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Re: Just like the dying French language [Re: Mush4Brains] 1
#19136937 - 11/14/13 04:24 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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I read the NY Times every day. They drop it at the end of my driveway every morning, weekdays around 6AM. The Rolling Stone is a joke and Matt Taibbi is not a journalist. He is a partisan hack.
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Re: Just like the dying French language [Re: zappaisgod]
#19136967 - 11/14/13 04:32 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Ok.
Being a partisan hack doesn't mean you aren't a journalist, or a good one at that.
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Re: Just like the dying French language [Re: Mush4Brains] 1
#19136987 - 11/14/13 04:36 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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ORLY? That is kind of the basis for claiming journalistic privilege. If you are a partisan hack working for one party why should you receive any special privilege?
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Re: Just like the dying French language [Re: zappaisgod]
#19137004 - 11/14/13 04:40 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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What special privilege does he have?
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Re: Just like the dying French language [Re: zappaisgod]
#19137013 - 11/14/13 04:41 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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M4B they believe what they told to believe and afraid of the rest, even Zap's sig is out of date, because if it was up to date it would show the deficit DECREASING!
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Re: Just like the dying French language [Re: sweeper54] 1
#19137056 - 11/14/13 04:48 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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sweeper54 said: M4B they believe what they told to believe and afraid of the rest, even Zap's sig is out of date, because if it was up to date it would show the deficit DECREASING!
The tide is coming, seek higher ground.
I forgot how to post pics. The deficit decreasing is of no use. Any deficit increases the debt.
Mush4 are you really not aware of special privileges for supposed journalists? If you as a regular citizen observe or receive information regarding a crime or an incipient crime or a crime that has already happened you can be compelled at the penalty of contempt to reveal what you know and how you know it and who told you. Journalists are largely protected from this. Occasionally they go to jail but almost always they do not have to reveal sources. You and me? We got to jail every time.
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Re: Just like the dying French language [Re: zappaisgod]
#19137190 - 11/14/13 05:13 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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You are aware that eliminating the deficit is in no way desirable, right? Anyone with even an iota of economics education would tell you we want the debt sitting just around 40-60% of GDP. All that is required for that to happen is for growth of GDP to outpace the growth of debt. A surplus is not just unnecessary but borderline stupid.
Funny that you think Taibbi is a communist. Chomsky is a communist, who the hell knows what Taibbi is? He's a Glenn Greenwald type.
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Re: Just like the dying French language [Re: sytar] 1
#19137290 - 11/14/13 05:34 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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sytar said: You are aware that eliminating the deficit is in no way desirable, right? Anyone with even an iota of economics education would tell you we want the debt sitting just around 40-60% of GDP. All that is required for that to happen is for growth of GDP to outpace the growth of debt. A surplus is not just unnecessary but borderline stupid.
This is one of the most stunningly ignorant things I have ever seen anyone post on this site. We do not want the debt of the federal government to exist at all. You are confusing two different kinds of debt. I think. I hope.Quote:
Funny that you think Taibbi is a communist. Chomsky is a communist, who the hell knows what Taibbi is? He's a Glenn Greenwald type.
I am quite familiar with Taibbi. He comes on Imus fairly often. He is a batshit insane barking moonbat commie loon.
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Re: Just like the dying French language [Re: zappaisgod]
#19137517 - 11/14/13 06:31 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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This is one of the most stunningly ignorant things I have ever seen anyone post on this site. We do not want the debt of the federal government to exist at all. You are confusing two different kinds of debt. I think. I hope. ========+========
And the reason we don't want this debt is...what, exactly? Your understanding of public financing probably comes from your understanding of your own personal finances, not from formal education. The "get rid of all the debt" position is the most facile position possible. You don't arrive at a counterintuitive position like the one I just laid out by being ignorant. Paying down the debt completely would entail a massive loss of GDP in both the short and long run. As long as deficit spending doesn't raise real interest rates (see: the crowding out effect) deficit spending contributes to real GDP by stimulating investment that would otherwise not have occurred. We don't live in a closed economy and quite often our borrowing comes from other countries, giving us access to resources we are able to invest at a higher ROI than we borrowed it at. Do yourself a favor and do the research before you call someone "stunningly ignorant". You may want to keep in mind that I get paid to teach economics, so watch yourself before you assume I'm the ignorant one.
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Re: Just like the dying French language [Re: sytar] 1
#19137589 - 11/14/13 06:44 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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You're a tutor, dude...I wouldn't be bragging about that.
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Re: Just like the dying French language [Re: sytar] 1
#19137599 - 11/14/13 06:46 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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sytar said: This is one of the most stunningly ignorant things I have ever seen anyone post on this site. We do not want the debt of the federal government to exist at all. You are confusing two different kinds of debt. I think. I hope. ========+========
And the reason we don't want this debt is...what, exactly? Your understanding of public financing probably comes from your understanding of your own personal finances, not from formal education. The "get rid of all the debt" position is the most facile position possible. You don't arrive at a counterintuitive position like the one I just laid out by being ignorant. Paying down the debt completely would entail a massive loss of GDP in both the short and long run. As long as deficit spending doesn't raise real interest rates (see: the crowding out effect) deficit spending contributes to real GDP by stimulating investment that would otherwise not have occurred. We don't live in a closed economy and quite often our borrowing comes from other countries, giving us access to resources we are able to invest at a higher ROI than we borrowed it at. Do yourself a favor and do the research before you call someone "stunningly ignorant". You may want to keep in mind that I get paid to teach economics, so watch yourself before you assume I'm the ignorant one.
It never ends. You should give your check back since you don't seem to be able to understand the difference between debt and deficit. There is no reason whatsoever for the largest financial entity in the history of human history to ever have to borrow money. It should be lending money. Now you can make an argument that the spread is everything and I could appreciate that it is better to borrow at a lower rate than you can lend but there is no lending going on. Government lending bodies somehow manage to lose money on their investments. What resources are we tapping with our deficit spending that are giving us a better ROI? I'll tell you one thing I am absolutely sure is a shit ROI. Higher education as it is currently practiced.
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Re: Just like the dying French language [Re: zappaisgod]
#19137629 - 11/14/13 06:53 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Nothing in my post indicates that I don't understand the difference between deficit and debt, something I accused you of a few days ago. What do we get a better ROI on than the interest payment? Pretty much anything; there's negative real interest rates on treasury notes right now you fool.
In any event, this conversation is kind of like "You think 0.99999...=1? That's the most stunningly ignorant thing I've ever heard. Damn math teachers don't understand math at all lollolol!"
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Re: Just like the dying French language [Re: sytar] 1
#19137643 - 11/14/13 06:55 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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sytar said: Nothing in my post indicates that I don't understand the difference between deficit and debt, something I accused you of a few days ago.
In any event, this conversation is kind of like "You think 0.99999...=1? That's the most stunningly ignorant thing I've ever heard. Damn math teachers don't understand math at all lollolol!"

Complete fiction, like most of your posts
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