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To: Keith Monahan who wrote (2728)	7/18/2001 11:11:41 PM
From: GraceZ	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 24758

The problem is that the politicians aren't asking him questions to hear his answers, they are asking him questions to serve their own partisan agenda. They are simply using the air time to promote their own BS. Half the time they won't even let him answer without interrupting him.

To: Keith Monahan who wrote (2728)	7/19/2001 12:36:17 AM
From: ahhaha	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24758

how do you get him to change? Can't be done because he understands what I'm saying. Who says he should change? It is the nature of pretense to knowledge that its applicability is unlimited. About all that can be said is that following principle is better than following expediency and non-interference is better than doing good to the world. By slamming him like those idiots did today? The only thing anyone can do is expose the truth. The rest depends on how slowly under the inevitable gradualism the rest of the world comes to acknowledge that truth. It doesn't matter how anyone slams anyone else. The truth is the only thing that survives. Is it to much to ask to get a few intelligent questions in a civil manner? Intelligence in economics is rare. Every economist has a surprisingly different take on things. Economists would ask AG the dumbest things, probably worse than the clutzes in Congress. The clutzes use the exposure for their own purposes. No one ever remembers them or what they asked. The same is done with AG. Hell, he opened the door wide open with his comments on the minimum wage. So AG, why is it good for market forces to determine what a person is paid, but bad for the same forces to determine interest rates? Why don't we get that question? Because labor is a holy cow in the US. When individuals seek pay raises they think they take it out of capitalist pig's hides and undeservedly so, but they take it out of each other's hides. Who has the courage to say that you can't get something for nothing? And then followups after that when AG's first answer is unresponsive. Maybe it would at least give him something to think about. AG is trapped in a hopeless situation of choosing the lesser of two evils. He has to do that because what's right isn't doable in his conception of the US. Once you understand all of this you should never give it any further consideration. Of course, that's true of economics, the stock market, and all this garbage. It must be clear that this stuff is for the lowest orders. You do it because you think there's money in't. So you work like a slave at -$.02/hr for decades and accomplish nothing. You can't control money. You can't get it at will. You can only improve your position by doing what society asks in order to gain its favor. Then it gives you lots of money for being a fool. You justify being a fool by saying, "I can't live on air".