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Comment Re:RAND PAUL REVOLUTION (Score -1, Flamebait) 500

Government health care is stealing from the healthy and careful to support the sick and careless.

If you smoke crack while fucking syphilitic lepers, government health care is there to support your lifestyle. If you maintain a wise diet and exercise moderately, government health care is there to punish you. Government health care is evil, unconstitutional, and not the will of the people.

Comment Re:Who are the fascists?? (Score 4, Informative) 500

There are many different sorts of government that feature "extreme concentration of power in the hands of very few people", and that condition is not at all the defining characteristic of fascism (which is a particular variety of regimented society).

Of all major politicians of the last 50 years, the Pauls stand out as the obvious promoters of freedom, enemies of regimentation and concentration of power.

The cult has favored restructuring power in many ways to exclude many people.

Your complete absence of understanding is on display here; the goal is to remove power because power causes abuse.

"for I have sworn upon the altar of god eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." - Thomas Jefferson - illustrates the proper attitude.

Comment Re: RAND PAUL REVOLUTION (Score 1) 500

I bought a house without a loan, a damn nice house. I worked hard, saved money, and waited until I had enough.

Keynesian economics is the primary fraud that regards deficit spending as a good idea, and I'm certainly not going to cripple my mind by taking an economic course that promotes Keynes' hoax.

Comment Re: Art (Score 1) 385

Given that Kinkade galleries are full of mechanically reproduced work, even mundane art is being mass produced. Nonetheless, original one-off paintings scratch an itch, and faking paint strokes to modify a photograph does not satisfy the "selective re-creation" that art requires.

In music, live human performances are irreplaceable.

Comment Re:Mental health workers? (Score 1) 385

When currencies are allowed to float, a trade deficit in country A causes the value of the A's currency to fall. Eventually, The lowered value of A's currency makes A's labor cheap, and it will be worth while to employ people in country A. Thus, the trade deficit causes economic growth, measured in units of A's currency.

Trade deficits stop being a self-correcting problem when the government interferes with the exchange rates.

In passing, I'll note that you deflect the "How?" question, which asks for a mechanism, by providing an insult and an evaluation of "bad", which is irrelevant.

Comment Re:Mental health workers? (Score 1) 385

The money not going to truck drivers goes to rail employees and owners and the employees and owners of companies shipping by lower-cost rail (if it weren't lower cost, they wouldn't be doing it.) Those people spend the money that the ex-truck drivers would have spent. In the overall economy, very little changes besides a slight increase in efficiency.

Economic fallacies are easily generated by focusing on only a few of the effects of an action.

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