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  1. bodyman5000 and 1

    bodyman5000 and 1 Lions, Tigers, Me, Bears

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    Dropped it 6 feet and the good camera broke. I have a gear2 watch somewhere but I don't remember where. The video part I could be sneaky, the "hey you stupid cunt don't you know pizza pockets and rootbeer aren't good for your 6 kids?" part wouldn't go over too well.
     
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    donkiez Well-Known Member

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    So this is not a conspiracy?
     
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    SlyPokerDog Woof! Staff Member Administrator

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    My Otter Box case has saved my phone a few times. Got it free from Amazon, get their credit card and they give you $50 free Amazon money.
     
  4. Denny Crane

    Denny Crane It's not even loaded! Staff Member Administrator

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    Not a nationwide one affecting all jobs there are, no. And they're still not keeping new companies from forming and hiring whoever they want at whatever pay they can get agreement from the employees.
     
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    donkiez Well-Known Member

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    Actually it was nationwide and it effected pay of many people.

    Minimum wage keeps this happening on a broad national scale though. You like economics, tell me what happens to the price of unskilled labor with nearly unlimited supply and no price controls.
     
  6. bodyman5000 and 1

    bodyman5000 and 1 Lions, Tigers, Me, Bears

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    If you like giant clunky tonka style cases. The phone didn't get a scratch. It might not even be damaged, might be all the porn and a virus.
     
  7. Denny Crane

    Denny Crane It's not even loaded! Staff Member Administrator

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    It didn't affect what 7-11 pays or walgreens or costco or a few 10s of thousands of other companies.

    No dice. Huuuuge stretch fail.
     
  8. Denny Crane

    Denny Crane It's not even loaded! Staff Member Administrator

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    What happens when unemployment hits 4%?

    Wages go up.

    So instead of encouraging unemployment, maybe govt. policies should encourage employment?

    Duh.
     
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    It doesn't have to be a conspiracy for its outcomes to be evident. Are you quibbling with the use of "aim" as understood to be "intentional"? Well, yes, if the desired economic system carries with it an inherent unemployment rate, I'd call any support of that economic system to be an aim for unemployment.

    http://politicaleconomy.ie/?p=682

    Capitalism has never provided (with the exception of Nazi Germany), and will never provide, full employment, or anything close to it. Unemployment is a necessity under capitalism; and here’s why.

    Wages and profits are inversely related: when wages go up, profits tend to be reduced. Employers therefore want to reduce as much as possible the cost of wages. High unemployment disciplines workers and their unions and reduces the demand for wage increases, as workers are forced into negative competition with the unemployed. As businesses have become larger and global, this competition is now global, and workers are pitted against workers on the other side of the globe, reducing labour costs to secure profits.

    Employers also invest in new machinery and technology to reduce their cost of production; and far from making workers’ lives easier, these new innovations replace workers, as employers again seek to reduce their labour costs and mechanise their production process.





     
  10. Denny Crane

    Denny Crane It's not even loaded! Staff Member Administrator

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    Your source is dubious at best. Anticapitalist bullshit.

    There is never full employment because some fraction, at around 4%, are between jobs.

    So capitalism does provide as full employment as is possible.
     
  11. Denny Crane

    Denny Crane It's not even loaded! Staff Member Administrator

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    blue32 Who wants a mustache ride?

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    Oh, semantics. You said "You don't really know what you're talking about".
     
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    dviss1 Emcee Referee

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    If you read my post about the myths of SNAP benefits you will see that he really didn't know what he was talking about. That's a far cry from telling someone that they're full of shit.

    Body man also doesn't seem to understand the economics of the $1 turning into $1.73 of economic stimulus.
     
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    Denny Crane It's not even loaded! Staff Member Administrator

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    It is $.73, not more than a dollar. The tax collector needs to feed his family, too.
     
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    You have a lot of weird assertions in this post.
     
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    Not when you only privatize the gains and socialize the losses. Was capitalism doing so great when we were losing 750,000 jobs a month? Yeah capitalism did that shit... regardless of how much of a capitalist you are Denny, when you play football without face masking Rules somebody gets hurt.
     
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    Denny Crane It's not even loaded! Staff Member Administrator

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    It wasn't capitalism if there were regulations.

    So stand up that strawman and beat it up all you want.

    Capitalism doesn't socialize the risk or the rewards. Business doesn't take on absurd risk if the government is not going to bail them out. The crisis would not have happened because the poor risk loans would never have been made.

    Businesses played by social democracy rules and they fucked us all.
     
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    Just one dollar of SNAP/Food Stamp benefits creates a “ripple effect” through the economy. A study by industry research firm Moody’s Economy.com looked at the potential impact of each stimulus dollar. According to economist Mark Zandi, “some provide a lot of bang for the buck to the economy. Others … don’t.” Zandi said that the study shows the fastest way to infuse money into the economy is through expanding the SNAP/Food Stamp program.
     

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