Analysis of Romney's defeat
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Nick Carpathia
Unleash the HAARP
It's only tyranny if it happens to white people.
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RobAnybody
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This is literally the most ironic statement made in the entire universe ever. Dommy, you do nothing but spout rhetoric, constantly.
If you were made dictator over a country, & you got to make all the laws, we'd seriously be discussing whether we should overthrow your country. And what's funny is, the "libs" on this site would be advocating *not* doing it.
You are Ahmadinejad. You would run your imaginary country the same exact way he does, just with a different religion. I hope one day you realize that & modify your views.
AlpsStranger
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Why isn't Ron Paul US President?
a) People hate freedom.
b) Ron Paul is a crazy lunatic who doesn't know what he's talking about most of the time.
Tough call
I gotta say, Ron Paul once said he would allow unemployment to remain at 25% for both of his terms if he had to in order to balance the budget. That is literally insane, as in not-sane.
You'd have a fiscally solvent firebombed-to-crap pile of burning rubble. I guess it would be a debt-free Mad Max style wasteland, but who would care at that point?
GhostWriter16
Deity
When did Ron Paul say that?
There would never, ever be 25% unemployment in a libertarian society. The laws of demand for labor would hardly allow that. Its really high minimum wages that create unemployment.
Libertarianism would arguably have a different problem, perhaps wages would be low (Although probably not as much as you'd think, if it is really minimum wages that prevent mass exploitation by businesses, why isn't EVERYONE forced to work for minumum wage?) But employment would be widespread.
That wouldn't have happened because almost no gas would actually have been purchased, the price would only have risen sufficiently for the laws of supply and demand to kick in, and if the gas were more expensive there would have been more incentive to import it.
Government action, I think, may have left us with less gas than if they had done nothing. The supply would have gone up because of the ability to make profit on the part of those who deliverted gas from outside NYS.
Yeah, no.
Ahahahahahahaha
First up I suggest you look up sticky wages. The short version is that sometimes output just reduces and employment drops because wages just don't move downwards very quickly regardless of regulation and economic conditions.
And then maybe look up the relative unemployment rates and minimum wage levels of Spain, Australia and the United States (our minimum wage is substantially higher than either, at about $16/hr, and our employment is well lower).
The minimum wage to unemployment curve theoretically exists, but there is very little data about where the actual numbers on that curve sit. Just because an overnight 40 dollar per hour minimum wage would trash employment levels doesn't mean 0 vs 5 vs 10 vs 15 has any significant impacts.
Crezth
i knew you were a real man of the left
Oh my god what
FriendlyFire
Codex WMDicanious
No child labour laws ?
No laws for paying with company script ?
No anti discrimination laws ?
No need for any insurance by said companies ?
No Bankruptcy laws ?
No Anti monopoly laws ?
No Anti price fixing laws ?
No consumer protection laws ?
No standard accreditation laws ?
Yeah, because those laws came into effect for no apparent reason, just big government passing random laws for tips.
Yeah but big macs would be cheap because of all the cheap labour for mcdonalds.
This will be met by a GW post stating that under a libertarian society some of these things will be cared for for arbitrary reasons, but that never includes things that are in the interest of the working population because Mises.
GhostWriter16
Deity
Yeah, I'll blame the Fed for the fact that it isn't now.
Aren't all of those things (At least in theory) in the best interests of the working population?
Child labor laws are easy, children aren't adults, and therefore I've already stated don't get the same freedoms as adults. Including the right to work insane hours.
Mr. Dictator
A Chain-Smoking Fox
What's the problem with that?
Probably. What I meant is that you're going to agree with some of these for ideological reasons unrelated to the effects they'll have on the working population.
I don't think children desire the right to work insane hours. They however, desire the right of not having to work insane hours.
Nick Carpathia
Unleash the HAARP
I hope you can justify child prostitution using this same logic to us!
