The Economics Discussion Thread

Perhaps someone can answer this:

Vompatti wrote: I assumed an economical discussion would have much less words in it.

 We can't economize on words...

7% has got to beat the 40% odd that we know about in South Africa. I struggle to understand how I am to blame for Apartheid and am too pale and too male to qualify for any decent paying job in this country. My education is now useless and has been for a long time. Apparently my Bcomm Industrial Psychology degree is obsolete because of the colour of my skin hence I have spent the last ten years manufacturing signs, something I really learned to love and have made a good living out of however not my first choice it must be said.

While the war effort in Iraq has been bungled to some degree (maybe a large degree), there have been a lot of strides made in building infrastructure and getting an Iraqi government up and on their feet. The shoe throwing incident came during a press conference to say we will be out in 3 years no matter what, but people only care about the shoes.  While I am angling off to politics here and I will be glad that we will be spending a lot less money over there, to say we are "destroying Iraq for its oil" is out of line.  And whether or not we will be able to fix all of our problems after we are out, the answer is no.  You know why?  Because we are living in a world that will never be Nirvana and there is always another crisis around the bend.

People only talk about the negative of Iraq but there has been a lot of under publicized good to happen there as well.


Edited by johnobvious - December 16 2008 at 17:34

IVNORD wrote:     Back to the original question... it would be interesting to hear from people from oil producing countries. Countries like Russia, Venezuela, Iran (not much hope of finding a proghead there though). Their revenues fell tremendously, some 70% from peak to trough in 4 months

Edited by Peter - December 17 2008 at 00:16

Atavachron wrote: two things : 1.  Peter's right, Alex will kick your ass. 2.  Celine Dion is a man.

That's not a Celine Dion photo, it's a H.R.Giger painting

Atavachron wrote: two things : 1.  Peter's right, Alex will kick your ass. 2.  Celine Dion is a man.

We're keeping Bachman Turner Overdrive in secret reserve. You'll also notice no mention of hockey players. But then a good hockey team never mentions its' openness to using its' enforcer(s).

Perhaps you might want to try America  (THE BOOK) A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction or

Stephen Colbert - I Am America (And So Can You), but if you don't find Moore funny you probably won't like either of those.  Excuse me while I go and put some mayonnaise on some round bacon.

And now for something more economical:








Edited by Slartibartfast - December 20 2008 at 06:04

Henry Plainview wrote: Slartibartfast wrote: Perhaps you might want to try America  (THE BOOK) A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction or Stephen Colbert - I Am America (And So Can You), but if you don't find Moore funny you probably won't like either of those.  Excuse me while I go and put some mayonnaise on some round bacon. I really don't see many comparisons between Stewart's, Colbert's and Moore's humor, other than that they all hate George Bush. Except for The Word, I guess I can see that at Moore-esque. But I've always hated The Word, even as much as I like the rest of the show.

I don't see it so much as being a hatred of Bush but rather Bush being a easy target for jokes and if you look at it in that context, they actually love W.


Edited by Slartibartfast - December 22 2008 at 13:28