tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post653057972683854326..comments2024-03-28T13:47:08.047-04:00Comments on Daniel Greenfield / Sultan Knish Articles at DanielGreenfield.org : Pandemic Hardening Can Make America GreatDaniel Greenfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13575285186581875356noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-86932786672076257602020-04-20T08:14:21.789-04:002020-04-20T08:14:21.789-04:00The source of the problem is best described as adm...The source of the problem is best described as administrative senescence. After several generations an agency losesa sense of mission. Mere existence and useless growth becomes the mission. Such agencies have to be identified and either reformed or refunded. Roosevelt's interstate commerce commission has no administrative powers but is still in existence in the unlikely event it may be needed in the future. Congress will not fix the situation because they are profiting from it. More government employees means larger contributions from government employee unions. Anyone who has waded through Gibbon's "Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire" will recognize the situation. How we resolve this is anyone's guess.Jay Deenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-89756666337799417202020-04-17T03:57:10.448-04:002020-04-17T03:57:10.448-04:00100% agree.100% agree.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09522633389870322999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-2774014999627484732020-04-14T14:51:45.901-04:002020-04-14T14:51:45.901-04:00More government is the problem not the solution.More government is the problem not the solution.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-13338097201775000642020-04-12T10:02:36.288-04:002020-04-12T10:02:36.288-04:00Great...another “agency” of public grifters will ...Great...another “agency” of public grifters will fix the problem. I say we need far fewer government agencies, as they eventually become controlled by partisans. set to destroy the country. No thanks! Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-2788715142998961232020-04-12T00:07:53.419-04:002020-04-12T00:07:53.419-04:00Gary, of course, it would be a pleasureGary, of course, it would be a pleasureDaniel Greenfieldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13575285186581875356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-38798873975093706362020-04-09T20:12:02.043-04:002020-04-09T20:12:02.043-04:00Excellent post. With your permission I would like ...Excellent post. With your permission I would like to cross-post it on my own site.<br /><br />As a retired DEA agent who worked under the umbrella of the State Department overseas for 10 years, (Thailand, Italy, and international training) I know all too well that the State Department cannot be trusted with much. We do need a new agency that will deal directly with the threat because we are now living in a different world-especially if the virus is man made either deliberately or accidentally. If it happened through animal contact, that is something we can fix (if China is willing). If it is man-made, then we have a problem because the next virus will be just around the corner. (I am not venturing any opinion on the cause.) <br /><br />Either way, the world needs to work toward heading off any more virus outbreaks. We can;t just shut down our societies and economies on a regular basis.<br /><br />Changing our relationship with China will be part of the solution.Gary Fousehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17014739065121483409noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-66000392247837754622020-04-09T04:28:01.583-04:002020-04-09T04:28:01.583-04:00You think building another centralized agency, no ...You think building another centralized agency, no matter what its stated mission, is going to do *anything* to accomplish said mission?! You'd just be creating another pile of malevolent parasites. How about letting doctors, hospitals, etc make their own decisions for a change? Restore some of the professional independence and dignity of the thoroughly destroyed medical profession, so that people will take it up at a rate that will meet the demand?<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-59130113380901577212020-04-08T22:39:47.463-04:002020-04-08T22:39:47.463-04:00Disagree. The problem is that we are just too big ...Disagree. The problem is that we are just too big to deal with issues. Our (non)-representative government - isn't; it's captive to the very few big $ donors who can fund their campaigns. With representation of 1:700,000, this simply is not fixable other than by making the country into countries. We have nothing in common, red and blue. We want freedom and liberty for our kids - they don't even have kids. It's that serious & foundational. No way exists to fix the problem when one side wants MORE government.. and the other side knows more government means less efficiency, productivity, wealth, happiness, children, etc. Splitting up the nation into ideological, environmental, urban, rural, etc., groups is the only way forward in liberty. The question is - do we REALLY want liberty, and are we willing to do what it takes to leave it to our posterity...?Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02820308793398410476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-65231478514810233332020-04-08T14:10:47.057-04:002020-04-08T14:10:47.057-04:00One of the clearest thinkers, and finest (and busi...One of the clearest thinkers, and finest (and busiest) writers we have. If you follow anyone, follow this guy. This article is another gem. I just hope someone in power reads it.Mdoghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05956888095243467257noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-30255936284873679382020-04-08T13:27:14.882-04:002020-04-08T13:27:14.882-04:00Damn you're an outstanding thinker. Just for t...Damn you're an outstanding thinker. Just for the record, I'm a retired Mold Maker, the off shoring of 1997 killed the Injection Mold Making Industry, and my growing shop, in this country as well as the Precision Stamping Industry. We talk of manufacturing and all most think of is WWII era Floor Workers working over to the Defense Plant. Few know a Mold Maker from a Die Maker and they are not interchangeable. Please keep up the good work!<br />Hrwolfehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01576980430342449095noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-38930732066140096562020-04-08T09:48:54.333-04:002020-04-08T09:48:54.333-04:00I love your articles but have to disagree with you...I love your articles but have to disagree with your idea that a new biological security agency be created and have "veto power" over immigration. Do you think that a DC bureaucracy would ever do that, esp with a liberal president in power? Or worse, can you imagine if a president ordered a stop on immigration during the next pandemic and this new agency overruled him? No way. Look at the CDC and FDA today where their rules block companies wishing to make hand sanitizer and masks. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-17971823405797958262020-04-08T08:33:04.414-04:002020-04-08T08:33:04.414-04:00Mt own answer to the pandemic can be found here: h...Mt own answer to the pandemic can be found here: https://ruleofreason.blogspot.com/2020/04/stealth-fascism.html<br />Ed<br />Edward Clinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12160209827969614964noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-78504822691745888502020-04-08T07:53:36.784-04:002020-04-08T07:53:36.784-04:00I heartily agree and respectfully disagree with yo...I heartily agree and respectfully disagree with your assumptions.<br />I agree that episode blows a hole in the blue paradise paradigm of high density housing and mass transit, but please don't suggest another security agency. That becomes another money pit where people do nothing but study possibilities, but are not prepared for anything.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14294689900367276585noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-91757448183355878342020-04-08T03:39:30.146-04:002020-04-08T03:39:30.146-04:00This article is so inspiring, I have to comment
a...This article is so inspiring, I have to comment <br />again! I love your interdependence, independence<br />bifurcation. Moralist teachers like to shame <br />students into the kumbaya brother’s keeper “inter” <br />choice. Like that white college girl who pity <br />dates minority third world guys. <br /><br />Independence is when you are secure enough not <br />to care about perceived virtue. America stops <br />spraying aid outward and is our beautiful home.<br />As you said, “personal and national freedom with <br />strong borders, local manufacturing, national <br />defenses, and personal property for a great <br />culture of prosperity”.<br /><br />You and Trump have been saying this for years!<br />Switzerland does much of this and is widely <br />respected without pandering condescension. <br />America and Americans first! About time!<br /><br />CharlieAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-23426428240568844442020-04-08T03:02:39.254-04:002020-04-08T03:02:39.254-04:00hey...i'm in. course, I voted for Buchanan...t...hey...i'm in. course, I voted for Buchanan...twiceontoiranhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04683062201958177783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-90637116779863255832020-04-07T21:43:29.252-04:002020-04-07T21:43:29.252-04:00Daniel, what a marvelous vision for the American
...Daniel, what a marvelous vision for the American <br />realization of our ideals: liberty, inventiveness, <br />initiative! We are a cheerful, optimistic folk <br />who love safe and peaceful neighborhoods for our <br />families, fun, work. Automation, communication,<br />and cheap, clean energy provides more work and <br />more productivity per worker. Result: enormous <br />domestic production and independence.<br /><br />Immigration quality beats quantity. Those without<br />skills, English, money, good attitude stay home. <br />Corrupt, violent, filthy inner cities deserve to<br />be deserted and deprived of tax base.<br /><br />President Trump is the one to catalyze this<br />metamorphosis. My hope is for many Great Americans<br />to seize this amazing future. Discard the anthill <br />mentality of collectivism forever. <br /><br />CharlieAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com