Another reason entitlements need to go bye-bye - Page 9

Slathar · #81 08-10-2011, 08:30 PM

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yup

Thank god. I guess a majority of economists from LSE, Harvard, Stanford, and other renowned economic schools have been disproven by an Everquest libertarian.

Do you also think climate change is fake?

Loke · #82 08-10-2011, 08:45 PM

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Thank god. I guess a majority of economists from LSE, Harvard, Stanford, and other renowned economic schools have been disproven by an Everquest libertarian.

Do you also think climate change is fake?

Friedrich Hayek, Ludwig von Mises... umm, NYU, Geroge Mason University, University of Chicago. Clearly all fringe individuals and crack-pot universities that have no idea what they're talking about. Clearly no one in mainstream academia gives any credence to the teachings of Austrian Economics.

Daldolma · #83 08-10-2011, 08:46 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTQnarzmTOc

Loke · #84 08-10-2011, 08:51 PM

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTQnarzmTOc

Keynes,"I see you took a detour down the road to serfdom." made me laugh.

Barkingturtle · #85 08-10-2011, 09:03 PM

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Break up the union for what purpose? To win a paper battle over standard of living? Sure. Turn Connecticut into a country and you'll win the standard of living battle. I have a feeling Compton, CA isn't going to be too successful, though.

You're trying to be snarky over the fact that a mini-nation of 5,000,000 has a better average quality of life than the dominant world power, with a population of over 300,000,000. I don't understand why that's a revelation.

First off, Compton isn't really a state. It's a state of mind.

Second, what's with the rampant defeatism? So because we have a bigger job to do than Norway, it's just impossible? But I thought we were vastly more powerful and wealthy than any other nation on the globe? I thought we were the most ingenuous people on the planet?

We're not. You know it, that's why you defend this status quo as tolerable if not palatable.

Daldolma · #86 08-10-2011, 09:17 PM

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First off, Compton isn't really a state. It's a state of mind.

Second, what's with the rampant defeatism? So because we have a bigger job to do than Norway, it's just impossible? But I thought we were vastly more powerful and wealthy than any other nation on the globe? I thought we were the most ingenuous people on the planet?

We're not. You know it, that's why you defend this status quo as tolerable if not palatable.

You're setting up a ridiculous straw man. Nobody in this thread has labeled Americans as the most ingenious people on the planet -- not by a long shot. Personally, I said the US is the wealthiest and most powerful nation on the planet. Making any judgment about the quality of the citizenry is external to that fact.

But Norway's success as a nation of 5,000,000 is only slightly more relevant than the successes of Israeli kibbutzim when discussing communism. Scale means everything.

Hailto · #87 08-10-2011, 09:20 PM

ITT: Loke makes the majority of you look like fools.

Humerox · #88 08-10-2011, 09:20 PM

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social security is not an entitlement you retarded libertarian, every paycheck you make you fucking pay into it

Social Security is an entitlement program and Congress can change the rules regarding benefit eligibility at any time, workers paying into the Social Security system do not have a right to receive Social Security benefits.

the government thinks it is. even tho we all know it's not.

Slathar · #89 08-10-2011, 09:23 PM

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ITT: Loke makes the majority of you look like fools.

Look another clueless community college scholar!

Humerox · #90 08-10-2011, 09:24 PM

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US GDP was about $4.5 trillion, or almost a third, greater than China's for 2010.

Defense spending, nuclear weaponry, and military might isn't even close. And China likely isn't even #2.

China passed up Japan in 2010...so ya...#2.