American and Latin American Politics, Society, and Culture
If you go to the Pottery Barn page, they have stuff that will make the dweller of a tiny house or a Manhattan apartment (but I repeat myself) weep with envy.
Coming up: @TheToyInsider @MarissaDBartolo check out these kids kitchens @MorningsMaria @FoxBusiness @lh_carter pic.twitter.com/jqUtY9EybO
— Maria Bartiromo (@MariaBartiromo) June 23, 2017
Read why Aspirational marketing: Upscale toy kitchens warm my capitalist heart.
Speaking to young people in a country where most of the population believes anyone who is rich got there only for their government connections, Obama makes a stand for all-out opportunism,
“So often in the past there has been a division between left and right, between capitalists and communists or socialists, and especially in the Americas, that’s been a big debate,” Obama said at the Buenos Aires town hall.
“Those are interesting intellectual arguments, but I think for your generation, you should be practical and just choose from what works. You don’t have to worry about whether it really fits into socialist theory or capitalist theory. You should just decide what works.”
While at it, he threw in Communist Cuba’s favorite talking points,
“To president Castro, I said you’ve made great progress in educating young people [Cuban dictators indoctrinate its youth]. Every child in Cuba gets a basic education. Medical care, the life expectancy of Cubans is equivalent to the United States despite it being a very poor country because they have access to health care. That’s a huge achievement,” he said about the repressive regime. “They should be congratulated. But you drive around Havana and you see the economy is not working. It looks like it did in the 1950s.”
He can only wish it looked “like it did in the 1950s.”
Having finished his little speech, Obama took Air Force 1 & 2 for some sightseeing in Patagonia, 1,000 miles south of Buenos Aires, before returning to the USA, all at the capitalist taxpayers’ expense.
UPDATE
Linked to by Daily Gator. Thank you!
Two Gramscian tactics (not mutually exclusive), the Garden of Earthly Delights, and global warming alarmism, in my latest, “The end of capitalism.”
The WaPo’s Wonkblog sees it as inequality; Ace sees it as being infected with the Curse of the Stars.
I see it as an opportunity to praise capitalism.
Read my article, What’s with the breakfast sandwich?, here.
I am very skeptical, but Peruvian economist explains his thesis in The Capitalist Cure for Terrorism
Military might alone won’t defeat Islamic State and its ilk. The U.S. needs to promote economic empowerment.
De Soto has a lot of experience in developing economies, but not in societies where the will of the individual is subjugated to a cult of violence. I hope he is right.
My latest at Da Tech Guy Blog, Warren Buffett and his American dollars for Canadian doughnuts, on the newest tax exile, is up.
Please read it and contribute to Da Tip Jar!
Ladies and gentlemen, we may have stumbled into the only way to profit and make money in the Obama economy.
How idiocy innovation killed the lights
IN WINCHESTER, VA. The last major GE factory making ordinary incandescent light bulbs in the United States is closing this month, marking a small, sad exit for a product and company that can trace their roots to Thomas Alva Edison’s innovations in the 1870s.
The remaining 200 workers at the plant here will lose their jobs.
Guess where those jobs are going?
China?
Now think about this:
What is there not to love? It’s the perfect setup for a black market! Go forth and find yourself some incandescents to peddle.
And then,
Watch For It – The Mexican Incandescent Light Bulb Cartel. Nah, I say it’s a home-grown black market opportunity.
