Rob's House Posted December 10, 2013 Share Posted December 10, 2013 talk to me after you've won the nobel prize for economics and land a job a princeton. Tell us about his Nobel Prize and how it relates to the content of the article. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiberius Posted December 10, 2013 Author Share Posted December 10, 2013 Tell us about his Nobel Prize and how it relates to the content of the article. Economic interpretation? Duh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob's House Posted December 10, 2013 Share Posted December 10, 2013 I must say, I'm impressed that most of our resident liberals seem to understand that changing minimum wage to $15/hr over night is !@#$ing stupid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TakeYouToTasker Posted December 10, 2013 Share Posted December 10, 2013 So the union takes its pension from the union? How's that work? Are you calling James K Polk a Nazi??? I'm also pretty sure that the Nazi's called themselves "Nazi's". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3rdnlng Posted December 10, 2013 Share Posted December 10, 2013 So the union takes its pension from the union? How's that work? Are you calling James K Polk a Nazi??? You know, at some point in time you really aren't worth responding to. Somehow, your idiocy has brought me back a few times. You need to understand what the union leadership is all about. They spend the poor bloke's money on what they want and tickle that poor bloke's only southern tier hole with their non blessed k-y lacking screw job. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted December 10, 2013 Share Posted December 10, 2013 MSN Careers - 15 jobs that pay $15 an hour of course, you need training for them...............so that's unfair McDonalds Orders 7,000 Touchscreen Kiosks To Replace Cashiers ... . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiberius Posted December 10, 2013 Author Share Posted December 10, 2013 MSN Careers - 15 jobs that pay $15 an hour of course, you need training for them...............so that's unfair McDonalds Orders 7,000 Touchscreen Kiosks To Replace Cashiers ... . White Pride??? Seriously? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillsFanM.D. Posted December 10, 2013 Share Posted December 10, 2013 (edited) why didn't I think of that solution! If everyone simply improved themselves then everyone wouldn't need to have a minimum wage job. If everyone were rich, then we wouldn't have any poor. Maybe we could solve all of our problems by making everyone a CEO? Geez, this simple... Hyperbole much? Shouldn't an employee who is entering a minimum wage job have realistic expectations? Is is rational to expect a 100% pay increase (in some cases)? Your implied extreme (making everyone a CEO) is as much of a canard as someone "expecting/demanding" 15/hour to work at McDonalds. And I'll never apologize for hard work. Some folks do get screwed over....and some do get lucky. Most people, however, have the opportunity to make real choices that have real impact on their long term earning potential. I came from very poor parents so I know it can be done. Doesn't make me an expert but it tells me to reject fatalism when I hear it. Edited December 10, 2013 by BillsFanM.D. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted December 10, 2013 Share Posted December 10, 2013 (edited) Tell us about his Nobel Prize and how it relates to the content of the article. “Here’s the world as many Republicans see it: Unemployment insurance, which generally pays eligible workers between 40 and 50 percent of their previous pay, reduces the incentive to search for a new job. As a result, the story goes, workers stay unemployed longer.”–former Enron adviser Paul Krugman, New York Times, Dec. 9 “Public policy designed to help workers who lose their jobs can lead to structural unemployment as an unintended side effect. . . . In other countries, particularly in Europe, benefits are more generous and last longer. The drawback to this generosity is that it reduces a worker’s incentive to quickly find a new job. Generous unemployment benefits in some European countries are widely believed to be one of the main causes of ‘Eurosclerosis,’ the persistent high unemployment that affects a number of European countries.”–”Macroeconomics” by Paul Krugman and Robin Wells, second edition, 2009. That just about covers it all. . I apologize to the rest of the board, I just wanted to see if it would be easy to trap a response with the McDonalds link of course it was................there were many links to the same story, but I knew that that one would get a laugh. . Edited December 10, 2013 by B-Man Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TakeYouToTasker Posted December 10, 2013 Share Posted December 10, 2013 White Pride??? Seriously? While I also questioned the web forum linked, I checked back to the OP and the article sourced, which is called Neowin. Neowin is a very reputable tech content website. Neowin reports, directly from the mouth of the President of McDonalds Europe, that those kiosks are for use in Europe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiberius Posted December 10, 2013 Author Share Posted December 10, 2013 You know, at some point in time you really aren't worth responding to. Somehow, your idiocy has brought me back a few times. You need to understand what the union leadership is all about. They spend the poor bloke's money on what they want and tickle that poor bloke's only southern tier hole with their non blessed k-y lacking screw job. So, you don't know what you are talking about... While I also questioned the web forum linked, I checked back to the OP and the article sourced, which is called Neowin. Neowin is a very reputable tech content website. Neowin reports, directly from the mouth of the President of McDonalds Europe, that those kiosks are for use in Europe. Wonderful! But the fact it was posted via a Iron Cross displaying White Pride nonsense website says it all. So "White Pride" is happy corporate America is eliminating jobs? Didn't I say that the wealthy were using the angry poor whites for political power? