I should note that every that I applied to Ron Paul above should be equally applied to Denis Kucinich, who is very liberal but shares many of the foreign policy views of Dr. Paul and was also suppressed by his own political party for not being nationalistic enough.
FYI the other responder is factually wrong. Ron Paul has a 100% pro-Constitution voting record. Thanks for asking for information on the matter. Here are some good examples of his votes which were pro-constitution but against the religious right: http://thesteadyconservative.com/wordpress/2010/02/09/the-ron-paul-voting-record/
I think on all issues he has repeated kept his faith personal and his policies firmly in the separation of church and state category. He wants to legalize drugs and eliminate government restrictions on who can marry whom. That is not a theocratic point of view.
Perhaps you would do well to spend some time quietly contemplating why you feel the need to suppress open exchange of ideas and launch personal attacks. After 9/11 I had a lot of anger, but I found that thinking about the reasons why it happened to be useful, as opposed to blind rage.
Since oil is priced in dollars, when we increase the money supply the whole world feels it. When we sell sovereign debt the same thing happens. China has been importing our inflationary effects for decades to support their export based economy. Arab nations the same with oil. When the portion of your income which goes to food and energy is 30% like in the USA and food and energy prices rise by 20% you feel a pinch. But to the people in Arab nations whose food and energy costs 80% of their income, when those prices rise by 20% they get wiped out. Hence the "arab Spring" (among other drivers). There's a lot more to it that can be better explained by smarter people than me at Mises.org.
It's a little more complicated than that. There are those of us in the USA who recognize that our government takes actions on its own behalf, often unbeknownst to most citizens, that cause strife, violence, and suffering. The US citizens are currently under economic assault from the same banking/government cartel which has launched full wars on the citizens of other countries. Some of us try to raise awareness, but as many have found through history, it's much easier to get people to hate than to get them to look at the failure of their own actions (or inactions).
Ron Paul, for example, is a presidential candidate who is largely mocked by the media, but he has explained publicly and repeatedly that US foreign policy creates the very conditions that foster terrorism - by interfering in other sovereign nations' governments, by having belligerent and aggressive foreign policy, and also by exporting our inflation by taking advantage of the dollar's reserve status. There are many, many things we do that are wrong, and most happen simply because the schools, media, and government don't see it profitable to make sure that the average Joe (who is too busy either working or watching TV) understands these issues. But the two big parties and the media have already decided that nationalism is our country's pastime, and anyone who questions it must be mocked. Other nations have had similar, if more heavy-handed, cooperation between government and media to suppress dissent, no?
I, for one, as an American, have made it a priority to educate my fellow citizens on such issues. I recently explained to a coworker why the Egyptians who revolted against our satrap Mubarak were also angry at us (our support of his regime through money, training, and weapons). He was shocked. He's not a bad guy, he's just too busy to take any serious steps to get the CIA/Pentagon under control.
When you consider how easy it is for the powers that be to quash real change in our democracy (again see Ron Paul), it becomes a question of whether the American people, even if they woke up to the evils our government does, could do anything to change it. We're not unique as a nation, whatever people believe.
Are you saying that in order to be a viable money, a currency must lose value? Are you familiar with Gresham's law, that bad money will chase good out of the economy? You correctly identify that people will hoard something of value. You incorrectly blame the good money for that outcome, instead of the bad money.
Inflationary currencies guarantee concentration of wealth in the pockets of the Bankers. Seehttp://mises.org/resources/614/Mystery-of-Banking-The
Deflation like you're talking about only occurs after the inevitable monetary contraction which follows cascading debt defaults.
That's not what he said, and you're mixing domestic law enforcement with military action. Last I heard, those are two separate situations handled by two separate groups, in entirely different legal and geographic domains. Do you have a legitimate comment, or will you simply stop at extremist militarist rhetoric? Hell, even Dirty Harry thought the vigilante cops went too far...
There's a great deal of corroborated history throughout the bible. The actual events, such as the schism of the two kingdoms (Judah and Israel), the many wars, the diaspora, the repatriation to a weakened Israeli state under Roman rule, and even into the New Testament with the persecution of the early Christians under Roman rule. Of course you see very quickly that much of the Old Testament in particular (which is concerned more with the material effects of piety than the New Testament is) directly links the causes of the events it describes to the feelings of God, explained through the prophets (the New Testament doesn't portray anywhere near as direct a causality between God and events). Take that part of why things happened away from the Old Testament, and you are still left with a fairly accurate history that most scholars would agree has enormous value. In the New Testament it doesn't really matter, because with the exception of a few miracle narratives and the highly controversial and symbolic Revelations there's nothing at all to doubt from a historical perspective (Josephus' Antiquities documents a Christos and a rise of a new religious sect, and other historical documents and studies/facts corroborate the evangelism of this sect to various places described in Acts). Most of the rest of the New Testament is letters, which a Catholic bible, at least, attempts to give an honest accounting of the likelihood of the authorship claims for.
