Union membership fell in 2016. Statement from @LarryMishel: https://t.co/IEWXYXSDYy pic.twitter.com/XeS62RaiAS
— Economic Policy Institute (@EconomicPolicy) January 26, 2017
Left still loves #alternativefacts #fakenews about #inequality; union membership started declining 25 years before top 10% income share started to rise
27 Jan 2017 Leave a comment
in economic history, politics - USA, poverty and inequality
Police shootings of Blacks by threat level 2016
26 Jan 2017 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, politics - USA Tags: police shootings
Why are alternative facts about inequality trends OK with the NZ Left?
24 Jan 2017 Leave a comment
in economic history, politics - New Zealand, poverty and inequality
Our take on the latest Household Incomes in NZ report closertogether.org.nz/no-quick-escap… @MaxRashbrooke #inequality #poverty http://t.co/c1L9QHs3fi—
Closer Together (@CloserTogether) July 09, 2014
Why protest the inauguration of the weakest GOP president in modern times?
21 Jan 2017 2 Comments
in politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: 2016 presidential election, Leftover Left, Twitter left
Those denouncing Trump forget he is the weakest newly elected GOP president in modern times. Trump’s polarising nature rules out his popularity going up that much.
His erratic nature means that his administration will perform poorly because those he appoints to make up his administration, all 4000 of them, do not know what Trump wants because that changes every day. Trump will have to arbitrate all disputes within his administration.
Congress will desert him as soon as it hurts their re-election chances in 2018 where a great many Republican Senate seats are up because they won back the Senate in 2012.
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Trump is even weaker than average because a good part of his base do not otherwise vote in elections or they are registered Democrats. This makes his disgruntled base less of a threat in the 2018 Republican primaries.
Trump can only afford to lose 2 Republican senators. The Democratic Senate caucus will be united because opportunities if they can only pick up two Republican votes in the current Senate.
Trump will be an inept President but more socially liberal than any recent GOP president. Protest that.
Before you start on the fact that Trump won the electoral college but not the popular vote, remember the John Kerry to this day believes election fraud in Ohio deprived him of the presidency in 2004 despite losing the popular vote by about 3 million votes. Winning Ohio would have flipped that election.
Police shootings by threat level 2016
15 Jan 2017 1 Comment
in economics of crime, law and economics, politics - USA Tags: law and order, police shootings
Source: Police shootings 2016 database – Washington Post.
Does your opinion change if you know the level of threat by those who are at said to be not attacking police such as whether they had a gun, knife or other weapon or were charging police with more than a few mentally ill people do with or without a toy weapons.
Source: Police shootings 2016 database – Washington Post.
It was a lot easier to analyse this database before the Washington Post removed the data filter that easily told you whether there was an attack in progress or not. That filter was inexplicably removed about a year ago.
The retention of that filter would have helped illustrate the point that the Washington Post conceded when it compiled this database. That was less than 5% of all police shootings are in any way suspicious.
Manus Island queue jumper admits he successfully jumped queue @AmnestyNZ cries torture
15 Jan 2017 Leave a comment
in Economics of international refugee law, politics - Australia Tags: do gooders, economics of immigration
Amnesty NZ thinks it is torture to go from being a faceless family in a UN refugee camp with little hope to being in the Manus Island immigration detention camp with Australia doing everything it can to get you accepted as a refugee in another country. How many refugees in UN camps have all the resources of the Australian government trying to resettle them? Burma is such a dump the resettlement anywhere in the world is an economic improvement as well.
Source: ‘The torture in my country is transparent, in Australia it is not obvious’.
Another question that must be asked is whether the refugees on Manus Island displace refugees with better claims from within another country’s refugee quota because the Australian government is lobbying for them to be accepted as a refugee.
Boat arrivals do not increase the Australian refugee quota so someone with a better claim is displaced. As arrivals by boat are no longer ever eligible to settle in Australia, this displacement dilemma is moved onto the consciences of 3rd countries.
The purpose of the UN processing of refugees is to ensure those with the most pressing claims for asylum receive refugee status first. Those pushed back in the queue may be at a greater risk of imprisonment, torture and execution than those that arrived in Australia by boat.
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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