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reinhardt and rogoff study on debt to gdp ratios has been debunked. probably won't make a difference and private debt is still being ignored.

bowles and simpson are back, obama is showing willingness to cut social security.

post your favorite cuts to social programs, privatizations, etc
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Mike Nelson here.
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hey. i'm glad you're doing well.
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political car tune
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WHAT IS THREAD EVEN ABOUT
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getfiscal posted:

hey. i'm glad you're doing well.



thanks!

libelous_slander posted:

WHAT IS THREAD EVEN ABOUT



reinhardt and rogoff are economists who did a study to promote austerity that has been influential in the us, europe, and possibly elsewhere. bowles and simpson are dudes who headed a deficit cutting commission ordered by obama. i'll add links later when i have more time maybe

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i hope they find an excel sheet error that totally debunks capitalism. then everyone will admit they were wrong and we can roll out the socialist state, if not full blown communism
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i'm trying to keep my delusions in check here
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Liberal economics has already been refuted. As for social security that's a liberal scheme as is everything else you mentioned. Probably the most important cut to social programs are in Europe, that's why Greek fertility rate has been increasing all through the austerity crisis.
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hi dm
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HenryKrinkle posted:

hi dm

i was going to post this but didn't. also how is your slaughterhouse thread going krinkle?

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we're about to get austerity despite having a GDP growth rate of 3%, 6% unemployment and a relatively tiny deficit, yay neoliberalism!
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dm aim'd me the other day, but i was already unconscious and didnt wake up while he was still online. still need to meet up w/ the bro in SF and get him drunk/coked out. i shall join him in insanity.
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drugs are cool and all but probably not for a literal bona fide person legitimately in need of therapy and rehabilitation.

such as yourself
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drugs are gaey
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HenryKrinkle posted:

hi dm



libelous_slander posted:

HenryKrinkle posted:

hi dm

i was going to post this but didn't. also how is your slaughterhouse thread going krinkle?



hi!

aerdil posted:

dm aim'd me the other day, but i was already unconscious and didnt wake up while he was still online. still need to meet up w/ the bro in SF and get him drunk/coked out. i shall join him in insanity.



it's gonna be a while before i'm in SF again but one of these days for sure

gyrofry posted:

drugs are cool and all but probably not for a literal bona fide person legitimately in need of therapy and rehabilitation.

such as yourself



i'm never going to be the same without the benzos and amphetamines but that's a good thing in terms of my life. i can't do drugs now anyways b/c it will increase the likelihood/severity of psychosis

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capitalism.flv
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Ironicwarcriminal posted:

we're about to get austerity despite having a GDP growth rate of 3%, 6% unemployment and a relatively tiny deficit, yay neoliberalism!



That's called countercyclical Keynesian fiscal policy.

I know you blew that off but the fact that fertility is going up in Greece is really remarkable, it shows just how effective social security has been in annihilating the white race.

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glad you are doing better dm!

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I don't know who that is and I really dont' care.

Meanwhile on IA

http://forums.islamicawakening.com/f18/report-cia-pumps-%E2%80%98ghost-money%E2%80%99-afghan-president%E2%80%99s-65477/

For more than a decade, suitcases, plastic bags, and backpacks filled with tens of millions of U.S. dollars were delivered monthly to the office of Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai as a “courtesy” from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), The New York Times reported, citing current and former Afghan advisers on Monday.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-22343030

Afghan President Hamid Karzai confirms secret US cash 'help'
Karzai Mr Karzai said his office "appreciated" the assistance, which helped with several legitimate ventures

The Afghan president has admitted his office received secret payments from the US, but says the amounts were small and used legitimately. Hamid Karzai was responding to a New York Times report that alleged the CIA sent suitcases stuffed with cash to the president's office on a regular basis.
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prikryl posted:

capitalism.flv




damn....that's a spicy meatball

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toy posted:

glad you are doing better dm!




thanks. the non-drug part was anxiety about sex and relationships (never had either) driving the psychosis

i thought LF had cameras in my house and i was talking to the walls and searching vents and stuff.

i thought i was the mahdi and that i was being broadcast across the middle east. i tried to broker a deal for Iran to peacefully enrich uranium to improve its terms of trade vis a vis the gulf states (LF represent). one of my housemates where i live now thought she was the second coming of jesus and another thought that she was god so i'm in good company!

i go outside now

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lookin forward to following this thread, welcome back
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laika posted:

i go outside now


catchphrase.

your lf threads were very influential to my current thinking, especially the one here on phenomenology, so thanks!

