GOP fighting hard as protectors of the rich...

[boutons_deux]

With 20+ million unemployed, mal-employed,
18 million unoccupied homes,
millions of mortgages underdwater, late, in foreclosure
10s of 1000s dying for want of medical care,
freedom and liberty are simply "dreams" they can't enjoy.

In profoundly materialistic America, money is God.

[Winehole23]

freedom and liberty are simply "dreams" they can't enjoy

Freedom and liberty are not superfluities.

[xrayzebra]

More proof that the Dems and Repugs are not identical.

The point is not that the Dems are Knights in Shining Armor, but the Repugs are simply of a different nature, profoundly corrupt, 100% bad faith, and fully enlisted with the wealthy in the VRWC's unstoppable, unlose-able war on everybody and everything. s bag Boner as leader typifies the entire party. s bag convict DeLay, too.

Hey works for me. Screw you poor, pointy
headed twerps.

Leave the rich alone, they pay enough already.
I think the poor should start paying their
fair share and all of you quit sucking the .

Gotta ask twerp, when was the last time you
paid for anything?

[xrayzebra]

Boutons:

10s of 1000s dying for want of medical care,

Holy smokes, and this twerp wants us to believe his
post. When was the last time you saw those 10s of
1000s dying dumb ass.

And for stupid people like you "money is God"! That's
all you ever about, you got it and we want it.

[boutons_deux]

XZ, your fantasy world can't handle the truth. I wikileak on you.

[Bartleby]

Winehole playing Pollyanna to the resident Cassandra?

[boutons_deux]

Freedom and liberty are not superfluities.

They're luxuries, and secondary abstractions, sterile legal concepts, when you're unemployed and/or poor and/or living from week to week, or your or kids are diseased and can't pay for medical care.

[Spursmania]

Poor and middle class folk don't have the brains to figure out how it works. LMAO at the class warfare.
Classic

[boutons_deux]

Cassandra?

Try to keep up:



The Repugs will block all job creation thru 2012 to continue to inflict maximum pain and to defeat Magic Negro. No President with 7% unemployment has been re-elected.

[Bartleby]

Poor and middle class folk don't have the brains to figure out how it works. LMAO at the class warfare.
Classic

"class warfare"

What an empty talking point.

[boutons_deux]

You ers are too stupid to see what is plain as .

Explain why tax policy and corporate policy has flattened real income for the lower 98% these past 30 years since St Ronnie started the rolling.

[xrayzebra]

You ers are too stupid to what is plain as .

Explain why tax policy and corporate policy has flattened real income for the lower 98% these past 30 years since St Ronnie started the rolling.

Hey twerp, you really are dumb as doorknob.

I thought your boy, Bill, had the country on a
roll for eight years and your social democrats
had everything under control for the past
six years, two of those they were in complete
control.

Yeah, your socialist programs works wonders.
What a great nation it has built. You still have
a job, or did you ever have one?

[ElNono]

Yeah, your socialist programs works wonders.
What a great nation it has built. You still have
a job, or did you ever have one?

You mean socialist programs like bailing out Wall Street, or unpaid tax cuts?

[Winehole23]

Winehole playing Pollyanna to the resident Cassandra?

How so?

[Winehole23]

They're luxuries, and secondary abstractions, sterile legal concepts, when you're unemployed and/or poor and/or living from week to week, or your or kids are diseased and can't pay for medical care.

Voting isn't a luxury. Neither is the liberty to live as you see fit regardless of your economic status. JMO.

[Winehole23]

There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of by your economicus, b_d.

Was Adam Smith an economist? Was Keynes, Ricardo or Schumpeter? By the standards of today’s academic economists, the answer is no. Smith, Ricardo and Keynes produced no mathematical models. Their work lacked the “analytical rigour” and precise deductive logic demanded by modern economics. And none of them ever produced an econometric forecast (although Keynes and Schumpeter were able mathematicians). If any of these giants of economics applied for a university job today, they would be rejected. As for their written work, it would not have a chance of acceptance in the Economic Journal or American Economic Review. The editors, if they felt charitable, might advise Smith and Keynes to try a journal of history or sociology.

http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/20...omoeconomicus/



(subscription only for the whole thing. Sorry. I'll see if there's another version.)



Reposted more fully here.

[Winehole23]

http://www.scientificamerican.com/ar...omo-economicus

[Winehole23]

Starting around p.15:

Many of the issues listed here may seem obvious. But in an environment like economics and finance, precisely because it is perceived as being so highly rational, the influence of psychological factors and sentiment is frequently underestimated. Of course, heeding these points – arguably not always such an easy matter in practice – will not automatically guarantee the success of an
investment. But it could certainly help avoid mistakes here and
there. As with Homer Simpson, who acknowledges the effect of
psychology on his behaviour when he realises that he is confused,
the situations we have described may contribute to a clearer
awareness of the impact that psychological factors have on our
decision making.

http://www.dbresearch.de/PROD/DBR_IN...0000259291.pdf

[Winehole23]

Being an American citizen isn't a triviality.




(Or, it doesn't have to be.)

[PublicOption]

why are there no more jobs?

[PublicOption]

3 words

[PublicOption]

Free trade agreements.......

[Winehole23]

why are there no more jobs?

I dunno. Maybe you should tell me.

http://austin.craigslist.org/lab/

[Winehole23]

Free trade agreements.......

True as far as it goes, but that's hardly the whole story. The epochal financial panic in 2008 made a dent, too.



(The shadow of the entrance still covers us.)

[Winehole23]

You saw the graph, right?