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Big Lies in Politics (Thomas Sowell)
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| July 31, 2012
| Thomas Sowell
Posted on 07/30/2012 9:12:10 AM PDT by jazusamo
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posted on
07/30/2012 9:12:19 AM PDT
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jazusamo
To: jazusamo
What else is to be expected from the party that brought us the biggest FRAUD in American history.
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posted on
07/30/2012 9:14:19 AM PDT
by
Hotlanta Mike
(Resurrect the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC)...before there is no America!)
To: jazusamo
Does anyone else find it interesting that the rich are getting richer when the general public is spending less and less? How does this work?
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posted on
07/30/2012 9:16:35 AM PDT
by
RC2
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDMeDmV0ufU)
To: abigail2; Amalie; American Quilter; arthurus; awelliott; Bahbah; bamahead; Battle Axe; ...
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posted on
07/30/2012 9:18:08 AM PDT
by
jazusamo
("Intellect is not wisdom" -- Thomas Sowell)
To: jazusamo
Now, I’d vote for Sowell for prez in a heartbeat.
As for the Obamadork...as Thumper’s mother said, “If you cannot say anything nice, don’t say anything at all.”
Oh, what the heck...the Obamadork is a cretinistic idiot that should shove his head up his smelly Obama, take a deep breath, and hold it.
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posted on
07/30/2012 9:28:17 AM PDT
by
Da Coyote
To: jazusamo
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posted on
07/30/2012 9:49:47 AM PDT
by
Kaslin
(Acronym for OBAMA: One Big Ass Mistake America)
To: RC2
What are you writing about? If the CBO says the most highly compensated are earning less, then they are not getting richer than those in less-well-compensated tranches lower down. So they aren’t getting richer.
So what are you typing about?
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posted on
07/30/2012 10:21:15 AM PDT
by
BelegStrongbow
(St. Joseph, patron of fathers, pray for us!)
To: jazusamo
Thanks for the ping jaz. He’s giving them “H” again. chuckle. I love this guy. He’s great.
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posted on
07/30/2012 10:41:41 AM PDT
by
rockinqsranch
(Dems, Libs, Socialists, call 'em what you will, they ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.)
To: rockinqsranch
Amen! I love it when he calls out Zer0 and his cronies as liars.
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posted on
07/30/2012 10:46:32 AM PDT
by
jazusamo
("Intellect is not wisdom" -- Thomas Sowell)
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posted on
07/30/2012 10:47:31 AM PDT
by
jazusamo
("Intellect is not wisdom" -- Thomas Sowell)
To: BelegStrongbow
Exactly...The third paragraph is pretty clear to me.
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posted on
07/30/2012 10:49:16 AM PDT
by
jazusamo
("Intellect is not wisdom" -- Thomas Sowell)
To: jazusamo
I saw something the other day that said the Piketty and Saez have just issued a new report perpetuating this lie. The left uses those two idiots for all the “data” that support this lie. Dr. Sowell and Alan Reynolds tear their BS “data” apart in “Economic Facts and Fallacies” and “Wealth and Income”. Both books are great and I highly recommend them. They show very clearly the tricks that Piketty and Saez use to cook the numbers.
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posted on
07/30/2012 11:07:11 AM PDT
by
r-q-tek86
("It doesn't matter how smart you are if you don't stop and think" - Dr. Sowell)
To: jazusamo
Too many people from Harvard, Yale and Princeton have done great damage to this country with its progressive indoctrination program of poly-sci, Law and government. The greatest concentration of graduates are in the Washington DC corridor. This is by far the biggest group-think conclave on earth.
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posted on
07/30/2012 11:47:16 AM PDT
by
Warrior Nurse
(I am an American Fighting Man, fighting to keep our country free from despots and idiots)
To: BelegStrongbow
Exactly my point. In other words, how can the rich get richer, if no one is spending their money to purchase their products? Guess I didn’t make myself clear.
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posted on
07/30/2012 11:47:39 AM PDT
by
RC2
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDMeDmV0ufU)
To: RC2
Apparently you are on the wrong forum...or can't read.
Which is it?
To: Hotlanta Mike
What else is to be expected from the party that brought us the biggest FRAUD in American history.Which one? I can think of at least 3 without giving it any thought.
Mark
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posted on
07/30/2012 12:14:23 PM PDT
by
MarkL
(Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
To: RC2
Oh, I see now. You were asking how anyone could try to make that case given the data.
Well, as we see in so many cases, facts are dispensible when a Democrat is speaking and it is racist/sexist/homophobic for anyone to even question what possible authority they might be relying upon.
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posted on
07/30/2012 1:21:21 PM PDT
by
BelegStrongbow
(St. Joseph, patron of fathers, pray for us!)
To: jazusamo
the data cited by the Congressional Budget Office are based on Internal Revenue Service statistics for specific individuals and specific households over time. The IRS can follow individuals and households because it can identify the same people over time from their Social Security numbers. Most other data, including census data, are based on compiling statistics in a succession of time periods, without the ability to tell if the actual people in each income bracket are the same from one time period to the next. The turnover of people is substantial in all brackets and is huge in the top one percent. Most people in that bracket are there for only one year in a decade.
All sorts of statements are made in politics and in the media as if that "top one percent" is an enduring class of people, rather than an ever-changing collection of individuals who have a spike in their income in a particular year, for one reason or another. Turnover in other income brackets is also substantial.
I dont know if anyone else brought up the idea that the poor quintile is actually loaded with young people just starting out, and the rich quintile is loaded with mature people having a career year before Sowell did - but I dont much care. Sowell is the one who pointed it out to me, and and as far as Im concerned Sowell deserves the Nobel Prize.
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posted on
07/30/2012 1:29:26 PM PDT
by
conservatism_IS_compassion
(The idea around which “liberalism" coheres is that NOTHING actually matters except PR.)
To: jazusamo
Thanks for the Ping.
"These transferrers are in both government and private social welfare institutions. They have every incentive to promote dependency, from which they benefit both professionally and psychically, and to imagine that they are creating social benefits."
They get paid, and get to feel good about "helping the little guy."
I saw an interview of Dr. Sowell on his book "The Thomas Sowell Reader" where he was asked, if he had a single piece of advice for "Obama." Tom's advice?: "Resign."
I know who I'd rather have a beer with. . .
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posted on
07/30/2012 1:48:58 PM PDT
by
Flotsam_Jetsome
(If America were a car, the "Check President" light would be on.)
To: conservatism_IS_compassion
Good points and Sowell definitely deserves the Nobel Prize. He'll probably never see one but if presented one at he would have earned it.
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posted on
07/30/2012 1:49:24 PM PDT
by
jazusamo
("Intellect is not wisdom" -- Thomas Sowell)
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