So who cares if the austerity theory only works when 2+2=5, do it anyway? Sure, the last 50 people who drank Drano for their cold died, do it anyway?
They can't keep goint the way they have been, but that doesn't make austerity the answer. They need an answer that at least hasn't been shown to make it worse.
There is a difference between making needed changes and austerity. If you don't know that, then you're in no position to judge someone else's knowledge of economics.
I absolutely agree that Greece has a real problem. No matter what they do, they need to balance their budget (not the same as austerity). That's the thing, the demand wasn't cut back, the demand is full on austerity. It's a demand from people who've got the religion and don't care if the math says different.
It may be that the Euro is not in their best interest. In many ways, this is a truly unique situation. Because they are on the euro, they are denied a few important tools that have traditionally been used to get out of situations like they are in.
You'll need to do some googling, I can't teach a full econ class here. But the TL;DR version is that every country that tried austerity has recovered more slowly than every country that didn't. That and the entire justification for austerity was in that one spreadsheet that turned out to have a glaring error.
But few have been demonstrated to be an artifact of a spreadsheet error like austerity and then shown to be a failure in practice as well as in theory.
If you are a contractor and have a bad month, selling off the tools of your trade isn't a good way to recover.
It doesn't help that Greece was forced into an austerity plan in their last bailout. Essentially that kicked off a death spiral. Austerity has already been well discredited (see here, here, and here. Original paper here) yet it keeps being foisted off on citizens everywhere.
I'm not suggesting that Greece should spend money like a drunken sailor on leave, but following a faith based economic theory even after it has been disproven (even to the satisfaction of the writers of the original paper) is not the answer.
Many employers have inventing a reason down to a science. That's why there are so many rules in the workplace. It makes it easy to find an infraction for nearly anyone they want to get rid of.
Actually, it is. You get a choice, lose your free expression, or risk legal action by formally denying the DMCA claim in the hope of getting your own work back in the public view.
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That was not a normal M1000. It was clearly (badly) hand made or modified. I know this because I used to make fireworks as a hobby until the ATF started hiking it's skirt up and doing the mousey dance every time someone sneezed.
This is an actual M-1000.The message is clear, don't set off fireworks on the patio furniture.
Some of the ones I made might BARELY qualify as a small bomb but those involved 4 oz. of black powder and a well reinforced tube.
You should note that commercial fireworks are mortar shells, not skyrockets.
Now, how many times has your house burned down in all of that? How many skyrockets in your windows?
I can understand you not wanting it daily for months, but surely on the actual holidays it might be nice to not get all bunched up over it.
Even in "at will" states, there are so many other employment protection laws that firing people for no cause is extremely legally risky
Excuses are dirt cheap. As long as the firing can be plausibly claimed not to be motivated by racial or gender discrimination, it's not much problem. Examples seen in the wild include "not meshing with the workplace culture", "poor attitude", "not a good fit for the job", "cutbacks", etc.
And that's not even including the tactic of creating so many workplace rules that pretty much every employee will routinely violate one or more of them (and at the manager's discretion, be forgiven).
Bald assertions aren't very convincing, sorry. I might as well reply that the moon is made of cheese. There is a cost in the sense that a replacement will need time to get up to speed, but any other costs are self-inflicted damage.
It doesn't cost anything when you do that. That's what I mean by drop of a hat. You should focus on understanding what someone is saying rather than looking for excuses to be a condescending ass.
OMG you must tremble for hours every time a car backfires! A skyrocket through a window? I have NEVER heard of such a thing happening. Unless you mean an open and unscreened window.
Many people in my neighborhood shoot fireworks every year on the 4th and there has never been a fire.
Your description of a firecracker as a "small bomb" tells me you are permanently set to "overreact".
Sure it does. You for some reason ASSuME that the fireworks will inevitably set your house on fire (apparently it has yet to happen), so you kill the fun for everyone else. Water your lawn that afternoon and hose down the roof, it'll be fine.
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So who cares if the austerity theory only works when 2+2=5, do it anyway? Sure, the last 50 people who drank Drano for their cold died, do it anyway?
They can't keep goint the way they have been, but that doesn't make austerity the answer. They need an answer that at least hasn't been shown to make it worse.
I didn't claim Greece doesn't neet to make any changes, I just said that depending on 2+2 equaling 5 will not help them.
I honestly don't know.
I don't know how to cure the common cold either. I DO know that drinking a bottle of drain cleaner is not a good answer to a cold.
I also know that austerity is NOT a good answer to Greece's problem.
I said debt service.
