Well, I apparently was not clear: 1 - You are absolutely right about the size of gvt, love the graph, thanks! 2 - Obama knows this and could still the silly argument by pointing it out. 3 - He remains oddly quiet. 4 - I find this worthy of blame. 5 - But this is still fascinating, outside of the political sphere. 6 - Sorry if I hijacked the thread.
-- Owen On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 2:28 AM, Roger Critchlow <[email protected]> wrote: > I asked how 300 million people settled on 0.0725 government > employees/capita for 30 years and continued arguing the whole time about > whether the government was getting too big. Did they not know that the > size of the government/capita had stabilized? Did they not understand that > the number of teachers, policemen, firemen, tax collectors, and inspectors > scaled with the size of the population? Are our elected officials too > stupid to understand or explain this? Are you all laughing at me because > this is something that every school girl knows? > > Owen, the glass is half full. I swear by 1+1=2, the glass is half full. > And it's all going to turn out just the way it does, no matter how you > feel about it. > > And not to further contribute to your self-centered hijacking of this > thread, but, Obama took the hardest job in the world, hardly anything > turned out as anyone expected or might have wished, but he did the job. If > you're disappointed, then that's between you and your expectations. If you > want a braggart for president, vote for Romney, he's clearly the sort who > can confidently take credit for anything that happens, with only a few > mis-steps on the way to victory. > > But start your own thread and stop projecting your personal depressions > over every question raised on this mailing list. > > -- rec -- > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org >
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