I used to play in a rock band that came real close to the "stupid loud" level, and as a sax player it was damn near impossible to hear myself with our normal audio engineer (who to be fair wasn't terrible for a regular rock group w/ no sax, he just struggled with me sometimes). One night we were at a gig where the sound was just incredibly clear and vibrant, and I could hear everything through my monitor. I gave my thanks to the house engineer and while we were chatting he said he used to do sound once in a while for Tower of Power and was happy to know a horn player appreciated his work again.
I've been frustrated the other way, going to events with small jazz groups performing where the audio engineer thinks it's OK that all frequencies under 60 Hz should sound like thunder. I can't hear a thing other than the boomy bass. It's asinine. Sorry this was so off topic but I need to vent to people who understand...
At least in my case the stuff I had to parrot was something I saw as silly instead of unjust. I am certain I would not have been (might not be yet) mature enough to deal with it the way you did. It is good sometimes to get the insider view of a philosophy you disagree with to be better able to argue against it, though.
Funny, though I think you were serious. I'm still pretty hard headed and though my work's not exceptional I usually cause my bosses to have some degree of heartburn because, though I will do it their way, I make a lot of noise if I don't like it.
I had a prof in literature who only graded well if you made your critical essay about sexual imagery. At one point I gave up trying to "be me" and went whole hog, way overboard, almost parodying the over sexualized essay. And I scored an "A" for the the first time. Lesson learned? Sometimes it's OK to tell the boss what he wants to hear and do it his way, as long as it doesn't cost you anything, and nobody gets hurt. And, of course, life's not fair.
Amen. There is very little real material need in the USA. My wife's work in the public schools has put her in contact with the "parent" type that always has a $35 nail job but "can't pay" for her child's subsidized medication ($1/day or something like that) which is essential for their psychological well-being and ability to learn and avoid becoming a delinquent. We've gotten so bitter about giving to charities that we've basically decided it's got to be some legitimate organization in a foreign country that we know will make sure people are fed (i.e. not anything UN oriented) when giving to poverty-relief groups.
To get decently managed groups from India, you end up paying nearly the same total cost as you would in the USA. Cheap offshoring firms give crap quality; expensive ones mediocre. It seems, from some of what I'm hearing, that US firms are starting to figure this out and the offshoring trend (at least in companies where finance is not focused on only the future 2 quarters) is slowing down.
Not me. For another 20% to 30% in pay, I end up working about that many more hours, and spend an average of 6-12 months between jobs instead of 1-3 months. And it's a lot easier to convince an employer you're willing take a pay cut to get an offer than to step back to development from management.
Not Ruby. I would go with Microsoft C#/.Net. I know, I know, I'll say this on/. and everyone will mod me down, but MS dev tools have a history of being accessible to those with business backgrounds. That's what VB was, originally, a tool for business people to put together something that worked. Now C#/ASP.Net is a great deal more sophisticated than VB 1.0, but there are still the training wheels available for people who might not be ready to build a site from scratch. I know a few people who get started w/ basic HTML, learned ASP, and eventually became full-fledged OO developers, all in the MS ecosystem.
If you were to go Ruby or Python, I think the chances are higher that you'll give up, but it's also slightly possible you'll develop into a full-fledged dev much more quickly (moreso if you go w/ Python).
Put it another way, but yes, sort of. There aren't going to be enough jobs for two people to find worthwhile work. It will make economic sense to have someone stay home and do the domestic work, and maybe have a part-time crappy job. And there will be one car. And maybe one TV, and maybe not such great cell phones and blu-ray players, and when things break they won't get replaced, they'll get fixed. There's a lot more to why many families of four have two incomes than just living expenses. We've become an unsustainably consumption-oriented culture, and we're going to regress to a period when we were more production and/or savings oriented.
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I should note that every that I applied to Ron Paul above should be equally applied to Denis Kucinich, who is very liberal but shares many of the foreign policy views of Dr. Paul and was also suppressed by his own political party for not being nationalistic enough.
