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There is a lot or pressure to give contracts to minority owned firms. If you ever enter into one of these government bidding competitions, the number of questions devoted to the diversity of your business is greater than questions related to your ability to fulfill the contract.

How many times does it need to be explained that Google, Facebook, Twitter, et al are private businesses and not the government?

How many times does it need to be explained that they are monopsonies with more power than the government did at the time the first amendment was passed?

We need the Nehlen law, no interference with legal political speech by any company big enough to dominate a public square.

If they were private companies small enough to be outside a precedent of regulation, then we wouldn't be having this discussion because they would not be able to promote your political views by censoring me. The discussion would simply move elsewhere. They dominate web search and social media and are able to shut down public discussion, and that's the only reason you're defending their right to censor. These aspie arguments about definitions are in fact disingenuous propaganda.

Outside of the West, this is all very well understood. Chinese family planning has gone far beyond eugenics and now they are rolling out genome editing.

The reality is anyone with an IQ of 100 or less is effectively economically obsolete. That is about 60% of the world's population. Part of the reason "racism" remains such a popular topic in America is differences in race IQ have become tantamount to racism. And racism is worse than child molestation or murder. Hence, no one is aware of how far advanced genetics and intelligence has come.

If it were to become common knowledge in this country that most people are born too stupid to be of economic value, the entire fabric of our society would collapse.

There is a great deal of evidence that average IQ is dropping rapidly. The one place IQ cannot be ignored is the military. Presently, 100 million Americans are too stupid to enlist in the army. If they can't join the army, what else are they good for?

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Best I can find is this article from 2006: Average IQ By State: Honest Numbers

It tries (and seemingly succeeds) to debunk the "low IQ people voted for Bush" meme from the mid-00's. (The November 2016 election refutes this so-called debunking...)

West Virginia is listed with an average IQ of 98.7, beating out 13 other states, including, notably, California's score of 95.5. And CA isn't generally held to be a "stupid" state. Vapid, perhaps, but not stupid.

And before you go on about how you were only talking about rural WV, go look at a map and tell me which part of WV isn't rural. (Charleston? What's the population again? Compare it to any other largest-city-in-the-state and remind yourself that WV is "eastern" and "heavily populated" before you trot that one out. Boise ID has about the same population as Charleston WV, so it seems that West Virginia is approximately as rural as Idaho.)

"Carlos Slim’s Late Wife Was a Member of the Most Bloodthirsty Lebanese Warlord Clan"

Mrs. Slim was a Gemayel on her mother’s side. The name “Gemayel” brings back memories...
After visiting the Berlin Olympics in 1936, Pierre Gemayel founded Lebanon’s fascist-oriented, pro-Western Phalange Party...
Sheik Pierre’s son Bashir Gemayel was the most ferocious Christian warlord of Lebanon’s civil war that began in 1975. (Above is Geraldo Rivera’s 1982 interview with Bashir.) It should be kept in mind that much of Bashir’s violence was devoted less to fighting Muslims than to making the Gemayels supreme over the other Christian warlord clans, such as the Chamouns.

Carlos Slim bought the New York Times on the strength of his corrupt relations with the Mexican government that gave him monopoly on cell phone communications in that country.

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Here you go..

A month ago, Kevin Flanagan, age 41, found out that he`d be losing his job at the Bank of America`s Concord Technology Center and be required to train his h1b replacement. That same day, he took his lifeâ"in the parking lot of his former employer.

It wasn`t that Flanagan was surprised to lose his jobâ"he`d seen it coming for months, as his father told the paper. Flanagan had watched as veteran co-workers were forced to train newcomers from Indiaâ"then fired and replaced by the immigrants. One former employee told the CC Times that employees at Concord feel like they`re âoeon death row. Every day you think, `Is this the day I`m gone?` he said.â

Anyone who watches movies knows about the blond bad-guy and the blonde goddess. This blond gene apparently has pleiotropic effects that make men disgusting scum-of-the-earth and women the object of every man's desire.

Strange how that works.

Blacks are inferior as a group.

Look at the way all of the blacks just go apeshit so to speak over a bunch of fucking sneakers of all things!

Then ask yourself why white people don't riot over the latest Apple gadget even though they gather in large crowds waiting for them. I mean an objective person might think whites are more civilized!

Oh does anyone remember when the blacks rioted like crazy after Hurricane Katrina? Isn't it JUST A LITTLE STRANGE the way white people in Colorado banded together and helped each other when they were hit with a natural disaster instead of rioting and looting like the blacks did? I mean an objective person might think whites are more civilized!

Oh and blacks are responsible for nearly all the murders in Marion County! That is what you would expect from a violent tribal uncivilized race.

Interesting when a black man admits blacks are to blame for the hellhole that is (86% black) Jackson Mississippi? Quote: "Look at recent history, like in South Africa, when apartheid was abolished,” Lambus said in a recent interview with The Associated Press. “Blacks went on a crime spree.""

It goes on and on. Probably no point in posting this since people who are objective already understand the destruction and violence and cost blacks bring anytime they are abundant. It is not just USA. All over the world black-governed nations are hellholes. But objective people knew this. It is the people indoctrinated to believe that acknowledging FACTS is somehow "racist" who just can't admit it. None are so blind as those who will not see.

Blacks are inferior as a group.

Look at the way all of the blacks just go apeshit so to speak over a bunch of fucking sneakers of all things!

