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Joseph Dobbert

Minneapolis, Minnesota
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Posted on 07/09/12 at 08:22 am in response to Why Americans want to spend more on health care

..price elasticity is use to measure what quantity of a good or service you're willing to buy as the price increases / decreases. It's a measure used to maximize price (the maximum price at which you can sell the maximum profit). It is NOT appropriate in this case because our desire to buy the product isn't driven by price, it's driven by need. We have to pay doctors when we're sick. We don't choose to buy "x" units of service at "y" price.

This argument is flawed, the graph is...

Posted on 07/07/12 at 12:47 pm in response to ‘Teammates’ Walter Mondale and Arne Carlson find common ground on causes

@ Neal Krassnoff:

1. Tax money is not used to pay for abortion services. Ever. Thanks for spouting that erroneous GOP talking point one more time for us though.

2. Race and Sex bias is illegal in hiring practices. It's NOT illegal to recruit a diverse employee pool, but since it makes sense for a workforce to reflect the diversity of the population of its community and the customers it serves, we're lucky for that.

3. Immigration laws ARE enforced - by the people who...

Posted on 07/09/12 at 08:34 am in response to What if we dumped the Fed and returned to the gold standard?

Perhaps you're forgetting that the federal government is not a "State." The Constution prohibits states from printing their own money.

And maybe you're ignoring the fact that there were may recessions and depressions before President Wilson's day, some very severe and long-lasting. Recessions and depressions are a natural part of the business cycle and cannot be avoided, but with a proactive government that uses monetary policy appropriately, they can be (and typically have been)...