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"Wolfgang Schwanke" wrote in message ... "Matt Barrow" wrote in : Of course, the results of such surveys depend on the political leanings of the authors. Authors who favour a neoliberal policy will come to results that portray the US as better, so to encourage Europeans to mimick American policies. Economics isn't a science, Paul Krugman thinks it is...at least Keynesian economics, that is. And I think neither is. Which "neither"? (Who is Paul Krugman anyway?) it's ideology to a large extent. Boy, when my company (on the micro scale) goes through cycles I hope that some of our brain power comes through, rather than just our ideology. Find the source of their data and report back. Lemme just mention that there are economists who think that statistics are difficult to compare, and that some of the American GNP figures are a result of "creative bookkeeping". Read the report and report back, especially how the authors define how they dervied their numbers. IME people who cite the Bergström Report come in two classes: A) USAans (because it flatters their national pride, understandable) B) Europeans who favour neoliberal policies (saw it in another NG just today) Both groups have in common that they like what it says. Read the report and report back, then we can abstract in Hong Kong (pre-Red China turnover), and the other up and coming economies with a contrast to Eastern Europe and the rest of the third world. (The similarites and the differences are striking...and seeing similarities is a very neat human trait). |
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"G Farris" wrote in message ... In article , says... Paul Krugman thinks it is...at least Keynesian economics, that is. Keynesian economics, which applies a supply-and-demand model to the labor market, was developed before the advent of large scale spcial programs, which resulted in a significant proportion of a society being paid more not to work than they would earn working. Could you cite the part of Keynes work that states this? :~) You like sources? LA TRIBUNE (French economic daily) reported yesterday the results of a governmant analysis which showed that most people presently benefiting from "reinsertion" welfare will earn less when they actually do get a job. This is considered to be a big hurdle for Mr Douste-Blazy (minister of health and "family affairs") who has the daunting task of trying to propose a reform for this type of social welfare. That's just their opinion. -- Matt --------------------- Matthew W. Barrow Site-Fill Homes, LLC. Montrose, CO |
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"G Farris" wrote in message ... In article , says... Gee, what is that, a mantra? I apologize. I should realize that there is no chance that economists' assertions would be related to their politics. Right out of Marx and his class bahavioral "class". Thanks for setting us all straight on this. Thanks for showing where that PM BS comes from. |
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"G Farris" wrote in message ... In article , says... What the hell is it with all this post-modernist bull****? French workers have the shortest working week of any country in the It's easy to be "post-modernist" when faced with arguments dating from the 1930's!! One scribe equates, quite well, post-modernism to schizophrenia. Alas, substantiation. |
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On Sat, 23 Apr 2005 08:20:29 -0700, Matt Barrow wrote:
You like sources? LA TRIBUNE (French economic daily) reported yesterday the results of a governmant analysis which showed that most people presently benefiting from "reinsertion" welfare will earn less when they actually do get a job. This is considered to be a big hurdle for Mr Douste-Blazy (minister of health and "family affairs") who has the daunting task of trying to propose a reform for this type of social welfare. That's just their opinion. and it is a FRENCH opinion. Now come on, you can't be serious with FRENCH opinions. #m -- http://www.hotze.priv.at/album/aviation/caution.jpg |
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"Roger" wrote in message ... On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 20:03:58 GMT, "Jay Honeck" wrote: snip Social engineering through taxation -- even well-meaning efforts -- almost always seems to have unforeseen consequences. You mean something like prohibition? It created a great market for the mobs back then. The same is practiced in the US. Its called every man for themselves. Interesting that the main sneerers of using taxation to tackle the problems of society does not recognise that his passion of flying is heavily supported by taxation. Not just the tax on AVGAS that covers squat. Who funds the FAA, who funds the DODD, who funds airport development, who is funding the bankrupt airlines, usually taxpayers, either federal, state or city most all of them. Seems to me like US aviation is one of the biggest babies sucking on the welfare tit. |
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