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Clarste One Winged Egret Since: Jun, 2009 Relationship Status: Non-Canon
One Winged Egret
#113276: Feb 25th 2016 at 10:43:13 PM

[up][up][up]I'm reasonably sure the road are newer than that, so it probably doesn't have much correlation.

AceofSpades Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
#113277: Feb 25th 2016 at 10:44:33 PM

The neglect of roads in general is a well known, long-standing issue, as is the same of bridgles, highways, lack of public transportation, etc.

Sixthhokage1 Since: Feb, 2013
#113278: Feb 26th 2016 at 12:33:37 AM

While I agree with the logic for not releasing them I do stand that Hillary's claim that she'd release them if Sander's did was stupid.
She didn't single out Sanders. What she said in that ABC interview was that she'll release her transcripts when everyone has to, expressly mentioning "the other side" i.e. Republicans. It actually very much disappoints me to see Sanders himself twisting that remark to jump on this bandwagon demanding her to release them.

Achaemenid HGW XX/7 from Ruschestraße 103, Haus 1 Since: Dec, 2011 Relationship Status: Giving love a bad name
HGW XX/7
#113279: Feb 26th 2016 at 3:32:04 AM

Senator Sanders's Proposed Policies and Economic Growth. Romer & Romer analyze Gerald Friedman's evaluation of Sanders's policies (5.3% growth and 300,000 jobs/monthly!). Both are economics professors at UC Berkeley, and Christina Romer was chair of the Council of Economic Advisers. They conclude that:

First, all the effects of Senator Sanders’s policies that he identifies are assumed to come through their impact on demand. However, his estimates of those demand effects are far too large to be credible—even given Friedman’s own assumptions.

Second, in assuming that demand stimulus can raise output 37% over the next 10 years relative to the Congressional Budget Office’s baseline forecast, Friedman is implicitly assuming that the U.S. economy is (and will continue to be for a long time) dramatically below its productive capacity. However, while some output gap likely still exists, the plausible range for the output gap is much too small to accommodate demand effects nearly as large as Friedman finds. As a result, capacity constraints would likely lead to inflation and the Federal Reserve raising interest rates long before such high growth rates were realized.

Third, a realistic examination of the impact of the Sanders policies on the economy’s productive capacity suggests those effects are likely to be small at best, and possibly even negative.

I believe the usual procedure is for Sanders supporters to find some tenuous connection of the authors' to Hillary Clinton or the ebil DNC, and thus dismiss the whole report as fabricated.

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SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#113280: Feb 26th 2016 at 3:40:39 AM

Is it correct that Sanders's policies are aimed only at the demand side of economic activity?

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Lost in Space
#113281: Feb 26th 2016 at 4:59:22 AM

Sanders' policies are indeed aimed primarily at the demand side, and assume a great deal of slack production capacity and slack labor force participation. It is the opinion of many of the cited economists that, while we may have had such slack eight years ago, it has atrophied, and if we try to force 5% catchup growth, we'll run into a hard wall of supply capacity before we return to the GDP trend as of 2006.

edited 26th Feb '16 5:00:58 AM by Fighteer

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Ramidel Since: Jan, 2001
#113282: Feb 26th 2016 at 5:02:21 AM

Okay. Who upgraded the Robot's software?

Seriously, I wonder if Rubio had hit the Despair Event Horizon before the debate and went in with a pure give-no-fucks attitude, because that's the best explanation I can come up with for Rubio suddenly turning around and whacking Trump like that.

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United Earth
#113284: Feb 26th 2016 at 5:29:32 AM

The wall 'just got 10ft taller' Donald Trump responded

Dont Feed The Troll.

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Ogodei Fuck you, Fascist sympathizers from The front lines Since: Jan, 2011
Fuck you, Fascist sympathizers
#113285: Feb 26th 2016 at 5:47:07 AM

I still don't know how he thinks he could make them pay. Threaten to cancel NAFTA if they don't pay?

AngelusNox Warder of the damned from The guard of the gates of oblivion Since: Dec, 2014 Relationship Status: Married to the job
Warder of the damned
#113286: Feb 26th 2016 at 5:48:55 AM

[up][up]I giggled, now I feel bad about it.

Inter arma enim silent leges
TerminusEst from the Land of Winter and Stars Since: Feb, 2010
#113287: Feb 26th 2016 at 5:50:00 AM

[up][up]

Threaten to recognise the drug cartels as the legal representatives of Mexico.

edited 26th Feb '16 5:50:09 AM by TerminusEst

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AngelusNox Warder of the damned from The guard of the gates of oblivion Since: Dec, 2014 Relationship Status: Married to the job
Warder of the damned
#113288: Feb 26th 2016 at 5:52:58 AM

[up]You mean they aren't already?

