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"Fred Liken" |
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03 Aug 2006 02:48:03 PM |
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Crime and Poverty rates versus increases in Minimum wage. |
Minimum wage increases don't seem to have much correlation on Crime or
Poverty. Perhaps there's a correlation between minimum wage rhetoric and
election year pandering?
http://img264.imageshack.us/img264/1716/povertyversusincreaseinminimumwageyn8.gif
Sources
GDP:
http://eh.net/hmit/gdp/gdp_answer.php?CHKnominalGDP=on&year1=1960&year2=2005
Minimum Wage Increases:
http://www.dol.gov/esa/minwage/chart.htm
Crime Rate:
http://www.disastercenter.com/crime/uscrime.htm
Poverty rates:
http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/poverty/histpov/hstpov2.html
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| User: "Mike Painter" |
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| Title: Re: Crime and Poverty rates versus increases in Minimum wage. |
03 Aug 2006 10:00:59 PM |
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Fred Liken wrote:
Minimum wage increases don't seem to have much correlation on Crime or
Poverty. Perhaps there's a correlation between minimum wage rhetoric
and election year pandering?
Pehaps, but minimum wage would have to be over $15.00 an hour to have the
same buying power that it did when first indroduced.
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| User: "Fred Liken" |
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| Title: Re: Crime and Poverty rates versus increases in Minimum wage. |
04 Aug 2006 01:37:08 PM |
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"Mike Painter" <mddotpainter@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
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Fred Liken wrote:
Minimum wage increases don't seem to have much correlation on Crime or
Poverty. Perhaps there's a correlation between minimum wage rhetoric
and election year pandering?
Pehaps, but minimum wage would have to be over $15.00 an hour to have the
same buying power that it did when first indroduced.
Crime and poverty exploded when it was that high, though, so I'm not sure
what difference it makes in the scope of crime and poverty.
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| User: "Roger Johansson" |
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03 Aug 2006 11:19:38 PM |
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Mike Painter wrote:
Minimum wage increases don't seem to have much correlation on Crime or
Poverty. Perhaps there's a correlation between minimum wage rhetoric
and election year pandering?
Pehaps, but minimum wage would have to be over $15.00 an hour to have the
same buying power that it did when first indroduced.
Minimum wage affects only those who have jobs.
Crime and poverty happens in the jobless group, so what is really
needed is a guaranteed minimum existence level, no matter if you are
jobless or ill or whatever you should get a sum per week you can live
on.
That would decrease poverty and crime.
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Roger J.
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| User: "Fred Liken" |
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| Title: Re: Crime and Poverty rates versus increases in Minimum wage. |
04 Aug 2006 01:45:08 PM |
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"Roger Johansson" <roger4911@gmail.com> wrote
Mike Painter wrote:
Minimum wage increases don't seem to have much correlation on Crime or
Poverty. Perhaps there's a correlation between minimum wage rhetoric
and election year pandering?
Pehaps, but minimum wage would have to be over $15.00 an hour to have the
same buying power that it did when first indroduced.
Minimum wage affects only those who have jobs.
True.
Crime and poverty happens in the jobless group,
Crime and poverty happen in the employed group, as well.
so what is really needed is a guaranteed minimum existence level,
That can only be done by taking all control away from the people and forcing
them to live and spend their money in a certain way. Actually, giving them
money at all seems unlikely to help. Just giving them their daily bread and
putting them in a government run housing project would guaranteed this
"minimum existence level".
no matter if you are
jobless or ill or whatever you should get a sum per week you can live
on.
Nonsense. As long as people are allowed to spend the money as they chose,
you are going to have far too much waste and will never acheive this
"minimum existance level" unless you spoon feed people against their will.
Of course, that is a very "liberal" view, now a days, to remove all these
helpless people's liberties.
That would decrease poverty and crime.
No evidence of that being true. Even if you artificially lowered the
poverty levels, you have no evidence what so ever that would affect crime.
If you do, please do post it. I'd like to review it.
You do realize that no amount of money is ever enough and idle hands,
etc..., no?
Thanks.
