Fred’s Facts Check Out

 

1. Well, you knew FRED! was going to kick ass.

   Posted by cmblake6       10/11/2007  at  04:16 PM  



2. I like Mr. Thompson.  I’m still a bit peeved over McCain-Feingold, but that’s the only bad news I know about him.

   He’s pro gun, pro life and seems to have his head on straight.  And, it seems he did some homework and speaks with straight tongue.  I like it so far.

   Posted by Archie       10/11/2007  at  06:37 PM  



3. Well I hoped he was going to. I think he did Ok, maybe he even did well. But it was no ass kicking. And he looked old and tired, especially at the beginning. Not saying he should have a JF’inKerry Botox Moment^TM, but I was afraid it was going to be a Dick Nixon/Kennedy situation.

   I think I’ll watch it again. I want to listen to what Hunter said more carefully. I haven’t ruled him out yet.

   Posted by Drew458       10/11/2007  at  06:43 PM  



4. well.. for one… FRED!

   But…

   Indexing SocSec payments to inflation is a bad idea. As Kim DuToit discusses here, it is pretty visible what can be done to ‘play with’ that inflation index in order to keep inflation artificially low- that is, by essentially excluding everything that has been subject to inflation recently (gas, milk, ammo, coffee, bread, etc). Then you end up with ‘low’ or ‘no inflation’ when in truth prices are skyrocketing. At this rate, in ten years, the inflation rate will be based on 8088 microprocessors, #7 Widgets, and #8x1/8” phillips head machine screws, because its all they can find that is getting cheaper.

   Posted by Draven       10/11/2007  at  08:22 PM  



5. Drew, I like Duncan Hunter too.  He is really conservative and Constitutionalist in a very good way.  However, I think he has two serious strikes against him:  He’s relatively unknown in most of the country, and he’s from California - which I think in the rest of the nation might give him a ‘loonytoon’ association.

   In reality, Hunter is pro-gun, pro-life and pro-Constitution as is.  I could be real happy with Duncan Hunter as President. I’ve donated to the Hunter campaign.  I just don’t think there’s much hope.

   Pity we can’t get people to actually look at candidates and see what the candidate stands for instead of being brainwashed by the major media about which one is ‘coolest’.  I fear people are so shallow in their thinking.  Perhaps, as a group, we get the government we deserve.  However, I personally do not deserve a Marxist government!

   Posted by Archie       10/12/2007  at  10:24 AM  



6. Inflation is a kind of tricky thing, D is right about that. For instance, if prices go up, is that inflation? Not usually - heating oil prices go up in winter and down in summer, but that is supply/demand, not inflation. Gas prices are high, but they are actually counter inflationary in that the price of the good has gone up, not the value of the dollar gone down (okay, I know the dollar is weaker but stay with the example.) When we pay $30 - $60 to fill up the tank, we are not spending that money elsewhere, thus adding heat to the economy.

   SS could be tied to very specific indicators, tho, such as the M1 or M2 money supply. Those would be difficult to fudge as it is a count of actual available cash.

   Posted by Rickvid in Seattle       10/12/2007  at  12:57 PM  

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