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The Professor says

What exactly is going up? What are ALL the people outputting? Can someone
please help me understand without calling me stupid?

Output is GNP most likely. Ouput per hour would then be GNP/total hours.

The Professor says

Can someone please help me understand without calling me stupid?

I think it means the corporations / oligarchs, as an example, begrudgingly hire 2 people to do the work of 10. Making them work 60 hours a week, etc. I believe it is a proven fact much fewer workers are producing more than ever before. As in the chart, 'real output per hour'.

Yup, real gdp divided by total non-farm payroll looks pretty close.

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Duckman said: 5. If you let capitalists decide the allocation of labor, they will hire the fewest number of workers possible and let everyone else starve.
Don't worry, socialists from overseas are bringing their ways to America: VW says it wants German-style "works council" at the plant to get employees input. The councils meet on issues such as work rule disputes in order to improve plant efficiency.
VW, which has the best profit margins of any global automaker, has the works councils at more than 100 plants around the globe -- all except those in China and its sole U.S. factory.
But U.S. labor law makes it difficult to set up such councils without participation by a union.

Interesting. So how do you reconcile your chart with the attached (or are the two issues unrelated)?

http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2013/10/workforce-population-jobs-by-age-group_2546.html

APOCALYPSEFUCK is Comptroller says

Like I said, socialize medicine KILLED everyone in Canada. There are no survivors. I checked. Every Canadian has been dead since Alberta adopted HitlerCare in 1950.

Well put.

This is exactly why I hate Obamacare more even than Benghazi, and almost as much as I despise the closing of war memorials.

It's like Whitewater plus the Travel Office firings plus Kosovo all summed together and then squared.

There is no one alive who hates Obamacare as much as I do.

drew_eckhardt says

That will change once we get solid data since the law lets them markup spending for individual and small group plans by 25% regardless of what that is. Spending $100K more on some one with a pre-existing condition will let them charge $125K more in premiums and keep $25K more for overhead and profit.

Huh?

HydroCabron says

There is no one alive who hates Obamacare as much as I do.

Yeah and they stole money from medicare and gave it to obamacare, the bastards.

Can anyone speculate what this means: U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara (buh-RAH'-ruh) said Friday more than 144,000 bitcoins were found on computer hardware belonging to Ross William Ulbricht. Will the US end up redeeming these on the open market? Or perhaps you'll get a bitcoin for a tax refund....

Straw Man says

MershedPerturders says

Bitcoin is not controlled by banks, it's controlled by whomever has the money to purchase hashing power. It's the dumbest thing since the Dutch Tulip Mania.

It's also so untraceable that when somebody steals it you can't even prove you had the money in the first place.

Wait a minute.

I have $375 I'm cash in my wallet: If I get mugged, I can just tell the cops, and I'll get my money back?

Homeboy says

I can't decide if you are deliberately obtuse or just stupid.

Well let me see you pay any copay and coins what ever the rate on a McDonald's salary. The Doctors want their money up front. You'll find out soon enough fry boy.

If the GOP invest in a fleet of tour buses with coolers of beer and an open bar, they could round up all of the unemployed 20 something beer hounds. There's gotta be at least 20 million of them by now.

bgamall4 says

Remember that I said seismic measurements proved the shaking? So do the eyewitnesses you roach of a man, Bigs.

The tape above has audio as well.

So tell me at what time in the most recent video you consider to be audio evidence of a controlled demolition just so there is no confusion.

bgamall4 says

Remember that I said seismic measurements proved the shaking?

And also so I'm clear, you are saying that seismic evidence demonstrated 'shaking' and that you are saying that is PROOF of a controlled demolition. Please post up a link to a SCIENTIFIC report on that that backs up your assertion. You simply claiming something doesn't actually make it true.

sbh says

Gains by the Ds will serve to condense the Tealiban lunacy.

Tealiban I like it.

Someone recently compared Stalinism to this bunch.