FYI the other responder is factually wrong. Ron Paul has a 100% pro-Constitution voting record. Thanks for asking for information on the matter. Here are some good examples of his votes which were pro-constitution but against the religious right: http://thesteadyconservative.com/wordpress/2010/02/09/the-ron-paul-voting-record/
I think on all issues he has repeated kept his faith personal and his policies firmly in the separation of church and state category. He wants to legalize drugs and eliminate government restrictions on who can marry whom. That is not a theocratic point of view.
Perhaps you would do well to spend some time quietly contemplating why you feel the need to suppress open exchange of ideas and launch personal attacks. After 9/11 I had a lot of anger, but I found that thinking about the reasons why it happened to be useful, as opposed to blind rage.
Since oil is priced in dollars, when we increase the money supply the whole world feels it. When we sell sovereign debt the same thing happens. China has been importing our inflationary effects for decades to support their export based economy. Arab nations the same with oil. When the portion of your income which goes to food and energy is 30% like in the USA and food and energy prices rise by 20% you feel a pinch. But to the people in Arab nations whose food and energy costs 80% of their income, when those prices rise by 20% they get wiped out. Hence the "arab Spring" (among other drivers). There's a lot more to it that can be better explained by smarter people than me at Mises.org.
It's a little more complicated than that. There are those of us in the USA who recognize that our government takes actions on its own behalf, often unbeknownst to most citizens, that cause strife, violence, and suffering. The US citizens are currently under economic assault from the same banking/government cartel which has launched full wars on the citizens of other countries. Some of us try to raise awareness, but as many have found through history, it's much easier to get people to hate than to get them to look at the failure of their own actions (or inactions).
Ron Paul, for example, is a presidential candidate who is largely mocked by the media, but he has explained publicly and repeatedly that US foreign policy creates the very conditions that foster terrorism - by interfering in other sovereign nations' governments, by having belligerent and aggressive foreign policy, and also by exporting our inflation by taking advantage of the dollar's reserve status. There are many, many things we do that are wrong, and most happen simply because the schools, media, and government don't see it profitable to make sure that the average Joe (who is too busy either working or watching TV) understands these issues. But the two big parties and the media have already decided that nationalism is our country's pastime, and anyone who questions it must be mocked. Other nations have had similar, if more heavy-handed, cooperation between government and media to suppress dissent, no?
I, for one, as an American, have made it a priority to educate my fellow citizens on such issues. I recently explained to a coworker why the Egyptians who revolted against our satrap Mubarak were also angry at us (our support of his regime through money, training, and weapons). He was shocked. He's not a bad guy, he's just too busy to take any serious steps to get the CIA/Pentagon under control.
When you consider how easy it is for the powers that be to quash real change in our democracy (again see Ron Paul), it becomes a question of whether the American people, even if they woke up to the evils our government does, could do anything to change it. We're not unique as a nation, whatever people believe.
Read TFA. It says total household use is expected to decline in absolute terms, but this will be offset by increases in commercial/industrial use.
You misunderstand what money is supposed to be. It's supposed to be a store of value.
Are you saying that in order to be a viable money, a currency must lose value? Are you familiar with Gresham's law, that bad money will chase good out of the economy? You correctly identify that people will hoard something of value. You incorrectly blame the good money for that outcome, instead of the bad money.
Inflationary currencies guarantee concentration of wealth in the pockets of the Bankers. Seehttp://mises.org/resources/614/Mystery-of-Banking-The Deflation like you're talking about only occurs after the inevitable monetary contraction which follows cascading debt defaults.
That's not what he said, and you're mixing domestic law enforcement with military action. Last I heard, those are two separate situations handled by two separate groups, in entirely different legal and geographic domains. Do you have a legitimate comment, or will you simply stop at extremist militarist rhetoric? Hell, even Dirty Harry thought the vigilante cops went too far...
There's a great deal of corroborated history throughout the bible. The actual events, such as the schism of the two kingdoms (Judah and Israel), the many wars, the diaspora, the repatriation to a weakened Israeli state under Roman rule, and even into the New Testament with the persecution of the early Christians under Roman rule. Of course you see very quickly that much of the Old Testament in particular (which is concerned more with the material effects of piety than the New Testament is) directly links the causes of the events it describes to the feelings of God, explained through the prophets (the New Testament doesn't portray anywhere near as direct a causality between God and events). Take that part of why things happened away from the Old Testament, and you are still left with a fairly accurate history that most scholars would agree has enormous value. In the New Testament it doesn't really matter, because with the exception of a few miracle narratives and the highly controversial and symbolic Revelations there's nothing at all to doubt from a historical perspective (Josephus' Antiquities documents a Christos and a rise of a new religious sect, and other historical documents and studies/facts corroborate the evangelism of this sect to various places described in Acts). Most of the rest of the New Testament is letters, which a Catholic bible, at least, attempts to give an honest accounting of the likelihood of the authorship claims for.
