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dude, can you read? I said 'cheaper than', in fact it is much cheaper than 13% and that was my point. If 13% is basically a disability policy until I turn 62, then no thanks. you failed math and reading comprehension

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Quote from Vinny1: People pay 7.65% in social security taxes (15.3% if you are self-employed). If government eliminated social security, senior citizens would be rioting in D.C. In my opinion, they should...

Whose sock puppet is this? Registered in Aug 08 and already know who I am? well yeah, you make such an ass out of yourself that naturally you one of the first posters to get my attention

Go back to your creationist home school and ask your dad the difference between a response and a comment. In that case james bond, your comment was a response. Go back to your third rate university job and pretend you are smarter than everyone else.

How do you feel about the considerable segment of society whose beacon of political enlightenment is Rush Limbaugh? Geniuses, I presume. http://mediamatters.org/issues_topi...s/rush_limbaugh no, but better off than following the likes of Franken, Obama, Clinton, Gore, etc. I have...

you guys interested in bailing me out?

ok now pattern, please clean up your ejaculate

Basic Hunger Facts Food insecurity has been described as: “the limited or uncertain availability of nutritionally adequate and safe foods or the acquisition of acceptable foods in socially acceptable ways.” Given this definition, it is estimated that 1 in 10 households in America goes hungry...

Hard to say, but here are some of the services he uses and must pay for: Roads, which give the companies he owns a method of conveyance Homeland Security, which gives him a stable country to trade and do business SEC, which helps regulate the businesses he owns, and helps regulate the...

ID does not have to come up with experiments to prove design. ID need only come up with lots of little experiments that result in enlightenment and steady, gradual progress. And this is being done. Go here to see several testable ID hypotheses: ID does so have to come up with experiments...

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Quote from danielrafique: almost finished my economics degree, not sure what direction to go in- any suggestions? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- First...

And I thought that smart entrepreneurs with big ideas made this country great (once). I guess it all about wealth shifting and not wealth creation , huh ? lol, as if someone sitting around daytrading knows anything about wealth creation, or is contributing to productivity.

No, they are not superior competitors. They are given superior leverage in the marketplace via free trade, which is not fair trade without proper tariffs. Given a choice of American-made or foreign-made at the same price, we always chose American-made until globalism started crapping on our way...

Well there is plenty of american shit that don't work either, my main point is that we are actually trading with a superior competitor and that spells trouble. They are just as skilled, if not more, but will work at a much lower wage. Without a comparative advantage, American labor will be...

not much surprises me anymore. I'm not against trade, how could I be since it is what economics is all about- just how the discussion gets distorted. As German said, it's paradoxical how the US poor and middle class screw themselves by buying goods from China. The rich don't even want...

I agree, rational self interest is the primary driver here. Trade is predicated on the law of comparative advantage and works great in many cases. However the average worker in the US no longer has a comparative advantage over a foreign worker and so trade now has all these bad side effects...

It worked just like it's supposed to, it trickled right down past the american middle class to the indians and chinese

There is a fallacious built-in assumption that the top 1% are a static group (like the kennedys), most are not. Consider the fairness of whalloping someone who spent their lifetime building a business then sold it to retire. Those are the most hard hit targets of the left. It's quite simple...

I'm part of John Q Public- I'm feeling panicky/depressed at watching my 401b disappear and thinking I'll have to work 10 years longer than I thought.

I think you mean the top 1%. If they did a keynsian spend, it doesn't do a hell of a lot in the long run, just like the rebates mean shit. I would hope they mostly keep the money in capital markets so that the productive few can have a pool of cash when they need it. Buying cars and ipods is...