by evilgenius » Wed 20 Feb 2013, 13:51:10
You address my points as if to refute them, but you don't refute them with elements of your 'talking points'. Instead you address them with references to things you may have said which are essentially obscure. So far you haven't said anything to encourage me to believe that if anyone assails you and forces you to rethink your positions against Obama that you won't simply wheel in one direction or another and come against him for a whole different set of reasons.
Oh, by the way, it is essential that all benefits eventually get taxed. There can be no true market discovery under the current non-taxed benefit scheme. Instead it has created a stream of money flowing into healthcare which has been increasing year on year at a rate ever in excess of that of inflation. This is the major reason why healthcare costs so much and delivers relatively less in comparison to places where some kind of market, even a public/private partnership or socialized medicine, dominates both the money available to pay and the opportunity to provide for services.
Yes, workers wages are going down relative to inflation. In this context my saying that they are growing slowly ought not to be some kind of stumbling block. I think any reasonable person can get the point that worker's wages need to increase relative to the current state of things. Although this would have an impact on overall borrowing because it would decrease the screaming need to borrow, and thus decrease the money supply, the effect might be offset by various local economic additions and multipliers. Perhaps if we are entering an era of re-localization that wouldn't be such a bad thing.
Don't get me wrong, I don't hate you, Plantagenet. I do want you to actually commit to what you are saying, though, and to take the chance of being wrong. It is your deliberate effort to never admit error that flummoxes me most about what you write, how you skirt reason sometimes to make your ideological point rather than admitting you have been making your argument from a bluff, or in deliberate ignorance of many other reasons for what you are saying being true, so that you can grab the one thing that will hurt Obama and parade it about like some kind of Grand Marshall. Even the Grand Marshall has to agree to go past the crowd at some point, no parade is all about one man. You are going to have to acknowledge, at some point, all of the other reasons why this recovery is the worst ever.
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