Then ask yourself why white people don't riot over the latest Apple gadget even though they gather in large crowds waiting for them. I mean an objective person might think whites are more civilized!

Oh does anyone remember when the blacks rioted like crazy after Hurricane Katrina? Isn't it JUST A LITTLE STRANGE the way white people in Colorado banded together and helped each other when they were hit with a natural disaster instead of rioting and looting like the blacks did? I mean an objective person might think whites are more civilized!

Oh and blacks are responsible for nearly all the murders in Marion County! That is what you would expect from a violent tribal uncivilized race.

Interesting when a black man admits blacks are to blame for the hellhole that is (86% black) Jackson Mississippi? Quote: "Look at recent history, like in South Africa, when apartheid was abolished,” Lambus said in a recent interview with The Associated Press. “Blacks went on a crime spree.""

It goes on and on. Probably no point in posting this since people who are objective already understand the destruction and violence and cost blacks bring anytime they are abundant. It is not just USA. All over the world black-governed nations are hellholes. But objective people knew this. It is the people indoctrinated to believe that acknowledging FACTS is somehow "racist" who just can't admit it. None are so blind as those who will not see.

However, at the same time, periodic testing and background checks are becoming a way of life. The big casualty in the War on Drugs is justice. Poor teenage drug users get incarcerated much more frequently than rich teenage drug users. The US government routinely routinely ruins the lives of young people doing nothing differently than what George Bush or Barack Obama did when younger(and in Bush's case had a father able to pull political strings to get his cocaine bust sealed).

I think that something like Silk road is pretty much inevitable-but so is expanded drug testing that will eventually include folks in positions of power and responsibility. At some point use of drugs may do little more than restrict someone from living in particular cities or communities-and lying about drug use to business associates or constituents will become impossible-but without the act of lying, much drug or chronic alcohol use will loose its allure.

No, the US government cannot reliable shut down Silk Road-but it could create a sound drug testing program for members of congress, the President and all senior members of the government. It could require that all police and prison guards-and attorneys be free of hard drugs or chronic alcohol abuse. Here is a published article where I developed some of these ideas previously.

Interesting. A google search led me to this: http://www.vdare.com/articles/gay-gene-or-gay-germ

Blacks are inferior as a group.

Look at the way all of the blacks just go apeshit so to speak over a bunch of fucking sneakers of all things!

Then ask yourself why white people don't riot over the latest Apple gadget even though they gather in large crowds waiting for them. I mean an objective person might think whites are more civilized!

Oh does anyone remember when the blacks rioted like crazy after Hurricane Katrina? Isn't it JUST A LITTLE STRANGE the way white people in Colorado banded together and helped each other when they were hit with a natural disaster instead of rioting and looting like the blacks did? I mean an objective person might think whites are more civilized!

Oh and blacks are responsible for nearly all the murders in Marion County! That is what you would expect from a violent tribal uncivilized race.

Interesting when a black man admits blacks are to blame for the hellhole that is (86% black) Jackson Mississippi? Quote: "Look at recent history, like in South Africa, when apartheid was abolished,” Lambus said in a recent interview with The Associated Press. “Blacks went on a crime spree.""

It goes on and on. Probably no point in posting this since people who are objective already understand the destruction and violence and cost blacks bring anytime they are abundant. It is not just USA. All over the world black-governed nations are hellholes. But objective people knew this. It is the people indoctrinated to believe that acknowledging FACTS is somehow "racist" who just can't admit it. None are so blind as those who will not see.

Blacks are inferior as a group.

Look at the way all of the blacks just go apeshit so to speak over a bunch of fucking sneakers of all things!

Then ask yourself why white people don't riot over the latest Apple gadget even though they gather in large crowds waiting for them. I mean an objective person might think whites are more civilized!

Oh does anyone remember when the blacks rioted like crazy after Hurricane Katrina? Isn't it JUST A LITTLE STRANGE the way white people in Colorado banded together and helped each other when they were hit with a natural disaster instead of rioting and looting like the blacks did? I mean an objective person might think whites are more civilized!

Oh and blacks are responsible for nearly all the murders in Marion County! That is what you would expect from a violent tribal uncivilized race.

Interesting when a black man admits blacks are to blame for the hellhole that is (86% black) Jackson Mississippi? Quote: "Look at recent history, like in South Africa, when apartheid was abolished,” Lambus said in a recent interview with The Associated Press. “Blacks went on a crime spree.""

It goes on and on. Probably no point in posting this since people who are objective already understand the destruction and violence and cost blacks bring anytime they are abundant. It is not just USA. All over the world black-governed nations are hellholes. But objective people knew this. It is the people indoctrinated to believe that acknowledging FACTS is somehow "racist" who just can't admit it. None are so blind as those who will not see.

Blacks are inferior as a group.

Look at the way all of the blacks just go apeshit so to speak over a bunch of fucking sneakers of all things!

Then ask yourself why white people don't riot over the latest Apple gadget even though they gather in large crowds waiting for them. I mean an objective person might think whites are more civilized!

Oh does anyone remember when the blacks rioted like crazy after Hurricane Katrina? Isn't it JUST A LITTLE STRANGE the way white people in Colorado banded together and helped each other when they were hit with a natural disaster instead of rioting and looting like the blacks did? I mean an objective person might think whites are more civilized!

Oh and blacks are responsible for nearly all the murders in Marion County! That is what you would expect from a violent tribal uncivilized race.

