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Comment on Week in review by Jim D

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Interesting, captd. A sign of the times. Manufacturing is going overseas, retail is consolidating into big boxes and online, and the population is aging. Wealth is becoming concentrated into fewer hands by the manufacturing and retail trends which signals the demise of small businesses. This is the shrinking middle class problem in a corporation-dominated society, perhaps.


Comment on ‘Warmest year’, ‘pause’, and all that by PA

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Jim D | January 17, 2015 at 11:06 am |
captd, poleward advection increasing may explain why Greenland’s glaciers are melting at accelerating rates. Take your logic further. if you are going to insist on it.

The melt doesn’t appear to be accelerating – the growth does.

Unless things change, warmers are not going to be happy about the Greenland Ice sheet this year either.

Comment on Week in review by dalyplanet

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I called up my statistician friend and had him do a calculation for me. He found there is a 1 in 27 million chance that a climate alarmist will understand radiative transfer physics in its most basic form.

Comment on Week in review by angech2014

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“NASA itself in its SI said there is only a 38% chance 2014 is actually warmest owing to measurement uncertainty.”
NOAA said 48% as well, both of them below 50%, so it is more likely than not that 2014 was not the warmest year in recent records given uncertainty in measurements.
Gavin Schmidt asks any questions yet puts up these figures saying he is wrong. Go Figure.

Comment on ‘Warmest year’, ‘pause’, and all that by kim

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Gorgeous, the metaphor blossoms, and takes flight.
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Comment on Week in review by kim

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Imagine the biggest industry with a single payer. What have we wrought?
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Comment on Week in review by Peter Lang

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Jim D,

This is the shrinking middle class problem in a corporation-dominated society, perhaps.

I disagree with your opinion on the attribution of cause

An alternative explanation of cause the cause is the anit-enlightenment period underway in the rich developed countries. These countries are turning back to believing in religions (new religions like the Green religion) and following cult beliefs. They oppose rational analysis. They oppose rational economics. They advocate to implement regulations and legislation to force their beliefs on society. The cult of climate alarmism is one example. If it wasn’t climate alarmism it would be some other cult. It’s invariable the same types of people who fall for these cults – rich, highly educated, Left leaning, inner city elites.

Your comment about “corporate dominated” society is a give away. Corporates have done enormous good for humanity and continue to do so. they provide more an better services and employ people. They lift our well being. Multi-national corporations spread the wealth and employment around the world. They produce the goods the rich want and lowest cost and employ people in the poorer countries to produce them. Everyone gains and the world becomes better off – better health and educations systems, law and order, infrastructure, etc.

Comment on Week in review by captdallas2 0.8 +/- 0.2

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JimD, ” This is the shrinking middle class problem in a corporation-dominated society, perhaps.”

You could blame it on corporations or you could consider what has your government done lately.

It is a lot more comforting to blame it on some one other than ourselves, but you really should start there don’t ya think?

Consolidation, big box aka walmart, home depot, could be limited by reducing a lot of business regulations that make big better. You can do that be attacking “corporations” or reducing the mountains of crap mom and pops have to deal with. I think Colorado finally will allow sale of home grown produce without a half dozen certifications and inspections. Just about any start up runs into a ton of obstacles related to overly complex regulations. Add to that minimum wage, healthcare and insurance and you might as well outsource to a corp or hire illegals.

There is actually a growing “gray” economy so before long the only industries reporting earnings will be “corporate”. What are you going to blame then? When you simplify things, think VAT or national sales tax with a little less euro-styling, “gray” can be tolerated. Less can often be more.


Comment on Week in review by kim

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Over at the Bish’s I wondered which is worse, the 97% or the 1 in 27 million. I decided it was the 97% because that was a deliberate political corruption of science. The other just exposes the idiocy of its creators, and the shackled political followers who touted, er, spouted it, in particular Mann, Schmidt and Gleick.

But Dave Chappell had a remark that made me think of all the other fantastic phantasmgoric numbers being thrown around, apparently in a deliberate campaign. Pretty soon we’re talking about Big Numbers.

It’s just the Big Lie told Bigger.