I posted a link to the paper as well. It's only natural that the right isn't going to talk about one of it's more embarrassing screw-ups.
There is a difference between making needed changes and austerity. If you don't know that, then you're in no position to judge someone else's knowledge of economics.
I never said they didn't need to make some changes. I just said austerity isn't the answer.
Read the paper and the many follow-on papers. Austerity CAUSES the debt spiral. It's like selling your seed corn to make today's payment.
I absolutely agree that Greece has a real problem. No matter what they do, they need to balance their budget (not the same as austerity). That's the thing, the demand wasn't cut back, the demand is full on austerity. It's a demand from people who've got the religion and don't care if the math says different.
It may be that the Euro is not in their best interest. In many ways, this is a truly unique situation. Because they are on the euro, they are denied a few important tools that have traditionally been used to get out of situations like they are in.
Read the paper. Read the other links. It's in there.
Acknowledged that Greece has limited options, but austerity is likely to contract their economy to the point that debt service exceeds their GDP.
You'll need to do some googling, I can't teach a full econ class here. But the TL;DR version is that every country that tried austerity has recovered more slowly than every country that didn't. That and the entire justification for austerity was in that one spreadsheet that turned out to have a glaring error.
But few have been demonstrated to be an artifact of a spreadsheet error like austerity and then shown to be a failure in practice as well as in theory.
If you are a contractor and have a bad month, selling off the tools of your trade isn't a good way to recover.
So you consider the actual paper that destroyed the argument for austerity and showed the spreadsheet error to be a poor reference?
It doesn't help that Greece was forced into an austerity plan in their last bailout. Essentially that kicked off a death spiral. Austerity has already been well discredited (see here, here, and here. Original paper here) yet it keeps being foisted off on citizens everywhere.
I'm not suggesting that Greece should spend money like a drunken sailor on leave, but following a faith based economic theory even after it has been disproven (even to the satisfaction of the writers of the original paper) is not the answer.
Find the jackass playing the cello on the beach and arrest him.
Many employers have inventing a reason down to a science. That's why there are so many rules in the workplace. It makes it easy to find an infraction for nearly anyone they want to get rid of.
Actually, it is. You get a choice, lose your free expression, or risk legal action by formally denying the DMCA claim in the hope of getting your own work back in the public view.
BTW, the DMCA also applies to paid hosting, and self hosting.
That was not a normal M1000. It was clearly (badly) hand made or modified. I know this because I used to make fireworks as a hobby until the ATF started hiking it's skirt up and doing the mousey dance every time someone sneezed.
This is an actual M-1000.The message is clear, don't set off fireworks on the patio furniture.
Some of the ones I made might BARELY qualify as a small bomb but those involved 4 oz. of black powder and a well reinforced tube.
You should note that commercial fireworks are mortar shells, not skyrockets.
Now, how many times has your house burned down in all of that? How many skyrockets in your windows?
I can understand you not wanting it daily for months, but surely on the actual holidays it might be nice to not get all bunched up over it.
Sounds like someone hasn't a single fact to back up his bald assertion.
Whatever gets you through the night.
Even in "at will" states, there are so many other employment protection laws that firing people for no cause is extremely legally risky
Excuses are dirt cheap. As long as the firing can be plausibly claimed not to be motivated by racial or gender discrimination, it's not much problem. Examples seen in the wild include "not meshing with the workplace culture", "poor attitude", "not a good fit for the job", "cutbacks", etc.
And that's not even including the tactic of creating so many workplace rules that pretty much every employee will routinely violate one or more of them (and at the manager's discretion, be forgiven).
Bald assertions aren't very convincing, sorry. I might as well reply that the moon is made of cheese. There is a cost in the sense that a replacement will need time to get up to speed, but any other costs are self-inflicted damage.
It doesn't cost anything when you do that. That's what I mean by drop of a hat. You should focus on understanding what someone is saying rather than looking for excuses to be a condescending ass.
OMG you must tremble for hours every time a car backfires! A skyrocket through a window? I have NEVER heard of such a thing happening. Unless you mean an open and unscreened window.
Many people in my neighborhood shoot fireworks every year on the 4th and there has never been a fire.
Your description of a firecracker as a "small bomb" tells me you are permanently set to "overreact".
I don't know where you live, but in most of the U.S. you can be fired at the drop of a hat with no reason given.
Sure it does. You for some reason ASSuME that the fireworks will inevitably set your house on fire (apparently it has yet to happen), so you kill the fun for everyone else. Water your lawn that afternoon and hose down the roof, it'll be fine.