tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post2191391519416882437..comments2024-03-26T06:17:49.527-07:00Comments on Had Enough Therapy?: Ignoring the Floods in LousianaStuart Schneidermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-63098920490955759272016-08-20T12:57:19.975-07:002016-08-20T12:57:19.975-07:00Ares Olympus: "I don't think it's my ...Ares Olympus: "I don't think it's my job..."<br /><br />Of course you don't. That's the point. You criticize, but you do not enter the arena. There's a word for that. <br /><br />You have no solutions, just more technocratic adjustments to support your nutty climate ideas, and reducing the debt caused by supporting politicians who spend money we don't have. How can a government that spends and spends and spends more than it collects possibly encourage individual total debt reduction? <br /><br />Don't you see? You want to feed the beast that oppresses you! The third party payer Santa Claus solution of GOVERNMENT -- the grand money pile up in the sky -- is what you favor in all things. A bunch of experts who will make everything better for us. Ares, they've done a lousy job, and will continue to do a lousy job. Government isn't anything. Government is human beings. There is no free lunch. <br /><br />Wake up, man!Ignatius Acton Chesterton OCDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18222603717128565302noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-53628721265667168822016-08-19T19:23:48.439-07:002016-08-19T19:23:48.439-07:00IAC, I don't have ocean from property or near ...IAC, I don't have ocean from property or near flood zones, if thats what you're asking.<br /><br />I do bank at my local credit union over a bank, and invest in two local cooperative businesses.<br /><br />I don't think its my job to define economic indicators, but reducing individual total debt is a good plan. And a carbon tax would help ween us off fossil fuels.<br /><br />You could also adjust GNP by separating components so some might want to grow and some shrink, even if you still ad them a!l up.<br /><br />Gdp is already full of lies, hedonic adjustments mainly.<br /><br /><br /><br />Ares Olympushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09726811306826601686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-88160563126134957442016-08-18T17:12:11.663-07:002016-08-18T17:12:11.663-07:00Ares Olympus @August 18, 2016 at 1:41 PM:
Lots of...Ares Olympus @August 18, 2016 at 1:41 PM:<br /><br />Lots of great platitudes, aspirations and intentions, but you still didn't point to a superior metric. You continued to criticize. Just like every other liberal... great critics, lousy creators. <br /><br />And if you think the Wired article is so wise, have you invested your own money? All ideas are great until you have to throw down. Ignatius Acton Chesterton OCDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18222603717128565302noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-76471897024742406882016-08-18T13:41:34.735-07:002016-08-18T13:41:34.735-07:00IAC, there are various measures besides GDP. Good ...IAC, there are various measures besides GDP. Good measures ought to separate renewable resources vs depleting ones. If success is measured by your increasing rate of consuming one to an capital, that's a bad system.<br /><br />A good indicator of health isn't how fast your bmi is increasing, or your debt.<br /><br />Debt is a real problem, but growth hides that truth. Increased debt is good if you're reducing the cost of living in the future. But risky if you demand future work to pay for past consumption.<br /><br />All mainstream economists justify themselves never by reducing debt, but increasing GDP to make debt smaller in proportion. Both parties are required to be true believers because any other story would require we cancel a large fraction of our debt, which will end the illusions of prosperity we're living. <br /><br />PS wired has an article , talking of 500 or 100 year flood standards failing, and how to predict future risks when benchmarks are changing.Ares Olympushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09726811306826601686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-34691142377985167302016-08-18T13:00:22.530-07:002016-08-18T13:00:22.530-07:00Ares Olympus @August 18, 2016 at 10:38 AM:
