In the 80s there was an excellent SF/fantasy bookstore in LA called “A Change of Hobbit”. It was the largest dedicated SF/Fantasy bookstore I had seen up to that time and well frequented. On my first and only visit, I drove into LA to pick up some books I couldn’t find at the normalist local bookstores but was surprised half the books I was looking for were unavailable – because the proprietor had decided that author Harlin Ellison had indulged in too much violence against women in his books. Unsurprisingly, the store went out of business a few years later.
The local lefties tried to keep the store upon by taking donations, but to no avail. I’m surprised something similar hasn’t been tried in the Seattle case.
Yes, I think it was in Santa Monica, on Ocean by Lincoln Blvd. Or maybe it was Pico.
What bothers me the most about the Left on the minimum wage issue is the sheer hypocrisy; they ignore and deny the impact on unemployment – thus hurting those they claim to wish to help. If they were intellectually honest, they’d acknowledge that there are downsides and argue that the benefits exceed the cost, but instead, they pretend there’s no downside.
That’s not the limit of their hypocrisy on wages. The fact of the matter is that, while they seek on one hand to raise minimum wages, they take action to drive down wages and increase unemployment via mass immigration. The policies of some Republicans, such as Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio, are equally reprehensible and hypocritical.
If the Republicans had half a brain, they’d be pointing out, loudly and often, to Blacks just who is hurt the most by open-door immigration.
“If they were intellectually honest”
If they were intellectually honest, they wouldn’t be leftists, ACJ.
+1. Beat me to it.
But the owner still insists most other businesses won’t be hurt, because they can just raise their prices.
If all businesses raise their wages and their prices, we’ll be better off, right? Because we’ll have more money?
Too bad! I went there only once back in 2007 and I really enjoyed the time I spent there. San Diego has many used bookstores, and it also has a minimum wage law. So expect the same situation to pan out there.
TANSTAAFL!!!!
They wouldn’t understand that acronym unless they had read a certain book written by a Dead White Male – not just any DWM mind you, but an Admiral.
Geez. Someone needs to make a movie about Bob and Ginny.
And nobody ever addresses WHY prices are so much higher. Let’s see: home prices, health care prices, education prices, what do they all have in common? An expansion of money and subsidies that raises the price? I believe that is the definition of inflation.
Then there are the douchebag student council, I mean city council members who seem to get a thrill out of bossing people around in their little ponds. New homes in Seattle must have semi-permeable driveways so there is less water runoff into the streets. New apartments must have commercial space on the first floor to produce “communities” and encourage walking.
In the 80s there was an excellent SF/fantasy bookstore in LA called “A Change of Hobbit”. It was the largest dedicated SF/Fantasy bookstore I had seen up to that time and well frequented. On my first and only visit, I drove into LA to pick up some books I couldn’t find at the normalist local bookstores but was surprised half the books I was looking for were unavailable – because the proprietor had decided that author Harlin Ellison had indulged in too much violence against women in his books. Unsurprisingly, the store went out of business a few years later.
The local lefties tried to keep the store upon by taking donations, but to no avail. I’m surprised something similar hasn’t been tried in the Seattle case.
Yes, I think it was in Santa Monica, on Ocean by Lincoln Blvd. Or maybe it was Pico.
What bothers me the most about the Left on the minimum wage issue is the sheer hypocrisy; they ignore and deny the impact on unemployment – thus hurting those they claim to wish to help. If they were intellectually honest, they’d acknowledge that there are downsides and argue that the benefits exceed the cost, but instead, they pretend there’s no downside.
That’s not the limit of their hypocrisy on wages. The fact of the matter is that, while they seek on one hand to raise minimum wages, they take action to drive down wages and increase unemployment via mass immigration. The policies of some Republicans, such as Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio, are equally reprehensible and hypocritical.
If the Republicans had half a brain, they’d be pointing out, loudly and often, to Blacks just who is hurt the most by open-door immigration.
“If they were intellectually honest”
If they were intellectually honest, they wouldn’t be leftists, ACJ.
+1. Beat me to it.
But the owner still insists most other businesses won’t be hurt, because they can just raise their prices.
If all businesses raise their wages and their prices, we’ll be better off, right? Because we’ll have more money?
Mike Rowe on the concept.
Too bad! I went there only once back in 2007 and I really enjoyed the time I spent there. San Diego has many used bookstores, and it also has a minimum wage law. So expect the same situation to pan out there.
TANSTAAFL!!!!
They wouldn’t understand that acronym unless they had read a certain book written by a Dead White Male – not just any DWM mind you, but an Admiral.
Geez. Someone needs to make a movie about Bob and Ginny.
And nobody ever addresses WHY prices are so much higher. Let’s see: home prices, health care prices, education prices, what do they all have in common? An expansion of money and subsidies that raises the price? I believe that is the definition of inflation.
Then there are the douchebag
student council, I mean city council members who seem to get a thrill out of bossing people around in their little ponds. New homes in Seattle must have semi-permeable driveways so there is less water runoff into the streets. New apartments must have commercial space on the first floor to produce “communities” and encourage walking.