China Joe’s COVID “Relief” Plan Could Shrink GDP Long Term

By William Teach February 3, 2021 – 10:30 am

Relief is in quotes because Joe’s plan is less about helping middle America and more about hooking up Democrat states and cities, along with teacher’s unions, while killing off jobs in his attempt to placate the idiotic Fight For $15 folks (who’ll be the first ones on the pink slip line)

Biden’s COVID relief plan could shrink economic growth over long-term, study shows

Democratic lawmakers are poised to plow ahead with passing President Biden’s $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package, a measure that will provide an immediate burst to the U.S. economy but that could drag on growth in years to come.

That’s according to a new analysis published Wednesday by a nonpartisan group at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, which found that Biden’s proposal could increase the nation’s GDP by 0.6% in 2021. But the additional public debt resulting from his measure would decrease GDP, the broadest measure of goods and services produced in a nation, by 0.2% in 2022 and 0.3% in 2040.

“The Biden relief plan leads to an increase in output in 2021 as the plan’s expenditures stimulate the economy, but GDP declines in subsequent years as the additional public debt crowds-out investment in productive capital,” the report said. “The increase in output 2021 is due to the immediate stimulative effect of the economic recovery plan.”

Unlike the $2.2 trillion CARES Act, which Congress passed last March at the beginning of the pandemic, the U.S. economy is much closer to its pre-crisis output. As a result, Biden’s $1.9 trillion plan “would generate less additional output in 2021 than it did in spring or summer of 2020 when the U.S. economy was further from potential,” the analysts said.

A goodly chunk of the money wouldn’t be actually going into the economy or relief for citizens, but, to wasteful cities and states run by Democrats. And telling people they don’t have to pay their rent, still, means less money in the economy.

For instance, Biden has made a third stimulus check — worth $1,400 — an integral part of the emergency aid package. But the Penn Wharton Budget Model estimated that 73% of check recipients would stash the money away in household savings rather than spend it. Just 27% would go to increased consumption, the analysts projected.

Would they, though? I’m not so sure they wouldn’t spend it on TVs and stuff. But, that’s short term.

“The economy is on its way to recovering,” Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, said. “More funding is warranted to assist those out of work because of the pandemic, prevent state and local government layoffs, boost economic demand, prevent a decline in household incomes, and end this pandemic once and for all. But it shouldn’t take $1.9 trillion to fill a $400 billion or $800 billion hole.”

No, it shouldn’t.

The proposal is also expected to increase the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour, provide $400 a week in supplemental unemployment benefits through September, increase state and local government funding by $350 billion and allocate $160 billion to accelerate vaccine distribution and expand COVID-19 testing.

Giving money to irresponsible Democrat run cities and states. Instead of the $400, let’s open the freaking economy. Why expand COVID testing? It’s already pretty much available all over the place. Vaccine distribution is worthless when so many governors, especially Dem ones, are failing. $15 an hour? That will just increase unemployment.

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French Court Rules France Not Respecting Its Climate Crisis (scam) Goals

By William Teach February 3, 2021 – 8:45 am

The French government should immediately turn around and turn off the power to the French court, restrict foods on the property to meatless ones, restrict the court’s usage of fossil fuels, right?

Court rules France failed to respect its climate change goal

A court on Wednesday ruled that the French state failed to take sufficient action to fight climate change in a case brought by a group of nongovernmental organizations.

In its ruling, the Paris administrative court recognized ecological damage linked to climate change and held the French state responsible for failing to fully meet its goals in reducing greenhouse gases.

President Emmanuel Macron, who has been very vocal about his support for climate change action, pushed in December for beefing up the European Union’s 2030 targets to reduce greenhouse gases by at least 55% compared with 1990 levels — up from the previous 40% target.

But Oxfam France, Greenpeace France and two other organizations say Macron’s lobbying for global climate action is not backed up by sufficient domestic measures to curb emissions blamed for global warming.

France is missing its national targets that had been set under the 2015 Paris Agreement to curb climate change, and the country has delayed most of its efforts until after 2020.

Well, that’s ironic. France is missing it’s Paris Climate Agreement goals. It’s Historic goals! Remember when it was uber-historic? Also remember that the PCA was set up to avoid needing the official approval of legislatures in nations around the world, so it’s more of a gentleperson’s agreement, a soft one at that. There’s no force of law, no force of treaty.