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TakeYouToTasker Posted December 10, 2013 Share Posted December 10, 2013 (edited) So, you don't know what you are talking about... Union leadership is about the power structure, not about the worker. They sell their workers down the line routinely to score political points. So, you don't know what you are talking about... Wonderful! But the fact it was posted via a Iron Cross displaying White Pride nonsense website says it all. So "White Pride" is happy corporate America is eliminating jobs? Didn't I say that the wealthy were using the angry poor whites for political power? Incorrect. It posted from a discussion forum, like this one. The thread, if I remember correctly (feel free to check, given the link) is actually more than 70 pages long, which seems to indicate disagreement and dispute. The same article can now be found here, where you post. Does that invalidate you, somehow? Edited December 10, 2013 by TakeYouToTasker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4merper4mer Posted December 10, 2013 Share Posted December 10, 2013 (edited) I'm also pretty sure that the Nazi's called themselves "Nazi's". A little history lesson though. As with many political systems that run out of control, the Nazis started with a seemingly benign premise. After Germany got its butt kicked in WW1, the other countries made them pay war reparations which they could not afford. This should have been enough but then they started making fun of Germans who now had to pay barrels of money for like one potato. This led Germans to an inferiority complex....they felt very low on the totem pole, like a "Z" feels in the alphabet. They tried a couple of friendly methods to rid themselves of this shame. The first was naming themselves "Not Z's", which later morphed into Nazis. This did in fact make them feel better for a while, but the economic woes were still there and other countries still looked down on them. Next, they tried to deflect criticism by inventing the Pollack joke. Although VERY successful in the long run, the Pollack joke genre took a long time to get off the ground. Years. These were years the Germans did not have and all of their original good intentions morphed into anger and they attacked Poland. Then things got really ugly. Also, the real problem with Neville Chamberlain was not his Obama type Los Gatos approach to foreign policy, but the time he got boozed up with Hitler. When Hitler passed out, he drew a fake mustache on Hitler but his Sharpie ran out of ink. Hitler got pissed and the ink would not come off so he just grew that stupid thing for real to remind Chamberlain. Edited December 10, 2013 by 4merper4mer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiberius Posted December 10, 2013 Author Share Posted December 10, 2013 Union leadership is about the power structure, not about the worker. They sell their workers down the line routinely to score political points. Incorrect. It posted from a discussion forum, like this one. The thread, if I remember correctly (feel free to check, given the link) is actually more than 70 pages long, which seems to indicate disagreement and dispute. The same article can now be found here, where you post. Does that invalidate you, somehow? Always defending this stuff! Mandella evil, Confederacy good, Nazis misunderstood...rolls eyes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TakeYouToTasker Posted December 10, 2013 Share Posted December 10, 2013 (edited) Always defending this stuff! Mandella evil, Confederacy good, Nazis misunderstood...rolls eyes That's slanderous. Actual positions: Socialist leaders should be condemned as the despots that they are. State's rights are a necessity for a free people, regardless of the flaws of the world 150 years ago. The sourced article has nothing to do with the web forum it was linked from. But I forgive you. Given that you have no good arguments to make, and you're getting slapped at every turn, you have no avenue left but to lie about the motives of your betters. Would you care to comment on the Neowin article? Edited December 10, 2013 by TakeYouToTasker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4merper4mer Posted December 10, 2013 Share Posted December 10, 2013 That's slanderous. But I forgive you. Given that you have no good arguments to make, and you're getting slapped at every turn, you have no avenue left but to lie about the motives of your betters. Would you care to comment on the Neowin article? It is refreshing to watch two liberals go at it instead of the usual liberal vs. conservative stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TakeYouToTasker Posted December 10, 2013 Share Posted December 10, 2013 (edited) It is refreshing to watch two liberals go at it instead of the usual liberal vs. conservative stuff. Why, hello there, anti-capitalism neo-mercantilist/corporatist. Edited December 10, 2013 by TakeYouToTasker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4merper4mer Posted December 10, 2013 Share Posted December 10, 2013 Why, hello there, anti-capitalism neo-mercantilist/corporatist. Did you learn that this semester from that Hogs-Norton professor of yours? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TakeYouToTasker Posted December 10, 2013 Share Posted December 10, 2013 Did you learn that this semester from that Hogs-Norton professor of yours? Given your devout leftist subservience to the neo-mercantilist state, I just assumed you could properly self identify. Sorry for over estimating you. I promise it will never happen again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TPS Posted December 10, 2013 Share Posted December 10, 2013 Did you learn that this semester from that Hogs-Norton professor of yours? hey, you can read his stuff on wiki, or so he says... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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