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It's food stamps NOS. Cheese. Milk. Hamburger. Buns to put the hamburger in. It's not going to turn the world upside down.

This would take us back into discussing what's really going on with nutrition assistance in the US. Why don't you research that topic?

It's just nutrition assistance. Nothing drastic.

The US state does give food to kids. So do state governments and city and county governments.

Or you could look within yourself for why you read a lack of empathy into the things people say.

Actually I was just asking for your argument. You interpreted that as a lack of empathy. Shadow.

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Moral hazard, NOS. That's the argument you're missing.

More likely it's because their parents didn't apply for the federal, state, or local government nutrition aid available. You see, for most Americans, ...

I already gave NOS my own brickhouse of an argument for government intervention. I just noticed you were continuing to rag NOS, so I wondered what you...

The right to life is mentioned in the Declaration of Independence. I don't think it shows up anywhere in the Constitution. We would need a group of ju...

What was your argument for why the state should intervene in the economy?

Ok :up:

I don't think the United States would exist if it had earlier had a laissez-faire "system"

This argument is just a denial of facts that are readily available. You need to try the moral hazard argument.

Well, no. I just gave you an example of how a lack of regulation creates chaos which requires state intervention. The Great Depression is obviously an...

Why?

No. There was no regulation of derivatives. The story is that Greenspan was warned that this pocket of confusion was brewing and he refused to do anyt...

Ok. So the state, just by allowing people to help one another, is actually doing the helping. :up:

The 2008 crisis is widely known to have resulted from a gap in regulation of the financial industry. One little gap led to the disappearance of 55 tri...

So the fact that the state forebears waging war on religious organizations means the state helped that woman?

What do you mean? As an example, I recently had peripheral dealings with a woman who was homeless and apparently suicidal. I knew of three entities in...

I don't think so. The state isn't the only entity that can guarantee the community's moral expectations. If you think the state has to take that role,...

I found the source on Google images. That's why I know that graph needs more explanation. Mine too. :grimace:

The main problem is that it tends to fail. 2008 is an example. A lack of regulation leads to the explosion of a speculative bubble and everyone suffer...

So what we did there with the "real GDP" graph was subtract out the price portion of the value of goods. That graph basically shows that America makes...

Jesus, you're in a lot of pain, aren't you?

You don't? The US is at full employment. As labor demands higher wages, capital has a choice: raise prices or take a hit. So they raise prices. That w...

Sure. And in general, he wasn't saying that all countries are headed to being post-modern, although he says America will tend to influence some countr...

It already was on topic Punshhh. The oil shock is expected to continue and worsen. This means the West is hurting Russia at the cost of hurting itself...

So they aren't a sign of national disintegration. Kurth might have been exaggerating.

The OP references an article written by a professor of political science. I mentioned that in the OP.

It's not about postmodernism, and television has been central to American politics since Kennedy.

Well I've never heard it before, so I guess I'm out of the loop. I honestly don't understand why everybody on this forum is fixated on corporations. C...

Is it cohesive? Maybe it depends on how you assess Trump. Is he an anomaly? Or a representative of the part of America that truly believes Democrats h...

I also found this interesting in Kurt's article: "Liberalism can provide a common ground, a least common denominator, for many states in one internati...

I meant high inflation.

Yes, but "Observers have argued that the mission in Afghanistan was hampered by a lack of agreement on objectives, a lack of resources, lack of coordi...

There once were a bunch of lame posters Whose heads were all shaped like toasters And it's not a sin To stick some bread in And wait while you're sipp...

Sure. He would say the ever-waning commitment of Americans to foreign wars is a side effect of diminished national cohesion. You're basically agreeing...

Right. Kurth would say that points to one of the many limitations of being post-modern. If you can't deal with a problem with missiles and drones, you...

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Their global reach is intact at the moment. The oil shock is expected to worsen, especially if the Chinese stop acting like they just discovered Covid...

Capitalists hate inflation. How do you not know that?

Yea that's ridiculous

Nope. It decreases return on investment. Everybody's paying off their mortgages because wages are unusually high right now, and inflation makes that e...

Nope. It's causing inflation. That's not good.

The article was written in 1992. I was just exercising his ideas with Trump in mind.

I'll get back when I have more time and have digested your comments. Thanks!

Kurth wrote this article in 1992. His view then was that one of the main factors undermining the US's status as a cohesive nation is media enterprises...