Be funny as hell if the French government implemented massive climate restrictions on the operations of Oxfam, Greenpeace, and the others. Maybe on those big fossil fueled ships that Greenpeace likes to use.

The court gave itself two months to decide on measures to repair the problem and stop it from getting worse. It did, however, ask the French state to pay each of the four organizations that brought the action a symbolic euro each, a common practice in France.

So, good news, citizens of France: the court will now consider what measures to implement on you. Have fun.

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China Joe To Reopen Illegal Alien Concentration Camps, Er, Overflow Centers

By William Teach February 3, 2021 – 8:31 am

I’m sure the media will be concerned over kids in cages, like they were for the previous four years, right?

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Will AOC take the Biden admin to task? Will she demand to be allowed in to inspect one? Cry crocodile tears in an expensive outfit?

Biden administration to open overflow shelter for migrant children in Texas

The Biden administration said it plans on reactivating a “temporary Influx Care Facility” in Carrizo Springs, Texas, to potentially accommodate up to 700 migrant children within the next two weeks.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services released a statement obtained by Fox News that said its Office of Refugee Resettlement division currently funds 13,200 licensed beds. Axios reported on Monday that President Biden has faced a crisis at the border with an influx of unaccompanied minors and strict health guidelines in place to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

The report pointed to how the Trump administration was “lambasted” for its use of similar temporary shelters in 2019. Both Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris vocally opposed the Trump administration’s immigration priorities during the presidential campaign.

The facility in Carrizo Springs has been unoccupied since late 2019.

“Initially, the Carrizo Springs ICF will accommodate approximately 700 children in hard-sided structures. Additional semi-permanent (soft-sided) capacity may be added if necessary, though ORR will always prioritize place children in hard-sided structures over semi-permanent structures,” the statement read.

So, basically, the exact same thing that Trump did. And Biden did. And no other media source other than Fox and some conservative outlets are noting this. None are calling them cages. Will any outlets demand to take photos in the facility? I wonder if any employees will sneak some photos out, because you know that most of the employees of Customs And Border Patrol, which will be in charge of the facility, voted Republican.

(Texas Tribune) The orders, expected to be signed Tuesday afternoon, will require a review of the controversial Migrant Protection Protocols and establish a task force to reunite hundreds of families still separated under Trump’s 2017 zero-tolerance policy, which caused more than 5,000 children to be separated from their parents or guardians.

No one is reporting how they will be reunited. Will the parents, who more often sent their kids off with other people to the border, who did not accompany the kids, be allowed to come into the United States and stay?

The MPP program, also called “remain in Mexico,” sends most migrants back to Mexico as they wait for their asylum hearings in American courts. Since its inception in late 2018, more than 60,000 asylum seekers have been forced to wait in some of Mexico’s most dangerous border cities, including more than 20,000 in Ciudad Juárez, across the Rio Grande from El Paso.

Why are they different from everyone else around the world, who have to apply for asylum, work or school visas, and even a chance for citizenship while staying in another country? Something every other nation does. Why are these migrants, who often bring only basic skills, no education, and little ability to support themselves financially, given priority?

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In Order To Solve The Climate Crisis (scam) We Need More Diverse Boardrooms Or Something

By William Teach February 2, 2021 – 3:00 pm

Remember, this is all about science. No, stop rolling your eyes, I saw that. Science!

We need more diverse boardrooms to address the climate crisis

climate change joke

In recent years, national governments have strengthened their commitment to addressing the climate crisis.

The UK has said it will reach net-zero emissions by 2050. President Xi Jinping has pledged China will do the same by 2060. And Joe Biden is expected to prioritize climate goals, having already pledged to rejoin the Paris Agreement on climate change.

Countries will be looking at their supply chains to see where emissions can be reduced. International co-operation will be stepped up, too, especially with flagship events such as COP26 happening later this year. But while national governments increase efforts to combat climate change, the private sector has its part to play too.

It could start by improving its gender diversity.

In 2021, leading on corporate diversity is no longer a good press exercise, but something which can boost both financial performance and environmental impact.

Proof?

The link between gender diversity and carbon footprint may not be obvious. After all, while companies around the world have been switched on to the fact that greater diversity equals better performance for many years now, that performance has usually been viewed through a financial lens alone.