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| User: "Mike Painter" |
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| Title: Re: Crime and Poverty rates versus increases in Minimum wage. |
04 Aug 2006 07:17:03 PM |
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Roger Johansson wrote:
Mike Painter wrote:
Minimum wage increases don't seem to have much correlation on Crime
or Poverty. Perhaps there's a correlation between minimum wage
rhetoric and election year pandering?
Pehaps, but minimum wage would have to be over $15.00 an hour to
have the same buying power that it did when first indroduced.
Minimum wage affects only those who have jobs.
Crime and poverty happens in the jobless group, so what is really
needed is a guaranteed minimum existence level, no matter if you are
jobless or ill or whatever you should get a sum per week you can live
on.
That would decrease poverty and crime.
Yes, and not to many years ago Senator Barry Goldwater's economic advisor,
Friedman, generally regarded as a conservative economist actually suggested
a "negative income tax" that would assure people of a reasonable income.
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| User: "Immortalist" |
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03 Aug 2006 04:14:40 PM |
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Fred Liken wrote:
Minimum wage increases don't seem to have much correlation on Crime or
Poverty. Perhaps there's a correlation between minimum wage rhetoric and
election year pandering?
http://img264.imageshack.us/img264/1716/povertyversusincreaseinminimumwageyn8.gif
Is the minimum wage a price control or a price fix and what about that?
....excerpts from BASIC ECONOMICS: A Citizen's Guide to the Economy by
Thomas Sowell (Economic Phiosopher)
Chapter 3, "Price Controls"
To understand the effects of price control, it is necessary to
understand how prices rise and fall in a free market. There is nothing
esoteric about it, but it is important to be very clear about what
happens. Prices rise because the amount demanded exceeds the amount
supplied at existing prices. Prices fall because the amount supplied
exceeds the amount demanded at existing prices. The first case is
called a "shortage" and the second is called a "surplus"--but both
depend on existing prices.
Simple as this might seem, it is often misunderstood--sometimes with
disastrous consequences. A closer examination shows why shortages
persist when the government sets a maximum price lower than what it
would be in a free market and why a surplus persists when the
government sets minimum prices for farm products higher than these
prices would be in a free market.
PRICE CEILINGS AND SHORTAGES
When there is a "shortage" of a product, there is not necessarily any
less of it, either absolutely or relative to the number of consumers.
During and immediately after the Second World War, for example, there
was a very serious housing shortage in the United States, even though
the population and the housing supply had both increased about 10
percent from their prewar levels and there was no shortage when the war
began.
In other words, even though the ratio between housing and people had
not changed, nevertheless many Americans looking for an apartment
during this period had to spend weeks or months in an often vain search
for a place to live, or else resorted to bribes to get landlords to
move them to the top of waiting lists. Meanwhile, they doubled up with
relatives, slept in garages or used other makeshift living
arrangements.
Although there was no less housing space per person than before, the
shortage was very real at existing prices, which were kept artificially
lower than they would have been because of rent control laws that had
been passed during the war. At these artificially low prices, more
people had a demand for more housing space than before rent control
laws were enacted. This is a practical consequence of the simple
economic principle already noted in Chapter 2 that the quantity
demanded varies with how high or low the price is.
Some people who would normally not be renting their own apartments,
such as young adults still living with their parents or some single or
widowed elderly people living with relatives, were enabled by the
artificially low prices created by rent control to move out and into
their own apartments. These artificially low prices also caused others
to seek larger apartments than they would ordinarily be living in. More
tenants seeking both more apartments and larger apartments created a
shortage, not any greater physical scarcity of housing relative to the
population. When rent control laws expired or were repealed, the
housing shortage likewise quickly disappeared.
As rents rose in a free market, some childless couples living in
four-bedroom apartments decided that they could live in two-bedroom
apartments. Some late teenagers decided that they could continue living
with mom and dad a little longer, until their pay rose enough for them
to afford their own apartments, now that apartments were no longer
artificially cheap. The net result was that families looking for a
place to stay found more places available, now that rent-control laws
were no longer keeping such places occupied by people with less urgent
requirements.
