Back to episode — Episode 1306 Scott Adams - Stimulus Package Shenanigans, Voting Changes, Super Anti-Racists
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It's pretty good. *The Accidental President*. All right. Cuomo is up to five accusers if you watch Fox News, and he's up to three accusers if you watch CNN. You can't even get the number of accusers right. Now if you get to three, there should be some sort of a universal law about this. It goes like this: if you get to three accusers, there are five. In the history of sexual harassment, nobody ev…
← Previous segment →mean the accusations look credible anyway. I feel it's just a weird category where the person doing the crime is not necessarily aware that they're doing a crime, which doesn't make it excusable, right? The system is very clear. You don't have to be aware of it being a crime for it to be a crime. But it should end his political career, which is the only thing anybody cared about really on this.
Here's what I think we should do in the United States. Every time we hear about people coming across our border, don't they seem to be coming from the same countries? Yeah, the people are talking about Cuomo's cover-up with the nursing homes and stuff. That's just a different issue. That's not excusable, not that the other one is. It's just a different issue.
So here's what we should do. We should be like Costa Rica. Have you noticed that when we talk about the illegal immigration coming across our southern border, nobody ever says all those Costa Ricans are coming across? Have you ever noticed that? Why not? I mean if Nicaraguans are coming and other countries are coming, why is Costa Rica not coming? Well I think the answer is that Costa Rica is a successful country. And if you haven't checked into how they became a successful country, it's a pretty cool story. And the answer is that, well number one — and this is sort of a questionable decision but it seems to have worked out — they decided to not exploit what probably they have in terms of natural resources, oil maybe, gas or something. But they've decided not to be that kind of an industry and become a vacation destination.
So if you have a waiter or a bartender in Costa Rica — I've had the pleasure of being there once — if you have a waiter or a bartender in Costa Rica, that person went to college to be a waiter or a bartender. Now not college college like you're used to it in the United States, but there is a very well-organized training thing. I think you learn English as well. And so the service is extraordinary and Costa Rica is in pretty good shape. So you don't see a lot of people coming over. But I think we could borrow that idea, especially as robots are taking jobs and a lot of unskilled labor is going to need a place to thrive.
I think we should build — I've said this before, I'll just combine two ideas — a network of bicycle paths across the country. There is actually a private effort to do that but it's sort of one route in the northern part of the country. I'd like to see the whole country have bicycle paths so you could basically go from anywhere to anywhere without going through traffic to get there and make the USA a bicycle travel destination. Because building the paths will require labor as well as maintaining them as well as providing services and food and bike repair along the way, etc. So it should create a lot of jobs.
But the other thing you can do is create a network of canals. Maybe you do it at the same time. Maybe you put the bicycle path on the side of the canal. But the way to build the canal — if you had some big machine like Elon Musk's Boring Company, B-O-R-I-N-G because it bores tunnels — it shouldn't be that hard to make one of those that bores a canal, right? To make a canal. So if you had big equipment that could just sort of make a canal. And then the other thing Elon Musk talked about, and I don't know how far he got along with this, but using the dirt that is dug by the boring device to press bricks on site so that you're actually building — yeah, there's obviously you have to work out the sea level and plan, etc., right? So you couldn't put a canal just anywhere. You'd have to have just the right place. That's true.
Now if you had canals and those canals when they're dug built bricks and those bricks become maybe housing on the sides of the canals. And then here's another thing that I heard of today. I never heard of this before, but apparently one of the problems with traveling to the United States is if you get sick. If you get sick
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in the United States and you're from another country, you don't have health care coverage. So apparently there's some kind of insurance you can buy just for traveling, some kind of health care insurance, and it's pretty expensive. So there's a whole bunch of things we could do as a country to make it easier and better for somebody to take a vacation here. Now if this had been our big industry whe…
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