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ER — 10/3/2012 1:44:41 AM (archived)

"Get off my estate."
"What for?"
"Because its mine."
"Where did you get it?"
"From my father."
"Where did he get it?"
"From his father."
"And where did he get it?"
"He fought for it."
"Well, I'll fight you for it."

from 'The People, Yes'. (1936)
--Carl Sandburg

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The economy is not consumer driven? - RobVG - 9/30/2012 4:06:58 PM
- Property is merely a euphemism used to justify violence. Ask the Indians. - ER - 10/3/2012 1:44:41 AM
  - "All property is theft" - TB - 10/3/2012 2:43:26 AM
    - Maybe I can't integrate... - ER - 10/3/2012 3:15:38 AM
- I see what you mean - Robert - 10/1/2012 1:57:09 AM
  - No, you just didn't get it. Or didn't want to. - TB - 10/1/2012 7:26:51 PM
    - Barking mad - Robert - 10/2/2012 6:17:28 AM
    - In other words... - SDAI-Tech - 10/2/2012 3:19:34 AM
      - When the economy is bad, you increase the money supply. When you have inflation, you tighten it. - alcaray - 10/2/2012 6:07:26 PM
      - Vorticial economics - Robert - 10/2/2012 6:02:13 AM
        
        I heard this somewhere: - TB - 10/2/2012 4:29:39 PM
        
        "A conservative is somebody who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing." - Robert - 10/2/2012 6:08:18 PM
        
        No, you've drifted off into the ditch. - TB - 10/2/2012 6:39:47 PM
        
        Many people (in this economy, especially).. - alcaray - 10/2/2012 8:01:35 PM
        
        You can't be this obtuse. - TB - 10/2/2012 8:21:54 PM
        
        So all those times the Fed moved to increase the money supply to improve the economy... - alcaray - 10/2/2012 8:45:15 PM
        
        Yes. - TB - 10/2/2012 9:38:54 PM
        
        Lowering the funds rates increases money supply. That's why they do it. - alcaray - 10/2/2012 9:45:51 PM
        
        And let me expand a bit on the housing example. - TB - 10/2/2012 6:58:54 PM
        
        Value - SDAI-Tech - 10/2/2012 8:00:02 AM
        
        The more things change, the more they stay the same - Robert - 10/3/2012 5:21:45 AM
        
        The Claim - TB - 10/3/2012 4:36:11 PM
- "Consumers" don't buy housing. - TB - 9/30/2012 4:46:44 PM
  - This was a draft but I'm not going to bother finishing it. - RobVG - 10/2/2012 1:53:20 AM
    - I give up. - TB - 10/2/2012 4:59:05 AM
      - If anyone was serious about the deficit they'd be talking about raising taxes. - RobVG - 10/2/2012 5:13:42 AM
        
        Which ones? - TB - 10/2/2012 5:41:13 AM
        
        Looks like just about all. - RobVG - 10/2/2012 6:15:59 AM
        
        That's not policy. - TB - 10/2/2012 4:21:45 PM
      - One more for the road... - TB - 10/2/2012 5:05:25 AM
  - Consumer - alcaray - 10/1/2012 10:18:44 PM
  - The English language getting the best of you again? - bowser - 9/30/2012 10:56:02 PM

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