None of this was peculiar to the United States. The same economic
principles can be seen in operation around the world and down through
history.
http://freedomkeys.com/pricecontrols7.htm
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.philosophy/msg/61c9f3e288c8de2c?hl=en&
Sources
GDP:
http://eh.net/hmit/gdp/gdp_answer.php?CHKnominalGDP=on&year1=1960&year2=2005
Minimum Wage Increases:
http://www.dol.gov/esa/minwage/chart.htm
Crime Rate:
http://www.disastercenter.com/crime/uscrime.htm
Poverty rates:
http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/poverty/histpov/hstpov2.html
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| User: "Bret Cahill" |
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03 Aug 2006 04:32:28 PM |
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...excerpts from BASIC ECONOMICS: A Citizen's Guide to the Economy by
Thomas Sowell (Economic Phiosopher)
LOL!
It's easy to prove Sowell is a two bit fraud working at a GOP shill
tank:
Would you call a biologist an "expert in his field" if he
didn't even
know what is designated by the acronym "DNA"? How about chemist who
couldn't define "stoichiometry?" A mathematician who couldn't prove
the Pythagorean theorem? A physicist who couldn't name Newton's Second
Law of Motion?
Just about everyone in their respective fields would call them
"outright frauds" or "just plain stupid." What am I saying? Most
educated people outside their field would think they were frauds.
That's because those questions are so basic you can go to any college
or university and 98% of the high schools in the U. S. and you know
you'll get the correct answer in less than 20 seconds.
There would certainly be no stonewalling.
Now, let's leave the reputable science and math departments at
every
last college and university on the planet and head on over the
outspoken free market "scholars" at the Chicago School, von Mises
Inst., Hoover Inst., American Enterprise, Cato, etc. and ask them a
question that is even more basic to their field:
"Does free speech precede each and every free trade?"
Even though the correct answer is an obvious self evident
truth, the
outspoken "market" economists won't have any answers. In fact, these
"scholars" will stonewall and dodge like AwOL at an Iraqi press
conference.
Now, why oh why are we letting these two bit rinky dink third
world
flim flam swindlers play any role whatsoever in deciding the economic
policy of a great nation?
All it would take is a few phone calls and no one would ever
hear from
these GOP scammers again.
Rightards need to stick to gay flagburner abortion creationist issues.
Bret Cahill
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| User: "Android" |
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03 Aug 2006 07:13:48 PM |
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"Bret Cahill" <BretCahill@aol.com> wrote in message
news:1154640748.294667.230480@p79g2000cwp.googlegroups.com...
...excerpts from BASIC ECONOMICS: A Citizen's Guide to the Economy by
Thomas Sowell (Economic Phiosopher)
LOL!
It's easy to prove Sowell is a two bit fraud working at a GOP shill
tank:
Dr. Sowell has more brains in his index finger than you do in your entire
body. As someone who has read his books on economics, I fail to see how he
is a "fraud" or a GOP shill, and you provide no evidence to support your
assertion. Since when has he, or any other group promoting free market
economics, failed to answer your question about free speech? And if there
is disagreement, how can it be self-evident? Economic policymaking is not a
hard science like mathematics and biology--otherwise there would be no
competing schools of thought.
Would you call a biologist an "expert in his field" if he
didn't even
know what is designated by the acronym "DNA"? How about chemist who
couldn't define "stoichiometry?" A mathematician who couldn't prove
the Pythagorean theorem? A physicist who couldn't name Newton's Second
Law of Motion?
Just about everyone in their respective fields would call them
"outright frauds" or "just plain stupid." What am I saying? Most
educated people outside their field would think they were frauds.
That's because those questions are so basic you can go to any college
or university and 98% of the high schools in the U. S. and you know
you'll get the correct answer in less than 20 seconds.
There would certainly be no stonewalling.
Now, let's leave the reputable science and math departments at
every
last college and university on the planet and head on over the
outspoken free market "scholars" at the Chicago School, von Mises
Inst., Hoover Inst., American Enterprise, Cato, etc. and ask them a
question that is even more basic to their field:
"Does free speech precede each and every free trade?"
Even though the correct answer is an obvious self evident
truth, the
outspoken "market" economists won't have any answers. In fact, these
"scholars" will stonewall and dodge like AwOL at an Iraqi press
conference.
Now, why oh why are we letting these two bit rinky dink third
world
flim flam swindlers play any role whatsoever in deciding the economic
policy of a great nation?
