I think you, spike and a couple others are all he talks to. Besides those, Ricter must have the longest ignore list on ET.
Ok, so now we're back to productivity again. At the end of the day, people without jobs is bad for an economy. You can spin it anyway you want, but that's the point.
ROFL. Anyway, I have 10 on my list, three of whom appear to be banned anyway. I don't hold a candle to the true "ignorers" around here. : )
"At one of our dinners, Milton [Friedman] recalled traveling to an Asian country in the 1960s and visiting a worksite where a new canal was being built. He was shocked to see that, instead of modern tractors and earth movers, the workers had shovels. He asked why there were so few machines. The government bureaucrat explained: âYou donât understand. This is a jobs program.â To which Milton replied: âOh, I thought you were trying to build a canal. If itâs jobs you want, then you should give these workers spoons, not shovels.â
Tsing, I'll leave you to argue with Ricter. He's as dumb as a rock and I don't see any point in having multiple page discussions with him.
Its odd seeing a socialist saying who cares about jobs being lost productivity is going up. In fact its ridiculous. So when a company ships jobs overseas to improve productivity leftists demonize them... But when a leftist president and his policies destroy the economic base of the country its a good thing. Why don't leftist just admit they want drones dependent on the state so they get become more powerful.
The goddam White House is no different than Russians during the cold war. Russians were told that the world outside was going to collapse so much they believed that it had collapsed. They were told they were better off. These bullshit artists have been shoveling workers off onto disability and reclassifying them away from the unemployment statistics when they give up looking for work.... to keep the unemployment number down, to get the votes!! They don't give a rats' ass about the unemployed people, truly, they don't give a rats' ass... It's all about expansion of government and who knows where/when the cycle will end... So far the only reason I'm living in the US is that the crime statistics are reasonable.. I looked at some places that had more economic freedom, more natural food supplies, more year-round sunlight.. but they are all overrun with kidnapping gangsters and s%^t like that. Once the US's crime stats build to that level, myself and a lot of others will probably gtfo because the southern hemisphere is a lot less polluted and has a lot less war..