Inter arma enim silent leges
TerminusEst from the Land of Winter and Stars Since: Feb, 2010
#113289: Feb 26th 2016 at 5:54:47 AM

I was thinking of a more permanent arrangement.

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SciFiSlasher from Absolutely none of your business. Since: Dec, 2011 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
#113290: Feb 26th 2016 at 6:18:35 AM

Rubio emptied a whole fighter jet's worth of missiles on Trump in...what, 3 minutes?

And to get a nice look into my parents' heads-they think that Rubio was "being mean" by saying that Trump has never worked for any of the money he has, and because of this Rubio is a socialist. Srsly.

"Somehow the hated have to walk a tightrope, while those who hate do not."
DrDougsh Since: Jan, 2001
#113291: Feb 26th 2016 at 6:22:24 AM

Ironically enough, I think this kind of overuse of the word "socialist" is probably one of the reasons why America's youth isn't that alarmed by it any more, enough to consider supporting Sanders.

edited 26th Feb '16 6:27:18 AM by DrDougsh

TheHandle United Earth from Stockholm Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
United Earth
#113292: Feb 26th 2016 at 6:30:07 AM

They called Obama a socialist for eight years. The term is completely watered-down.

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Lost in Space
#113293: Feb 26th 2016 at 6:34:11 AM

Krugman: Twilight of the Apparatchiks

To summarize, the Republican Party elite is mainly made up of people who've gotten their comfortable positions by repeating the establishment's orthodoxy to each other and to the media ad nauseam. "Lower taxes, less government, fewer entitlements." They have become convinced that, because they believe in this wholeheartedly (or at least as long as they get paid for believing it), that the voters share their concerns. Unfortunately, this is false, and it's created a monstrous blind spot.

Rubio is the apotheosis of this ideology. He thinks that, by attacking Trump's "conservative credentials", he can win over voters who have, in the minds of Rubio's associates, been deluded by his stardom, blinded by his appeal to baser emotions. But he's wrong in very fundamental ways. The typical voter who supports Trump:

  • Does not care about "small government". They are fine with Social Security, Medicare, welfare, etc., in a general sense. They just don't want it going to blacks and Hispanics.
  • Does not care about "supporting the free market" through tax breaks and whatnot. Many of them probably agree that Big Business is just as much a problem as Big Government.
  • May or may not be motivated by religious dog whistles, such as abortion, but is deeply homophobic.
  • Is deeply racist and/or misogynistic, whether they consciously recognize it or not.
  • Is utterly disgusted with the political establishment in general and its patent corruption and alienation from the needs of the American people.

Edited to fix a few things.

edited 26th Feb '16 7:00:20 AM by Fighteer

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majoraoftime (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#113294: Feb 26th 2016 at 6:40:55 AM

[up] The NYT looked through some polls and reported that Trump supporters are the most reactionary on basically all social issues – a third of them wish the South had won the Civil War, want to ban gays and lesbians from entering the US, think the Japanese internment camps were dope, etc.

edited 26th Feb '16 6:49:10 AM by majoraoftime

sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#113295: Feb 26th 2016 at 6:55:03 AM

Looks like you have to log in to see the NY Times article.

FieldMarshalFry Field Marshal of Cracked from World Internet War 1 Since: Oct, 2015 Relationship Status: THIS CONCEPT OF 'WUV' CONFUSES AND INFURIATES US!
Field Marshal of Cracked
#113296: Feb 26th 2016 at 7:21:18 AM

sooooo fascists then

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Luminosity Since: Jun, 2012 Relationship Status: Lovey-Dovey
#113297: Feb 26th 2016 at 7:22:08 AM

Much to surprise of no one whatsoever.

Is there a video of Robot 2.0 attacking Trump yet?

FFShinra Since: Jan, 2001
#113298: Feb 26th 2016 at 7:27:43 AM

There is. And it is glorious.

Someone uploaded pugilist progamming into him.

Silasw A procrastination in of itself from A handcart to hell (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
A procrastination in of itself
#113299: Feb 26th 2016 at 7:29:50 AM

Can the video be linked to here?

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Aszur A nice butterfly from Pagliacci's Since: Apr, 2014 Relationship Status: Don't hug me; I'm scared
A nice butterfly
#113300: Feb 26th 2016 at 7:34:28 AM

Rubio went into the Matrix and got some training done

It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes

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