Perhaps understandably so. A 2019 Credit Suisse study found that companies with a high percentage of women on the board, and within management, outperformed their less diverse counterparts. It makes sense that a diverse and inclusive team is more competitive in today’s globalized economy.

So, one study. And, it may be correct. There needs to be more data, especially going beyond a study that starts out with an editorial. Doesn’t sound rather unbiased. And, there’s nothing wrong with women and different people on boards, as long as they’ve earned it. Just like a man has to earn it (unless you’re Joe Biden’s son).

In fact, diversity across a business has wider implications, including – most significantly – for that business’ carbon footprint. Recently, Arabesque looked at the data from more than 2000 companies around the world, and found that as diversity increased, so did corporate transparency, which included how likely it was that a company would make its volume of greenhouse gas emissions public.

Companies that are doing better on managing and reducing their greenhouse gas emissions are more likely to disclose adequately, since they will gain from that disclosure.

Sounds like these companies are more interested in Virtue Signaling than their core missions.

To truly achieve lasting change, we will need to move towards a place where the corporate world sets high standards for itself with respect to diversity and makes sure those standards are upheld. This can take the shape of external pressure. Goldman Sachs will no longer underwrite IPOs for companies with fewer than two board members from diverse backgrounds, and Nasdaq has proposed requiring that a business has at least one female director to list on their exchanges.

And you end up with token people in positions with no actual power, just Social Justice Warrioring. Treating people like tokens. This is not about science. And, let’s face it, this is actually rather patronizing, thinking that women can’t do it themselves and have to be given positions.

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If All You See…

By William Teach February 2, 2021 – 1:00 pm

…is an evil fossil fueled vehicle, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Bunkerville, with a post on the Harris/Biden move against Joe Manchin having little success

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Looney Anto-Vaxxers Could Get Their Own Free Speech Zones In Los Angeles

By William Teach February 2, 2021 – 10:30 am

Suddenly, restricting people to “free speech zones”, ie, areas where they are allowed to protest, and if they get out of them they get arrested, are fashionable again

‘Anti-vax’ protesters could get free-speech area to prevent them from blocking COVD-19 vaccine distribution

Los Angeles officials on Monday expressed anger at anti-vaccine protesters who temporarily blocked the vaccine distribution center at Dodger Stadium on Saturday and said they hoped to avoid future disruptions.

“I was very upset and disheartened,” L.A. County Supervisor Hilda Solis said of the disruption to the vaccination efforts.

Solis said authorities will set up space for protesters in the future who can share their viewpoints but “won’t disrupt” the traffic flow.

”I understand people have 1st Amendment rights. … But when you become disruptive and actually create more problems through congestion, traffic jams or hostility in a manner that is not conducive, then I would want to have our public safety officials involved and to be there to protect all that are involved,” Solis said.

Now, first off, I think these people are loonies and annoying, and it creates a huge pain in the ass for Other People when they created problems with people getting the vaccine in LA. I think most of us, left, right, and (so-called) center can agree on that, right? And it does go to the question “should people be able to causes problems like that when engaged in their 1st Amendment Rights?” It does say “protest peaceably. Is blocking all those people and forcing the vaccine distribution center to shut down protesting peaceably? That’s a bigger debate, is it not?

But, what is not debatable is that Los Angeles tolerated the hell out of Black Lives Matter and Antifa blocking the streets and causing problems multiple times, did it not? Here’s BLM in May, blocking the 101 in LA, causing people problems, assaulting people, and destroying police cars. Here’s BLM walking onto the 110 in LA during rush hour in June, blocking traffic. The cops didn’t force them off the streets and into free speech zones in either cases. The notion never came up. And those were just two of the incidents in the LA area. Nor did free speech zones come up anywhere else in the country where BLM was running, literally, riot.

Why is it that the loony anti-vaxxers are being treated differently, especially when there was not assault, no arson, no looting, not destroying police cars?

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NY Times: You Know That Big Nor’Easter Was Caused By ‘Climate Change’, Right?

