Is Venezuela's economic problem due to inflation, or is it due to it not being productive?

[James972]

Neo.

Neoconseratives and neoliberals are pretty much the same thing, they really only differ by a small degree, and mostly in social policy.

battle in history has always been defined as between freedom and govt, not neo this or that. You get yourself all confused for nothing and then make no sense.

 

[James972]

No they didn't. China didn't "instantly" do anything, it's been a very slow conversion to private enterprise (30 years or so), and it's still officially a communist nation.

30 years is an instant after 1000's of years of liberal statist poverty. 1+1=2

 

[James972]

Nope. Inflation caused central banks to create more money.

econ 101 class one day one : inflation is creating money.

 

[James972]

Nope. Any shortage of goods can cause inflation.

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as Friedman said before he won his Nobel Prize. Inflation is everywhere and always an monetary phenomenon" i.e. it has nothing to do with shortage. Who need a child to reinvent the wheel? Go take your first econ course!! Why ruin quality of debate here?

 

[James972]

If every producer of a particular product except for one stopped producing, you don't think that remaining producer would jack prices up?
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actually inflation is a rise in the general price level not a rise in the price of one particular product. Econ 101

 

[James972]

you're just being obtuse. Understand?

so sorry; can you explain where basic conservatism is obtuse?

 

[Tigerace117]

issue is pragmatists who are socialist or capitalist?? Hillary wants free college. She a standard libcommie, and that was after Barry spent 8 years growing the govt to biggest level ever. Its never enough when you're a libcommie always needing to buy new votes is it?

Norman Thomas ( socialist presidential candidate)
The American people will never knowingly adopt Socialism. But under the name of 'liberalism' they will adopt every fragment of the Socialist program, until one day America will be a Socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.

There is no such thing as a "libcommie". It's an idiotic term. The rest of your post is just you having a hysterical meltdown.

 

[Tigerace117]

I would describe Hillary as a neoconservative and Bernie as a FDR style progressive.

FDR style progressives didn't make a habit of actively supporting totalitarian regimes in the process of committing various and sundry crimes against their own people.

"Neocon" seems to mostly get thrown at Hilary because she was a driving factor behind our support for the ouster of Gaddafi, who, since he armed every terrorist group under the sun and conducted multiple terrorist attacks in the West, really wasn't the tragedy some seem to think.

 

[Tigerace117]

The first part of your quote makes no sense to what you quoted me on, why do I have to ask for clarity? Evidence? Look at history, Cuba perhaps? Afghanistan holds the worlds largest deposits of Lithium, Bolivia the2nd most, wait until Bolivia puts in rail lines and doesn't cooperate. The USA is famous for destabilizing other govts. of course the media won't come out and say it but try some research before you offer me your money.

Afghanistan was under an absolutely horrific regime which actively aided and abetted terrorists which struck at the United States. That's why we went in, not because some fantasy about "lithium".

 

[MovingPictures]

There is no such thing as a "libcommie". It's an idiotic term. The rest of your post is just you having a hysterical meltdown.

Don't you understand?

They get to call you "libcommie", "communist", "Marxist", and all that stuff, but it's YOU that's the PC snowflake no matter what.

 

[Tigerace117]

Don't you understand?

They get to call you "libcommie", "communist", "Marxist", and all that stuff, but it's YOU that's the PC snowflake no matter what.

"James972" can not be used as a typical example of any ideological stance though. He simply doesn't comprehend reality and exists in his own fantasy bubble

 

[MovingPictures]

"James972" can not be used as a typical example of any ideological stance though. He simply doesn't comprehend reality and exists in his own fantasy bubble

Most of the right lives in that fantasy bubble I'm afraid.

In that bubble, Christmas is under attack, communists are everywhere, evolutionary biology is a conspiracy by Satan, and the Clinton's staged Fosters suicide.

 

[James972]

There is no such thing as a "libcommie". It's an idiotic term.

