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Given Truth, the Misinformed Believe Lies More
SharpFang writes "In a series of studies in 2005 and 2006, researchers at the University of Michigan found that misinformed people, particularly political partisans, rarely changed their minds when exposed to corrected facts in news stories. In fact, they often became even more strongly set in their beliefs. Facts, they found, were not curing misinformation. Like an underpowered antibiotic, facts could actually make misinformation even stronger."
Right wingers are the ones that think Obama was born in Kenya, left wingers are the ones that think Bush fired Shinseki over troop levels. Yup, seems true to me and in other news water is wet, snow is cold, and lead is heavy.
Did you know 80 to 90% of the moderators on slashdot wouldn't recognize a troll even if one dragged them under a bridge.
This is the only thing sustaining the republican party.
Bill O'Reilly > Sean Hannity > (Keith Olbermann == Glenn Beck) > Michael Savage
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
You have some really twisted ideas, and I'm pretty sure I do NOT want to subscribe to your newsletter.
Let's keep it simple: anyone who wants to increase government power is a progressive. Power is one thing in this world that is truly scarce: if you give more to the government, some of yours is taken away. Therefore, I oppose progressivism whether you call it left or right.
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its considered news to college students and young liberals
You're accusing Paine of being a SOCIALIST? I'm sorry, but even after he became a bitter bastard after his treatment by France and England, he still didn't qualify as socialist. He was, and remained throughout his life, various flavors of anarchist/minimalist. Now, King was a socialist, which is why apart from his views on racial equality he was an idiot.
pretending that a woman's body is the property of the Federal Government.
Sorry, I don't know anybody who believes that a woman's body is the property of the Federal Government. However, I do know a lot of people who believe that you shouldn't be able to kill someone just because they can't speak for themselves and are inconvenient for you unlike most Democrats.
The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted. James Madison
You are right, the salaries were lower, though notice that before Nixon's minimum wage laws and opening trade with China while removing the gold backing from the dollar, it was enough for one person to work outside of a family to provide for it.
Note how before Nixon's plan, it was said that about 25,000,000 people did not have health insurance. Note how before Obama's plan it was said that about 30,000,000 people did not have health insurance. Seems like about the same number of people have no health insurance whether there is CHIP or there is Obama reform or whatever, it's about 10% of population.
So guess what, 10% of population without health insurance looks like a norm. The rest have their health insurance in either situation. So whatever their goals were during Nixon, they definitely didn't reach any positive result, but there was plenty of negative result.
$110 dollars was about the maximum before Nixon's plan for a hospital to charge one person for a day of care. Maybe that was high in absolute numbers, but in terms of percentages it is much much worse now, after all of the government 'help'. It's not going to change, this problem.
Health insurance is not a 'right' of any human any more, than 'owing a BMW' is a right of any human. If you think you have a right to something that somebody else must give you for free for some reason, you are in the wrong when it concerns quite a number of people.
However my original point is simple: government intervention causes prices to go up, this is one constant true fact. If prices do not go up, then something else gives - quality or quantity, there is always a balance: money comes in - money goes out. The government breaks the balance and prices skyrocket or quality plummets.
Of-course there is a question: how much money is coming in and what is it spent on?
Some countries are doing better than the US in terms of providing health insurance, no question about it, however those countries do not spend half of their yearly federal budget on a military industrial complex. US at this point spends more money on that than all other countries combined. US has military presence in almost all of the world, almost in 200 countries, subsidizing their military spending, so those countries could spend a large percentage of their federal income on health insurance than US can. It's time for US to stop doing that.
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On yet another note, the income taxes need to be abolished, the Fed needs to learn to live off of sales taxes and the poor, if willing, need to file their income tax returns so that they could claim their sales taxes back. That's progressive enough, while removing the money from the government that goes onto building empires and prevents the government from doing it's one job it must do: Justice system and punishment (and a very minimum of military to protect from invasions). That's all I have on this subject, this thread is long enough without me here.
You can't handle the truth.
Again, the political realities are just as important as the economics. The world is much more interconnected than Schiff or you understand.
- that's why you are the genius who predicted all of those economic calamities, having your own investment management company, managing at least 2Billion dollars and not Schiff. Wait, or is that the other way around? This is confusing, who is who here again?
If the American economy falls apart, so does the rest of the world.
- ha ha, what a narcissistic point of view. Before the USA even existed the rest of the world had its economy and once USA economy goes down the drain, the rest of the world will help it to build a new one, maybe a more sane one.
You can't handle the truth.
That's why his investors lost 40-70% in 2008 because they were bet hugely against the dollar.
- right, you are the incoherent one, who could predict that government would decide to start printing like a maniac with a printing press? However you are wrong about something else: people who bet against US housing market won hugely.
The world economy is radically different from what it was then, even from just 100 or even 50 years ago. But one thing hasn't changed since 1900: the principles of the Austrian School, of which Schiff is a devout follower. You're free to follow him off of a cliff, and as long as he's promising punishment for America, I'm sure you'll be glad to follow.
- certainly the conditions are different, but economy is the same. Those who produce matter much more than those who consume. America did produce plenty, however lately (lately being for the past 40 years) it started falling off a cliff on that front.
If you don't get it: I don't particularly care much, but I don't feel great joy just because people in America will suffer from its economic collapse. What you seem to completely misunderstand is that Schiff is offering a way to fixing the imbalance problems, so that the country can reemerge with a new production based economy. You want the country to stagnate, but in the current situation stagnation would mean something ridiculously terrible, a real collapse like the modern world hasn't seen. I am for fixing the economic problems that US is facing, it is medicine that will taste bitter, but it will need to be done. If Schiff wins (which I hope for and will try to help him) then it is a step in the right direction - he will try to fix the economy fundamentally, by allowing the country and people to save again, by getting rid of the insurmountable debt, by increasing production capabilities of the country. You think I want US to suffer for some pleasure of it all? I spent enough time in Florida actually to want to spend some more time there if possible, so the economic collapse of the country does not sit well with my plans.
You are misguided in what you believe, it's not a surprise given the levels of your government's willful misunderstanding and desire to get rid of sound ideas in economy, which obviously do trickle down to the general public.
You can't handle the truth.