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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: koan who wrote (68245)	4/24/2018 3:51:06 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 357196

Somtimes your going to run in to nonsense that you want to point out but don't have the time to respond to and deconstruct point by point. (In your case - More often you run in to solid points that you happen to think are nonsense, but that's another story.) In such cases you might reasonable just say "nonsense". But you didn't even do that. You present a response that isn't even relevant to the points raised, as it if was a response. I stated that dispite zzpat's claim otherwise, my earlier post had not claimed (and I do not claim then or now) that happiness is only a matter of "employment and pay". I disputed the idea the take home pay would be much higher if government provided medical coverage and companies did not. I implied that it would have been possible for the Internet to have been privately created (in fact I'd go beyond that and say something similar would have been created privately if the government had not created its earliest most primitive forms first, but in my post I didn't make such a claim, just implied it would be possible for it to have happened) I stated that tax cuts are not spending. And I suggested that government spend less. Does "Nordic countries have large governments and the people are much happier and healthier than here." even respond to that, only to the last one and that one very weakly. Not enough to support a claim of nonsense. Does "you are the government" reply to any of that? No. So its irrelevant. (Also false. I have a ways to influence the government through lobbying, protesting, voting, etc. but I also have ways to influence businesses in some cases much stronger ways to influence the business, does that mean I'm Walmart or even the mom and pop restaurant down the block?) "You are defending the corporations hegemony over us " Is similarly both false and irrelevant. Nothing in my post was at all about corporate hegemony