TED Speech Points Out the Nonsense of Right Wing ' Job Creator ' Propaganda

[John Manning]

WATCH - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBx2Y5HhplI

[Dakota]

On 5/19/2012 5:32 PM, John Manning wrote:
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Great speech. Thanks, John.

[Don Kresch]

On Sat, 19 May 2012 18:56:27 -0500, Dakota <ma...@NOSPAMmail.com>
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>Great speech. Thanks, John.

Problem is that it's praxeologically unsound. And when
something is praxeologically unsound, it's wrong.


Don
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On 5/19/2012 11:22 PM, Don Kresch wrote:
> On Sat, 19 May 2012 18:56:27 -0500, Dakota
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>>> WATCH - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBx2Y5HhplI

>> Great speech. Thanks, John.
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> Problem is that it's praxeologically unsound. And when
> something is praxeologically unsound, it's wrong.

Translation: Reality (the charts and numbers in the talk)
does not agree with your pet theory (Austrian School economics),
therefore reality is wrong.

Classic.

[ala]

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wow thanks!
I saw him interviewed on a talk show.

I agree with him somewhat, but it's not til we use the policies of both
sides instead of pretending one or the other is the answer, that there will
be improvement

His example of "we only have three cars" is a fetching one but not entirely
convincing.
I would ask him how much more of other things he consumes that less wealthy
people can't

i bet his kids go to private school which i can't afford for mine
i bet he throws lavish parties and has longer vacations all stuff I can't do
i bet he consumes a great deal more than a less wealthy person

we keep breaking these things down into classes
which while he had a compelling argument, he still is dividing elite vs not,
wealthy vs not
and thus we still have hard line democrat and hard line republicans refusing
to meld together all the theories to make things better

what this does is the poorer people determining that they are willing to
have fewer freedoms if it will get them more jobs.

It won't help to give up freedom but that's what they did 10 years ago in
the name of homeland security

They're going to react that way again, eroding rights and freedoms in the
name of jobs


I was just talking to an employee today about my first visit
to the USSr and how there was no freedom a few decades ago- she was
astonished

she's be astonished at the lack of freedom there today

[Mike Painter]

On 5/27/2012 8:41 AM, ala wrote:
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> "John Manning" <jrob...@terra.com.br> wrote in message
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>> WATCH - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBx2Y5HhplI
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> wow thanks!
> I saw him interviewed on a talk show.
>
> I agree with him somewhat, but it's not til we use the policies of both
> sides instead of pretending one or the other is the answer, that there
> will be improvement
>
> His example of "we only have three cars" is a fetching one but not
> entirely convincing.
> I would ask him how much more of other things he consumes that less
> wealthy people can't
>

<snip>
Probably the wrong question. "I'm having a hard time making ends meet."
is something you hear from people making $10.00 an hour and from people
spending $10,000 a month to maintain their homes.

When you see divorce battles where one spouse says they can't live on
25,000 a month it puts things in perspective.

I went to a private high school and my parents sacrificed quite a bit. I
was in school with kids who's parents were *very* well off and the
difference between what I thought of as normal and what they thought was
rather large.
A matched set of golf clubs and several new pairs of shoes for an
Easter gift was one such incident that remains in my mind.