Interesting when a black man admits blacks are to blame for the hellhole that is (86% black) Jackson Mississippi? Quote: "Look at recent history, like in South Africa, when apartheid was abolished,” Lambus said in a recent interview with The Associated Press. “Blacks went on a crime spree.""

It goes on and on. Probably no point in posting this since people who are objective already understand the destruction and violence and cost blacks bring anytime they are abundant. It is not just USA. All over the world black-governed nations are hellholes. But objective people knew this. It is the people indoctrinated to believe that acknowledging FACTS is somehow "racist" who just can't admit it. None are so blind as those who will not see.

Anyone who thinks there is immigrant displacement of US workers is a neo-Nazi sympathizer at best.

Vdare.com has a new column out today which is particularly disgusting.

http://www.vdare.com/articles/jews-leftists-immigration-my-journey-to-nietzsche-some-responses-to-readers

Jewess Susie Green pretends she is on 'our side.' ((The side of white, western civilization.)) But we learn what she really thinks and cares about at the very end of the column:
"Because of the errors and superstitions of today, the West is doomed to endure a very long and painful period of barbarianism, misery and even mass death. When it finally becomes unavoidably clear that group differences are real, I worry that the Jews, as the intellectual leaders of modern egalitarianism, will be shamed and no longer respected in philosophy and the social sciences."

Got that? Because of the Jewish-led philosophy of egalitarianism, the West is doomed to barbarism, misery, and mass death. Pretty grim, huh? That sounds like a pretty strong indictment of Jews in general. It would be reasonable to resent Jews just a tad if they were to cause all that in the future, now wouldn't it?

Nope! Susie Green doesn't think so. No matter what Jews do, Jews can never be blamed or resented for it, for that way leads anti-semitism, which, to her, is an even GREATER evil than sinking the entire West, billions of people, into 'barbarism, misery, and mass death.'

"Even worse, there is a danger that, out of this dark period, a deep anti-Semitism will emerge, as revenge for the betrayal by the intellectuals. The Right could become what the Left already claims—Nazis—and Left could become the lesser of two evils."

Did you read that correctly? "EVEN WORSE" than the majority of the 1st world reverting to the stone age, losing at least half of our population, and the remainder living in eternal 'misery,' is the prospect that ANTI-SEMITISM might rear its ugly head again!

The most damning statement of all is that even at this point, even once the left has plunged the flower of the Earth, billions of beautiful, brilliant white people into 'barbarism, misery, and mass death,' it would still be preferable to stick with the left than to side with the "GREATER" of two evils, Nazism.

Because we all know that Nazi Germany was EVEN WORSE than living in the stone age, with half the population mere skulls and crossbones, and the other half miserably going about their broken, wasted lives, because it DISLIKED JEWS.

It is worse for Jews to be hated, as a world historical outcome, than that all whites should suffer and die.

So says Susie Green, and she's "on our side."

No, Susie Green, you're not on our side. You're a sick, sick woman, a Jewish Supremacist, who is only thinking about what is good for the Jews, and you could care less about what happens to the rest of us. You hate white people and loathe them as all potential, proto-Nazis just waiting to burst out of our Jew-hating cocoons. You would prefer we all die out in your fantasy dystopia than that we should ever see and realize just who were our friends, and who were our enemies, all along. And that puts you decidedly on the "other" side.

Pro-white Jews are a joke. All they care about is anti-semitism, their own Jewish hides. They police us like they're our betters, and act as though they're the only people with the right to criticize Jews. At the last moment, they always betray pro-white peers and stab us in the back. Just like they stabbed Germany in the back in World War I. Just like they stabbed Spain in the back and aided the Moors. Just like they stabbed Tzar Nicholas in the back and assassinated the Imperial family of Russia, ushering in the communist reign of terror. Just like they stabbed America in the back with the 'HART-Cellar' immigration act of 1965 that took a 90% white nation, the strongest, richest, happiest nation on Earth, and gave it away to the 3rd world flood. Jews have betrayed and destroyed every single culture

> It should be significantly cheaper to get a degree in a field where their is demand -
> the STEM degrees - and should cost significantly more for all other degrees.

You've got that backwards. More demand leads to *higher* prices, not lower ones. In every respect, STEM majors should be paying more than humanities majors, not less:

*STEM faculty cost more (often 2x to 3x more) than humanities faculty.
*STEM labs and equipment cost far more than plain classrooms.
*STEM coursework is usually more expensive.

and most important:

*STEM graduates make more money, and can therefore afford to pay back more student loan debt.

And why is there a shortage of native STEM workers in the USA in the first place? It isn't because of high tuition, or lack of ability; it's because STEM wages have been artificially lowered by the availability of immigrants to fill the jobs more cheaply, and the corporate culture that reinforces immigrant use. Harvard economist George Borjas and others have shown repeatedly that both unskilled and skilled immigrants to this country depress the wages in any occupation they enter, to the tune of a 3% drop in wages for every 10% increase in workforce. What percentage of STEM work in the US is being done by immigrants these days? And that doesn't even factor in the depressing economic effects of offshoring.

