Comments by "" (@1987BillyBob) on "Caller's friends think Republicans "better for businesses"" video.

  1. Wow, so much misinformation here. Where to start. On TX, you are looking at a very rare and extreme case. TX has had their own grid for years and they have been fine. They are still doing well. I live in TX and the people here are prepared for power outages. You did not have hundreds of people perishing as you claim. If you want to play that game look at California and their fires they face every year. Next, on the Ford Pinto, Milton Friedman did a great breakdown on that issue. The reality is this, when you buy a Pinto you are buying a cheaper car and thus you are taking the risk. You can buy a Mack truck and know you are buying a much safer vehicle, but it will come at a higher price. You bring up regulations, well, those regulations lead to higher prices.
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  2. "When seatac and Washington DC increase their minimum wages to $15 an hour. I pointed out at that time that 6 months from the inception of the minimum wage increase, there would be a 25% drop in unemployment rate. Conservatives were arguing that those cities were going to lose businesses and it was going to cause job loss. So we were on opposite sides. " Sigh.......you clearly do not understand economics. The reality is that the minimum wage set by the nature of the local economy was already at that point. As in people were already making $15/hr.
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  3. :You also mention the minimum wage a lot. You do know the actual minimum wage is $0/hr?
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  4. Now factor in cost of living and you get a completely different story.
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  5.  @USUG0  if you factor in cost of living California has the highest poverty rate in the US. This isn't moving the goal posts. It is being honest.
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  6.  @russcarvertruthjedi259  you very highly intelligent response has me rethinking my life.
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  7.  @tad5158  again, on the TX grid, you are talking about a rare incident that has not happen before and has not happen since. You don't change things because of rare instances. I live in TX and people were fine. We have power outages because of hurricanes and we get through them. You, as an outsider feel that the people of TX have it bad when they don't. Next, on CA wild fires, it is because of poor forest management. You blame climate change when that is not true. Before I moved to TX (in 2021) I lived in CA when northern CA had the worst wild fires ever. It was because of poor forest management and the fire fighter unions refusing to work. So please, stop blaming climate change and accept reality. As for the Pinto, the reality is this, people knew it was a cheaper car and as thus you will get a less safe car. If you add parts to the car to make it safer then many people will not be able to afford it. So now you are in the issue of should the car be very safe or should people be able to afford the car? This is a common argument in economics in general. How many people die a year in traffic accidents? Around 40,000. You want to know how to make that number to be zero? By capping all speed limits to be 20 MPH. Do you want that? Do you want that regulation?
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  8.  @tad5158  answer this, will you support a regulation capping all cars to 20 MPH? That would lead to zero traffic accident deaths. As is, even with all the regulations we still have round 40,000 traffic accident deaths a year. Why? We can make that number to be zero very easily by capping all vehicle speeds to 20 MPH.
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  9.  @tad5158  " the extreme fire events have been shown to be related to climate change caused by human activities; specifically the burning of fossil fuels." Where is the evidence for that? Also, even if true, what it says is that people need to make adjustments as opposed to making excuses. "Secondly, I never proposed that as a goal. There is a certain accepted risk inherent with motor vehicles" Ok, so what is your accepted risk? You are admitting there is a risk and that was my point from the beginning. You know the risk in buying a Pinto. You are buying a cheaper vehicle. You are saying there should be regulations to save lives. Well, I proposed to you more regulations that will save 40,000 lives a year but you deny it. Why?
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  10.  @tad5158  "And I’m curious where how you arrived at the fire unions argument. I know a lot of people that are wild land firefighters and several administrators. There is an association but I’ve never heard of them refusing to work" To be more specific, I was living in Northern Nevada in 2021 before I moved to TX. I am hesitate in exposing who I am due to crazies online but I was living in Northern Nevada during that time. I remember walking out of my apartment and seeing ash on my car. I remember the fire fighter unions in Carson City refusing to go to California to fight the fires as they were on strike. I saw, first hand how poor forest management lead to a high rate of fires in 2021. So blame climate change all you want, it is a poor excuse.
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  11.  @tad5158  and again, I ask, will you support a regulation to cap all vehicles speeds to 20 MPH to prevent 40,000 deaths a year?
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  12.  @tad5158  we all do respect, I see first hand. You are blaming climate change when forest management needs to improve. Even if it is climate change the you need to adjust now. Not sit there are cry. As for fire fighters, what federal fire fighters? You do know that fire fighters are local, not federal? " There is ample peer reviewed science-based evidence" But yet you cite none. Why is it that the fires in 2021 were so bad but since then they have not been that bad? And prior to 2021 they were not that bad either? If climate change is the issue then you should see fires getting worse and worse. You are not seeing that. But again, where are these peer reviewed papers? Funny you cite nothing.
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  13.  @tad5158  our grid, as a whole nationwide is a mess. I recommend you read the book The Grid by Gretchen Baake. Interesting book overall.
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  14. Remember 2020 when democrats shut down schools and small businesses? I do.
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  15.  @Charles-k9g5y  no, it lead to lives being lost bud.
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  16.  @Charles-k9g5y  ". More unvaccinated died then vaccinated and keeping people separated helped save lives." Do you have a source for that claim?
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  17.  @Brozius2512  <------butt hurt because I burnt him in a debate.
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  18.  @Charles-k9g5y  "if your kept separated you can’t catch covid." If you hide in life you will protect yourself from many forms of death, but are you really enjoying life and living it?
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  19.  @Charles-k9g5y  at this point it is hard to trust the CDC considering they admitted they got a lot of things wrong about covid.
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  20.  @Charles-k9g5y  life comes with risk. If you want to hide and live in fear then you can. Others, like me would rather live life.
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  21. You do know it was the democrats the shut down businesses?
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  22.  @redrick8900  I remember SARS. No one talked about it so we did nothing and we were fine. Trump did not mess up anything. People on the left freaked out over it and decided to shut down. You point to New Zealand, a country this is an island and is isolated. That is different compared to the US with mass immigration from the south and our culture being vastly different. You just lost the argument.
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  23.  @redrick8900  I remember SARS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPSO2M4kjB4
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  24.  @redrick8900  I remember South Park making a joke about SARS on the simple cure and how low the death rate was.
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  25.  @redrick8900  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ChorrSaEXM
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  26.  @redrick8900  how did Trump ignore it? He introduced us to Fauci. He created a travel ban from China and was called a racist. He gave a navy ship to NY to use as a temporary hospital. He did all he could do. Fact is this, if Trump would have done a federal lockdown and a federal mask mandate you guys would have thrown down your masks and would have called him a fascist and gathered in large crowds in protest.
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  27.  @redrick8900  ok, that's fine. I remember SARS where no one talked about it. Have you ever heard of Baader–Meinhof phenomenon? People only felt covid was dangerous because it was being talked about so much. But if we would have stopped talking about covid and went about our lives we would have been fine. In fact, many republican led states in May of 2020 opened up and went back to normal and they were completely fine.
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  28.  @redrick8900  Come May of 2020 many republican led states opened up and allow businesses to operate and did fine. States with democrat governors had businesses suffer.
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  29.  @redrick8900  how is it a lie? If the virus was a deadly as people claimed it was then the death rates in those states would be very high. It wasn't.
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