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Old 08-24-2009, 11:19 PM
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Originally Posted by Villages Kahuna View Post
...Please consider this post as an effort on my part to get people to consider different points-of-view before reaching political conclusions. By posting this, I'm not trying to convince anyone to agree with the conclusions I've reached. Everyone has a right to form their own opinions. I'm just hopeful that people will consider a lot of the information that's available before either locking in on or maintaining a particular political opinion. Times and circumstances change and we should be prepared to do the same.
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Originally Posted by Sally Jo View Post
If Paul Krugman told me it was raining outside you better believe I'd go out to check. He's not just liberal, he's way, way left. Personally, I'll take Reagan's economic policies anyday. Just because Krugman said they didn't work doesn't mean they didn't work.
I had hoped that some would read the column cited and at least think about what the columnist, a Nobel prize-winning economist, had to say. Again, I wasn't trying to convince people to change their minds, just consider a different point-of-view. Times have changed a lot since Reaganomics was the vogue. Students of the theory should probably review economic history in the context of the political environment to decide the effectiveness of that economic theory. One needn't get involved in partisan discussions to determine whether or not it worked.