No, the market for STEM workers has been artificially short-circuited by the lobbying of corporations intent on importing a cheaper foreign labor pool, and this has resulted in lower STEM pay and therefore lower interest in STEM education and careers by natives. There is no STEM shortage, except the one created by artificial means in the pursuit of corporate greed. The stock answer from most economists is that such immigration is in our national interest since it grows the overall economy--but the problem is, all of that new growth goes exclusively into the pockets of the corporate owners of capital and the immigrant workers themselves, while native workers see their pay decrease by that 3% per 10% increase in workforce. That's why real-world inflation-adjusted earnings for working and middle class Americans have decreased since the 1970s. That's why the gap between rich and poor increases steadily (25 years ago the richest 1% of Americans took home 12% of all income, while today that 1% takes in almost 25% of all income; 25 years ago the richest 1% owned 33% of all assets and capital, while today they own over 40%).

Americans need to wake up to the fact that extreme immigration (we take in more legal immigrants *than every other country combined*) is the root of all of our current economic woes. Our elite classes of both political affiliations love it, the Democrats because they see votes and multiculturalism and the Republicans because they see cheap labor. But while it's good for the moneyed elites it is directly responsible for the worsening fortunes of the American working class and the ongoing disappearance of the middle class.

The sad part is the educated classes have known about this situation for a long time, and the average American may not know the facts but he feels them viscerally--Americans have been overwhelmingly for smaller immigration numbers for decades. Until they start pushing it as a forefront issue though, nothing will be done. An old but excellent book on the situation was published by Random House in 1995, and is now available for free from the author:

http://www.vdare.com/alien_nation/

At the time it was a bestseller and was as widely discussed as *The Bell Curve*, but unlike that other controversial book not one challenge to its facts and numbers was ever substantiated.

There are a few under-achievers, from families with cultures which do not value academic achievement, or who have been given incentives by the government not to value academic achievement, but the majority of students are being pushed or pushing themselves to excell.

"U.S. engineers... [are] more creative, excelled in problem solving, risk taking, networking and [have] strong analytical skills..."

http://www.kermitrose.com/econ200707.html#20070702

"Dozens of employers asked to compare American engineers to their much-vaunted colleagues from India and [Red China] agreed that 'in education, training, quality of work, you name it, in every which way, Americans are better'. Even the best schools in those countries 'don't hold a candle to our best schools.', he continues. Newly hired American university graduates 'become productive within 30 days or so. If you hire a graduate of an Indian university, it takes between 3 and 6 months for them to become productive.'"

http://www.kermitrose.com/econ200801.html#20080104

"Dynamic" US engineers vs. "transactional" foreign engineers.

http://www.kermitrose.com/econ200512.html#20051213

http://www.kermitrose.com/econ200512.html#20051227

http://www.kermitrose.com/econ200601.html#20060110

"the mean literacy test score for U.S. adults (272) was 2 points above the mean for all adults in the 20 country survey (270)... Larger, statistically significant, literacy gaps between us and them unfold when you separate immigrant from native-born test takers, as is done in 17 high income countries surveyed by ETS. U.S. natives scored 8 points above the average native of the 17 high income countries. U.S. immigrants scored 16 points below the average immigrant in the 17 countries." --- Edwin S. Rubenstein 2005-12-22 _V Dare_ "The stupid American? Think again"

http://www.vdare.com/rubenstein/051222_nd.htm

"I've mentioned the TIMSS test, for instance, which showed that if [Colorado, Connecticut, Iowa, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska North Dakota, Oregon, Utah, Vermont, Wisconsin and Wyoming] -- none of which has a substantial under-class -- had been treated as separate nations, each of them would have been out-scored only by Singapore (professor David Berliner, 'Our Schools Versus Theirs', Washington Post, 2001 January 28)... This [both the TIMSS and PISA tests] once again shows, tragically, that the U.S.A. is not doing enough to bring up the educational performance of its under-class. But if one takes the white score as 'main-stream', the U.S.A. would rank 7th out of 27, instead of 18th."

http://www.kermitrose.com/econ200603.html#20060317

http://courses.ed.asu.edu/berliner/readings/timssroped.html

"while our average test scores are mediocre, the U.S.A. is a leader with respect to the gap between our best and worst performers. Our best and brightest are equal to, or better than, those of other advanced countries. Our worst rank, well, among the worst anywhere. For several reasons, immigrants exert more of a downward test score drag here than in other advanced countries. First, they account for a larger share of the population. Only 7 of the 27 OECD countries have larger foreign born population shares than the U.S.A. Second -- and more importantly -- our immigrants do poorly on standardized tests compared to the immigrant populations of other advanced countries. The U.S.A. ranked 18th out of the 20

After reading this prescient book from 1995:

http://www.vdare.com/alien_nation/

it started to dawn on me that nearly all the socioeconomic problems we in the U.S. face today* can be traced to the failings of the 1965 immigration reform. We shouldn't even have special niche programs like H1B; we should be putting those who really do have in-demand skills and qualifications at the front of the line for normal immigration visas and encouraging them to become citizens, but instead because of quirks of the 1965 reform unskilled Latin Americans will _always_ be at the head of the line--for the sole reason that they were "first out of the gate" to immigrate in large numbers post-1965--unless the law is amended. And good luck with that since so many are already here that they're a powerful special-interest lobby.

*: increasing economic stratification (rich getting richer, poor getting poorer, middle class shrinking), decline in inflation-adjusted wages (an average worker in the 70s had more buying power than an average worker today), high unemployment in the African-American community, etc., all trace back convincingly to post-1965 mass immigration, and the book _Alien Nation_ details the evidence. Even the recent housing bubble which set off the banking crisis and current recession has our immigration-driven population explosion and cheap immigrant construction labor as a significant component (though the book obviously doesn't detail this, having been published in 1995). In a few decades, native-born Americans will be about 25% of the U.S. population; will the culture of that day have anything in common with our own--will it descend from our culture and inherit its good points, or replace it and retain nothing of what we and our parents built? These are all interesting issues.