By William Teach February 2, 2021 – 8:05 am

Said Nor’easter rather fizzled in many places, such as the New Jersey Shore and New York City. It wasn’t quite as bad as originally forecast. The NY Times is on it

Heavy Snowfall in Northeast Disrupts Travel and Vaccine Rollout

A powerful winter storm pummeled much of the Northeastern United States on Monday, canceling flights, shutting down parts of the nation’s largest subway and disrupting travel for millions of people along the I-95 corridor.

By Monday night at least one person had died because of the storm, the police said.

In New York City, more than 16 inches of snow had fallen in Central Park by 7 p.m., according to the National Weather Service, and another few inches were expected overnight.

Earlier forecasts had predicted up to two feet of snow, which would have made the storm one of the biggest in the city’s history. But by late afternoon, most of the heavy snowfall bands that had been blanketing the city with one to two inches of snow an hour had moved north.

Let’s head to the end of the piece, shall we?

Such storms have always been a part of winter in the Northeast. But there is evidence that a warming world is influencing the severity of winter storms even as it is making winters somewhat milder over all.

Judah Cohen, director of seasonal forecasting at Atmospheric and Environmental Research, pointed to the Arctic, which is warming much faster than the rest of the planet, and the phenomena of the disrupted polar vortex, which can be triggered by blasts of sudden warming in the stratosphere.

Together, the two kinds of warming are a potent combination, he said: “The general warming of the Arctic, that’s kind of like the gasoline. When you get the polar vortex, that’s the match.”

We can fix this with a tax, you know. Meanwhile, here’s the Weather Channel (which always seems a bit surprised that weather happens)

Despite climate change, snowfall appears to be increasing along the Northeast Urban Corridor over time.

According to a February 2020 report from Climate Central, three of the top five cities that exhibited the largest gains in snowfall since 1970 – Atlantic City, New Jersey; New York City and Newark, New Jersey – were near the Northeast seaboard.

These I-95 corridor snowfall increases over the decades were most prevalent in winter and spring, rather than fall.

This may be due to a combination of factors, including warmer ocean water able to supply more moisture to winter storms, and more frequent blocking patterns in the upper atmosphere, such as the Greenland block, which ushers in cold air and can lead to slow-moving snowstorms in the East.

The other factor is you driving to get a burger in your fossil fueled vehicle.

Finally, if you feel like watching a 2 minute video, “CBS News meteorologist and climate specialist Jeff Berardelli joins “CBS This Morning” for a forecast of the major winter storm hitting the East Coast, as well as the impact climate change is having on storms like this.”

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Washington Post Is Suddenly Super Enthused By Potential Bipartisanship From China Joe

By William Teach February 2, 2021 – 7:44 am

Interesting. The Washington Post spent over four years telling Democrats to #Resist and not work with President Trump. Remember, on day 1, January 20, 2017, the WP published a piece on the campaign to impeach Trump beginning. Eugene Robinson had a piece on November 14, 2016, hoping Trump fails. There was very little positive from the WP, and they even changed their tag line to “Democracy dies in darkness” for Trump. Think they’ll investigate Biden as hard? Snicker

President Biden is right to give bipartisanship a chance. Republicans must follow.

double standardsSEEKING A bipartisan deal on a big covid-19 aid bill, President Biden met Monday with a group of 10 Republican senators led by Maine Sen. Susan Collins. Many in his party are skeptical. The 10 Republicans had offered a counterproposal to Mr. Biden’s $1.9 trillion plan that is less than a third the size, leading progressive commentators to accuse them of bad faith. Coronavirus aid is too important for the president to get caught in a holding pattern the way President Barack Obama did as he tried to negotiate a bipartisan health-care reform bill in his first term.

Um, Joe wasn’t seeking a bipartisan deal, the GOP group of 10 were.

Yet Mr. Biden has a window in which to explore bipartisan options before extended unemployment benefits expire in March. The Republicans did not say that their counterproposal is a final offer. If negotiations lead nowhere, he can always try to pass a large covid-19 relief bill on party lines using the Senate reconciliation process. Ms. Collins was right to bring a GOP proposal forward, and Mr. Biden was right to hear out the senators.

The question now becomes “does Joe negotiate at all?” What will the WP Editorial Board say when Biden and his allies in Congress blow the GOP off and just and try to pass their porkapalooza laden COVID bill?

