okay, you can stop the freightgod parody now, you went too far
Hilarious and sad at the same time
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I don't come from a wealthy family.First off, as a member of a wealthy family, as stated before, I do remember that time. I was 14, but that doesnt matter much. I remember enron, arnold anderson, and the fact that I'm in the field should account for something. Maybe you didnt goto college, and dont understand the fact that you learn about the history that goes along with the subject you study, not just "3 +3 = 6."
Why do you think I have the article?? it was part of one of my classes.
If we use your logic, then we should just discredit those who believe in evolution. After all, they were not there during the time, and therefore they are incorrect.
Actually, all of history is probably wrong. After all, noone teaching me about it now was alive back then, IT MUST BE FAKE!!!
I started a business when you were 9 years old.
I graduated from college when you were 6 years old.
I did not major in economics or political science but I can tell you from experience that the year 1999 and business during the Clinton Administration was a hell of a lot more prosperous than the Bush period. The argument that our economic woes began during Clinton is not only absurd but it's just tired. The Republicans are constantly looking for a scapegoat. If it was the fault of the Democrats then why has this not been resolved in the past 8 years ?
Where a good or service was produced/takes place is completely irrelevant to the HDI calculation.
a guy that you would probably like
The HDI is a formula made up of: Life expectancy at birth, as an index of population health and longevity, knowledge and education, as measured by the adult literacy rate (with two-thirds weighting) and the combined primary, secondary, and tertiary gross enrollment ratio (with one-third weighting), and standard of living, as measured by the natural logarithm of gross domestic product (GDP) per capita at purchasing power parity (PPP) in United States dollars.
Our gdp increased for a bit during bush. Bush is terrible though, this isnt a Bush vs Clinton thing.
during clinton's admin Cell phones became mainstream, al gore invented the internet, dot com booms.
chuckle
I read that in the other guy's post.
But in response to his post.
How does it not affect their HDI? Has america not made major advancements in healthcare? Have these advances not increased the HDI of other countries?
Does standard of living not include goods and services used / received? Has america not created goods or rendered services? If we have, do these goods and services not increase the HDI of other countries?
I'm not arguing, just asking. I like to learn, and if you can teach me about HDI, something I dont know much about, I would appreciate it.
chuckle @ my spelling mistakes? perhaps you could enlighten me how "skeeze" is any better than my spelling mistakes? although I did point out your use of skeeze.
perhaps you could post helpful things? I dont get mad at people online
If you're going to provide evidence of your social awareness circa 1999, calling Arthur Anderson "Arnold" gives you about as much credibility as being a fan of "Robert Reagan" or that you remember when "the Googler" went public.
did I really say arnold? wow... in that case I'm an idiot. I am at work and shifting back and forth from work and this.
+1 to you, maybe I shuold proofread my posts.
freightGOD? Is that you??
Do you have a metric for "crappy" or is it based on your opinion?
What ?
You're contradicting yourself, and you are trying to tell someone how 1999 really was, based on what you've been told and read.
I'm basing my version of 1999 on real world professional experience, for which there is no substitute.
What does this have to do with my statement ?
I don't really see the point of making a distinction of where the good originate from, who cares what advances the U.S makes if a large percentage of the citizens in the U.S aren't able to get access to the advances (and thus their quality of life goes down)?
Okay, bets on who's ****ing with us? Westy's the only guy on the board
this funny...
If you really think it doesnt matter, go ahead and give me money. I'll just sit here. My HDI will go up and yours will go down.
It isn't taking HDI from the U.S and giving it to European countries, the metaphor is completely wrong.
HDI isn't something exchangeable, we refuse to implement universal healthcare, so our life expectancy suffers
why are you still talking?
because there is no possible way you really believe what you are typing
H8R was referring to my post, I don't need you to jump in and try to fight battles on my behalf.
The reason I didn't respond to his post was
1. He was correct that it wasn't a real video
2. He can be a dick with some of his post, but I've accepted that and it's OK, he's usually got some pretty smart things to say
3. As you saw, your out of context retorts of 'lib films' got you dick slapped.
4. My point had been acknowledged by BV in the earlier post, so I know when to shut up.
5. H8R can be a dick
6. Search for post by freightGOD and you'll see how similarly stupid you can sound.
There are those on this forum that are conservative and can debate intelligently and offer stimulating and constructive debate.