I used to play in a rock band that came real close to the "stupid loud" level, and as a sax player it was damn near impossible to hear myself with our normal audio engineer (who to be fair wasn't terrible for a regular rock group w/ no sax, he just struggled with me sometimes). One night we were at a gig where the sound was just incredibly clear and vibrant, and I could hear everything through my monitor. I gave my thanks to the house engineer and while we were chatting he said he used to do sound once in a while for Tower of Power and was happy to know a horn player appreciated his work again.
I've been frustrated the other way, going to events with small jazz groups performing where the audio engineer thinks it's OK that all frequencies under 60 Hz should sound like thunder. I can't hear a thing other than the boomy bass. It's asinine. Sorry this was so off topic but I need to vent to people who understand...
Ha! You haven't taken many literature classes, have you?
At least in my case the stuff I had to parrot was something I saw as silly instead of unjust. I am certain I would not have been (might not be yet) mature enough to deal with it the way you did. It is good sometimes to get the insider view of a philosophy you disagree with to be better able to argue against it, though.
Funny, though I think you were serious. I'm still pretty hard headed and though my work's not exceptional I usually cause my bosses to have some degree of heartburn because, though I will do it their way, I make a lot of noise if I don't like it.
I had a prof in literature who only graded well if you made your critical essay about sexual imagery. At one point I gave up trying to "be me" and went whole hog, way overboard, almost parodying the over sexualized essay. And I scored an "A" for the the first time. Lesson learned? Sometimes it's OK to tell the boss what he wants to hear and do it his way, as long as it doesn't cost you anything, and nobody gets hurt. And, of course, life's not fair.
Amen. There is very little real material need in the USA. My wife's work in the public schools has put her in contact with the "parent" type that always has a $35 nail job but "can't pay" for her child's subsidized medication ($1/day or something like that) which is essential for their psychological well-being and ability to learn and avoid becoming a delinquent. We've gotten so bitter about giving to charities that we've basically decided it's got to be some legitimate organization in a foreign country that we know will make sure people are fed (i.e. not anything UN oriented) when giving to poverty-relief groups.
You're both right. The middle class is screwed as they are getting terrorized from both sides.
To get decently managed groups from India, you end up paying nearly the same total cost as you would in the USA. Cheap offshoring firms give crap quality; expensive ones mediocre. It seems, from some of what I'm hearing, that US firms are starting to figure this out and the offshoring trend (at least in companies where finance is not focused on only the future 2 quarters) is slowing down.
Not me. For another 20% to 30% in pay, I end up working about that many more hours, and spend an average of 6-12 months between jobs instead of 1-3 months. And it's a lot easier to convince an employer you're willing take a pay cut to get an offer than to step back to development from management.
Not Ruby. I would go with Microsoft C#/.Net. I know, I know, I'll say this on /. and everyone will mod me down, but MS dev tools have a history of being accessible to those with business backgrounds. That's what VB was, originally, a tool for business people to put together something that worked. Now C#/ASP.Net is a great deal more sophisticated than VB 1.0, but there are still the training wheels available for people who might not be ready to build a site from scratch. I know a few people who get started w/ basic HTML, learned ASP, and eventually became full-fledged OO developers, all in the MS ecosystem.
If you were to go Ruby or Python, I think the chances are higher that you'll give up, but it's also slightly possible you'll develop into a full-fledged dev much more quickly (moreso if you go w/ Python).
Your point is well taken, and you should not be modded down as flamebait. I am so tired of mod -1 "disagree".
She's been dating you for five years? You're lucky you don't have a smarter girlfriend.
Sorry to be a dick, but you're earlier comment invited it. Was there really a need to insult my Linux using wife? Show some manners.
Put it another way, but yes, sort of. There aren't going to be enough jobs for two people to find worthwhile work. It will make economic sense to have someone stay home and do the domestic work, and maybe have a part-time crappy job. And there will be one car. And maybe one TV, and maybe not such great cell phones and blu-ray players, and when things break they won't get replaced, they'll get fixed. There's a lot more to why many families of four have two incomes than just living expenses. We've become an unsustainably consumption-oriented culture, and we're going to regress to a period when we were more production and/or savings oriented.