[wormsy]

The tack this expert witness has taken is to demolish assumptions.

Having done research for a year, I am too well aware that any framework or assumptions are ultimately false. They are set up to simplify and used in decision making. Perhaps that is why financial concepts such as CAPM, EVA and etc can all be destroyed. Yet, people have continued to use them because we lack something better.

That is, if this expert witness were to turn around and examine the assumptions behind anti-terrorism policies, he would be able to find assumptions that are false.

What does that mean? It mean that we can take any policy and we still would not know how it might turn out. Do scarcity necessarily lead to innovation? If you look at Japan, Australia and etc, yes.

If you look at other poor countries that also faced scare resources, no.

[B4Ranch]

"To sum up: None of the commonly held assumptions underlying support for a guestworker program is valid."
"none of the reasons usually presented by proponents is grounded in fact."

Why don't American voters mind being LIED to by their political heroes?


“The masses live by, and are ruled by, subconscious and emotional thought process. The crowd has never thirsted for the truth. It turns aside from evidence that is not to its taste, preferring to glorify and to follow error, if the way of error appears attractive enough, and seduces them. Whoever can supply the crowd with attractive emotional illusions may easily become their master; and whoever attempts to destroy such firmly entrenched illusions of the crowd is almost sure to be rejected.”

[NewRomeTacitus]

"The tack this expert witness has taken is to demolish assumptions."

You rang? I am The Tack, Big Blue Corpuscle for Conservative Justice!

I got to hear Tom Tancredo Saturday evening exhort us to continue harrassing our representatives because our input does shape their actions. That was very heartening to hear. NumbersUSA, your own emails and real mail shape policy. Without it, to paraphrase a bad phrase, the scumbags will have already won.
Bitch, moan, pitch a tantrum or send a polite note. Otherwise your reps only have special interests' word that the invasion is fine with everyone. If you don't tell them otherwise you'll only have yourself to blame when they come looking for your candy to stuff in their pinata.