The 97% reached the ears of the President, expect the 1 in 27 million to fog up the vision of the many-headed.
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Comment on Week in review by PA

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<i>AK | January 18, 2015 at 4:57 pm | I guess it’s the difference between frantically demanding: “Don’t touch it at all!” and efforts with a good chance, based on good research, of enhancing natural diversity while also enhancing edible fish stocks. And, after all, humans have already driven most of the major baleen whale species to or almost to extinction. The seas today are totally disturbed compared to a few centuries ago. So there’s no real reason to think that further careful disturbance has a greater chance of increasing the risk (of whatever) than decreasing it.</i> Yeah, that is sort of the point. If we carefully explore increasing productivity where there is little or none now we can relieve some of the pressure on the coastal and polar ecosystems where the vast bulk of the fish are caught now..

Comment on Week in review by Joseph

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AK I am including restaurants (fast food), hotels, retail, convenience stores etc as being service jobs.

Comment on Week in review by JustinWonder

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The shrinking middle class is a result of the growing “winner take all” global economy, the race to the bottom, and the destruction of distance by the Internet.

Comment on Week in review by JustinWonder

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“Your comment about “corporate dominated” society is a give away.”

Yes, it is ideology bounded thinking.

Comment on Week in review by JustinWonder

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They are spinning wind power.

Comment on Week in review by Joseph

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instead of the typical infrastructure construction that creates higher wage jobs and longer term investments worth financing under a deficit.

Don’t you know who is stopping the US from doing that?


Comment on Week in review by captdallas2 0.8 +/- 0.2

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joseph, “AK I am including restaurants (fast food), hotels, retail, convenience stores etc as being service jobs.”

With unemployment high those are in big demand. They are not what one would consider a “career” job at minimum wage. Even there the minimum wage staff are most often part time, new hires or seasonal. At a local convenience store a “salaried” employee can make a decent living but don’t check the time sheets too closely. There are lots of hours required to man a store but not all that much physical labor.

With the last minimum wage hike, waitstaff starting making more than managers causing a bit of under the table shuffling. A fairly good waitstaff job is good for more than a grand a week in season with about 70% off the books.

Comment on Week in review by gbaikie

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–Jim D | January 18, 2015 at 7:27 pm |

Interesting, captd. A sign of the times. Manufacturing is going overseas, retail is consolidating into big boxes and online, and the population is aging. Wealth is becoming concentrated into fewer hands by the manufacturing and retail trends which signals the demise of small businesses. This is the shrinking middle class problem in a corporation-dominated society, perhaps.–

We are not in a large corporation dominated society. [Though small businesses can be corporations- a 10 year old can form a corporation
and essentially “be” that corporation.]
It’s not a given that any society will become dominated by large corporations {one say it’s never happened nor likely to happen] unless by dominate one is talking about influence upon the government.
Large corporations [and other organized groups] have always and will forever have disproportional effect upon government.
And large corporation use government to protect their corporate interests. It’s obvious the large corporation are involved with government to make more money. And the key lever used it have regulation which favorable to that corporation’s interest. And what corporation want is for governments to grant them monopolies. Or largest threat to large corporations is competition. Or maintaining a large corporation without the bought help by government laws is nearly impossible. As large corporations are dumb and slow as is their “nature evolution” over time.
One smart guy can outwit a dozen smarter guys who have to constantly deal each others idiocy. A dozen geniuses has to compromise- or not pick what each thinks is best option. And this doesn’t have get into the vices of human beings [dozen geniuses trying to kill it each- for example].
The solution is to have a CEO- but we all know the various complication
involved with this- but still it is the best solution. And so you have one Pope.
What gets rid of large and stale corporations is less governmental aid in the form of massively complicated laws and higher taxes.
The example of the US government rush to save “the too big to fail” is
merely a very obvious and blatant example of “normal political business”.

Comment on Week in review by Faustino

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Peter, good response. And in Australia we’re almost all middle class now.

Comment on Week in review by captdallas2 0.8 +/- 0.2

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joseph, “Don’t you know who is stopping the US from doing that?”

You haven’t read about all those high paying “green energy” jobs your government subsidized? How about the dinosaur industry bailout? Keystone pipeline debate?

It takes a bit more than pipe dreams to stimulate and economy. Throw a dollar at construction and it filters through a half dozen times at least. throw a dollar at finance and auto ballouts and you are lucky to get one. Throw it at solar, batteries or other high tech and most goes either in the dumper or to Asia. If you want a middle class try thinking middle class.

Comment on Week in review by AK

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I am including restaurants (fast food), hotels, retail, convenience stores etc as being service jobs.

Well, I usually use the U-Scan at the supermarket. And fast food from vending machines strikes me as usually as good as potluck from an unfamiliar fast food restaurant. Convenience stores are almost perfectly adapted for full automation. And so on.

I don’t see where you have an argument.

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