Hillary and Bernie run the Party, one a lib and one a commie, so libcommie is good term to describe Party today. How would describe it more accurately?

 

[James972]

Most of the right lives in that fantasy bubble I'm afraid.
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Jefferson lived in a fantasy bubble because he wanted freedom from big liberal govt?

 

[Tigerace117]

Hillary and Bernie run the Party, one a lib and one a commie, so libcommie is good term to describe Party today. How would describe it more accurately?

Bernie is a socialist, not a communist. The fact that you can't grasp that is absolutely pathetic.

"Libcommie" is a stupid term. It'd be like calling republicans "conservamorons".

I've repeatedly told you the actually accurate terms.

 

[Tigerace117]

Jefferson lived in a fantasy bubble because he wanted freedom from big liberal govt?

Jefferson fought a revolution to get freedom from a country in England which was deeply conservative. In his day and age, Jefferson was a liberal.

 

[ttwtt78640]

I would describe you as “delusional”. I would describe Hilary as a “Democrat” and Bernie as a “socialist”.

Based on the very important distinction between favoring "debt free" college and favoring "free" college one would suppose. We essentially have two major political parties in the USA, with more claiming to belong to neither, the party for a bigger federal government and the party for a huge federal government.

 

[Tigerace117]

Based on the very important distinction between favoring "debt free" college and favoring "free" college one would suppose. We essentially have two major political parties in the USA, with more claiming to belong to neither, the party for a bigger federal government and the party for a huge federal government.

We've tried having a tiny, ineffectual government. It didn't work well. At all.

 

[Unitedwestand13]

Based on the very important distinction between favoring "debt free" college and favoring "free" college one would suppose. We essentially have two major political parties in the USA, with more claiming to belong to neither, the party for a bigger federal government and the party for a huge federal government.

The articles of confederation revealed the flaws of limited government

 

[ttwtt78640]

We've tried having a tiny, ineffectual government. It didn't work well. At all.

We can continue to (federally) spend at 20% of GDP and tax at 18% of GDP but as our GDP continues to grow so does our national debt. It is far easier to promise free sandwiches than it is to find free sandwich makers.

 

[James972]

We've tried having a tiny, ineffectual government. It didn't work well. At all.

when did we try it?? I wonder why the liberal forgot to say and why he forgot to say how big he wants the govt to be?? Its never big enough for a liberal of course. Biggest ever when Obama took over all he wanted and did was to make it bigger still and now that's all Bernie Hillary want too. Do you understand they always need more welfare to buy my votes

 

[Tigerace117]

when did we try it?? I wonder why the liberal forgot to say and why he forgot to say how big he wants the govt to be?? Its never big enough for a liberal of course. Biggest ever when Obama took over all he wanted and did was to make it bigger still and now that's all Bernie Hillary want too. Do you understand they always need more welfare to buy my votes

Well, first we tried the Articles of Confederation, which created a very very very very very weak government and was dismissed by the founders as totally unworkable as time went on. Then we tried running a weak government under the new framework we built, but rebellion and mass treason caused that to be put aside, and the Great Depression ended the days of weak government forever.

I wonder why the conservative was too dumb to actually ask said question, as well as too dumb to face reality so he had to invent conspiracy theories about using welfare to "buy votes".

 

[James972]

Well, first we tried the Articles of Confederation, which created a very very very very very weak government and was dismissed by the founders as totally unworkable as time went on.

totally unworkable?? if so Constitution would have been an easy pass but far from it.

 

[Tigerace117]

totally unworkable?? if so Constitution would have been an easy pass but far from it.

Do you not possess reading comprehension? The whole reason the Constitution was created in the first place was that founders realized tiny tiny tiny tiny government was completely useless and put the whole country in danger.

 

[James972]

Great Depression ended the days of weak government forever.

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great depression was caused by huge govt. You have leaned this 95 times. strong govt prolonged depression for 16 years into world war that killed 60 million