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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: koan who wrote (31493)	6/20/2008 11:34:51 AM
From: TimF	Respond to of 224749

I've never been one to care much about name dropping and arguments from authority. You can find very prominent people endorsing all sorts of ideas, finding one or four that support your ideas is fairly meaningless. Their arguments might be meaningful if they present them, but not just their names. In any case they aren't supporting your argument, (or if they are you don't quote them as doing so). You make one quote about getting rid of the dollar. You than drop three names with no direct quotes and one non quoted statement about how we are increasing our debt. Neither statement amounts to "the US is broke", or "the US is going broke". So you not just relying on an argument from authority (one of the weakest types of arguments), but your making an argument from authority without showing that the authorities your name actually agree with your point.