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Poronto
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welcome back both to the rhizzone and reality
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La locura de DM es muy divertido.
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good to hear DM, for some reason i think of your "There is No Alternative" av with the little boats spraying water on the flaming oil rig quite a lot
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thanks everyone. i still get ideas of reference from headlines on news.google.com sometimes but i can ignore them now

Goethestein posted:

La locura de DM es muy divertido.



i'm conflicted about this b/c laughing at it gives me a little relief sometimes, but it was really scary at the time and i thought that i was going to die which was not funny

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didja see this

http://beyondmeds.com/2010/01/04/alternative-for-psychosis/
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Crow posted:

didja see this

http://beyondmeds.com/2010/01/04/alternative-for-psychosis/



thanks, sounds cool cause antipsychotics suck and turn me into a zombie at too high of a dosage. i do some stuff kinda like that i guess.

at least one of my therapists knows who lacan is

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laika posted:

i thought LF had cameras in my house and i was talking to the walls and searching vents and stuff.



that part is true, they let all the mods know about the lf spy network

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i always wanted to internet detective cbass and call hm and whisper "helldump" until he hung up
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Mike Nelson here.
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Goethestein posted:

i always wanted to internet detective cbass and call hm and whisper "helldump" until he hung up

that's weird of you.

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ya.
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mustang19 posted:

Ironicwarcriminal posted:

we're about to get austerity despite having a GDP growth rate of 3%, 6% unemployment and a relatively tiny deficit, yay neoliberalism!



That's called countercyclical Keynesian fiscal policy.

I know you blew that off but the fact that fertility is going up in Greece is really remarkable, it shows just how effective social security has been in annihilating the white race.


^ #1 most compelling argument in favor of social security

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laika posted:

toy posted:

glad you are doing better dm!




thanks. the non-drug part was anxiety about sex and relationships (never had either) driving the psychosis

i thought LF had cameras in my house and i was talking to the walls and searching vents and stuff.

i thought i was the mahdi and that i was being broadcast across the middle east. i tried to broker a deal for Iran to peacefully enrich uranium to improve its terms of trade vis a vis the gulf states (LF represent). one of my housemates where i live now thought she was the second coming of jesus and another thought that she was god so i'm in good company!

i go outside now


hi dm i can't say whose rereg i am but i'm glad you're gonna be ok

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i thought laika was a soviet space dog alt but dm being back is good too. take it easy dm
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ps the bbc reported the reinhardt/rogoff spreadsheet business as a matter of academics overrepresenting the effect of something which is accepted by everyone as being true economic fact. nothings changed, or will change
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Poronto
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slumlord is tape speed
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good on ya dm, happy to hear you're better
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Willa I'm honestly not trying to butt heads with you (again), but I think it's a mistake to refer to entitlement cuts as austerity. Austerity is not 'cuts we don't like', it's an economic theory for a specific situation, which is that governments faced with recession should slash spending immediately in order to reduce their deficits, which will boost confidence and spur the economy, which will increase government revenue further reducing deficits.

Austerity is complete B.S., but by accepting the framing that entitlement cuts are austerity you've conceded that entitlement cuts are a deficit issue. SS spending is not contributing to the deficit.* Nor does it contribute to the lagging economy. C-CPI would not slash spending immediately it phases in over a long time so it doesn't fit the theory of austerity, at all. Basically the deficit is just a convenient cover to justify cutting entitlements for completely different reasons. Reducing the deficit sounds like a good thing to most people, but C-CPI would not do that and we should help as many people as possible understand that entitlement spending and deficits are not linked and won't be linked for a very long time.

* FICA revenue does however contribute to the deficit because by statute the surplus goes into t-bills, and thus the SS surplus *on paper* looks like federal deficit, but no one is proposing reducing FICA withholdings