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Birdseye

He graduated with honors from Columbia with a B.B.A. in Economics. He was a poverty lawyer for years, and was then a trial lawyer for the FTC. I'd say he knows a little bit about economics. He missed a class, or has forgotten. Deficit spending inflation can be offset by devaluation in currency (whi...

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Vote for the candidate with a balanced budget plan. So you're advocating removing the shocks associated with raising the minimum wage and replacing them with the more frequent and potentially far more drastic shocks associated with manipulating tax revenues to maintain a balanced budget? What if th...

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Aww c'mon Birds; give the Keynesian dissenters a little bit of credit , won't you. Seems the Nobel committee thought enough of some of these ideas to give the prize to both Hayek and Friedman in recent years. Which dissenters? There are many different groups. Also, I don't think you get the argumen...

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Hmm. At first skimming the article, I started writing an angry reply at Mr. stein. But now I think I get his article: He's a republican who has finally seen through the bull★■◆● policies the republicans have been spewing for years: that supply-side economics is a farce, and we need to return to fisc...

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Owned? Heh. Totally misinterpreted, I believe. silly article full of false dilemmas. Simple for me -- guns create more accidents statistically than they prevent. Well, speaking of false dilemas! I'll have to point out what should be obvious to all, and more important, that which is also at the root ...

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Hi Archer, You're making pretty wild baseless claims here. You quizzes have absolutely nothing to do with anything we are discussing. Keynsian Economics stastically has a very strong empirical backing for smoothing out the business cycle. Unless you can present some ground breaking discovery on how ...

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Sorry, it should have read something more like 'create more problems (Accidents) than they solve (burglaries etc.)'

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The specific act of raising the minimum wage takes money AWAY from entreprenuers and business owners. Some percentage of that money filters back up, but not anywhere close to 100%. The more I think about it, the more I think I need to go back and find some academic journal articles on the Keynsian ...

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silly article full of false dilemmas.

Simple for me -- guns create more accidents statistically than they prevent. Accidents happen to even the most experienced gun owners. Just not worth it to me.

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This sucks. I answered false to this: \"Evolutionary theory maybe false in some matters of detail, but it is essentially true.\" Only because I still believe you can't 100% prove evolution. You could still theortically have a god who made it look like evolution existed, but it really didn'...

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I think I'll find some rumsfeld clips and let you guys split the hairs while I withold commentary. Off to hunt.

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The war against the Iraqi military WAS shortlived. Dude, if you are going to pull crap like this, I'm not even going to bother debating with you. This is silly. If you are going to be this much of a Bush spinmeister I shouldn't even bother. I'll find the clips, then you'll pull responses like this....

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i'll go hunt around, should be easy to find rumsfeld saying it

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I need to stop postin well, thought out posts cuz they get the least replies ;p

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uh, what? Who told you this was going to be a fast war? Who described the plan as "make Iraq into an economic wonderland in like 6 months"? The republicans did. that's a big reason the american public approved, in case you forgot. We were gonna waltz in, overthrow, setup democracy, cruise...

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Even a new low for you, woody. Mindless drivel.

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Look for them to be pissed off that the guy helping their cause the most took a hit.

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You are right Birdseye, I have not studied economics. My ideas are based mostly on common sense and the reasoning I have provided, as well as a few basic laws I know. Please, do correct my assumptions if they are wrong" an excellent attitude. kudos. 1. Businesses will always attempt to maintai...

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So does this democrat victory sound like a party that was trying to advance their ideology or a party that was willing to compromise their values to get enough members elected with a \"D\" by their name so they could be in charge of the country club again? What we really saw last night is...

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Dear Mobi, When the Republicans became war hungry unnecessarily, the democrats pussied out afraid they'd be labelled unpatriotic (which for not taking a stand is what they really are) When the Republicans pushed the Patriot Act, the democracts bowed and agreed. As far as I can tell Democrats had amp...

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your wish, my command. let the debate commence.

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I know no one seriously wanted to double wages; I'm just taking doubling wages as an easy-to-use mathematical indicator with some historical precedent, and applicable because it has been used as an example of "good business practice". I'm not really sure how it is a mathmatical indicator,...

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Dude, nobody seriously wanted to double wages.

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Actually, I think most of Ford's wage doubling was a 'waste' from a business standpoint, but not from a moral or socio-economic enlightened perspective.

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probably the most interested i've been in drak replying for awhile.

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You know those folks that say, \"an infinite number of monkeys banging on an infinite number of typewriters over an infinite amount of time will eventually produce the works of Shakespeare\" ? Eventually, yes, they will. What those folks don't appreciate is just *how* eventually that is. ...

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I think you are letting him off too easy here. I have heard a ★■◆●ing billion times that we are going to \"stay the course\" instead of \"cut and run\". This was their phrase, they created it. Now it hurts them and they are backpedaling -- how embarassing. To the public this make...

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Someone is going to have to explain to me why raising the minimum wage is bad economically. This is all Marx, baby. Sure, I can explain this with one graph and you can see what might *happen* but it doesn't tell the full story. The argument against minimum wage is the same as the argument against r...

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Vote for the candidate with a balanced budget plan. To achieve a balanced budget, you'd need to actually reduce the size of govenment (republicans claim they do this, but they actually have increased the size of government and the deficit. Democrats don't seem to be as bad on either, but not particu...

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I think you are just playing devil's advocate, but I'll play along It's not ethical to make a profit? It's not ethical to charge what the market demands for services? It's not caring to provide health insurance? Normally I'm the one yelling back at liberals about simple economic supply/demand type t...

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I agree, I don't care about the left or right. Stop talking about them. It just fuels their fire. Start talking third party and kick these losers out.

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Allow me to express a little doubt that Mr. Rushdie has any information about the behaviour of Al Qaida operatives that came from a reliable source. He is an author of fiction not a journalist. You all seem to take as given that Al Qaida fighters have sex with male children as a matter of course. I...

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Say what you will about deep time and coevolving fitness landscapes and what have you... systems like that don't just arise. They just don't. All the explanations I've heard of how they could arise sound to me like BS at the end of the day. Systems wind down. They never wind up. This is virtually a...

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New Record for CEO Gluttony: Last week William McGuire, CEO of insurer UnitedHealth and a centerpiece of the latest corporate-boardroom scandal (backdated stock options) agreed to leave the company. The Wall Street Journal estimated that for his 14 years running UnitedHealth, McGuire pocketed a tota...

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anyone who uses blanket phrases like \"The left is\" or \"The right is\" is entrenched in a polarized, unproductive thought process. \"Any extreme position is almost always inevitably wrong- but this issue should NOT be partisan at all; it is about our security and being abl...

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The real question is: Who leaked the info to ABC? If it turns out to be a Dem hoarding info so the info can be used at the appropriate time, all the while leaving pages at risk...gues where the real fall out is going to rain down Glad to know where your priorities lie. That's your first reaction? lol

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Third party baby.

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the mind boggles why we can't just make make people immune to it on the infant level (parental choice). everyone else who wants a vaccine can show up and get one.

what's the debate again? I can't even think of it until I read some of the bizarre counter logic.

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http://psion.sonicwave.biz/ Are these actual game screenshots? Looks pretty awesome to me. I dunno what all the bitching is about, its very silly, all of us would love another 6d0f game, its all about the gameplay...who cares if the graphics arent good, d1 is still my favorite. It's all about the ga...

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So that's what the debate boils down to. Israel claims historic rights. Palestinians claim recent rights. Fight ensues.

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