On paper that is how it is suppose to work.

The reality is a bit different.

http://www.vdare.com/pb/matloff_h1b.htm

It isn't just pornography that is blocked. What surprised me about the web-filtering at my work place was blocking of political sites of the far right, like The Occidental Observer Blog, The Occidental Quarterly Online, and Vdare.

Vdare isn't even that extreme. They are pretty mild in their criticism of Jewish power. Their main focus is on immigration and its harmfulness to our country.

"U.S. engineers... [are] more creative, excelled in problem solving, risk taking, networking and [have] strong analytical skills..."
http://www.kermitrose.com/econ200707.html#20070702

"Dozens of employers asked to compare American engineers to their much-vaunted colleagues from India and [Red China] agreed that 'in education, training, quality of work, you name it, in every which way, Americans are better'. Even the best schools in those countries 'don't hold a candle to our best schools.', he continues. Newly hired American university graduates 'become productive within 30 days or so. If you hire a graduate of an Indian university, it takes between 3 and 6 months for them to become productive.'"
http://www.kermitrose.com/econ200801.html#20080104

"Dynamic" US engineers vs. "transactional" foreign engineers.
http://www.kermitrose.com/econ200512.html#20051213
http://www.kermitrose.com/econ200512.html#20051227
http://www.kermitrose.com/econ200601.html#20060110

Gifted individuals account for only 5% of H-1B visa holders at most, so cutting the numbers of H-1B visas from the current 110K to 2,000 or fewer per year and auctioning them off monthly to the highest bidders on the basis of compensation would improve the likelihood that the best and brightest would be welcomed. Cutting them to 1,000 per year would begin to bring back the huge pool of unemployed and under-employed US citizen science and tech workers toward full employment, and thus boost the economy. If all else fails, we should set the bar by conducting multiple IQ tests and admit those whose average scores exceed 160 (or aggregate ACT score above 34 or aggregate SAT score above 1560 or "new" aggregate SAT score above 2100 or aggregate GRE above 1615).
http://www.kermitrose.com/econ200705.html#20070513
http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/Archive/NotBestAndBrightest3.txt

"the mean literacy test score for U.S. adults (272) was 2 points above the mean for all adults in the 20 country survey (270)... Larger, statistically significant, literacy gaps between us and them unfold when you separate immigrant from native-born test takers, as is done in 17 high income countries surveyed by ETS. U.S. natives scored 8 points above the average native of the 17 high income countries. U.S. immigrants scored 16 points below the average immigrant in the 17 countries." --- Edwin S. Rubenstein 2005-12-22 _V Dare_ "The stupid American? Think again"
http://www.vdare.com/rubenstein/051222_nd.htm

It's impossible to make a case that executives should continue turning their backs on some of the best science, tech, engineering and math talent in the world and instead hire lower-quality, low-skill, cheaper labor from over-seas.

"I've mentioned the TIMSS test, for instance, which showed that if [Colorado, Connecticut, Iowa, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska North Dakota, Oregon, Utah, Vermont, Wisconsin and Wyoming] -- none of which has a substantial under-class -- had been treated as separate nations, each of them would have been out-scored only by Singapore (professor David Berliner, 'Our Schools Versus Theirs', Washington Post, 2001 January 28)... This [both the TIMSS and PISA tests] once again shows, tragically, that the U.S.A. is not doing enough to bring up the educational performance of its under-class. But if one takes the white score as 'main-stream', the U.S.A. would rank 7th out of 27, instead of 18th."
http://www.k

From the first comment in the Computer World article, an item from the VDARE website.

I recall talking to Congressman Brian Baird about this problem of US businesses over-utilizing immigrants. He had the standard reply, "But they tell me if they don't get the visas, they'll have to outsource business to India!" My reply wasn't standard: "They shouldn't just outsource to India, they should MOVE to India! The US created these industries without massive immigration. The problem with the US isn't a lack of immigrants."

A Latina family lives next door to me. They blast their Mariachi music until 2:00-3:00 am every morning from their car stereo while smoking dope and drinking.

The problem with letting low-IQ (Hispanic IQ approximately 90-95) people in, is that your average as a country goes down. A lot if their average fertility is positive while yours is negative.

Hispanics in America commit a lot of crime, consume a lot of social services, and return relatively little as a fraction of the GDP. Republicans want more Hispanics because big business likes cheap labor. Democrats want more Hispanics because they're going to vote Democrat forever. The average American -- well, he's screwed.

Please read Steve Sailer'sIQ FAQ before replying with something dumb about IQ. I'm not going to respond to non-studied opinions about IQ any more than I'd respond to someone making stupid claims about Thermodynamics without even knowing the definition of Etropy.

I suggest readers who want the truth have a leisurely stroll through Steve Sailer's site and reserve some time to savor all the excellent analytical journalism he's written on the minority mortgage meltdown.

