Grames Posted November 15, 2010 Report Share Posted November 15, 2010 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dream_weaver Posted November 15, 2010 Report Share Posted November 15, 2010 Nicely laid out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maximus Posted November 20, 2010 Report Share Posted November 20, 2010 LOL, you beat me to it. I was about to post this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
softwareNerd Posted November 21, 2010 Report Share Posted November 21, 2010 My reaction to videos like this is always ambivalent. The author can counter most objections behind the fact that this is primarily about humor. It is the Jon Stewart approach. Good thinking does not get done this way. Instead this type of material acts as fuel to the more populist versions of the argument. The consequences of a so-called "deflationary cycle" are very real, and they include deeper unemployment. lower home prices, more bankruptcies, less cops, firemen and teachers in most cities. One can argue that the term "deflation" should not be used for a normal and healthy process of liquidation, but assigning the proper term does not change the essence of the concept that modern economists identify with the wrong term. I wonder if the million people who viewed the video and the bulk of tea-partiers (outside the more intellectual core) are really willing to live through some years of austerity, with all that means? If not, the intellectuals pushing for less government involvement have a tiger by the tail, promising something on which they cannot deliver. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maximus Posted November 21, 2010 Report Share Posted November 21, 2010 It's funny. We're doomed, anyways, might as well laugh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
softwareNerd Posted November 21, 2010 Report Share Posted November 21, 2010 (edited) We're doomed, anyways, ...I'm grateful Thomas Paine, George Washington -- and even Ronald Reagan -- never thought this way. Added: I grant that I laughed at parts of that video. As I said, I'm ambivalent about it. Edited November 21, 2010 by softwareNerd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dream_weaver Posted November 21, 2010 Report Share Posted November 21, 2010 (edited) I'm having a flashback to the Lilliputian character named Glum from The Adventures of Gulliver. He would always say in a pessimistic voice, "We're doooomed. We're all doooooomed." Edited November 21, 2010 by dream_weaver Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maximus Posted November 21, 2010 Report Share Posted November 21, 2010 I always say we're doomed. Gallows humor. I still fight against entropy, though. Never give up, they say. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maximus Posted November 21, 2010 Report Share Posted November 21, 2010 Some of the other related videos are hilarious. I like this one: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
softwareNerd Posted November 22, 2010 Report Share Posted November 22, 2010 I see that is so blatantly filled with strawmen that it makes the above videos seem like high-intellectual discourse in comparison. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maximus Posted November 22, 2010 Report Share Posted November 22, 2010 Pretty much. The Lefties have surrendered reason to the collective. Bless their little Marxist hearts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SapereAude Posted November 26, 2010 Report Share Posted November 26, 2010 I see that is so blatantly filled with strawmen that it makes the above videos seem like high-intellectual discourse in comparison. I've tended to find that true of all lefties I encounter of late. I remember back in the days when they at least attempted some reasonable debate on issues. Everything I've seen and heard lately breaks down to: 1)if you disagree with us you're a racist (even when the topic has nothing to do with race) 2)you're also homophobic (even when the issue has nothing to do with gays) 3)greedy corporations greedy corporations greedy corporations 4) nah-uuuhhhhhh (in petulant 4 year old voice) foot stamp optional What it breaks down to in my mind is that the forms of economic and social collectivism are in many ways like religion. There's indoctrination, there's blind faith, there's the belief that one must not only subjugate oneself to a higher authority but that once one has done so one has the right-nay-the obligation to subjugate others that will not come along voluntarily. Their blind faith, uneducated arguments for collectivism are almost indistinguishable from the kinds of arguments I use to have with the religious right types. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyco Posted November 27, 2010 Report Share Posted November 27, 2010 I refer to it as quantitative stealing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kelly Bennett Posted November 30, 2010 Report Share Posted November 30, 2010 (edited) They show parts of that video in this video which was on TV with Peter Schiff: Edited November 30, 2010 by Kelly Bennett Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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