All it would take is a few phone calls and no one would ever
hear from
these GOP scammers again.
Rightards need to stick to gay flagburner abortion creationist issues.
Bret Cahill
And leftards, who fill the ranks of college professors teaching worthless
courses on Lesbian African-American Poetry Appreciation when they aren't
brainwashing their students with moral relativist,
anti-Capitalism/Western/Christian viewpoints, have no basis to cricitize
conservatives.
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| User: "Bret Cahill" |
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04 Aug 2006 01:10:32 AM |
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Android wrote:
"Bret Cahill" <BretCahill@aol.com> wrote in message
news:1154640748.294667.230480@p79g2000cwp.googlegroups.com...
...excerpts from BASIC ECONOMICS: A Citizen's Guide to the Economy by
Thomas Sowell (Economic Phiosopher)
LOL!
It's easy to prove Sowell is a two bit fraud working at a GOP shill
tank:
Dr. Sowell has
Sowell, the issue dodger, has yet to explain the high tax Clinton
economic boom, the longest boom in the history of the republic.
Face reality: Rightards are going into November elections with their
GOP tax cut recession / Bernanke hard landing.
Bret Cahill
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| User: "Android" |
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04 Aug 2006 10:27:57 AM |
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"Bret Cahill" <BretCahill@aol.com> wrote in message
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Android wrote:
"Bret Cahill" <BretCahill@aol.com> wrote in message
news:1154640748.294667.230480@p79g2000cwp.googlegroups.com...
...excerpts from BASIC ECONOMICS: A Citizen's Guide to the Economy
by
Thomas Sowell (Economic Phiosopher)
LOL!
It's easy to prove Sowell is a two bit fraud working at a GOP shill
tank:
Dr. Sowell has
Sowell, the issue dodger, has yet to explain the high tax Clinton
economic boom, the longest boom in the history of the republic.
Face reality: Rightards are going into November elections with their
GOP tax cut recession / Bernanke hard landing.
Bret Cahill
Wrong. All you have to do is look on Wikipedia for a chart of real GDP per
capita in the US from 1790 through 2005 and you'll note that the biggest
economic boon took place in the post-WWII years. Further, the increase
during the Reagan presidency (following the high interest rates, low or
negative productivity and high inflation of the late 1970's) was steeper
than the increase during Clinton's presidency.
I don't give presidents all the credit or blame for the economy, since many
factors are beyond their control, and when their policies do have an effect
(positive or negative), those effects often don't show up until well into
the next president's term. Even so, I certainly wouldn't claim that high
taxes under Clinton led to an economic boon...which seems more attributable
to investor speculation (the so-called dot.com "bubble" that soon popped).
I'm not an economist like Sowell, but the evidence seems clear to me:
Cutting taxes, not raising them, results in economic growth and an increase
in government revenue. We've seen that over the past few years, even if
Bush-bashers don't want to admit it.
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| User: "Bret Cahill" |
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04 Aug 2006 12:03:14 PM |
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...excerpts from BASIC ECONOMICS: A Citizen's Guide to the Economy
by
Thomas Sowell (Economic Phiosopher)
LOL!
It's easy to prove Sowell is a two bit fraud working at a GOP shill
tank:
Dr. Sowell has
Sowell, the issue dodger, has yet to explain the high tax Clinton
economic boom, the longest boom in the history of the republic.
Face reality: Rightards are going into November elections with their
GOP tax cut recession / Bernanke hard landing.
Wrong.
Don't take my word for it. Try to get an answer from Sowell or any
other GOP shill tanker.
On either the high tax Clinton economic boom or The Question:
Would you call a biologist an "expert in his field" if he didn't even
know what is designated by the acronym "DNA"? How about chemist who
couldn't define "stoichiometry?" A mathematician who couldn't prove
the Pythagorean theorem? A physicist who couldn't name Newton's Second
Law of Motion?
Just about everyone in their respective fields would call them
"outright frauds" or "just plain stupid." What am I saying? Most
educated people outside their field would think they were frauds.
That's because those questions are so basic you can go to any college
or university and 98% of the high schools in the U. S. and you know
you'll get the correct answer in less than 20 seconds.
There would certainly be no stonewalling.