• 50% of subprime dollars went to minorities during the peak years of the bubble
• minorities are now defaulting at twice the rate of whites
• CRA commitments increased to $2.3 trillion; many major banks drank this Kool-aid, including Countrywide, Bank of America, and Washington Mutual

It was non-minority Wall Street bankers and quants who of course took what was essentially a south-side Chicago shakedown operation (Mugger 1: "You of course wouldn't mind if I borrowed this $300,000 to give to my friend, would you? He promises to repay you when he can, see, with interest too.") and leveraged it to the moon. But it would never have happened without the CRA and the ambient politically correct liberalism which selected for stupidity by allowing those banks most committed to CRA to grow fastest (and thus dominate the market) through mergers and acquisitions, and made it impossible to speak the truth about minorities and mortgages through threat of anti-discrimination lawsuits (which bank officer would nowadays risk his career by asking if his institution was making too many loans to blacks or Hispanics)?

Bzzzt. Prices feel faster during regulation than after deregulation.

What about lower fares? Didn't deregulation pay for itself with lower fares? Apparently not. Morgan Stanley shows that airline pricing has been falling for 40 years. Eyeballing the chart, the fall in prices was steeper between 1962 and 1978 than after deregulation.

A few months ago I asked the aging Bob Johnson -- former CTO of Burroughs Corporation when it was a leading mainframe company in Minneapolis where he developed the magnetic ink you see on the bottom of your checks -- what he thought caused the loss of the Midwestern high tech leadership to the coasts, and he said it was the financial dominance of the coasts.

That squares with what I observed while at Control Data Corporation/Cray Research, Inc -- midwestern companies that invented the supercomputer.

The reason Bill Norris and Seymour Cray were able to start CDC thence Cray Research was because they violated SEC regs and went around selling stock at PTA meetings, making a lot of middle class people retire very comfortably. My late father bought some Cray stock early on which helped greatly with his retirement.

When I was at CDC in Arden Hills, MN attempting to deploy the mass market version of the PLATO network with Internet-like capabilities (the system that Ray Ozzie (Bill Gates' replacement at Microsoft) cut his teeth on) in 1980 the primary resistance was from a middle management that, due to the financial press' hostility toward Norris's vision of a society disintermediated by computer networking, small high-tech farms and locally produced and consumed essentialsâ"had itself grown hostile to Norris.

My proposed solution is simple to state but will perhaps require a war to institute:

Replace all taxes on economic activity with a tax on net-assets, assessed at their in-place liquidation value, at the risk free interest rate (which according to modern portfolio theory is the short-term US Treasury rate) so as to extract all economic rents from the private sector, and then, to prevent public sector rent-seeking in pork-barrel politics, disperse those funds evenly in a dividend to all citizens, as the beneficiaries of the land-trust called the United States.

That will not only stop the vicious centralization of power in the private and public sectors, but it will clarify the role of immigrationâ"it is a dilution of the benefits intended for the Posterity of the Founders of the land trust called The United States of America.

A few months ago I asked the aging Bob Johnson -- former CTO of Burroughs Corporation when it was a leading mainframe company in Minneapolis where he developed the magnetic ink you see on the bottom of your checks -- what he thought caused the loss of the Midwestern high tech leadership to the coasts, and he said it was the financial dominance of the coasts.

That squares with what I observed while at Control Data Corporation/Cray Research, Inc -- midwestern companies that invented the supercomputer.

The reason Bill Norris and Seymour Cray were able to start CDC thence Cray Research was because they violated SEC regs and went around selling stock at PTA meetings, making a lot of middle class people retire very comfortably. My late father bought some Cray stock early on which helped greatly with his retirement.

When I was at CDC in Arden Hills, MN attempting to deploy the mass market version of the PLATO network with Internet-like capabilities (the system that Ray Ozzie (Bill Gates' replacement at Microsoft) cut his teeth on) in 1980 the primary resistance was from a middle management that, due to the financial press' hostility toward Norris's vision of a society disintermediated by computer networking, small high-tech farms and locally produced and consumed essentialsâ"had itself grown hostile to Norris.

My proposed solution is simple to state but will perhaps require a war to institute:

Replace all taxes on economic activity with a tax on net-assets, assessed at their in-place liquidation value, at the risk free interest rate (which according to modern portfolio theory is the short-term US Treasury rate) so as to extract all economic rents from the private sector, and then, to prevent public sector rent-seeking in pork-barrel politics, disperse those funds evenly in a dividend to all citizens, as the beneficiaries of the land-trust called the United States.

That will not only stop the vicious centralization of power in the private and public sectors, but it will clarify the role of immigrationâ"it is a dilution of the benefits intended for the Posterity of the Founders of the land trust called The United States of America.

A few months ago I asked the aging Bob Johnson -- former CTO of Burroughs Corporation when it was a leading mainframe company in Minneapolis where he developed the magnetic ink you see on the bottom of your checks -- what he thought caused the loss of the Midwestern high tech leadership to the coasts, and he said it was the financial dominance of the coasts.

That squares with what I observed while at Control Data Corporation/Cray Research, Inc -- midwestern companies that invented the supercomputer.

The reason Bill Norris and Seymour Cray were able to start CDC thence Cray Research was because they violated SEC regs and went around selling stock at PTA meetings, making a lot of middle class people retire very comfortably. My late father bought some Cray stock early on which helped greatly with his retirement.

When I was at CDC in Arden Hills, MN attempting to deploy the mass market version of the PLATO network with Internet-like capabilities (the system that Ray Ozzie (Bill Gates' replacement at Microsoft) cut his teeth on) in 1980 the primary resistance was from a middle management that, due to the financial press' hostility toward Norris's vision of a society disintermediated by computer networking, small high-tech farms and locally produced and consumed essentialsâ"had itself grown hostile to Norris.

