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Jon
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Message 17 of 350 (605572)
02-20-2011 11:38 PM
Reply to: Message 15 by Dr Adequate
02-20-2011 11:29 PM


Re: no brainer?
Yes, but people still get paid for making them, and then spend the money, so it's not completely a pit. It is arguably more pit-like than other forms of spending.
Money spending does not a healthy economy make. The underlying tradethat which the money representsis what keeps the system running; when the trading involves useless unproductive crap, then that's the kind of economy we get: useless and unproductive.
Jon
Edited by Jon, : clarity

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Jon
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Message 18 of 350 (605574)
02-20-2011 11:42 PM
Reply to: Message 16 by Coyote
02-20-2011 11:33 PM


Re: no brainer?
What doesn't do so is the money sent to Saudi Arabia et al. for oil. What little we see of that coming back is in the form of mosques teaching a radical fundamentalist version of Islam. That we could do without.
Does anyone still buy that stupid Mid-East oil argument? Jeesh...

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Jon
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Message 23 of 350 (605580)
02-21-2011 12:16 AM
Reply to: Message 19 by Coyote
02-20-2011 11:53 PM


Re: no brainer?
Show us how money sent to Arab princes for oil benefits our economy more than money spent here at home on high technology and cheap energy.
Is that the argument you were making?
Fooled me!

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Jon
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Message 31 of 350 (605663)
02-21-2011 12:43 PM
Reply to: Message 30 by RAZD
02-21-2011 10:25 AM


Re: no brainer?
Great idea - all benefits and perks (health care, pensions, etc) for all elected officials should be approved by the public that pays the taxes for these things. This could be done as part of the existing election process, when other bills etc are usually on the ballots.
This has the unfortunate side-effect of limiting the selections of candidates to folk who are wealthy enough to have those needs met elsewhere while still having enough time on their hands to dabble in the politics.
It's already hard enough to get a poor man in the seat; let's not go and make it impossible!
Jon

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Message 219 of 350 (606677)
02-27-2011 7:09 PM
Reply to: Message 214 by Phat
02-27-2011 3:54 PM


Re: Is there any other ways to get out of debt?
If its just China, I think we have a valuable trump card.
And that would be...?

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