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"Well, governments can and do create jobs, but the number is tiny in comparison to how many jobs the private sector can create."
Now Mr. Wonky, you're supposed to sound a lot more partisan here.
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He questioned your chart, not you. Of course, you have proven full of inaccuracies too.
Fine: point them out politely and explain them logically and I'll admit to them as I've always done. You'll be much more gratified than you will be if you just keep posting "your [sic] an idiot" and I put you on ignore with all the other kids.
Given the choice, I go with ignore. Your a hopeless partisan with little to add to a debate. Of course, I'll still post comments about your posts, because I'll see them.
[Note for the dense: The title references Jim Carville's campaign advice to Clinton: "It's the economy, stupid." Don't take it personally.]
Below is a chart that lists government and private debt from 1870 to the present. (Private debt, of course, includes both businesses and consumers.)
The most immediate consequence of such a huge private debt load is this:
SourceEssentially this chart means that every neighbor of yours is sitting on a pile of debt (most likely living in it -- in an upside down house) and can't spend. In turn, banks are sitting on portfolios of bad debt -- potential defaults -- and hoarding cash. In turn again, businesses have no interest in hiring, investing or spending in a world of uncertain buyers. There's your economic recession ... stagnation ... potential depression ... right there.
That's just it, your neighbor is not "a shitbag with his money". I know CNN says he is but they're lying and this lie should have been pulled a long time ago....the neighbor who is a shitbag with his money, the government should not saddle me with his debt...
You wouldn't be saying.... that he learned it from you, would you now, dear sir?Fine: point them out politely and explain them logically and I'll admit to them as I've always done. You'll be much more gratified than you will be if you just keep posting "your [sic] an idiot" and I put you on ignore with all the other kids.
Given the choice, I go with ignore. Your a hopeless partisan with little to add to a debate. Of course, I'll still post comments about your posts, because I'll see them.
He actually put me on ignore for calling him an idiot once when responding to him, now he goes around calling other people idiots.
The budget in my household is under control and I am in no ways in debt to anyone or anything. I don't see how me being responsible with my money while the government is irresponsible with my tax dollars automatically makes the governments bad decisions my responsibility and my fault. Screw the neighbor who is a shitbag with his money, the government should not saddle me with his debt, and that falls directly with the government for doing so....not me. So it's the gubments fault, not mine. It's time people start taking personal responsibility for their own actions.
Unless of course I missed anything in this thread, this is my opinion on the issue.
You wouldn't be saying.... that he learned it from you, would you now, dear sir?Given the choice, I go with ignore. Your a hopeless partisan with little to add to a debate. Of course, I'll still post comments about your posts, because I'll see them.
He actually put me on ignore for calling him an idiot once when responding to him, now he goes around calling other people idiots.
You wouldn't be saying.... that he learned it from you, would you now, dear sir?Given the choice, I go with ignore. Your a hopeless partisan with little to add to a debate. Of course, I'll still post comments about your posts, because I'll see them.
He actually put me on ignore for calling him an idiot once when responding to him, now he goes around calling other people idiots.
You wouldn't be saying.... that he learned it from you, would you now, dear sir?He actually put me on ignore for calling him an idiot once when responding to him, now he goes around calling other people idiots.
The irony here is that the more he whines about being on ignore, (a) the more it makes my decision to ignore him look justified, and (b) the more important it makes me look overall.
I find it quite funny.