My proposed solution is simple to state but will perhaps require a war to institute:

Replace all taxes on economic activity with a tax on net-assets, assessed at their in-place liquidation value, at the risk free interest rate (which according to modern portfolio theory is the short-term US Treasury rate) so as to extract all economic rents from the private sector, and then, to prevent public sector rent-seeking in pork-barrel politics, disperse those funds evenly in a dividend to all citizens, as the beneficiaries of the land-trust called the United States.

That will not only stop the vicious centralization of power in the private and public sectors, but it will clarify the role of immigrationâ"it is a dilution of the benefits intended for the Posterity of the Founders of the land trust called The United States of America.

A few months ago I asked the aging Bob Johnson -- former CTO of Burroughs Corporation when it was a leading mainframe company in Minneapolis where he developed the magnetic ink you see on the bottom of your checks -- what he thought caused the loss of the Midwestern high tech leadership to the coasts, and he said it was the financial dominance of the coasts.

That squares with what I observed while at Control Data Corporation/Cray Research, Inc -- midwestern companies that invented the supercomputer.

The reason Bill Norris and Seymour Cray were able to start CDC thence Cray Research was because they violated SEC regs and went around selling stock at PTA meetings, making a lot of middle class people retire very comfortably. My late father bought some Cray stock early on which helped greatly with his retirement.

When I was at CDC in Arden Hills, MN attempting to deploy the mass market version of the PLATO network with Internet-like capabilities (the system that Ray Ozzie (Bill Gates' replacement at Microsoft) cut his teeth on) in 1980 the primary resistance was from a middle management that, due to the financial press' hostility toward Norris's vision of a society disintermediated by computer networking, small high-tech farms and locally produced and consumed essentialsâ"had itself grown hostile to Norris.

My proposed solution is simple to state but will perhaps require a war to institute:

Replace all taxes on economic activity with a tax on net-assets, assessed at their in-place liquidation value, at the risk free interest rate (which according to modern portfolio theory is the short-term US Treasury rate) so as to extract all economic rents from the private sector, and then, to prevent public sector rent-seeking in pork-barrel politics, disperse those funds evenly in a dividend to all citizens, as the beneficiaries of the land-trust called the United States.

That will not only stop the vicious centralization of power in the private and public sectors, but it will clarify the role of immigrationâ"it is a dilution of the benefits intended for the Posterity of the Founders of the land trust called The United States of America.

The big states involved in the current real estate bubble are Arizona, California, Florida and Nevada. Those are all big immigration states. There are quite a few folks talking about the link between general immigration and the bubble-and hence immigration and the economic crisis.

H-1b is a special case. A lot of H-1b expansion does involve companies in high immigration areas.

What I tend to see as a link here, is that provided established companies a way to specifically concentrate employment in areas a lot of Americans were becoming less attracted to.

H-1b was sold as a jobs creation program-but there is no evidence that is really worked that way. What happened is that export of jobs from the US accelerated-because H-1b workers could be used to facilitate job exportation. This happened at a time when there was a downturn in the business cycle in the tech industry. This made the recession a lot worse for US tech workers than it would have been otherwise.

I discussed this in The Jobs Crunch.

Now, part of the problem is that expansion of engineering jobs is the traditional upward mobility route for large sectors of the US population(basically the kids of skilled blue collar workers or skilled farmers are most likely to become upwardly mobile through entering technical professions). When that was cut out, optimism about the future was changed for a much larger population than it readily apparent.

I don't think the economic theory here has been well worked out, but I can easily believe that if you cut off upward mobility for 20% of the population, even if the imported workers were superior in every respect to their American counterparts, there could be negative economic ramifications.

I won't say this has been conclusively proven, but much of what passes for economic analysis on the topic of H-1b is self-promotion of entities with a huge stake in H-1b and immigration in general working as advertise. For example, the Federal Reserve finds it a lot easier to pursue monetary expansion in a high immigration environment-and I would argue that a lot of the research out of the Fed is colored by those facts. There is a real problem here because a lot of economic research has gotten labeled as "economic planning" since the Reagan era-and that means a lot of what would be done in any other developed country doesn't get done well in the US.

Senator Phil Gramm said something similar.

I'd love to find the quotes from both-they seem to have disappeared from the web.

I think the real question here is what is the right way to really encourage innovation? I think there is an argument for having a way to grant visas to serious innovators-but you need to have some additional incentives to balance things out for US citizens or you wind up pushing US citizens out of specific jobs markets. I wrote about the economics of this phenomena here-and discussed how we might make something that would work.

The economics behind Phil Gramm's and Tim O'Reilly's thinking is rather crude and remarkably self-serving. The one of the first big advocates of talent immigration was the Frank Galton-who was advocating it as part of a general eugenics policy. The thing is, there is a very good case that in the short term, immigration tends to benefit the wealthy like O'Reilly and Gramm's donors(and it is clear that there is political support for immigration among the wealthy in the US according to a variety of polls). Analyzing the long term case for immigration much trickier, in part because the people evaluating the case are often descendants of the immigrants themselves when there is a chance to do an evaluation. Real "controlled experiments" in this area don't really exist.

Explicit right to counsel! Explicit right to counsel! Explicit right to counsel!

tell that to the _citizens_ that are being held and have been held for about eight years on the edge of an island that sits below Florida.