Let them speak...
you...shhhhhhhh
Why are you not reading?
The Politics board has a ton of great information laid out on these very subjects in some recent threads. Do yourself a favor, spend an hour or so just reading the threads and posts written by guys such as Ohio, Transcend, and a few other guys who sometime post relevant material in between the sarcasm. As you said before, knowledge is power and you're here to learn.
What? You have no clue about how these things work. You do not trade HDI like trading cards.
Holy moses.
I'll trade you some life expectancy if I get some of your adult literacy rate
Geez, 7 pages of troll chow. I turn my back for a few minutes, and the whole place goes to Scarsdale in a handbasket...
Could be a good deal. I have more literacy than i know what to do with, but my life expectancy may be short due to liking junk food. Have your people call my people.
Yeah.
I was hoping to get some input on the origin of the people in that video.
Instead some kid tries to give us an economics lesson, and tell us all about 1999.
Why are we blaming Clinton? I mean you can trace the current mess to probably anyone who sat in the white house the past 50+ years. To sit here and watch someone say that it all starts with Clinton shows a quite a bit of laziness in understanding what is happening and quite a paradigm in your thinking. It looks as though more than a few people have given up arguing with freightGOD^2 since it doesn't seem worth debating.
Anyway if you are referring to Clinton repealing glass-steagall, well the bill was pushed through a republican run congress, led by McCain's current top economic adviser, and it was veto-proof. It also deals with consolidation, the ability to make mega financial institutions, not giving money to those no good undeserving lazy po'folk.
If the article you are talking about is the changes Clinton made to the CRA (Community Reinvestment Act), well he did. This act was created in 1977, it didn't appear out of nowhere in 1999. It is also noteworthy that Bush has made changes to the CRA as well (including more deregulation). According to the Cleveland Fed (http://www.clevelandfed.org/research/Commentary/2000/1100.htm) the CRA loans were a little less profitable, somewhat due to late payments as well as default. The study states that delinquency was more common of the two. So I'd say that there is a bit more to all of this than your analysis implies.
Also there are many many many banks, which do not fall under the CRA and they gave out sub primes at twice the rate as those governed by the CRA. Your argument about the crisis (at least the Clinton part) is pretty much bullsh!t and your grasping at straws. I'm sorry but your going to have to better than that.
BTW, I'm not saying ol' BJ Bill is squeaky clean.
Anyway if you are referring to Clinton repealing glass-steagall, well the bill was pushed through a republican run congress, led by McCain's current top economic adviser, and it was veto-proof. It also deals with consolidation, the ability to make mega financial institutions, not giving money to those no good undeserving lazy po'folk.
If the article you are talking about is the changes Clinton made to the CRA (Community Reinvestment Act), well he did. This act was created in 1977, it didn't appear out of nowhere in 1999. It is also noteworthy that Bush has made changes to the CRA as well (including more deregulation). According to the Cleveland Fed (http://www.clevelandfed.org/research/Commentary/2000/1100.htm) the CRA loans were a little less profitable, somewhat due to late payments as well as default. The study states that delinquency was more common of the two. So I'd say that there is a bit more to all of this than your analysis implies.
Also there are many many many banks, which do not fall under the CRA and they gave out sub primes at twice the rate as those governed by the CRA. Your argument about the crisis (at least the Clinton part) is pretty much bullsh!t and your grasping at straws. I'm sorry but your going to have to better than that.
BTW, I'm not saying ol' BJ Bill is squeaky clean.
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FYI, and this is aimed directly at trebor, I don't moderate this board much but racist bigotry, as demonstrated in the beginning of this thread, won't be tolerated. Frankly, anyone who suggests that black democrats cause problems and tosses Africa in there as an example should probably be banned anyway on the basis of stupidity, but I'll let it slide if you can keep it out of future discussions.
Consider your first amendment rights oppressed.
Consider your first amendment rights oppressed.
I only have this much purchasing power because all my goods are made in China. Does that explain why Chinese people live so long?
you friggin jews....
Oh man, why did you have to go and say that ?
Now BV is going to ban you.
I'll have one less fvcktard to hassle.
What about my needs ?
Some people are too selfish.
I meant "juice".....
Shut up you cheese eating surrender monkey.
Now can we please get back to determining the origin of the idiots depicted in the first video ?
an evolved sea monkey
The title of this thread is very accurate.