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Its extra funny because all the existing workplace laws that he probably agrees with (40 hour work week, overtime laws, lunch breaks, safety regulations) exist because of socialists.
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Smokescreen to the effect that the Fed does not desire for the breakup of big banks.
I disagree with your assertion that the SFP was sound ecomonic policy as it contradicts the very premise of breaking up To Big to Fail
.....the effect of the SFP was to “drain deposits from accounts of depository institutions at the Federal Reserve”, since bank reserves are treated as “base money” another way of saying that is the Fed was, in cahoots Treasury Department, taking money from the banking system during a finiancial panic....therby providing an impetus for the doom and gloom narrative.
Support of my claim can be read here: http://www.alhambrapartners.com/2017/03/06/if-you-believe-there-was-too-much-money-during-the-monetary-panic-then-why-not-heroin/
I am aware of the circular agruments surrounding economics and I am nor trying to prove you wrong my friend....just my opinion on a policy that promotes the negative preception of the Fed.
Do you feel the Fed does not prop up big banks?
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So work is NOT voluntary as you claimed. Since people are forced to work under capitalism, shouldn't Government set rules around employment, like minimum wage, overtime pay, safety, etc.
it's entirely voluntary, there just happens to be consequences for choosing not to.
By that reasoning, slavery was voluntary...
http://www.dictionary.com/browse/voluntary
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voluntary /ˈvɒləntərɪ; -trɪ/ adjective 1. performed, undertaken, or brought about by free choice, willingly, or without being asked: a voluntary donation 2. (of persons) serving or acting in a specified function of one's own accord and without compulsion or promise of remuneration: a voluntary social worker
yes forced labor is entirely the same as someone choosing not to labor./s
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The Ecstatic said: Its extra funny because all the existing workplace laws that he probably agrees with (40 hour work week, overtime laws, lunch breaks, safety regulations) exist because of socialists.
Can you make distinctions between reasonable requests and utopia fantasy?
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The Ecstatic said: Its extra funny because all the existing workplace laws that he probably agrees with (40 hour work week, overtime laws, lunch breaks, safety regulations) exist because of socialists.
Can you make distinctions between reasonable requests and utopia fantasy?
A 40 hour work week is a utopian fantasy?
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The Ecstatic said: Its extra funny because all the existing workplace laws that he probably agrees with (40 hour work week, overtime laws, lunch breaks, safety regulations) exist because of socialists.
Can you make distinctions between reasonable requests and utopia fantasy?
A 40 hour work week is a utopian fantasy?
Oh god help us..
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SirTripAlot said: I disagree with your assertion that the SFP was sound ecomonic policy as it contradicts the very premise of breaking up To Big to Fail
.....the effect of the SFP was to “drain deposits from accounts of depository institutions at the Federal Reserve”, since bank reserves are treated as “base money” another way of saying that is the Fed was, in cahoots Treasury Department, taking money from the banking system during a finiancial panic....therby providing an impetus for the doom and gloom narrative.
Support of my claim can be read here: http://www.alhambrapartners.com/2017/03/06/if-you-believe-there-was-too-much-money-during-the-monetary-panic-then-why-not-heroin/
I think you might be confusing two different concepts. There is absolutely no question that the Fed stepped in to save 'too big to fail' banks. They HAD to in order to prevent a further collapse of the economy.
Now, at least one key person has said they don't want to have to do that again, and recommended breaking up the big banks so we can let them fail next time without taking down the whole economy.
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Do you feel the Fed does not prop up big banks?
It depends on what you mean by 'prop up'? Yes, the Fed helped the big banks during the Great Recession; I think they had to. And now they've said it's better not to let them get 'too big to fail' in the first place. But that's something only Congress can stop.
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A 40 hour work week is a utopian fantasy?
Oh god help us..
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What's an example of utopian fantasy?
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Can you make distinctions between reasonable requests and utopia fantasy?
Of course.
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A 40 hour work week is a utopian fantasy?
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What's an example of utopian fantasy?
Universal healthcare with no downsides. Higher minimum wage with no downsides. Government can solve people problems. Soviet Union wasn't that bad.
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Is it fantasy if it can be achieved?
Not all things unreasonable are unachievable, and all things in life come with downsides, that's the nature of our world. Show me one thing that is without a single downside?
Are we still talking about the Soviet union? What are we comparing it to in order to determine if it was "that bad" or wasn't "That bad", what's the base line of the determining bad?
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I'm pretty sure no one claimed "no downsides". The claims were that the downsides of these are less than the downsides of not having these.
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Can you provide evidence that either of those are fantasies?
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Nobody is saying there arent downsides. Theyre, we're, saying its better than the alternative (shitty healthcare, slave wages,
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Cyrus19 said: I think people are owed a basic standard of living regardless of there contributions to society.
I'm really struggling with how you chose to use the word "owed." Why should they be "owed"? Because they were born? If I read this thread correctly, you support the idea of socialism, yet you believe that it somehow doesn't entail one's contributions to society? Am I correct in that, or have I misread?
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Cinnamon said: Government can solve people problems. Soviet Union wasn't that bad.
Can you provide evidence that either of those are fantasies?
Can you provide evidence it wasn't that bad? "A guy told me he wants to go back" yeah and a guy told me it sucked, big whoop.
Government can't help those than wont help themselves. That requires admission that people are entities capable of making their own choices for better or worse.
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No, maybee I wasnt being clear, I understand the difference of the bailout and an ecominic tool cited above.
I dont buy the doomsday narrative to the extent it has sold to the American public. In fact the FSP was a tool to aid that. We will never know as it was not allowed to surface....it certainly changed my views on what is preceived to be a free market economy.If the banks did not have sufficent reserves or liquidity( another failure of Congress to require more ...to this day) they should have failed
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Cyrus19 said: I think people are owed a basic standard of living regardless of there contributions to society.
I'm really struggling with how you chose to use the word "owed." Why should they be "owed"? Because they were born? If I read this thread correctly, you support the idea of socialism, yet you believe that it somehow doesn't entail one's contributions to society? Am I correct in that, or have I misread?
I'm guessing he meant that people who work full time should get a basic standard of living regardless of the size of their contributions to society.
I personally don't think that able bodied people who choose not to work are owed a thing.
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The Ecstatic said: Its extra funny because all the existing workplace laws that he probably agrees with (40 hour work week, overtime laws, lunch breaks, safety regulations) exist because of socialists.
Can you make distinctions between reasonable requests and utopia fantasy?
A 40 hour work week is a utopian fantasy?
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Universal healthcare with no downsides. Higher minimum wage with no downsides. Government can solve people problems. Soviet Union wasn't that bad.
I know alot of russian immigrants and talked to them they tell me after Stalin the Soviet Union wasn't that bad. Sure they didn't gorge themselves on consumer goods like americans but they had there needs met free travel anywhere in the country free healthcare it wasn't Mordor lol. Universal healthcare could work here in the states just cut the military budget no tax increase required.
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The Ecstatic said: Nobody is saying there arent downsides. Theyre, we're, saying its better than the alternative (shitty healthcare, slave wages,
If you're earning min wage you'll be lucky to eat that night. /s
No one should be able to buy a house on minimum wage or raise a family. that's insanity, it should be a wage for kids to pay their parents rent and put gas in their car to go study while they improve themselves.
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