As of June, all Guantanamo Bay detainees have the usual Constitutional rights. Specifically, they can cry "habeas corpus" to be released if they are being held unlawfully, and that is reviewed by the real court system, with a counsel and everything. Just this past week, charges were dropped against 5 of them. Altogether, a lot of them are free to go -- if their own countries will take them back. Not always the case.

Couldn't find anything about U.S. citizens down there, except for a column from 2002. The guy argues that the citizen, Yaser Esam Hamdi, wasn't actually a citizen after all, and I find his argument persuasive.

"Freddie Mac recently began 25 initiatives around the country to dismantle barriers and create greater opportunities for homeownership. One of the programs is designed to help deserving families who have bad credit histories to qualify for homeownership loans."

http://www.vdare.com/sailer/080928_rove.htm

The WSJ is notorious for poor research of the most critical issues.

5.1 million dollars if I remember right, according to the US government.

It Depends.

If you're being poisoned by air pollution, it's $6.1 million dollars (down from $8 million in 2000) but if a company is dumping poison in your water supply, it's $8.8 million dollars. If you need to know how much more to pay for little rubber caps to make your Pinto not explode, the DoT suggests $5.8 million, but starting this year wants everyone to analyze their work at $3.2 and $8.4 million, just to be sure. $5.8 million is also used by the FAA.

Laura Taylor of North Carolina State University, said her figure was lower because it emphasized differences in pay for various risky jobs, not just risky industries as a whole.[emphasis mine]

Anyone have a link to the actual study? I've found all sorts of people pontificating on whether it's done right or even the right thing to do, but not the study itself. I'm interested in knowing whether these "various" risky jobs included illegal immigrants in jobs like meatpacking or whether certain very dangerous and well-paying jobs were left out (surely an accidental oversight), similar to how energy and food costs are too "volatile" (read: embarrassing) to consider in inflation.

The issue here is that issuing these visas have various economic consequences. If you look at my articles, I actually did try to outline what I thought might be a more economically sound talent based visa program.

What that means in practice is that tech jobs in the US will be largely filled by foreigners because is is cheaper for companies to pay employees with green cards than with cash.

What that means in practice is that tech jobs in the US will be largely filled by foreigners because is is cheaper for companies to pay employees with green cards than with cash.

Okay, put you will likely pay more, eventually.

Anyway, the labor cost of picking fruit is a small fraction of the total cost. The labor cost of strawberries, a notoriously labor-intensive crop, is only six percent. If wages were to double, that would mean labor costs would only be ~11%. So, for every dollar spent on strawberries, six or eleven pennies would go to laborers. That is not very much.

Plus, being low-skilled workers, there are a lot of other "hidden costs":

Health Care

Schools

Road Construction

House Prices

Let's not even get into the possible political consequences.

There are some sound non-ideological reasons for beeing leery of uncontrolled immigration.

Okay, put you will likely pay more, eventually.

Anyway, the labor cost of picking fruit is a small fraction of the total cost. The labor cost of strawberries, a notoriously labor-intensive crop, is only six percent. If wages were to double, that would mean labor costs would only be ~11%. So, for every dollar spent on strawberries, six or eleven pennies would go to laborers. That is not very much.

Plus, being low-skilled workers, there are a lot of other "hidden costs":

Health Care

Schools

Road Construction

House Prices

Let's not even get into the possible political consequences.

There are some sound non-ideological reasons for beeing leery of uncontrolled immigration.

Okay, put you will likely pay more, eventually.

Anyway, the labor cost of picking fruit is a small fraction of the total cost. The labor cost of strawberries, a notoriously labor-intensive crop, is only six percent. If wages were to double, that would mean labor costs would only be ~11%. So, for every dollar spent on strawberries, six or eleven pennies would go to laborers. That is not very much.

Plus, being low-skilled workers, there are a lot of other "hidden costs":

Health Care

Schools

Road Construction

House Prices

Let's not even get into the possible political consequences.

There are some sound non-ideological reasons for beeing leery of uncontrolled immigration.

Okay, put you will likely pay more, eventually.

Anyway, the labor cost of picking fruit is a small fraction of the total cost. The labor cost of strawberries, a notoriously labor-intensive crop, is only six percent. If wages were to double, that would mean labor costs would only be ~11%. So, for every dollar spent on strawberries, six or eleven pennies would go to laborers. That is not very much.

Plus, being low-skilled workers, there are a lot of other "hidden costs":

Health Care

Schools

Road Construction

House Prices

Let's not even get into the possible political consequences.

There are some sound non-ideological reasons for beeing leery of uncontrolled immigration.

Chapin suggests that the IQ gap between the average President and the average voter has stayed roughly the same, but the voters have changed in average intelligence level. Up through 1824, the electorate was quite smart because only elite property owners could vote. Then, politics became a kind of national spectator sport with huge turnouts, so the IQ of voters fell to the mean. Therefore, we stopped electing geniuses like Jefferson and Madison and started electing nondescript politicos like Franklin Pierce and Rutherford B. Hayes. Then, a century ago, other forms of mass entertainment came along. Turnout dropped, especially among the dimmer elements. This allowed clever men like Nixon, Carter, Bush the Elder (Phi Beta Kappa at Yale, graduating in 2.5 years), and Clinton to win elections.

http://www.edspresso.com/2006/05/moron_education_clark_baker_1.htm

http://www.vdare.com/asp/printPage.asp?url=http://www.vdare.com/Sailer/070128_scores.htm

Very soon, the catastrophic decline of intelligence, and the exponential rise in stupidity, will come to dwarf all other socio-political phenomena.