You...Ares Olympus @August 18, 2016 at 10:38 AM:<br /><br />You're cynical about blame games? HA! Ares, you blame people all the time. <br /><br />"I'm cynical about GNP growth as a measure of a!l progress."<br /><br />Then what is a better measure? It's easy to be a critic. What's your solution? How do you propose we measure progress?Ignatius Acton Chesterton OCDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18222603717128565302noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-4088294316224068822016-08-18T12:27:19.910-07:002016-08-18T12:27:19.910-07:00Anyone who builds in a "floodplain" is, ...Anyone who builds in a "floodplain" is, well, stupid. Floodplains flood. And private-sector flood insurance is not only unaffordable, it's virtually unavailable except for high value mansions of the very wealthy. Individuals living in flood-prone areas are a suck on the taxpaying public, plain and simple. <br /><br />That said, Obama is no more - or less - guilty of "mishandling" this flood, or "callousness", than Bush was during the Katrina event. Hence, Trump should drive a stake in his heart with a sledgehammer, grabbing photo opps visiting the area in a hard hat and gazing thoughtfully into the devastation. <br /><br />There is no flood insurance in the Peruvian Amazon basin, and the riverbank is dotted with private shanties... elevated shanties. Since the locals assume the risk, they build accordingly. How butt-ugly ignorant does one have to be to build ground-level dwellings next to waterways that flood?Trigger Warningnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-24557401389794733962016-08-18T10:38:18.701-07:002016-08-18T10:38:18.701-07:00Sam L, I'm cynical about GNP growth as a measu...Sam L, I'm cynical about GNP growth as a measure of a!l progress. And I'm cynical about parties blame games while I accept they often work, and Trump ought to milk every bad event he can if he can stay on message.<br /><br />I'm a!so cynical about smart urban growth in flood plains, and allowing people to build where private insurance isn't affordable.Ares Olympushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09726811306826601686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-23397850206262771542016-08-18T10:21:27.121-07:002016-08-18T10:21:27.121-07:00Ares Olympus @August 18, 2016 at 8:17 AM:
I thoug...Ares Olympus @August 18, 2016 at 8:17 AM:<br /><br />I thought the scary hurricanes were caused by climate change. It's been 130 months since we had a hurricane make landfall in the U.S... a record. <br /><br />I guess the rise of the oceans has begun to slow. as Obama predicted. Yes, he can even tame the seas!<br /><br />Please send any and all Wikipedia references and other associated web links explaining this dearth of extreme climate phenomena! <br /><br />Perhaps Trump can make climate events great again.Ignatius Acton Chesterton OCDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18222603717128565302noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-24737016522726153742016-08-18T10:13:38.365-07:002016-08-18T10:13:38.365-07:00Ares, you are so cynical.Ares, you are so cynical.Sam L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00996809377798862214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-69741275413910289932016-08-18T10:07:52.848-07:002016-08-18T10:07:52.848-07:00More irrelevant human interest stories, please. Th...More irrelevant human interest stories, please. They've really helped NBC's Rio ratings. I'm sure they can dumb down weather events that might affect Democrats. Ignatius Acton Chesterton OCDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18222603717128565302noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-51935367674523269352016-08-18T09:21:48.166-07:002016-08-18T09:21:48.166-07:00"As soon as the press finds a way to blame it..."As soon as the press finds a way to blame it on someone other than a Democrat they will be on the story."<br /><br />Nail. Head. Some assembly required.<br /><br />It's getting so the MSM has to ignore most of what happens in America and the world because most of it can be laid at the feet of Democrats in office.AesopFannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-14165018150916242202016-08-18T08:11:46.309-07:002016-08-18T08:11:46.309-07:00Epic rain isn't as scary as a hurricane, but c...Epic rain isn't as scary as a hurricane, but clearly results as bad. Myself I'll go with the climate change argument and accepting this as the new normal. <br /><br />And apparently multibillion $ storms are good for gnp, easy to joke at distance.<br /><br />Perhaps Trump would like to play partisan outrage? But someone has to tell him first I guess.<br /><br />But other than claims of apathy against Obama, it seems a hard spin. Maybe if a sports stadium col!based, that would add to the drama?Ares Olympushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09726811306826601686noreply@blogger.com