Economics Questions

Re: Welfare state expenditure reduces support for right wing populism

Autolykos — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 19:25:50 GMT

Sure you will...

I guess that's another question I'll repeat periodically.

Re: Welfare state expenditure reduces support for right wing populism

alsdjfalsdjfos — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 19:20:43 GMT

Iiii'll get back to you.

Re: Welfare state expenditure reduces support for right wing populism

Autolykos — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 19:11:12 GMT

What's your definition of "absurd"? Regardless, what obligates me - prima facie or otherwise - to agree with that definition?

Re: Welfare state expenditure reduces support for right wing populism

alsdjfalsdjfos — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 19:07:51 GMT

Mostly, your usually rigorous logical analysis and insistence on taking everything literally. Trying to take absurd things seriously is probably where humor comes from.

Re: Welfare state expenditure reduces support for right wing populism

Autolykos — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 19:04:01 GMT

I do plan on keeping my word. I wouldn't doubt that, if I were you.

What exactly makes me allegedly "fun to talk to"?

Re: Welfare state expenditure reduces support for right wing populism

alsdjfalsdjfos — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 18:53:59 GMT

You're fun to to talk to, Autolykos.

Re: Welfare state expenditure reduces support for right wing populism

Autolykos — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 18:51:23 GMT

Along with that, I'm going to ask you again what you mean by "gotta tag myself again". I'm going to repeat these unanswered questions every so often until you answer them.

Re: Welfare state expenditure reduces support for right wing populism

Autolykos — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 18:04:33 GMT

I'm not going to try reading between the lines there. Instead, I'll just repeat what I said: Perhaps you'd be so bold as to explain just what exactly you mean by "moral and epistemological nihilism".

Re: Welfare state expenditure reduces support for right wing populism

alsdjfalsdjfos — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 18:00:23 GMT

"Public education is good because it saves kids from Jesus Camp!"

"Nuh-uh, you can't prove that letting kids be knocked up at 16 christian fundamentalists is a violation of individual liberty!"

"The anarchocapitalist private legal agency known as the "US federal government" does these things! And the empirical results are this!"

"Nuh-uh, you can't prove that knowledge can be gained through induction!"

Re: Welfare state expenditure reduces support for right wing populism

Autolykos — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 17:56:07 GMT

Perhaps you'd be so bold as to explain just what exactly you mean by "moral and epistemological nihilism".

Re: Welfare state expenditure reduces support for right wing populism

alsdjfalsdjfos — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 17:52:16 GMT

There's no point because 99% of your counterarguments are based on moral and epistemological nihilism. I might as well argue with Monty Python.

Re: Welfare state expenditure reduces support for right wing populism

Autolykos — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 17:40:48 GMT

You know what. I don't think you're that dumb. Try again.

Re: Welfare state expenditure reduces support for right wing populism

alsdjfalsdjfos — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 17:39:47 GMT

But would that result in other problems?

Sure, but it would have ended the depression in Germany sooner and possibly prevented Hitler from coming to power, those would be pretty good things in my opinion.

What now, Auto?

Re: Welfare state expenditure reduces support for right wing populism

Autolykos — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 17:33:14 GMT

Are you afraid to respond to my last post, Ban-Evader? Why would that be?

Re: Welfare state expenditure reduces support for right wing populism

Johnny Doe — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 17:16:00 GMT

alsdjfalsdjfos:
Johnny Doe:
So you`re saying that if the the welfare state was dismantled, protectionism, fiat-monetary system, trade regulations, central banking etc was abolished, i.e. actual free trade/immigration etc was permitted, than Hitlers followers would gain influence? If so, why do you think that?
Because 1) the working class would be further pissed on

What does "being pissed on" entail?

alsdjfalsdjfos:
and 2) the ideal system you speak of will never actually be implemented

How do you know?

alsdjfalsdjfos:
and the only purpose it serves is vulgar liberal apologetics.

How does it serve them?

alsdjfalsdjfos:
What was the inflation rate in Germany the Nazis made their electoral breakthrough in 1930? What was the unemployment rate? Was Germany on the Gold Standard? Did Germany have public healthcare and universal welfare then?

Don`t know.

alsdjfalsdjfos:
Unemployment was the problem that Adolf claimed to be able to solve. Had the government in 1932 lowered interest rates and started its own New Deal, Hitler would have had much less to stand on.

But would that result in other problems?