I n Sun, Dec 6, 2015 spudboy100 via Everything List < [email protected]> wrote:
> > A lot of people went Dem on social issues. > These days I think the Republican stand on most social issues is STUPID. > > > I am not sure whether you despise Cruz on his 'defaulting' on debt thing. > I despise him for other reasons, I fear him for his "debt THING" because I believe if he became president he would destroy the economy. Tea Party hillbillies like him have turned the USA into a laughing stock in the eyes of the world, or at least they would be laughing if they weren't screaming in terror as if they just saw an infant holding a loaded handgun . > > Was this on Bushies watch or on Ears? > In 2013 the USA came within 90 minutes of defaulting on its debt, and that was due to Ted Cruz. > > > I am not a social conservative, and am a pragmatist, so if its economics, > I side with the middle class > To hell with the middle class, to hell with all classes, if you really are a pragmatist then you should side with whatever economic policy that WORKS. And you should learn from your mistakes too. At one time I rather liked the ideas of Paul Ryan, but they have not stood the test of time. In 2010 in the aftermath of the Great Recession the Federal Reserve in the USA lowered interest rates to historic lows, Ryan said the Federal Reserve was debasing the currency and would lead to hyperinflation. It didn't happen, today the USA is in recovery and inflation is very very low. But in Europe they did what Ryan wanted the USA to do and raised interest rates in 2010, and today Europe is in a double dip recession. The moral is that political ideology can not determine which theory is true, not in physics, not in biology and not in economics. > > > On the Stalinist leanings of the dem party, it is an assertion, beyond > challenge, > I assume you don't live in the USA because the leader of the USA is a democrat and if its Stalinist beyond challenge then you would be in jail right now for saying its Stalinist beyond challenge. Are you in jail right now? > > > I challenge your Gates assertion because mosquito netting helps but only > against the mosquito. > Only? M osquito netting may not be glamorous but m osquitoes kill 725,000 people each and every year and they make many times that number sick . And mosquito netting is cheap, Gates is very rich but even he doesn't have a unlimited supply of money so he needs to spend it intelligently, and he has; his ratio of dollar spent per life saved is higher than just about any private charity, and vastly higher than any government program. > > On Campus! Professors and administrators and students, all incited to come > up with reasons againist rational, intellectul, political, argument. For example, on Campus environmental nincompoops have decreed that it is politically incorrect to even think about genetic engineering despite the fact that 2 new technologies, CRISPR and Gene Drive, could make mosquitoes go extinct in just a few years. It's also politically incorrect to even consider the possibility that maybe it would be nice if some animals did go extinct. John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
