Comments by "Scott Franco" (@scottfranco1962) on "Vox" channel.

  1. We get it, leftist news is not leftist enough for you.
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  2. I don't doubt for a second that centrally run healthcare by the government will bring down costs. This effect will be more pronounced in the years after when the resulting health care system starts to kill off the elderly.
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  3. PSH or pump storage hydro, is the most efficient and cost effective means of storage. It doesn't really matter HOW efficient it is, since storing power is more efficient than just throwing it in the garbage because you can't use it. Further, a HUGE number of reservoirs are high mountain reservoirs feeding lower storage reservoirs. These systems can easily be converted to send the water back up from the lower to the higher dam. Its even possible to run PSH without fresh water or without a reservoir. Creating a reservoir for seawater in the high mountains can do it without using any fresh water, then letting it run back to the ocean. Water can also be let into abandoned underground mines and then pumped back out, again possibly as sea water.
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  4. In California, we not only stopped fires, but we stopped logging and virtually put the lumber industry out of business in the name of the environment. Lumber production in CA is 1/6 of what it was in its peak. So now we have way more standing timber with dryer conditions. What is happening to all the trees we saved? You're breathing it now. Good going.
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  5. Thanks, really, for making it clear what complete tools you guys are.
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  6. If government would simply ALLOW competition, then there would be no problem, and it would cost taxpayers nothing. In our city of San Jose, CA, not exactly a low tech area, Comcast, the only real high speed provider, has had a monopoly for decades on cable service, despite the fact that Comcast has one of the worst customer service records of any cable company. Simply allowing other cable companies to run their lines in the same city would dramatically lower the cost of broadband, as it has virtually anywhere cities have more than one cable provider option.
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  7. Taking money from people who earn it (called "taxes"), and passing it out to people who don't is socialism with a new coat of paint. And it has never worked, anywhere, at any time. In fact, when the "war on poverty" by Johnson started, the poverty rate was trending downward, and since then has flattened out. Subsidizing things, including poverty, simply makes more of it.
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  8. It means there will be less and less consensus in congress going forward, because the majority will simply roll over the minority with less trouble. The net result will be our binary system will be less stable, because the electorate will tend to get galvanized to one side or the other more easily, and thus government will change hands more frequently, and divided government (both halves of congree elected by different parties) will be the norm. Most countries have a system of multiple parties that, while making government less effective, forces consensus since that is the only way to get things done. For us, it means the two parties are edging closer and closer to outright warfare.
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  9. Word.
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  10. Pure politics. Inconvenient truths: 1. The USA has done more to REDUCE carbon output than the countries in the Paris accord. 2. The reduction has been largely due to fracking, and the increased use of natural gas. 3. The left has stopped and reversed the deployment of nuclear power. 4. Nuclear power would have reduced carbon output to practically zero by now if it hadn't been actively blocked. And that is long before global warming was recognized as an issue. 5. The blocking of nuclear power has not only reduced nuclear power output (and contributed to carbon output), but it has made nuclear power much LESS SAFE by also blocking improvements in nuclear power modernization and safety (for instance by comparison to France). 6. California's (the "state to follow") efforts to REMOVE the use of natural gas to generate electricity has actually INCREASED pollution, because it caused California to make up the lost power by buying out of state power. This is not only more expensive, but dirtier as well.
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  11. This is the liberal view of history. The "solid south" existed up until the 1960s, and republicans were active in civil rights legislation throughout that time. The party that changed were the Democrats, who came to a head with George Wallace (yes, democrat). LBJ went against his party against much of his own party and joined with the Republicans to pass the civil rights act, and what was effectively an apartheid state in the south collapsed. Democrats did an about face and changed from being the party to suppress blacks to being the party of socialism, with a laundry list of social engineering acts modeled after what FDR attempted to do during the great depression. This is the important point. The republicans believed, and believe in basic freedoms and limited government throughout the time from Lincoln to the present (Lincoln believing that the basic freedoms of man extended to blacks as well). The Democrats believe virtually all problems have a government answer, as expressed through FDR and then the rise to socialism with LBJ. This brought a backlash with Reagan and a huge rollback of the regulative state, and a huge boost in the economy. With the war, Obama and a huge snap back to socialism and fall in the economy, once again the forces on the right are feeling revolutionary. However, unlike the last time when there were clear leaders, we have Trump. Trump is a symptom of the deep divisions in this country. The democrats have done the USA a great favor by all but declaring intent to carry the flag of the socialist party (when Obama was first running for office, the head of the French socialist party declared that "the way you run as a socialist in America is by proclaiming you are not a socialist"). This fight, now so clearly defined between socialism and capitalism, big government and limited government, will come to a head, but I suspect not in this election, which is more like Huey Long vs. Teddy Roosevelt than Reagan vs. Carter. Perhaps the next election.
