Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Do Democrats Usually Get Credit For GOP "Deficits?" While Neither Notes That Co-selection Produces More Than The Sum Of All Their Parts?

   (Commentary posted by Roger Erickson.)

An admittedly zealous Democrat promotes his party and skewers the GOP.




They're Not Even Close? The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010

His many graphs sure seem to support his claim ..... except that his thesis founders on this sentence:

"Democrats Reduce, Republicans Increase, Government Deficits [= Public Fiat = Public Initiative]"

(My additions, in brackets.)

:) Makes you wonder whether Dems always get credit for GOP "deficits!"

And vice versa, whether GOP gets blamed for DNP austerity? :) LOL!

While neither group knows "Whiskey, Tango, Foxtrot" is really going on? :(

Two moronic processes captured in each other's orbit, neither noticing that the sum of their orbital interactions produces sparks of group intelligence?

They need outside observers to even see the sum of themselves. No wonder oligarchs usually wield the keys to every Democracy. It's usually a basic matter of perspectives in gridlock, & therefore easy prey for transistor-like "control" signals, no matter how weak in & of themselves?

Any discussion of conservatism ought to include questions about what, exactly, it is that they're trying to conserve.

If it's adaptive rate, then there's no fight between conservatives & progressives. The latter generate diversity, and the former help select additions from it, continuously.

Co-selection produces more than the sum of both parts?

(Thanks to Prof. Brad Lewis of Union College, for excellent discussion, leading to this train of thought.)


5 comments:

Unknown said...

Foreign Capital Inflows to the Developing World:
Foreign aid and foreign private investment are two important sources of capital for developing countries. The former could be broadly categorised into grants and low interest rate loans, and the latter into foreign portfolio investment (FPI) and foreign direct investment (FDI). The last three decades have witnessed significant changes in patterns and trends of these foreign capital flows to developing countries. Although all categories of foreign capital have increased considerably, their growth rates are substantially different[2]. Foreign aid to developing countries increased from US$1.9 billion in 1970 to US$27.1 billion in 1998. This increase, however, is rather modest when compared with the expansion in FDI and FPI (see Chart 2.1). FDI flows increased from US$2.2 billion in 1970 to US$24 billion in 1990, and more than US$170 billion in 1998. FPI, which was negligible until the early eighties, increased to US$2.8 billion in 1990 and to US$15.6 billion in 1998.
http://economicsuggestion.blogspot.com/

Peter Pan said...

What Hakim said.

Roger Erickson said...

Hakim,

First, your comment is entirely orthogonal to the point being discussed.

Yet, since you brought up a different point, surely any sensible country would restrict FDI as something that equates to explicit colonialism.

There have been endless studies showing that protectionism works within proper tolerance limits, while zero tolerance limits just gets the recipient occupied and it's language, culture & even population soon extinct.

Why not develop distributed democracy by preserving distributed ownership - and development - of an electorate's assets FOR that electorate?

Accepting colonialism is personally tempting for many individuals, but the long-term outcome is always wavering on the verge of selling one's entire country down the river.

Roger Erickson said...

So, the Koch bros agenda is that of the "Looting Lobby" -

their consistent platform is "freedom to operate" - aka, deregulation

http://www.thenation.com/article/179034/whats-really-behind-koch-attacks-democrats

Roger Erickson said...

This is finally getting a bit more press

http://qz.com/200622/ordinary-americans-are-powerless-but-the-us-isnt-really-an-oligarchy/