tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21976234.post8470135240274941046..comments2023-09-16T04:45:50.404-05:00Comments on Sleeping with The Devil: Indian Economic Liberalization Winners & Losers (Another Straw Man Courtesy of Mr. LB)Dervish Sandershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13671865801885224353noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21976234.post-86661418945032062662014-01-06T10:24:34.208-06:002014-01-06T10:24:34.208-06:00I've never discussed "Liberian" on m...I've never discussed "Liberian" on my blog, Mr. Degorio. Honestly, I don't know what it is. In any case, thanks for stopping by.Dervish Sandershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13671865801885224353noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21976234.post-85628012138348456242014-01-06T08:47:51.839-06:002014-01-06T08:47:51.839-06:00More proof that Liberian is a mental disorder. Ju...More proof that Liberian is a mental disorder. Just read this blog. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21976234.post-57972065494435561082014-01-05T17:26:52.317-06:002014-01-05T17:26:52.317-06:00Wow....dmarks is giving you an opportunity at a wo...Wow....dmarks is giving you an opportunity at a work release program.If you can complete the requirements you will be allowed out in public.A generous offer by dmarks.Rusty Shackelfordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14232914458379098036noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21976234.post-48743810764086620582014-01-05T13:18:49.789-06:002014-01-05T13:18:49.789-06:00Mr.Dervish,a.k.a. GPB, does it ever depress you th...Mr.Dervish,a.k.a. GPB, does it ever depress you that no one gives a shit what you have to say?Rusty Shackelfordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14232914458379098036noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21976234.post-50467181029500114962014-01-04T14:33:49.025-06:002014-01-04T14:33:49.025-06:00(Continued from previous comment)
[2] Smoot-Hawle...(Continued from previous comment)<br /><br /><b>[2]</b> Smoot-Hawley was actually good for the economy because, according to Thom Hartmann "American businesses now had strong financial incentives to do business with other American companies, rather than bring in products made with cheaper foreign labor [and as a result] Americans started trading with other Americans".<br /><br />What Mr. Hartmann argues is that Smoot-Hawley prompted American companies to manufacture good in America. Of course it took some time for them to accomplish this, and over all Smoot-Hawley did have a negligible negative effect. Now, the depression and unemployment did get worse after the passage of SH, and Will Hart says SH was definitely a factor in this, but he is wrong. The facts show that SH may have "accounted for a total GDP loss of less than 1/2 of 1% ($0.2 billion)". As I asked in <a href="http://w-dervish.blogspot.com/2011/12/will-hart-bunks-yet-another.html" rel="nofollow">my blog post</a> on the subject "does this sound like an amount that would cause, according to the Conservative blogger Will Hart, the unemployment rate to <b>skyrocket</b>?". The answer is clearly no. <br /><br /><b>[3]</b> I never suggested that we should have handed bin Laden over to "his fellow Middle-Eastern tyrants". I did <a href="http://w-dervish.blogspot.com/2011/05/frenemies-with-benefits-911-villans.html" rel="nofollow">say</a> that I agreed with Thom Hartmann and Gareth Porter (an investigative journalist and historian specializing in US national security policy) who both believe that we should have taken the Taliban up on their offer to turn bin Laden over to the "Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), which is a Saudi-based international organization of Islamic countries. It is a moderate Islamic organization". Gareth Porter said (in an appearance on the Thom Hartmann Radio Program, 5/2/2011) "I believe it is a fair presumption that bin Laden being tried by an OIC international panel of jurors would certainly result in a guilty verdict for the 9/11 attacks".<br /><br />Now, Mr. Hart (and others who comment on his blog) contends that the OIC would haven't found OBL guilty, in fact they would have SET HIM FREE! An utterly ridiculous assertion, IMO. Gareth Porter is an expert in this field, and the OIC is considered moderate by the world community. It is NOT an organization of OBL's "fellow Middle-Eastern tyrants". This claim is simply factually inaccurate. In any case, even *if* they had found him "not guilty" setting him free was HIGHLY unlikely (as the Saudi leaders expelled OBL from their country and had no love for him). Instead of getting him into custody, WH and cohorts think the better course of action was us letting him get away! Talk about insanity.Dervish Sandershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13671865801885224353noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21976234.post-43188479068805765572014-01-04T14:32:55.354-06:002014-01-04T14:32:55.354-06:00Will published a commentary in which he rebuts my ...Will published a commentary in which he rebuts my rebuttal... by guessing what I said! I mean, why bother? Except that his guessing enabled him to set up some straw men (something Will absolutely LOVES to do) and knock them down. Can there be any doubt now that this guy is highly dependent on straw men and finds it hard to engage in actual debate? That is, without flying off the handle and losing his temper big time.