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no, you are mistaken. I have never made a blanket statement like that, nor would I. Anyone familiar with both the U.S. private and government sectors will recognize that some things are best done in the private sector and others in the government sector. Failure to recognize this in milieu of...

I have very few current posters on ignore. I just skip over the posts of those that too often post nonsense, or simply repeat nonsense they have picked up on the web but don't realize it is garbage. I will read your posts occasionally, so please keep them clean. :D

We should all be concerned about the duplicity coming from the current administration. We expect a certain amount of this from politicians, but the constant barrage of disinformation coming from the White House, much of it from Trump himself, surpasses even the level we experienced from the...

caution: Compare headline with what is being reported in the article under the headline. Just as data from the Old Soviet Union, data from the Trump White House should be taken cum grano salis. Despite what many people believe, the unemployment rate is not measured by calculating the number...

ha ha ha. I noticed you have dropped the "always" , so a guess we are making progress. Next step: drop the common sense part.

well done! :D

I was able to think more clearly after that beer. I think what Greenspan was getting at when he said "What I don't think is going to be happening over time is GDP that stays close to the 3 percent," Greenspan added. "Entitlements are crowding out gross domestic savings." is the old-school...

Wouldn't it be wonderful if Kim could lob a teeny-tiny, little microscopic nuke into the pool at mar a logo while the orange, fat one is lunching on a Big Mac and fries at pool-side? It would be a nice demonstration that Kim hadn't totally "denuclearized," and at the same time be a marvelous...

That's a big part of it and too the convenience since phones are typically smaller and lighter than cameras. And you're always going to have your phone with you. Most of the newest better cameras have wifi, What they lack is good software to make the camera work seamlessly with your phone...

In the final analysis this I think is the limiting factor. pixel density and signal to noise ratio. The pixel density has been constantly going up, but it seems to be reaching a maximum until there is a major breakthrough in technology. If you were to observe the noise to signal ratio plotted...

Exactly! The word entitlement was chosen because these are things we contributed our own money to and trusted the government to manage these programs well and not turn them into ideological battle grounds.

Well. I just read the Griswold article, thanks for the link. And overall I found to be a well written rejoinder to Trump's idiotic focus on the "Trade Deficit", which of course completely ignores the U.S. Capital Account surplus. And of Course, as usual, Trump gets the numbers wrong anyway...

Let me think about this a little. Of course the picture I painted was for a closed economy, but my understanding is that the picture is little altered for an open economy that trades outside its borders. But I need to think about it. In the meantime I'll carefully read Griswold's article.

I think I understand Greenspan's thinking on this. I think he has it wrong. It may be that he is still stuck in pre-1971 mode. All dollars spent into the economy are fungible. A dollar spent on entitlements is the same as a dollar spent on bubble gum or F-35s. What determines net increase...

I get it. It is too much bother for you to go beyond Fox to Facts. Your lazy

It's not 800 billion. That's a made-for-TV number pulled out of Trumps ass. Come back with the correct number and we can chit chat. By the way, do you know what the U.S. trade deficit is with Canada? (Careful, it's a trick question.) I'm guessing that you don't know that the down side to the...

The U.S. hasn't been ripped off. Only in Trump's made-for-TV rhetoric is that true. U.S. corporations have profited mightily from having a huge military force standing by to defend corporate interests and maintain a world-dominating U.S. hegemony, not to mention the incredible profits of the...

Of Course! Good Lord, how could I have forgotten Twitter!

you've been lied to again. Must get tiresome. It's 20 miles of fencing that will replace existing barriers.. The wall that already exists is a holdover from the Obama administration. It seems Trump never properly thanked Barrack for that...

Took me a moment, but I understand your analogy now, and it is a good one. Nice of you to help out at the Hospice.