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In my ever so humble opinion, there is nothing so laughable as walking around (or perusing Niketalk for that matter) and listening to people argue vehementlyabout what the right thing to do with our economy is. Listening to people argue about politics (especially 'hard' politics like economy, taxes, foreignpolicy, etc.) is bad enough, but when people start arguing about taxes and it's like bashing your head into a wall. "omg u idiot reaganomics lol thatdoesn't work" "omg r u serious obama is going to tax is into bolivan, socialism lol"
Seriously. You have no idea what you are talking about, so why bother talking at all? Every single little piece of data that you have gathered, every articleyou have ever read, everything somebody ever told you, etc. is already known by actual economists. Yes, I am sorry but that thing you heard on the talk radiothis morning is not a novel idea, and no, the president's staff are not a bunch of idiots that never considered the implications of raising or loweringtaxes, or the interest rate, or whatever.
These conversations/posts of people insulting each other are getting ridiculous. None of you have the faintest idea of what you are talking about. Instead ofarguing about it and calling each other idiots, why don't you just accept that people way, way more knowledgable than you are working hard on the problemand don't need your input. Go argue about whether gays should be allowed to marry, or whether abortion should be legal, or something where opinionsactually matter.
There is absolutely no reason for this post, and I am making it on NT becuase I don't care about getting flamed here. Which, come to think about it, iskind of pathetic because it means that I do care about getting flamed elsewhere. In other news, I am going to bed.
Oh yeah, and my opinion on the economy is to get the smartest team possible, and have them fix it, and I'll worry about other things. Obama needs to getover all the stupid feminist ninnys and get on with appointing Larry Summers for Treasury.
KTHXBYE
Edit: as a habit, my OP's are always wildly inflammatory, arrogant and flame-inducing. My responses and discussions are typically milder, mostly because Ivent everything in the OP and then am pretty much done venting after that
Edit: I thought of a good comparison while falling asleep. Economics is a science, much like medicine. When you get some crazy disease that very few peoplehave, then the best doctors in the world are going to put all their knowledge possible towards figuring out the best cure, but the answer won't beconcrete, won't be guaranteed to work, and likely won't be agreed upon. Nonetheless, as a common person, your inputs as to precisely which ratios ofmedicines or which cells of ectoplasmic goo the doctor should use are completely, 100% useless. So, rather than screaming at each other about it, devote yourenergies to more productive ventures.
Bed time now, for realzzz.
Seriously. You have no idea what you are talking about, so why bother talking at all? Every single little piece of data that you have gathered, every articleyou have ever read, everything somebody ever told you, etc. is already known by actual economists. Yes, I am sorry but that thing you heard on the talk radiothis morning is not a novel idea, and no, the president's staff are not a bunch of idiots that never considered the implications of raising or loweringtaxes, or the interest rate, or whatever.
These conversations/posts of people insulting each other are getting ridiculous. None of you have the faintest idea of what you are talking about. Instead ofarguing about it and calling each other idiots, why don't you just accept that people way, way more knowledgable than you are working hard on the problemand don't need your input. Go argue about whether gays should be allowed to marry, or whether abortion should be legal, or something where opinionsactually matter.
There is absolutely no reason for this post, and I am making it on NT becuase I don't care about getting flamed here. Which, come to think about it, iskind of pathetic because it means that I do care about getting flamed elsewhere. In other news, I am going to bed.
Oh yeah, and my opinion on the economy is to get the smartest team possible, and have them fix it, and I'll worry about other things. Obama needs to getover all the stupid feminist ninnys and get on with appointing Larry Summers for Treasury.
KTHXBYE
Edit: as a habit, my OP's are always wildly inflammatory, arrogant and flame-inducing. My responses and discussions are typically milder, mostly because Ivent everything in the OP and then am pretty much done venting after that
Edit: I thought of a good comparison while falling asleep. Economics is a science, much like medicine. When you get some crazy disease that very few peoplehave, then the best doctors in the world are going to put all their knowledge possible towards figuring out the best cure, but the answer won't beconcrete, won't be guaranteed to work, and likely won't be agreed upon. Nonetheless, as a common person, your inputs as to precisely which ratios ofmedicines or which cells of ectoplasmic goo the doctor should use are completely, 100% useless. So, rather than screaming at each other about it, devote yourenergies to more productive ventures.
Bed time now, for realzzz.
