destroying real economy in order to adjust it to the financial economy." Abenomics had no trouble reversing deflation in 2010-2013. You just have to really mean it and not depend
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I'm not recommending hyperinflation. Countries like Japan and the USA with their current levels of debt will someday have to inflate or they will have to renounce the debt officially. That is a mathematical certainty. But that day is a
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The public debt can be traded away with the high foreign exchange reserves or inflated away if it becomes a problem. There's no need to worry too much about it now as all the creditors seem eager to roll it over at low rates forever. D
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A -0.008 rate of GDP growth in a country with a -0.009 rate of working age labor force growth is actually positive growth, albeit slow. It is not in any realistic sense a recession. Japan continues to be the first world nation with the best
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I'm glad you understand the difference. As you can see from my link, some people are confused about what socialism is. You need a special personal connection to the insider elites to run major companies in most of the Middle East. The

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