Interesting Times?

By on March 23, 2020 in Uncategorized

Pop quiz: What Nobel Laureate said: “It is absolutely absurd to treat the sky as if it were an open sewer”.

Which of AOC’s favorite economists said: “The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations”.

We will not spend time on the depressing Kung Flu issue that is now being pushed by the disaster mongers on the left. We are not dismissing or diminishing the challenges the virus presents but we do seem to be amputating a leg because the patient has a sore throat. The US economy and the American people will bounce back in stunning fashion and the current unpleasantness will fade in the rear-view mirror.

Most people assume that the term “Deep State” refers to the misnamed “intelligence” community and the military industrial complex, a term coined by President Eisenhower. It is, in fact, far more insidious than that. The Deep State is rather the entrenched, unelected bureaucracy that operates with little or no accountability. Many of the regulatory agencies that make our life difficult exercise wide legislative and judicial powers that they claim have been legally delegated by the legislative branch. Balderdash!

There is an effort afoot to challenge the argument that these powers have been Constitutionally delegated. There are several court cases in the queue and this has created fear and loathing among the petty bureaucrats. These are the very people Jefferson complained about in the Declaration of Independence. He noted that King George had “sent hither Swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their Substance”. That language could be readily be applied to the IRS, the EPA or HHS.

Here is an example of how the embedded bureaucracy operates today as it did in 1776. Fifty years ago GE legally disposed of PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls) directly into the Hudson River. At the time there was no argument that PCBs posed a threat to human health. That statement remains true today. Over the years the PCBs were either transported downstream and covered by river silt or trapped behind the Fort Edward dam. Niagara Mohawk decided it was time to remove that dam. Some apparatchik calculated that the sediment trapped behind the dam (including the PCBs in the muck) was negligible and it was decided that the dam could be removed without adverse impact to the river. Ooooops! It turned out that the calculation was low by several orders of magnitude.

When the tons of muck and PCBs were liberated and sent downstream the EPA and the NY equivalent of the EPA went ballistic. GE, which had actually had the temerity to suggest that the calculations were incorrect before the removal of the dam, was ordered to remove the PCBs from the quiescent pool downriver from the dam. They were kept from further migration by a dam below pool. In other words there was little threat that the PCBs would present a threat to anyone.

The bureaucrats, however, saw a long term opportunity to manage an unnecessary remediation. It cost GE over a billion dollars. The “cleanup” included the removal of sediment from the river through dredging. This managed to stir up the river and some of the offending sediment was carried further downstream. It also created a new risk that was worse than the presence of the PCBs in the river. The sediment was de-watered and then transported by truck not to a local landfill (that would have made too much sense) but rather to Alabama. New York saw Alabama as their sewer (Roll PCBs!) The risk of fully loaded 18 wheelers rolling 1,200 miles over public highways surpassed the total risk from the PCBs in the river. It also transpires that one of the environmental engineers working the project was killed when he fell off the dam and drowned. Death toll: EPA 1, PCBs 0.

The detection limit imposed on GE by the swarm of regulators was 11 parts per trillion. That is even lower than Fauxchohontas’ Cherokee genetic level.

The environmental regulators legislated the remediation and threatened fines and penalties that they saw as part of the delegated mandate. James Madison call your office.

There is a sound Constitutional argument that Congress cannot delegate the power to legislate, i.e the ability by bureaucrats to create regulations that have not passed Congressional muster. Nor should it be able to delegate the judicial power to create administrative courts able to try, convict and punish alleged miscreants. This is the fatal flaw in the Deep State because they are basically immune from accountability. Spend five years negotiating with the EPA and you will become a devout Libertarian. Support non-delegation as the British did with Brexit!

Things to think about:

Do you recall the brouhaha several years back about the the homophobic Boy Scouts of America which opposed letting gay men become scout leaders? They may have been on to something because the BSA recently declared bankruptcy as a result of lawsuits filed by young men who were abused by gay scout leaders. Sad commentary. The BSA, the Catholic Church…who is next?

Perhaps the left fears the threat of rising sea levels because it would require them to leave their coastal enclaves and move to flyover country and rub shoulders with the unwashed masses.

The threat posed by capitalism is the creation of the nouveau riche. Those would be people not burdened by such pretentious baubles as useless degrees from Harvard and Boston University. It would be a world where Hillary Clinton could take her proper place as a charwoman.

Is hyperbole being exaggerated? A recent television commercial suggested that there is more plastic in the ocean than there are fish. Who counted the fish? According to Santa Sanders there are more prisoners in the US racist judicial system than there are in all of China with four times our population. Who counted the Chinese prison population? Do we really have only 8, 10 or 12 years to save the planet? Starting when? How many do overs do the likes of Sanders and noted climatologist AOC get?

You have to love the politics of the Democrat Party. In 1965 Congress passed and LBJ signed into law the Voting Rights Act (note that without Republican support it would never have passed). Thus ended the suppression of black voters in America. How to address the very real possibility that black voters might vote R instead of D? The ever astute LBJ saw the problem and moved quickly into the breach. He implemented the Great Society thus assuring eternal dependence of poor blacks on the largess of the government. Many a Democrat has campaigned for office by suggesting that the wascally Wepublicans would end the flow of “welfare” to Democrat voters. Some have raised a even worse threat…Dick Gephardt in one election campaign suggested that if “you vote Republican another black church will burn”. One has to admire the seamless Democrat transition from defenders of slavery to advocates of Jim Crow to the destruction of black economic independence.

Ask AOC or Al Gore about Milankovitch cycles. These cycles describe the collective effects of changes in the Earth’s movements on its climate over thousands of years. The term is named for Serbian geophysicist and astronomer Milutin Milanković. This will cause a cerebral hernia because this explains climate change with no reference to the intervention of human behavior. Down with Milankovitch!

Turns out that Bloomberg is Yiddish for “turd in the punch bowl”.

Pop quiz answers: The first is from renowned climate scientist Al Gore and the second Adam Smith, Scottish economist and philosopher.

(96) Comments

  1. The observer

    Very few of your posts don’t mention Liz Warren. It keeps your posts even more entertaining. … keep it up.
    The word of the day: “cerebral hernia” ..
    but seriously, are you suggesting the democrats cause the overreaction to the virus? I would argue that if there is an overreaction it’s at every state level.

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    • admin

      The media and the Democrats exploit every potential disaster, e.g climate change and the King Flu to consolidate power at the Federal level. So of course they make it out to be worse than it really is. Note that the swine flu which was far worse occurred under Barrack the Magnificent and there was no panic

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  2. Ron Kokot

    The Deep State is rather the entrenched, unelected bureaucracy that operates with little or no accountability. Many of the regulatory agencies…powers that they claim have been legally delegated by the legislative branch. You NAILED IT! And never was the arrogance and entitlement of the deep state on better display than with the parade of “public servants” (that should make you nervous) brought forth by Adam Schiff-face during the House Intelligence Committee hearings, to wit: Marie Yovanovich (the innocent and horribly treated “victim” ), David Holmes (the man with bionic auditory capability), the CEO of Arrogance Mr. Alexander Vindman (I’m sorry. Lt. Col. Vindman), and so many more.
    Great blog, and important. More people need to understand the deep state.
    P.S. I didn’t guess either one correctly, but I thought the second one could have been the renowned and almost never correct Paul Krugman.

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    • admin

      Great points. We call him Adam Schiff for brains, the man who single handedly destroyed the value of a Harvard degree. I dealt with those unelected bureaucrats for most of my career and it cemented my libertarian principles.

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