Now, let's leave the reputable science and math departments at every
last college and university on the planet and head on over the
outspoken free market "scholars" at the Chicago School, von Mises
Inst., Hoover Inst., American Enterprise, Cato, etc. and ask them a
question that is even more basic to their field:
"Does free speech precede each and every free trade?"
Even though the correct answer is an obvious self evident truth, the
outspoken "market" economists won't have any answers. In fact, these
"scholars" will stonewall and dodge like Cheney before a war crimes
tribunal.
Now, why oh why are we letting these two bit rinky dink third world
flim flam swindlers play any role whatsoever in deciding the economic
policy of a great nation?
All it would take is a few phone calls and no one would ever hear from
these GOP scammers again.
Bret Cahill
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04 Aug 2006 01:52:10 PM |
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"Bret Cahill" <BretCahill@aol.com> wrote in message
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Sowell, the issue dodger, has yet to explain the high tax Clinton
economic boom, the longest boom in the history of the republic.
Regan... next?
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| User: "Jamal Bernhard" |
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03 Aug 2006 08:08:42 PM |
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Android wrote:
And leftards, who fill the ranks of college professors teaching worthless
courses on Lesbian African-American Poetry Appreciation when they aren't
brainwashing their students with moral relativist,
anti-Capitalism/Western/Christian viewpoints, have no basis to cricitize
conservatives.
LOL. I love the concept of "brainwashing" people with anti-Christian
viewpoints, considering that organized religion in general (and most
forms of Christianity in specific) are nothing but forms of
brainwashing. (That is, beliefs are derived from what others tell you is
true, rather than from any direct, tangible experience.)
I bet the scientists are "brainwashing" us too, with all their talk
about evolution.
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| User: "Fred Liken" |
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04 Aug 2006 01:51:10 PM |
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"Jamal Bernhard" <noone@nowhere.net> wrote in message
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Android wrote:
And leftards, who fill the ranks of college professors teaching worthless
courses on Lesbian African-American Poetry Appreciation when they aren't
brainwashing their students with moral relativist,
anti-Capitalism/Western/Christian viewpoints, have no basis to cricitize
conservatives.
LOL. I love the concept of "brainwashing" people with anti-Christian
viewpoints, considering that organized religion in general (and most forms
of Christianity in specific) are nothing but forms of brainwashing. (That
is, beliefs are derived from what others tell you is true, rather than
from any direct, tangible experience.)
You seem to forget that religion evolved with humans and that many people do
get some fulfillment from practicing religion, so it is actually direct and
tangible to them. The understanding and framework of a particular religion
is not really as significant in those terms.
I bet the scientists are "brainwashing" us too, with all their talk about
evolution.
Evolution, I don't think so, but honestly most atheists here know close to
nothing about the science behind "Anthropogenic Global Warming", but take it
as Gospel truth and have faith in it even though it's so full of holes.
It's actually quite amusing to me.
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03 Aug 2006 07:01:37 PM |
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"Bret Cahill" <BretCahill@aol.com> wrote in message
news:1154640748.294667.230480@p79g2000cwp.googlegroups.com...
...excerpts from BASIC ECONOMICS: A Citizen's Guide to the Economy by
Thomas Sowell (Economic Phiosopher)
LOL!
It's easy to prove Sowell is a two bit fraud working at a GOP shill
tank:
Would you call a biologist an "expert in his field" if he
didn't even
know what is designated by the acronym "DNA"? How about chemist who
couldn't define "stoichiometry?" A mathematician who couldn't prove
the Pythagorean theorem? A physicist who couldn't name Newton's Second
Bret Cahill
Or a person interested in the human structure who hasnt investigated the
deeper meaning of numbers.
(Just thought it was a good opportunity to wave the flag ;-)
BOfL
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04 Aug 2006 01:49:56 PM |
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LOL!
It's easy to prove Sowell is a two bit fraud working at a GOP
shill tank:
Thomas Sowell may not be a political lefty, but his politics do not
make him a fraud. His writings on the expected results of 'Great
Sociery' and the 'War on Poverty' programs have proved to be
particularly accuate. In addition, he predicted that the welfare
reform of 1996 would not - as all PBS and NPR commentators stated -
create a new class of homeless. The fact that the 1996 welfare reform
was successful can be verified by the fact that the major media has yet
to report on the outcome; going so far failing to acknowledge that such
reform was ever enacted.
