Dolman said:
I guess some of the porn-fanatics on this board arent as smart as I thought they were
Let me explain this, ONCE more......listen carefully.
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My dad has his own (small) business. NEVER has his business been as good as this year. He is prospering beyond belief.
^This part was referring to those who thought the economy was 'so bad' for small business'
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He does restaurant repair, at big name, expensive restaurants(Red lobster, applebees, longhorn, pizza hut, etc)
THEY are all doing GREAT as well. In his line of work, he sees and talks to ALOT of people.
Now, ^THIS^ part is explaining how these, VERY popular restaurants, are doing VERY good. They are having a GREAT year, which is funny considering how 'bad' the economy is.
Now I still dont see what is so hard to understand about this.
First - I explained how my dad HAS a small business, therefore has to deal with small business issues. (loans, taxes, etc)
Then - I stated how huge chains of resaurants are doing so good in this time of 'bad economy'.....therefor attacking the claim of the economy being bad on small business', AND the claim that the economy is bad.
No this is just one area, but a pretty damn large area. He travels across state, and these resaurants are owned by VERY big companies, with their restaurants distributed across the united states.
Like I said, its not a surefire way, but it IS in fact one example of a decent/good economy.
First - You compared with ONE small business. ONE SINGLE BUSINESS OF MILLIONS. Your logic is erranous.
Then - Then you try to tell economy good by telling about a huge chains. It does always goes good for huge chains, even when the economy is bad, because they are huge and afford to take a few hits once in awhile, and still are going strong. You haven't looked at the small businesses, those that go bankrupt far more easier and who's budget is tremendously more fragile. Besides, has it ever occured it goes well for you father because he does work FOR HUGE CHAINS. Not all small businesses do that.
Okay, time for some more economy lessons concerning your beloved Conservatism. But I'm quite sure you will brush it off as lies, as Bush and his administration are your Messiahs and his disciples, and because you've confused President, Senate, and House with king, aristocracy, and gentry (supposedly representing the commons).
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Conservatism claims to own the theme of entrepreneurship, but then conservatism claims to own every theme. In reality, entrepreneurship on the part of the common people is antithetical to conservatism. Democracy is a social organization of knowledge - a sprawling landscape of overlapping knowledge spheres and a creative tension on any given issue between the experts and the laity. This is civil society. Civil society is a necessary complement and counterbalance to the state in a democracy. One measure of the success of the discourse of civil society has been that conservatism has felt the need to destroy it by means of distorted theories of "civil society" that place the populace under the tutelage of the aristocracy and the cultural authorities that serve it.
The current state of economics is unfortunate for democracy. Conservatism runs on ideologies that bear only a tangential relationship to reality, but democracy requires universal access to accurate theories about a large number of nontrivial institutions. The socialist notion of "economic democracy" is probably useful as a counter to conservative psychologies of internalized deference that crush people's minds and prevent useful work from being done. It is, however, not remotely adequate to the reality of an interconnected modern economy, in which the workplace is hardly a natural unit. A better starting place is with analysis of the practical work of producing goods in social systems of actual finite human beings - that is, with analysis of information and institutions.
Knowledge and very general social conditions are required to produce and use it. Simply put, knowledge is best produced in a liberal culture. This is why the most prosperous and innovative regions of the United States are also the most politically liberal, and why the most conservative regions of the country are also the greatest beneficiaries of transfer payments. Liberals create wealth and government redistributes it to conservatives. This is, of course, the opposite of the received conservative opinion in the media, and indeed in most of academia. But it is true.
Another connection between democracy and a modern economy is the democratic nature of entrepreneurialism. People who reflexively defer to their social betters will never learn the social skills that are needed to found new types of social relationships.
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Conclusion: Liberalism is better for the economy than Conservatism, and thus Democrats are better for the economy than Republicans.
That is not my case.But you are.I just have a preference for a conservative and i don't need Michael Moore propaganda to tell me for who should i vote. You are probably too blind and you follow Kerry's policy as do Brino and Starman.