All criticisms, can be resolved by doubling down and being STERNER.

bgamall4 says

Remember that I said seismic measurements proved the shaking? So do the eyewitnesses you roach of a man, Bigs.

The tape above has audio as well.

What language do you think people would actually use to describe such an experience most especially when it had just happened?
You have someone specifically talking about a fireball coming down through the elevator shaft into the lobby - a rather obvious event given what had happened.
This video doesn't prove anything at all of your claims - just that people have difficulty, surprise, surprise, in putting into words what they have just experienced. I notice no video or audio evidence of your claimed bombs. All I hear is a lot of confused people. And I didn't notice anyone specifically saying any of this happened before the plane struck - where did they say that?
From what I just watched, what many are talking about are the blast waves and fireball that vented down the elevator shafts. Which parts talked about all this happening BEFORE the plane struck as you claim as these are all tiny out of context snippets with very unclear timelines - no doubt why the creator of the video used them.

Vicente says

sbh says

Gains by the Ds will serve to condense the Tealiban lunacy.

Tealiban I like it.

Someone recently compared Stalinism to this bunch.

All criticisms, can be resolved by doubling down and being STERNER.

Yep: successive purges of anyone guilty of slight doctrinal deviation, and exacting attention to dogma.

Perhaps you'd like to tell me what the reason was for deleting the following post:

bgamall4 says

Cat got your tongue after that video right above this post, Bigs?

No, I went to sleep you plum.

bgamall4 says

I will find the other video but don't say it wasn't here or I will delete you because it was here you cockroach.

I have no idea whether it was or it wasn't. You said look at the video with the fireman in the lobby where you can hear the controlled demolition going off. You said that. You aren't denying it, and yet you can't find it. Hmmm, very convenient.

I've gotten this a few times. My answer when someone tells me I look just like someone they know: "Wow. She must be really good looking." I say it with a straight face and walk away.

Like it.

Flat tax on assets would be much better. 2% per year would fund everything and keep the system in balance.

bgamall4 says

Cat got your tongue after that video right above this post, Bigs?

Pretty obvious that there were explosions blowing out the glass on the first floor prior to any collapse of the building.

So, Bigs, you have proof of 9/11. You have witnesses who heard explosions and you have proof of the blown out windows on the first floor. Then the plane hit seconds later.

All very obviously the result of alien death rays preceding the impact. Why don't you want the truth to be heard? Why do you fear truth? You can't delete forever. You can run but you can't hide. Why don't you want the lack of alien investigation looked into? There is the fact you are from Nevada. Area 57 and all that. Maybe the reason you don't want the truth heard is you are actually one of them.

Flat tax on assets would be much better. 2% per year would fund everything and keep the system in balance.

It's a possibility - but who is going to appraise them fairly? Stock market, house appraisers, what about cars? collectibles? What's the threshold? Not as simple..

Shall we then tax physical beauty? and smarts? After all, for many people, those are their most important assets.

Bitcoins arent the future? says

Taxing assets is just immensely complex.

No it isn't, it's merely modestly difficult. Property is appraised all the time for multiple purposes. You own a city block of apartments, they have a value appraised for tax purposes. You own a painting by Van Gogh, it has a value declared for insurance purposes. You own a swath of Mortgage Backed Securities, they have a market value. It's only difficult to people who want to evade taxes. Fine they want to declare their one-of-a-kind collectible item as only worth a dollar to evade taxes on it, they can take the hit when the insurance company only pays them one dollar when it's damaged.

Vicente says

Bitcoins arent the future? says

Taxing assets is just immensely complex.

No it isn't, it's merely modestly difficult. Property is appraised all the time for multiple purposes. You own a city block of apartments, they have a value appraised for tax purposes. You own a painting by Van Gogh, it has a value declared for insurance purposes. You own a swath of Mortgage Backed Securities, they have a market value. It's only difficult to people who want to evade taxes. Fine they want to declare their one-of-a-kind collectible item as only worth a dollar to evade taxes on it, they can take the hit when the insurance company only pays them one dollar when it's damaged.

