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dwalker, If you had been here a bit longer you would know that trying to argue with nynco is useless. He was here before, took about a year or so off, and is now back. But have fun.
Kyle
Girlscouts? Hmmm, I don't know... I think it's kinda dangerous to teach young girls self esteem and leadership skills.
Your paragraph rather well demonstrated who is not understanding the basics. In it, you wrote at the beginning "There is no equivalent to having a house full of TVs today and only one when you were a kid." and later you wrote "... wages that have half the purchasing power ..." and you don't understand how you are contradicting yourself.
When you isolate out the true basics - food, energy and basic shelter - those differences in purchasing power disappear and in fact invert.
(Although its tough to even compare food well, since in recent decades we enjoy food variety unseen in the past generations as we get fruits and vegetables year round from global trade. Older cookbooks had to account for what foods were "in season". Today, no one even thinks about it.)
Sayonara
Who give a shit about a TV. The cost of life now requires two incomes to earn the same purchasing power as was the norm in 1979. I went on to list examples and still still target fixate on a TV. Fuck I don't even own one and most of the people my age don't either.
"When you isolate out the true basics - food, energy and basic shelter - those differences in purchasing power disappear and in fact invert."
What world do you live in? Because the cost of gas alone is way more. Heck I just told you that the average cost of a house is 3 times more than the average wages of that time. Yet you still cling to that false reality.
And you still don't understand how your little factoid is meaningless despite several attempts to explain it to you. The small three bedroom one bath house, with no A/C, and a tiny kitchen that my mother grew up in did not increase in price three times more than wages over the last half century. The false reality here is yours.Originally Posted by nynco
Sayonara
The real irony is that libertarian economic models always lead to business buying gov and gov reinforcing those same things that you think libertarian/conservative economics will fix.
That's exactly what happens! You're totally right.
Oh please point to where I can buy a house in the Denver metro area for 60K that is not falling down. Go....
Of a great many objectively false things you've written, this is the most ridiculous one. A libertarian economic model would not allow the government to have the control that would make "buying" it worthwhile.
You really are showing your utter ignorance here, nynco. Do you really have no clue what libertarian philosophy is? Or do you just write down random nonsense?
Sayonara
If you want to look at another break down of some of those statistics check out this forbse article. You GOP true believers... hold your heart before it gives out.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/adamhart...vote-democrat/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History...es_public_debt
If you scroll down the historical debt levels it gives you a good idea of the debt increases since just after the civil war. The debt to GDP ratio is pretty telling
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