<br /><br />The title of his post? "<a href="http://paranoiacstoogetalk.blogspot.com/2014/01/think-insanity.html" rel="nofollow">Think Insanity</a>", as in, it is I who is thinking insanely... or that is what he thinks of when he thinks of me. Whatever the title means, it is clearly ad hominem. And (in that vein) Will brings up a lot of past issues he disagreed with me on and (in his mind) proves I think insanely. And, when citing the issues he says I got wrong, Will says I "scoured the entirety of the internet" and found ONE guy that agrees with me (yes, just ONE person agrees with me, according to Mr. Hart).<br /><br />Will says that I'm wrong (and insane) in thinking that [1] Bush is a war criminal, that [2] Smoot-Hawley was actually good for the economy and that [3] we should have handed bin Laden over to "his fellow Middle-Eastern tyrants". But my arguments in regards to these issues are not insane, nor did I need to "scour" the internet to find "one guy" who agrees with me...<br /><br /><b>[1]</b> bush IS a war criminal. Primarily, I would say, because he lied us into the Iraq war. GWb KNEW Iraq did not have WMD because <a href="http://w-dervish.blogspot.com/2013/05/intellectual-honesty-concerning-ex.html" rel="nofollow">the IAEA told him</a>. In regards to bush lying, Mr. Hart <a href="" rel="nofollow">said</a> "you gave me no evidence that Bush KNEW that there weren't weapons of mass destruction and then lied to the American public... No testimony. No paper trail. Zero".<br /><br />Mr. Hart is wrong. The following is from my blog post on the subject...<br /><br />The invasion of Iraq was ordered by ex-president bush on 3/20/2003 AFTER the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Mohamed El Baradei, told the Security Council (on 3/7/2003) via written report that the "UN inspections in Iraq worked". Mr. ElBaradei's team conducted 247 inspections at 147 sites and found "no evidence of resumed nuclear activities... nor any indication of nuclear-related prohibited activities at any related sites". The IAEA report went on to say that "Iraq had not imported uranium since 1990... no longer had a centrifuge program, [and that] Iraq's nuclear capabilities had been effectively dismantled by 1997 ... [and] A report by the IAEA submitted to the UNSC most certainly qualifies as the PAPER TRAIL that Mr. Hart says does not exist".<br /><br />bush lied about WMD and violated the UN charter. These are FACTS. "War criminal" is certainly an inflammatory word, but I strongly believe it applies to bush.<br /><br />(continued in next comment)Dervish Sandershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13671865801885224353noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21976234.post-21113861831163642082014-01-03T08:59:34.461-06:002014-01-03T08:59:34.461-06:00I think the problem is that Will takes these facts...I think the problem is that Will takes these facts, spoon fed to him by the Libertarian think tanks, and never digs any deeper. The plutocrat-funded Libertarian think tanks tell him that India "liberalized" it's economy and economic growth followed, and Will immediately sees this as validation of his beliefs. He doesn't bother to ask WHY (because the IMF stepped in and primed India to be taken advantage of by the plutocrats) and he assumes such a "liberalization" would have the same effect here (even though we have already dropped our trade barriers, which was what enabled the plutocrats to send our jobs to India). The plutocrats will continue to send the jobs where the labor costs are the lowest... as long as we let them.<br /><br />Will's blog is all about doing what is best for the plutocrats... Global Climate Change necessitates regulating carbon... Will denies it exists because that would hurt the bottom line of the big polluters. Lowering tariffs is impoverishing America? Will says the opposite is true. In fact, according to him, It's good to send our jobs to lower wage countries because we benefit with lower priced goods (no matter than without a job people can't buy those goods). And who cares if the plutocrats enrich themselves even more in the process or if inequality grows and the poorest suffer? That is the price we have to pay, folks!Dervish Sandershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13671865801885224353noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21976234.post-65549418040848775392014-01-02T23:58:49.325-06:002014-01-02T23:58:49.325-06:00Will loves to take one fact and build a whole beli...Will loves to take one fact and build a whole belief system out of it.Jerry Critterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01870618647449723147noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21976234.post-62235500767521257452014-01-02T14:49:01.003-06:002014-01-02T14:49:01.003-06:00The plutocrats bought off our legislators and got ...The plutocrats bought off our legislators and got them to adopt "free trade" agreements that screwed American workers. One of the countries they moved our jobs to was India. Will Hart is the sucker, IMO.Dervish Sandershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13671865801885224353noreply@blogger.com