Hugh Conway

unlike free market circle jerks I realize your ideology is predicated on irrational assertions of fungibility but surely you aren't blind enough to realize their are quantifiable differences between vegetables and foodstuffs and that a realistic like for like comparison suggests there are economic benefits to self production? As it's 5 O'clock somewhere, an example: I could buy many, many cases of Hamms for the money it cost for a homebrew setup and ingredients (number of batches to breakeven ~=10); if I brew a nice Barleywine with the setup the payoff is a couple of batches (n=2.5)

Yeah, we need more big bags of money chasing the few opportunities in the world today! That'll stop bubbles! Actually - the shortage of investment opportunities generating a high-rate of return is far more likely to generate unsound investments than an abundance of them. No shit?

why do you always confuse me and pink? balinese hooker while grabbing my crotch in the middle of the sidewalk outside a club "why you no fuck me tonight?"

In the immortal words of a Hong Kong pimp - you wanna fuckity fuckity fuck fuck fuck?

I'm thanking them for producing new heights of hyperbole instead.

you wouldn't have those farm veggies without massive federal subsidies and underpricing of water

I'm still trying to figure out, aside from money, anyone would ever aspire to ape Economists. It has to be the single dullest group of people on the planet. Not a surprise they favor stripers, heliskiing, and shitty Zagat eateries

Don't forget the medical cartel that funds his family!

Uh, that's actually more efficient than the worlds worst farms, but don't let that stop you.

jesus man, think of the extra money you'd have to spray on the internet with if you shopped at MalWart!

Clearly all home gardens are exactly the same

Yeah, we need more big bags of money chasing the few opportunities in the world today! That'll stop bubbles!

Next you'll say you can cook and it tastes better than what you can buy at Olive Garden!

'course plenty of people do home improvement projects, grow their own vegetables, work on cars, and build shit because they enjoy it so maybe he's back to homo-free-marketus fables?

If you were as rational as Jay_B you'd understand it.

The argument in favor of digging for ore beneath your home and fabricating a car from metal that you smelt yourself is equally compelling. Ditto for drilling your own fillings vs sending the money out of your household by paying a dentist to do it for you, etc, etc. Why climb a mountain when others have taken pictures from the summit?

Why does America pay a shit ton for text messages and cell plans in general? Why does my dog lick his non-existant balls?

Apples that taste like Apples are a symbol of socialism.

I suspect it's because it's a tiny island in the middle of fucking nowhere and isn't particularly related to their tax structure.

no, their predelection for servicing Rush's testicles

man, we mark m finds this thread he'll be in dating heaven

It's often the bulk of pay for Firefighters and Policemen. JayB's solution is going to be to hire more.... oh, no, he wants to cut the employment roles! Shouldn't your schadenfreude be directed at Ireland who mortgaged their future to bail out those deserved bankers and now, rightfully, are getting rolled over the coals for their predatory corporate tax rates? Oh, wait, they followed your little economic perscriptions off a cliff. Whoopsie! Austerity was coming to Ireland - the only question was whether it'd be in anticipation of or in response to prohibitive rates in the bond market. Where they really screwed the pooch was putting the public on the hook for all of the banking losses - which thanks to the magnitude of the property bubble there - significantly exceed Ireland's capacity to repay them. Ever. Not sure who made that call, but since debts that can't be repaid won't, the folks running Ireland should have told the retards in Germany, England, etc who lend hundreds of billions of dollars to retards in Ireland to pound sand and take whatever losses they had coming to them. The losses are simply too large for the Irish to repay, and at the end of the day, and the sooner that all concerned accept that the better. There aren't enough real savings in the world to make all of the retards who speculated on property that with rental yields that could never cover the debt required to buy them. The losses are coming, and it'll be interesting to see who the biggest loser is in this game of musical chairs. When and if the music starts in Spain and Italy things will get very interesting since the potential losses there exceed Europe's capacity to absorb them. So education, a service economy, low corporate tax rates and business friendly policies don't cure all ills? Oh dear.

My understanding was, for a number of consumer goods like books and cars, it was simply market size. Fewer people than California in a country bigger than the lower 48

who'd have thunk KKK would truck out a tired cliche!