127 Forum Posts by "HibiscusMallow"
The government isn't a person but it isn't a business either.
I've heard this soundbite before, you really shouldn't listen to political pundits. There are some people who continually push for more spending whatever the situation, if you ask then to set limits they say "oh if debt ever reaches 100% of GDP we should think about cuts" so no one catches on, then 5 years later when it crosses the 100% threshold they say "oh if debt ever reaches 200% of GDP we should think about cuts".
It is part business, part consumer and often whether government spending is economically productive or not is difficult to tell. For instance parks. You could say parks are a luxury, or you could argue that there would be private parks if the government didn't support any and that the government is more efficient at managing parks than private enterprise so in this case the government is more efficient at spending money which results in an effective increase in money and so therefore it is being economically productive. You could say roads are economically productive, and certainly the maintenance of major highways is, however sometimes the government builds roads to the middle of nowhere just because it looks good on paper. A new asphalt coating for the road to some largely deserted mining town in the middle of Arizona might benefit the locals slightly but is it worth the expense put on everyone else? Maybe instead the road should be surveyed and areas showing signs of erosion reinforced.
At 3/14/13 03:39 PM, Confucianism wrote: I wouldn't say "let it slide". They're going to efforts to make sure it's not reported via the media.
That doesn't seem economical. What do you mean? Who would be bothered to slip a newspaper a bribe not to print an article about this?
Most politics is just garbage thrown out there to give people emotional comfort.
Conservatives hate revolution so obviously want to pretend this never happened.
Liberals you would expect to love revolution, however because this revolution was not based on their particular brand of garbage it is actually a threat. It suggests that it isn't as difficult as they make it out to be to accomplish these things and actually they have been failing all along.
Both political institutions are happy to let this slide.
According to this the 112th pope is the last pope and is called Peter.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prophecy_of_the_Popes
One of the candidates to be pope was called Peter but he wasn't elected. It is possible he was usurped somehow, possibly unknowingly.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Turkson
Let us study the philosophy of Ayn Rand.
At 8/11/71 11:53 PM, Ayn Rand wrote:
Do not confuse altruism with kindness, good will or respect for the rights of others. These are not primaries, but consequences, which, in fact, altruism makes impossible. The irreducible primary of altruism, the basic absolute, is self-sacrifice-which means; self-immolation, self-abnegation, self-denial, self-destruction-which means: the self as a standard of evil, the selfless as a standard of the good.
They don't digest it. It just rots in their belly/throat. I am a zomby expert so I know.
They have a few good ideas like not paying taxes.
