Beloved economist enlisted to sway local cretin

Now that Nevada voters have signed off on the socialist mandate, Lord High Chancellor Jim Rogers is capitalizing on it.

Get it? Capitalizing on the socialist mandate? Funny.

Yes well moving along ...

Rogers has crafted yet another in his long line of memos aimed at keeping the heat on the con man in the governor's office. In his latest installment, Nevada's higher ed chancellor suggests that since Democrats are in ascendancy, weak-headed Republican Gov. Pervus McSkanktard probably should give his slice & dice & slash & burn approach to non-governance a rethink. Except Rogers says it in a nice way.

To underscore the message, Rogers got members of Nevada's congressional delegation -- including  new congresswoman Dina Titus but not the guy she beat whatever his name was -- to write letters to Rogers in which they affirm that they, too, think higher education is just swell so wouldn't it be nice if Gov. Assclown would stop eviscerating it thank you very much.

Actually, a bunch of Nevada politicians saying they're "for" education yet stopping short of saying they're "for" oh, taxing the rich ... eh, whatever. Much more interestingly, Rogers just "happened to bump into" economist and Clinton era Labor Secretary Robert Reich and asked him to write a letter too.

Look, Reich wrote, I don't live there. But if Nevada cuts higher education as much as your governor has suggested, you people are all venal idiots who fully deserve the grinding poverty and horrible misery that will sweep through the sorry-ass collection of dirt, stucco and slot machines that passes for your barren hell hole of a state.

OK he didn't say that.

But he did say...

...cuts of this magnitude tend to be self-inflicted wounds. They may seem rational in the very short term, but they are irrational in the long term. They inevitably make it more difficult to attract and retain talented faculty; they make it harder for many young people from families of modest means to afford higher education; they reduce basic research; and they harm the overall capacity of higher education within a state to foster the culture and purpose of learning.

Countless studies have demonstrated that higher education is the single most important driver of economic growth. It prepared students to assume professional and analytic roles in the economy; it fosters new innovation and invention; it is the flywheel of small entrepreneurial business; it attracts talent to a state. When higher education budgets are cut, all these benefits are jeopardized.

A letter from Robert Reich for the general benefit of Jim Gibbons on the subject of what's good for the economy -- file that one under "Pearls Before Swine."

Or just read it. Rogers' latest memo, Reich's letter and the notes from the delegation -- including the boilerplate pablum served up by remaining Republicans Hairdo McWedgeshot and Junior Hairdo -- can be viewed right here on the internets.

Comments

[temujin... khan of the yakka mongols]

...We gotta learn that Governor...

[Michael Green]

And here's a great contrast: who's coming to speak to the Chamber of Commerce? Arthur Laffer, inventor of the Laughable--uh, Laffer--Curve, which Ronald Reagan used brilliantly to drive this country deep into debt. At least each of them is showing where his real concern is.

[Judy]

Is it just my admitted bias or does our Governor, the almightist skank in Nevada, look like he should be an inpatient at a rehab or a medical clinic?

[Myrna the Minx]

I didn't think it was possible for me to love Robert Reich more than I already did.

[Nancy]

Well said Myrna - he is a national treasure!

[Libra Dude]

Judy - how bout a lobotomy...would we notice any difference? nahhhhhhh

[Michael Green]

Libra Dude, we probably would see more signs of life if he had had a lobotomy.

[cherie]

Kid got on the school bus wearing a T-shirt with the slogan "Proud to be a Democrat."

The bus driver asked why he was a Democrat and the kid said "Because my parents are Democrats."

"So," said the bus driver, "What if your parents were lying, backwoods, biblethumping, twisted hypocrites? Then what?"

Kid replied: "Then we'd be Republicans."

[happykid]

Gibbons is just too stupid to understand much of anything (unless it's texting his mistress).
Hurry up, 2010!

[rjpatrick]

Patrick wrote on November 12, 2008 11:40 AM:
We should also expand the legalization of prostitution to get a hold of the millions in sales taxes we are missing out on.

And while we are at it, end the drug ware, legalize drugs, and we can collect sales taxes there too.

I'm serious and logically consistant too.

[Patrick]

actually, mounting evidence suggests that spending more on higher education is correlated with lower economic growht.

Also, note that saying you support education could mean "I want you to spend more on education" or "I want education to improve"

Those two ideas are not always one in the same.

[Patrick]

Sounds good there Patrick.

Legalize gay marriage, prostitution and drugs.

We get more tax revenue, people have more freedom, and fewer people fill up our jails (and we can devote spending somewhere else), pimps get the boot and child prostitution and sex slaver in Nevada virtually disapear.

You are a smart man, my friend!

[Patrick]

Just had to share this, a city in California bans smoking in condos and apartments.

How far will the liberty hating do-gooders go before everything, including fun, is banned so we are safe?

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... Public expenses can be trimmed on apprehension, judicial, and incarceration.
Three big expenses for a state with shrinking revenues... The study gives 2002 figures on income on taxes if the "HERB" is sold as a common product and numbers if it is sold as tobbacco or alcohol with much higher revenues..

... The Great Khan has spoken

[temujin... khan of the yakka mongols]

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with a body inside, the lid in place, and a decapitated head on top..
...The real deal..

[DAVE404]

Speaking of Economy....

"NEW YORK (Reuters) - The economy faces a slump deeper than the Great Depression and a growing deficit threatens the credit of the United States itself, former Goldman Sachs chairman John Whitehead, said at the Reuters Global Finance Summit on Wednesday.

Whitehead, 86, said the prospect of worsening consumer credit woes combined with an overtaxed federal government make him fear that the current slump is far from over.

"I think it would be worse than the depression," Whitehead said. "We're talking about reducing the credit of the United States of America, which is the backbone of the economic system." Whitehead encountered plenty of crises during his 38 years at the investment banking firm and was a young boy during the 1930s."

HE'S NOT FREAKING ALONE!!!

"``We think the economy could be worse than the capital- markets crisis,'' [JPMorgan Chase & Co. Chief Executive Officer Jamie] Dimon said. ``You really need to separate them because they have completely different effects on our businesses and on most businesses.''
Not to be outdone, John Thain, chairman and chief executive of Merrill Lynch compared the current contraction to the Great Depression, from the Financial Times: Merrill chief sees severe global slowdown
“Right now, the US economy is contracting very rapidly. We are looking at a per­iod of global slowdown,” [Thain] told investors. “This is not like 1987 or 1998 or 2001. The contraction going on is bigger than that. We will in fact look back to the 1929 period to see the kind of slow­down we’re seeing now.”""

[Patrick]

There needs to be a contraction, part of the problem was too much credit expansion. That is why home prices went up so much.

[The Penguin]

That Robert Reich. Don't sell him short.

Get it? Robert Reich? Sell him short?

Eh whatever...

[Gleaner]

OK Penguin so I was at this conference several years ago and Reich was there and I was talking to him in the hallway about exempting a shitload of income on the low end from payroll taxes, if memory serves, and it was going great and some other folks came up and wanted to talk to Reich so I sort of started walking away to let other folks have their turn and then Reich is tugging on my arm and pointing at me and saying "That's what this guy was saying." Guess you had to be there. Anyway there's my Robert Reich story, the end.

[temujin... khan of the yakka mongols]

....Vasen't there a Third Reich my Dear....ehhhhhhhhh..???