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  12. You went from "a person detained in jail by police", to "anyone who is an illegal immigrant who calls police", in one step. That is, if an illegal is in jail but due to be released, will be held over and deported. Then the "word gets out", and all illegal immigrants will be afraid to talk to police, and crimes will go unreported. Those things are unrelated.
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  13. Yes, that is the standard socialist answer, "you don't care...". And then socialism increases poverty as a result. Venezuela's program to distribute wealth has resulted in food riots and near starvation in that country. The resources were repeatedly taken "from the rich" by the government, and as a result capitolisim was generally shut down in the country. There is a class of new rich in the country, namely the ones running the government. Chavez's family are rich and live in walled off security compounds, as well as maduro's. Whenever the government promises to redistribute wealth, much of the redistributed wealth end up in the sticky hands of the government. Look south of the border in the latin countries. You will find that the government has up to %50 of the workers. Does the government do anything to create wealth? No, it just runs various programs to regulate and redistribute. How have things changed under Obamas mildly redistributive government? - median household income was down 3 percent as of 2014, and the official poverty rate was 1.6 percentage points higher. - The rate of home ownership has dropped to the lowest point in nearly half a century. - The federal debt owed to the public has more than doubled — up 107 percent. (according to factcheck.org). And in fact both Obama and HRC have cited the need to grow government employment to counter poverty and joblessness.
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  14. National Review had an article that covers the conservative point of view far better than I ever could: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/259761/against-negative-income-tax-jim-manzi I recommend this for readers interested in the subject.
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  15. Highways are racist. Fascinating. Now show how French Fries are racist.
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  16. Why did the concord fail? Because of liberal ass clowns like you.
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  17. You want the truth? Tim Russert pushed the idea of Red is Republican and Blue is Democrat because the system of choosing party colors from flag colors had not been entrenched in the media and he saw the chance to entrench the practice. Russert was a leftist journalist and realized that most people had come to regard the democrats as pushing a pure socialist agenda, and therefore red would be the appropriate color, as indeed it was around the world. Thus he switched the colors, and the Republicans didn't complain, since it was obvious that the color red carried no significance to their party, not being socialist. The head of the communist party in France said it best when she said, when Obama won the presidency, "that is how socialists win in America, by denying they are socialists". And so it goes.
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  18. Its nice that Vox does not even feel the need to APPEAR to be neutral.
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  19. I love parking. In San Jose (same place as Apple pictured here), we have plenty of it. A short drive north in San Francisco, there is basically no parking. They have contests to see who can find a parking spot. The quality of life is dramatically better here.
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  20. I didn't vote for that. California does not need to play with trains. We need to transport water, not people.
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  21.  @2ndPigeon  We don't NEED trains. We have fast and efficient air transport between LA and SF. Trains would be better suited to solving the housing issue, which CA government CAUSED, by establishing efficient transportation in and out of the metro areas, but the train was not designed to do that. Instead, it was designed to complete with the airlines WITH heavy government subsidies. And that the train was never capable of doing. So instead of WASTING money on the train, we could have been solving a REAL problem such as the water shortage here in CA.
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  22. "why has antifa become a bogeyman" perhaps because they show up in masks and beat people up????
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  23. This sounds more like the working plan for Vox. Anyone else see this?
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  24. And now we are rerunning the cultural revolution in the USA, complete with youth gangs tearing down monuments, a rewriting of history, etc. The first thing you learn from history is that nobody learns from history.
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  25. Solar works in the daytime. Wind power works in the nighttime. A 12 year old could solve that problem. Hydropower works by sending water DOWNHILL. Energy can be stored by sending it back UPHILL. A 12 year old could see the solution there. We can send power hugely long distances via the grid. There are places that have more sun, and places that have more wind. You could even send power from the lit side of the world to the dark side. A 12 year old could see what to do there. We need more 12 year olds.
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  26.  @UltraBlitzer755  Google is your friend.
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  27. I heard somewhere that ice 9 will destroy the planet...
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  28. Gee what a bummer, Fox news is #1. That thing with news outlets having their lips sewn to the democratic parties a$$ is not working is it?
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  29. A vox video where you don't sound like socialist a** clowns. Cool.
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