Posted on 07/10/2021 5:45:51 AM PDT by NOBO2012
While driving around yesterday I heard the presumed Presidential Whiz-kid on the radio saying how important competition is. His carefully prepared remarks were made prior to signing an executive order targeting “anticompetitive” practices in tech, health care and other parts of the economy. Emphasis on other parts of the economy whereas that is anything we say it it.
The sweeping order includes 72 actions and recommendations that Biden said would lower prices for families, increase wages for workers and promote innovation and faster economic growth.
Ha! That’s a good one – let’s give agencies and bureaucrats even more power to create regulations to dictate how we live and breathe. None of which will do a thing to improve competition, certainly not the kind that would actually allow us to compete in the dangerous arena of ideas.
For example, I daresay none of the 72 actions will do anything to make Twitter stop shadow banning and suspending accounts of people they don’t like. Will any of them make Facebook stop censoring posts they don’t approve of? Or get YouTube to stop demonetizing and/or shutting down conservative channels? Or require search engines to show results from non-approved websites such as oh, I don’t know – Breitbart, PJMedia, Conservative Tree House, Washington Examiner etc. etc. – without having to enter the name of the website? No, to all of the above. Do you not know how the state-run propaganda media platform works?
And what about China? Will Joey do anything to make his CCP overlords compete on a level playing field? Again, no.
So lets stop pretending. Joey’s really big competition effort may do some helpful things such as require airlines to refund baggage fees when bags are delayed, but it will do absolutely nothing about establishing a basis for actual competition. In that way it’s just like the Infrastructure Bill, in which everything from childcare to diversity training is considered infrastructure; everything is “competition” except actual competition.
But that’s okay, we’ll just keep pretending we’re still trying to be world competitors.
And Joey can keep pretending to be president. What could go wrong?
No, everything’s fine, I’m just relaxing and hanging out.
Posted from: MOTUS A.D.
I’m sure competition in public education is right around the corner.
Joe Stolen is really good at making promises that he neither can keep, nor has any intention of fulfilling, mostly because he has no idea of how to get from Point A to Point B.
Clearly in over his head. In so many different levels.
“Success” is just failure in another direction.
Anti-competitive executive order?
Next will be the “Dog eat dog” executive order from Atlas Shrugged.
The Left sees Atlas Shrugged as another blueprint, not a warning.
Next up, Executive Order 10-289.
This author seems pretty ignorant. How can you write an article like this without even mentioning the US Innovation and Competition Act?
Not sure if that bill work, but it is the one designed to address the issues the author is talking about.
I’m not one who supports this “president” but I fully support the elimination of non compete agreements. 1 in 5 people are burdened by these which prevent them from continuing to work in their fields of expertise for a length of time and in some cases certain geographic areas.
Competition is good and to limit people from earning a living in the field they’re good at, well it’s just wrong in my opinion. Why on earth would a non compete be valid in a construction field? That makes zero sense. What are these employers afraid of? There’s enough customers out there for everyone to earn a good living.
The victims of socialism don’t compete against each other. Their reward is just being there...participation.
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If Xiden is serious he will eliminate affirmative action.
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