Have you ever bought any jewelry for your wife or girlfriend? I mean real jewelry that has substantial appraised value, as opposed to trinkets and trash. Did you ever pay for full appraised value for them?

What should be the tax basis for a house that I just bought for $100k on the open market that has assessed value of $200k?

CaptainShuddup says

Well let me see you pay any copay and coins what ever the rate on a McDonald's salary. The Doctors want their money up front. You'll find out soon enough fry boy.

This has nothing whatsoever to do with Obamacare.

Call it Crazy says

Well.... The Screwing seems to be growing!!!

Obama admin. knew millions could not keep their health insurance

Why are you Rushbots spamming this multiple times in multiple threads? Geez... get a fucking life.

Bitcoins arent the future? says

Vicente, I don't quite understand... You're saying that in the case of an asset tax, the value of an item should be determined by how much the owner declares its worth on the insurance? Seems like paying taxes could be replaced by a good security system in this case.

No of course not, most ordinary items have an obvious replacement value. You can't declare your brand-new truck at zero dollars when clearly you bought it for $30K. I was speaking of less obvious items. For 99.99% of assets there are well-established means of assessing the dollar value to replace that asset. This is an underpinning of modern commerce I think. Your life & limb even have dollar values assigned to them.

Bitcoins arent the future? says

No more loopholes, no exceptions, no exemptions.

That has nothing to do with a flat tax. You can eliminate all loopholes and exceptions and still have a progressive tax. The "progressive" part of our tax code is the fucking simplest part of the tax code. That's not the problem and has never been the problem.

Furthermore, the income tax was intended as a tax only on the rich to pay only for social services for the poor to alleviate and end poverty. The income tax should be restored to that and the progressiveness should be a function of the rich-poor gap such that if the rich want to get richer, they have to eliminate poverty. Now that's motivation not to fuck up the system and maybe even improve it.

And yes, a progressive tax is KISS simple. It's every bit as simple as a flat tax. Just get rid of everything in the tax code except the progressive tax rate.

bgamall4 says

Jet fuel does not explode in the lobby. Explosions exploded in the lobby.

Shock waves and the huge fireball from the plane crash can vent down through elevator shafts and out into the lobby. Someone in your video specifically stated that happening.

bgamall4 says

Anyway, if you hear the explosions in the lobby at the first of this video you will see that the popping took place way before the collapse. The poppings were explosions. And everybody said so. Even firemen on the walkie talkies said so

Good grief. The word 'explosions' doesn't have to mean controlled demolition.The initial impact and damage from the shockwaves are 'explosions.' If debris crashes to the ground, then people call the sound it makes an explosion etc. etc. You, however, seem to be under the misapprehension that whenever people say 'explosion' it means controlled demolition. It doesn't. They are trying to make sense of something they have no knowledge or experience of. It has nothing, nothing at all, to do with your claims of a controlled demolition. You are just expanding out your nonsense.

Call it Crazy says

See, Roberta THINKS he can hide his identity under this Egads screen name, but his writing style gives him away......

What style? He has no style.

Dan8267 says

the income tax was intended as a tax only on the rich to pay only for social services for the poor to alleviate and end poverty.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_tax_in_the_United_States#History

The first income tax suggested in the United States was during the War of 1812. The idea for the tax was based on the British Tax Act of 1798. The British tax law applied progressive rates to income. The British tax rates ranged from 0.833% on income starting at £60 to 10% on income above £200. The tax proposal was developed in 1814. Because the treaty of Ghent was signed in 1815, ending hostilities and the need for additional revenue, the tax was never imposed in the United States.

In 1894, Democrats in Congress passed the Wilson-Gorman tariff, which imposed the first peacetime income tax. The rate was 2% on income over $4000, which meant fewer than 10% of households would pay any. The purpose of the income tax was to make up for revenue that would be lost by tariff reductions.