It would be better for the country if the GOP senators and Mr. Biden both agreed to deviate from their initial proposals. The senators’ plan is too small, particularly given alarming unemployment figures and the risk that new coronavirus strains could force new lockdowns. It lacks aid for state and local governments, a necessity that Republicans have already delayed for too long, risking harsh state and local staffing cuts in the midst of a pandemic and an economic crisis. It also proposes only a three-month jobless benefits extension, which would likely force Congress to write yet another bill just as they finish passing this one.

In other words, it would be good if the GOP gives up everything and get nothing in return. Bipartisanship in the Age Of Dementia Joe.

Mr. Biden’s plan is more ambitious. But, in search of delivering on a bad Democratic campaign promise, it would also be wasteful. The Biden proposal contemplates $1,400 direct payments to most Americans — even those far too high on the income scale to need the help. Some families making as much as $300,000 a year might get some government aid. These direct payments make up a quarter of Mr. Biden’s plan, and nearly half of that spending could be removed with little economic impact. Republicans would improve the coronavirus relief package if they forced Democrats to target aid checks to those who really need the cash.

Huh. They actually make a bit of sense. However, what happened to the $2,000 checks Joe promised during the campaign and during the Georgia revote? You can bet the WPEB would be blasting Trump if he had made that promise and won.

Over the weekend, the Biden camp suggested that the president does not need to find bipartisanship in Congress in order to unite the rest of the country. But he is right to try to do both. Doing so shows his commitment to unity is not just rhetorical, and he will need buy-in from at least a few Republicans on Capitol Hill in order to pursue other elements of his agenda. With congressional Republicans engaged in their own identity crisis, Mr. Biden should embrace every opportunity to work with GOP lawmakers willing to distinguish themselves from the elements in their party focused on obstruction, voter suppression and lies about the election. At the same time, negotiations need not be open-ended, and the Republicans too must demonstrate good faith. Simply coming up with a starting offer is not proof of constructive bipartisanship.

Well, now, that last bit is all about the GOP having to reach across the aisle and make concessions, not about Joe having to do the same.

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Climate Cult Wants Farmers To Go Back To 1499 Or Something

By William Teach February 1, 2021 – 3:00 pm

There are certainly some practices of modern farming that need to change, like the overuse of pesticides and fertilizers, but, the Cult of Climastrology wants to move the whole operation back to “simpler methods”

Farming needs to go back to old fashioned methods to help the environment, says PM’s father as he takes on new climate change role

Farming needs to go back to old-fashioned methods to help the environment, the Prime Minister’s father has said, as he takes on a new climate change role.

Stanley Johnson is today announcing that he is the new International Ambassador for the Conservative Environment Network (CEN).

The author has long been a campaigner on green issues, and is a passionate advocate of “rewilding”, recently visiting some reintroduced bears in Italy.

He is expected to lobby for wilder farming at the major climate change conference COP26, scheduled to take place in Glasgow this summer.

Mr Johnson, a passionate rewilder, told The Telegraph about his vision of farming, explaining: “It’s not rewilding as such but going back to methods of farming which are very much the way things were. Rain fed agriculture, grass fed agriculture, even not ploughing up. You may gain more in carbon terms from doing that than from planting a load of trees.

Yes, this is when crop yields were smaller, bugs were all over crops, and they sprayed manure on it. This is fine for your backyard garden, not so much when raising food for lots and lots of people. It may work well for the Amish and similar groups: good luck with food at your grocery story.

“There is an absolute need for a change in the farming system in Britain and as we come out of the EU that’s an amazing way to do that. I have just agreed to be the international ambassador for the Conservative Environmental Network. We are going to be focusing on the Climate Change Conference. It’s an honourary assignment of course I’m not going to ask to be paid at my age!”

This guy is the son of Boris Johnson, and, he’s entitled to his opinion. And welcome to do this on his own farm. But, the thing is, the Climate Cult always wants to force everyone else to comply with their beliefs, and want government to force people to comply.

Heck, it’s been said that modern farming is more environmentally conscience than old school farming. It’s certainly less manpower intensive. Will all these Warmists go work on farms? Oh, right, that’s what the want illegal immigrants to do.

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If All You See…

By William Teach February 1, 2021 – 1:00 pm

…is an ocean that will soon swamp all the coasts, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Real Climate Science, with a post on the endless summer in New York.

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