tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1541468051247516447.post5482530342592408877..comments2024-02-19T05:18:27.849-05:00Comments on <center>the Q at Parkside</center>: Ghetto Whites and Redneck BlacksClarkson FlatBedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13463744536115119388noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1541468051247516447.post-78909278346848593472017-03-26T20:54:45.580-04:002017-03-26T20:54:45.580-04:00Let Papa Q tell you exactly what we need. $15 mini...<i>Let Papa Q tell you exactly what we need. $15 minimum wage. Guaranteed living standards. Free universal healthcare. Childcare, maternity leave. A job for everyone, even in public service. Wait. Sound like Scandinavia?</i><br /><br />You desperately need a course in economics. Desperately. FREE universal healthcare? FREE? Who pays for FREE? You've come a lot closer to describing Cuba than Scandinavia. And you said you recently visited Cuba. As a result of seeing for yourself how things go when the government is in charge of everything, you should know the Cuban way has its problems. <br /><br />Try Venezuela. Chavez. What a guy. And Maduro. They both got it in their heads that all they needed was money from selling oil. They believed the oil money would carry Venezuela forever. Then -- after American oilfield innovators advanced hydraulic fracturing -- the US became the swing producer and OPEC was, to its own deep shock and mortification, put to sleep. <br /><br />With oil at $50 a barrel, Venezuela can't pay the bills for all its social programs. Gasoline was about 7 cents a gallon. But toilet paper? Now, it's almost impossible to find toilet paper.<br /><br />Saudi Arabia is in the same boat. In a few years, the kingdom will run into the same problems if the Houthis from Yemen haven't overthrown the monarchy. <br /><br />None of the OPEC nations manufactures anything. They collect oil revenue and spend a lot on social programs and some to import all the stuff they need but don't know how to make.<br /><br />Scandinavia. Norway should be the model for Nigeria. Norway is home to 5 million Norwegians, who all speak Norwegian, who all belong to the Church of Norway and who all share the same cultural views. A monkey could run that country. They consume 10% of the oil they extract from the North Sea and sell the other 90% for the rest of the world, including a few barrels for us.<br /><br />But Norway is also home to real businesses. Global shipping, for example. <br /><br />If there were only 5 million or 10 million Americans, and we produced our current oil output of about 9 million barrels a day, we'd have that little utopia you're dreaming about. But there are 325 million of us. So when it comes to oil revenue, it doesn't go that far.<br /><br /><i>Here's the latest "happiness index" list, top and bottom five:</i><br /><br />Let's see. The people in the five happiest nations have developed cultures in which violence is minimal and abiding by sane laws is what they do. The people in the five most miserable nations live in lawless, hyper-violent states that succumb to the powers of dictators. And where do those people go when they get the chance? Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1541468051247516447.post-58578471477498307152017-03-26T10:19:33.438-04:002017-03-26T10:19:33.438-04:00Walked by today. I guess I answered my own questio...Walked by today. I guess I answered my own question. https://www.jjdcakes.comJacobnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1541468051247516447.post-89285937352789419932017-03-25T20:26:49.947-04:002017-03-25T20:26:49.947-04:00Cake dude? Bakery?Cake dude? Bakery?Jacobnoreply@blogger.com