I would eliminate all income taxes and replace them with import duties.

egads101 says

ok, what does 148,000 jobs = then?

148,000 jobs means nothing, since we need at least 150,000 just to keep up with the growing workforce. Fact is, this has been the slowest recovery in the history of US. We are already 4 years into the recovery, and:

1. Unemployment is still above 7%.
2. 1.5 years of no improvement in involuntary part-time workers.
3. 700,000 public sector jobs lost during the 4 years of recovery.
4. No improvement in length of average work week.
5. Labor force participation still at recession levels.

And this is after over $3T of printing worthless paper. What a joke.

Let's agree on some facts. US Healthcare is very good - it is generally fast, high quality, etc. US People are getting very unhealthy as anyone can see just walking around in public, every 3rd person is a walking diabetic time bomb and heart disease patient. The US does spend more than other countries on healthcare for two reasons 1) we don't ration and we don't have long lines. 2) we have better equipment and care.

Obamacare does limit the profit of Insurance companies. Anyone that thinks they will see a refund check of any meaningful amount is not thinking clearly. Limiting the profit of Insurance companies also means that future competition is also limited because new insurance ideas and lower cost treatments now have no profit incentive. This is why the stocks of insurance companies have skyrocketed as we get closer to implementation and medical devices manufacturers have not done as well. Insurance companies love 15% guaranteed profit, guaranteed customers, and little competition - think of their stocks like a 15% yielding bond.

Medical insurance companies formerly Republicans are now squarely in the pocket of Democrats - so don't expect any more bashing about how evil they are from the left. Health care in the US will gradually decay pretty quick as the system is clogged with the obese and addicts (aka pre-existing conditions). Gov types are now deciding the what care is covered and when - so if you thought insurance companies were bad wait till you see how great those former postal employees are at deciding what care you get.

Bitcoins arent the future? says

But how could you track every single asset? It seems difficult.

Should be easier to track than income, which can come from many sources and is subject to all sorts of credits and deductibles.

Really, if you can't value an asset than our whole economy is based on falsehoods.

Bitcoins arent the future? says

But how could you track every single asset? It seems difficult.

I believe land alone is more than 50% of all assets and it's very hard to hide.

Stocks and bonds are also hard to hide.

Reality says

Shall we then tax physical beauty?

Don't taller and more attractive people have higher incomes?

Call it Crazy says

CameronCrazy says

egads101 says

File this under more retarded shit from dumbass smaulgld.

egads101 says

you are just too dumb

These comments remind me of a robertoaribas. He disappeared after allegedly making comments most identifiable to that of a rapist.

See, Roberta THINKS he can hide his identity under this Egads screen name, but his writing style gives him away......

Yeah, he's trying real hard to hide his identity. That must be why he keeps mentioning his purchases, life in Phoenix, what he's going to do with his profits etc. etc. He changed his name because some sad fuck on here tried to get him into trouble at work, but it's not as if it is some well kept secret who egads is.

bgamall4 says

And Bigsby, you never commented on the structural steel being sheared off like demolitions are supposed to do. You saw the picture of ground zero. You know that those columns were sheared off and that is what they do as explained by how stuff works.

'As explained by how stuff works.' Arf. You have a picture of one steel beam and you think that is proof of a controlled demolition? How many thousands, millions, of beams do you think there were and the different stresses and pressures that were put on them, and you look at the result on one and go 'LOOK it's a controlled demolition.' Arf.
How about you post up that video with the fireman and the audible controlled demolition? Still can't find it I take it. How about you don't claim that a woman says in one of your recent videos "boom boom boom and then the plane hit" when she makes absolutely no mention of it being BEFORE the plane hit? How about you stop claiming videos contain proof of controlled demolition when all they contain are snippets of terrified people talking about 'explosions?' How about you just give your false descriptions a rest altogether?