Money is Fungible

Has anyone else connected the dots between giving less wealthy people (there are damn few “poor” — to see poor, visit Haiti), low cost or “free” lunches to free up money for them to buy high-cost sneakers and cell phones for their children, and feeding the population of North Korea to free up money so they can build more and more nuclear weapons?

Money is fungible.

The NK Whack-a-Mole Problem

I suspect that North Korea is simply reacting to the strong reaction that the US, UN and South Korea had to the sinking of a South Korean surface ship and the death of many sailors.

Remind me again, what was that reaction promised by our Secretary of State?

But the Blame America First group will find some way to blame American foreign policy…let’s see, our presence in the South is a provocation; we have never surrendered from the Korean War; we have boarded their ships at sea and/or diverted them to neutral ports where we used our power to delay or deny those ships “freedom of the seas’; we assisted Israel in destroying their nuclear plant in Syria, which killed several NK scientists;…

How about this: “We are not liberal enough! We have not given the NK people ENOUGH food and fuel! How can we say that we are a humane people, if we do not help the “poor” and on any scale the people of NK are among the desperately poor! How can we call ourselves “Christian” when we let their people starve, and even though we have helped, it is not enough!”

It Makes Me Angry…

There is constant chatter among the chattering class that business is not hiring people fast enough — sitting on their money.

Business has no obligation to hire anyone, anytime.

Business is not a welfare program — not a social service.

Whatever, or whoever gave you chatterers the impression that providing jobs was, or is an obligation of a business?

On the contrary, the purpose of a business is to make a profit by maximizing its profit and minimizing its costs, and with labor a major part of the cost it pays to automate where possible.

Under the old Soviet style of business, after checking into the Cosmos Hotel in Moscow, I was sent to still another desk to get a key from the “Key Lady.” Then when I left the room, I was supposed to give my key to the “Key Lady” on the floor, then there were meat shops, and bread shops, and veggie shops (mostly empty but…FULL EMPLOYMENT, until implosion.

They learned their lesson. Greece, Ireland, Spain, et al are still relearning theirs…

Slow studies…you “analysis”  apparently think that businesses have some obligation to hire beyond their needs, and I can assure you that businesses understand their needs better than you do!

No Further Comment Necessary

Quoted Without Comment:

“Zogby Interactive: Obama Falls to 39%, As Support from Democrats Continues to Slide; He Trails Romney, J. Bush & Gingrich in ’12

http://zogby.com/news/ReadNews.cfm?ID=1924

 

Headline in LA Times: “Lowest ever: Obama job approval sinks to 39%, as even Democrats’ support melts away”

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2010/11/obama-romney-palin.html

Politicians ARE All the Same!

Steve Chapman’s column in the NCTimes newspaper (11/22) is spot on! The Republican’s are posers — offering to be frugal but spending like Democrat Light.

He notes the growth of government under the Sainted Ronald Reagan, where spending grew 22% (adjusted for inflation), and logically asks if the “new” Republicans, chastened by the voters within living memory, have really learned their lesson?

Like Chapman, I am a skeptic on the way to becoming a cynic on the subject of Republicans.

I do note that the Tea Party pressure has drawn Mitch to abandon earmarks — kicking and screaming — and that is something, but my opinion is that the Tea Party will likely be co-opted by the blandishments of the Potomac River.

Until the seat of government is moved to Denver for a new beginning without the current bureaucracy infrastructure, we have little hope.