The minimum wage is an artificial construct, specifically a political
one. In any time other than a depression economy the minimum wage
should be abolished.
Congress should declare a two year moratorium on the establishment or
enforcement of a minimum wage. During which time states and cities
will not be able to enact their own wage legislation. After two years
congress can review the results and determine if a minimum wage law
needs to be reinstated.
Granted, if such is proposed the minimum wage screamers will be out in
force, and will ignore that the fact that the current minimum wage
legislation has also established an artificial ceiling for hourly wages.
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| User: "Bret Cahill" |
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05 Aug 2006 02:39:49 PM |
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It's easy to prove Sowell is a two bit fraud working at a GOP
shill tank:
Thomas Sowell may not be a political lefty, but his politics do not
make him a fraud.
True. It's his issue dodging that makes him a fraud.
I'm not attacking Sowell, et. al., because they are free marketeers.
I'm attacking them because they present themselves as free marketeers
then refuse to support the precondition of free markets -- free speech.
Time To Pull the Plug On GOP Economist Frauds
Would you call a biologist an "expert in his field" if he didn't even
know what is designated by the acronym "DNA"? How about chemist who
couldn't define "stoichiometry?" A mathematician who couldn't prove
the Pythagorean theorem? A physicist who couldn't name Newton's Second
Law of Motion?
Just about everyone in their respective fields would call them
"outright frauds" or "just plain stupid." What am I saying? Most
educated people outside their field would think they were frauds.
That's because those questions are so basic you can go to any college
or university and 98% of the high schools in the U. S. and you know
you'll get the correct answer in less than 20 seconds.
There would certainly be no stonewalling.
Now, let's leave the reputable science and math departments at every
last college and university on the planet and head on over the
outspoken free market "scholars" at the Chicago School, von Mises
Inst., Hoover Inst., American Enterprise, Cato, etc. and ask them a
question that is even more basic to their field:
"Does free speech precede each and every free trade?"
Even though the correct answer is an obvious self evident truth, the
outspoken "market" economists won't have any answers. In fact, these
"scholars" will stonewall and dodge like Cheney before a war crimes
tribunal.
Now, why oh why are we letting these two bit rinky dink third world
flim flam swindlers play any role whatsoever in deciding the economic
policy of a great nation?
All it would take is a few phone calls and no one would ever hear from
these GOP scammers again.
.. . .
The minimum wage is an artificial construct,
So is modern medicine.
Are GOP shilltankers against these too?
Bret Cahill
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| User: "Fred Liken" |
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07 Aug 2006 04:52:02 PM |
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"Bret Cahill" <BretCahill@aol.com> wrote in message
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"Does free speech precede each and every free trade?"
Even though the correct answer is an obvious self evident truth,
I'm not sure I understand your point. What's so self evident about it? And
what does free speech mean in respect to these free trades?
Do you know what your point is?
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| User: "Greg The Winner Zoidberg" |
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| Title: Re: Crime and Poverty rates versus increases in Minimum wage. |
05 Aug 2006 02:28:27 PM |
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Bret Cahill wrote:
...excerpts from BASIC ECONOMICS: A Citizen's Guide to the Economy by
Thomas Sowell (Economic Phiosopher)
LOL!
It's easy to prove Sowell is a two bit fraud working at a GOP shill
tank:
Would you call a biologist an "expert in his field" if he
didn't even
know what is designated by the acronym "DNA"? How about chemist who
couldn't define "stoichiometry?" A mathematician who couldn't prove
the Pythagorean theorem? A physicist who couldn't name Newton's Second
Law of Motion?
Just about everyone in their respective fields would call them
"outright frauds" or "just plain stupid." What am I saying? Most
educated people outside their field would think they were frauds.
That's because those questions are so basic you can go to any college
or university and 98% of the high schools in the U. S. and you know
you'll get the correct answer in less than 20 seconds.
Wow, you couldn't be more wrong. 98% of High School students couldn't
tell you what a noun is. Good luck trying to pry "Newton's Second Law
of Motion" out of them. You will get blank stares and that's about it.
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