sorry about that
I will concur with this, provided it is understood that no one knows enough to say what people deserve. I sure as hell don’t know what people “deserve.” Maybe God does, but that’s not really important to our actions.
The problem with center right, is emphasized in Peter and my argument, we can’t even agree on where the middle is located…
"With great power comes great responsibility eh?
10-12 dollars are arbitrary numbers. The policy itself fails, regardless of imputed values.
No, the unintended side effect was that it caused teacher to teach to the test. The goal was to improve the schools. Though you could convince me otherwise if you provided proof that that was the goal, with an internal memo or something.
Agreed. 100 times over. Failure is as an important part of the market as success. If nothing is allowed to fail, resources will not be applied to successful applications.
All of this starts with the assumption that those things are “pro.” I think of those things as “anti.” They destroy the people involved with them, they do not help them.
Every single word in my response was a link to a different source countering the myth that the new deal helped the US, infact, it slowed us down. We maybe much further than we are now (wealthwise, in the form of technology and knowledge), if those policies had never been passed, and more so, if those policies had never had the aura of perfection that was promoted. They FAILED. Keynesian economics do not account for innovation, demand side economics cannot understand that a new thing might come along and displace the old demands. As a result of this, economies that have keynesian economics forced on them stagnate.
I disagree that the democrats are even close to the center. Romney was the Democrat choice. Picked in an attempt to “move towards the middle,” prescribed to Republicans by Progressives. It failed, because without the base, it does not matter how much of the “middle” one picks up. Many Conservative Mormons did not vote for him, because of his “leans” towards the left. Yes, the uninformed voters in the middle matter, but the belief that they are all that matter is foolish. The belief that they are intelligent because they are in the middle is equally foolish. They are in the middle because they are fools. At least a progressive has a set of standards on which they base things, even if I view them as wrong, I can respect having them. The middle, undecided that want to know, “what the president will do for me,” are children. Incapable of being relied on, at the very least. They are useless for a measure of what should be done.
I would rather lose up holding good values and policies than win sucking on the dick of the progressives and their ilk. At least then when we go down in flames do to the shitty policies of the left, I can say I tried instead of I bending like a bitch in heat in the name of power.
“Democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury.” - Alexander Fraser Tytler
This bit is true.
Gay marriage, abortion clinics and equal pay destroy the people involved with them?
Yes.
How so? You mean universally? Like for all the people who are ever involved in any of those things?
Do you seriously believe that it was THEM who made those things seem so certain and clear? 
James don’t make me post 100 youtube videos of republican politicians saying absurd things about women’s bodies who have natural mechanisms that will terminate the pregnancy that might ensue from a rape, or the binders full of women that they may or may not hire in their companies, or the ones who giggle behind the scenes while explaining how voter registration laws will disenfranchise minorities or the ones who will describe a group of people down to every detail stopping just short of pointing out their skin color while being completely clear that they’re talking about minorities, or the ones who wish for nothing more than to mingle their religion in with our laws such that only men and women can get married.
I know…I know…you could say it was all the media and that it was the liberal’s fault or doing or whatever, but you can’t tape a guy being a racist if he isn’t one. .
Negative externalities and unintended side effects.
I don’t know that other planets have the same problems we do.
Sure. Feel better?
Bullshit. In fact, bullshit AND you know it.
I’ll take this as you being one of those guys who chuckles behind the scenes while being disingenuous about your actual position. Something about a guy running into the abstract just makes me feel like he can’t really counter my position, and that is quite pleasing. Thank you Eric.
“negative externalities and unintended side effects”?? What are you a senator?
So you think there’s a liberal conspiracy to make all these republicans look like they do on women’s issues and civil rights issues and issues of equality and all that?
I think it's bullshit that you can't get video/audio that makes a person who isn't racist look racist. And furthermore, I think you know that, and that you knew it even as you said the opposite. And now I think you're putting words in my mouth as a distraction because you know I'm right.
At a certain point, there’s so many videos of people looking like that that you have to decide…was this all a conspiracy to make them all look that way…or are some of them actually that way?
No, i define “bad at running a nation” as being philosophically opposed to the notion that a nation should be run by government in the first place, and acting as such.
Yeah, but if we are to have anything even approaching a representative democracy that can’t realistically happen.
Yeah because the far right is increasingly becoming a minority and therefore they kinda have to be against the whole representative government thing. There’s a reason why billionaires live behind gates.
Everybody’s a racist. It’s more a question of how one deals with and channels their racism. Conservatives generally feel it’s their right to be racist and get indignant when you point to the ways in which their racism manifests. They might be correct that it’s their right to be racist (i don’t know) but it’s kind of like thinking it’s one’s right to fart in public, and then getting indignant when people eschew your company. Liberals willing to admit to their racism (they do exist, and for the most part without counterparts on the conservative side) generally make a point to feel guilty about it and that leads them to at least try to reign it in and compensate for it. People on both sides also live in denial of their racism, but that’s just and ignorance people suffer from, regardless of their political affiliations.
Here’s one.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-RNHtjdmnk[/youtube]
What position did you post? You asked what I thought. I just answered in a simple way, because I’ve grown tired of explaining things to you, things you don’t wish to understand. All of your positions are presumptions on what other people think. The right thinks this and that… But can only present a small sample size of anecdotal evidence, if any at all. You ask questions, then mock when they don’t give the answers you want to hear.
No, worse, I’m an Economist, or at least working towards being one. (Just re-enrolled, Double major - Computer science/Economics-Math Minor)
In the words of Keynes, “The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.”
It doubly amazes me to think that he is now a defunct economist that “enslaves” millions. Such as you and our good friend Peter.
So you don’t respond to the point, then you tell me I don’t want to understand, then you post something from your bible?
Weird man. Very weird.