[quote=pri_dk]
The only point you are effectively making is that many city firefighters are ridiculously overcompensated. We’ve already established that fact pretty well on other threads.
Using examples of generous government compensation really doesn’t support the argument that the middle class is doing just fine. It actually supports the general libertarian position that government is too big and spends too much.
You are actually making a better argument in favor of Ron Paul than our new friend markmax – but that really is not hard to do.[/quote]
Not really. Markmax point, which I don’t think anyone can logically dispute, is that there has been significant inflation in the last 60 years. (Duh!) He’s made the point with rediculous absolute assertions which can easily be proven wrong. I’m reasonbly sure that no one here has tried to claim that middle class is doing just fine, only that there are are exceptions to markmax’s absolute claims. (Note to markmax, when you make absolute assertions like “nobody can do this now”, all it takes is a single example to disprove.) I don’t think proving we’ve had inflation is the least bit supportive of Ron Paul.
Markmax lives in a manichean world of absolutes. His writing writings reflect that over and over again. When that kind of thinking becomes pathological, it also becomes dangerous, as it has here. Most of us live in a world with nuance. He doesn’t. I’m tired of teasing the monkeys.
