ok…so I think my point last night was that IF you can accept that one business rises only at the same time another business fails (can anyone dispute this?) can you apply the same logic to people…
‘one person gets rich only as another person gets poorer…’

Is this a case for socialism?
Once again I took a stretched conclusion and stretched it even more…I should really have gone to college and been a professor or something…instead I’m just stuck making random statements that confuse people… 😉

thanks to matt for keeping me awake today (I honestly didn’t know that you studied economics before switching to the cop-out degree of psychology). we managed to unseriously discuss the CPI (americans tinker with it to make it look ‘better’), deficit spending, printing of money by govt’s, the sub prime housing crisis, how long the average bill is in circulation in the states, suppression of publication of money supply statistics, or inflation indices…discontinuation of M3 money supply statistics, Ron Paul, hyperinflation, me playing goal keeper on sunday, BBQ’s, who is actually benefiting from western governments running deficits, George Bush wrecking the US economy, food prices etc.
….OK when I say discuss I mean me copying and pasting articles from learned (please read and pronounce that as learn-ED, then you’ll be like william F buckley) people.

Tomorrow we discuss whether the tax rate matters as the government gets a small slice of every person to business or business to business transaction….If you can accept that argument does it even matter what the tax rate is, as eventually the government will get 100% (or is it 1,000,000,000%) of every dollar it prints back in the form of taxes…

…and Matt I still maintain that food prices as a percentage of household income (ok I didn’t say that last night, but taking inflation etc into account I think we can agree on that right?) has fallen. It’s certainly much cheaper to produce food as a multinational corporation than it was for Mr Ingalls to make a field of corn 100 years ago (ok a vague little house on the prairie comment…sweet).
…and they pass that savings onto me because they aren’t into profits…
wha!?!?!?!

Ok I may have lost this argument but only until you realize that the previously mentioned economics student is really more interested in stuff like this:

select distinct column_a,
(select count * from table_1 as table_2 where table_1.column_a <= table_2.column_a)
from table_1

you may have lost all credibility with that one mate…
you’re almost on par with stephanie who bought and sold my trust for a mere 25€.