[KSMountain]

[quote=briansd1]Liberal progressive ideals will always win out, sooner or later. Conservatives just retard progress.[/quote]
It’s not their ideals that concern me, it’s their ideas. I think a lot of times half-baked ideas are thrown out just to “do something”. Then it becomes obvious within sometimes only a couple of years or sometimes more than that that maybe there was a reason things used to be the way they were, and maybe it wasn’t so bad after all.

Take relaxing the 20% down on home loans as an example. Or moratoriums on foreclosures as another. Or unindexed AMT as another. These were all “ideas” that turned out to be not so good. Will nationalized health care also turn out to have been something we should have been more careful about?

Actually I guess the ideals concern me too. That somehow a utopia can be created where the government ensures nothing bad can happen to anyone. Wrong.

I guess I’m doing the strawman thing here – sorry.

Using engineering terminology, to respond to your statement, I’d say if we gave the liberals their way, we’d have an underdamped society. The conservatives add a little damping to hopefully improve stability – at the cost of responsiveness.

Do you agree? Or are the conservatives literally just redneck neanderthals?

[KSMountain]

[quote=briansd1]Liberal progressive ideals will always win out, sooner or later. Conservatives just retard progress.[/quote]
It’s not their ideals that concern me, it’s their ideas. I think a lot of times half-baked ideas are thrown out just to “do something”. Then it becomes obvious within sometimes only a couple of years or sometimes more than that that maybe there was a reason things used to be the way they were, and maybe it wasn’t so bad after all.

Take relaxing the 20% down on home loans as an example. Or moratoriums on foreclosures as another. Or unindexed AMT as another. These were all “ideas” that turned out to be not so good. Will nationalized health care also turn out to have been something we should have been more careful about?

Actually I guess the ideals concern me too. That somehow a utopia can be created where the government ensures nothing bad can happen to anyone. Wrong.

I guess I’m doing the strawman thing here – sorry.

Using engineering terminology, to respond to your statement, I’d say if we gave the liberals their way, we’d have an underdamped society. The conservatives add a little damping to hopefully improve stability – at the cost of responsiveness.

Do you agree? Or are the conservatives literally just redneck neanderthals?

[KSMountain]

[quote=kev374]Considering Software Engineers with 10 years experience are being offered $70k salaries these days I think paying that to a high school teachers is ludicrous, it should be more like $30k considering it is only for 9 months of work.[/quote]
Wow, I disagree with every aspect of that statement.
I have never offered (or seen) under $90k for a sfwr eng with 10-years experience.
I by no means think that $70k for someone who is impacting *so many* lives at a crucial point in their development is “ludicrous”.
$30k – are you kidding? Just what caliber of folks do you think you’ll retain with that kind of money?

[KSMountain]

[quote=kev374]Considering Software Engineers with 10 years experience are being offered $70k salaries these days I think paying that to a high school teachers is ludicrous, it should be more like $30k considering it is only for 9 months of work.[/quote]
Wow, I disagree with every aspect of that statement.
I have never offered (or seen) under $90k for a sfwr eng with 10-years experience.
I by no means think that $70k for someone who is impacting *so many* lives at a crucial point in their development is “ludicrous”.
$30k – are you kidding? Just what caliber of folks do you think you’ll retain with that kind of money?

[KSMountain]

[quote=kev374]Considering Software Engineers with 10 years experience are being offered $70k salaries these days I think paying that to a high school teachers is ludicrous, it should be more like $30k considering it is only for 9 months of work.[/quote]
Wow, I disagree with every aspect of that statement.
I have never offered (or seen) under $90k for a sfwr eng with 10-years experience.
I by no means think that $70k for someone who is impacting *so many* lives at a crucial point in their development is “ludicrous”.
$30k – are you kidding? Just what caliber of folks do you think you’ll retain with that kind of money?

[KSMountain]

[quote=kev374]Considering Software Engineers with 10 years experience are being offered $70k salaries these days I think paying that to a high school teachers is ludicrous, it should be more like $30k considering it is only for 9 months of work.[/quote]
Wow, I disagree with every aspect of that statement.
I have never offered (or seen) under $90k for a sfwr eng with 10-years experience.
I by no means think that $70k for someone who is impacting *so many* lives at a crucial point in their development is “ludicrous”.
$30k – are you kidding? Just what caliber of folks do you think you’ll retain with that kind of money?

[KSMountain]

[quote=kev374]Considering Software Engineers with 10 years experience are being offered $70k salaries these days I think paying that to a high school teachers is ludicrous, it should be more like $30k considering it is only for 9 months of work.[/quote]
Wow, I disagree with every aspect of that statement.
I have never offered (or seen) under $90k for a sfwr eng with 10-years experience.
I by no means think that $70k for someone who is impacting *so many* lives at a crucial point in their development is “ludicrous”.
$30k – are you kidding? Just what caliber of folks do you think you’ll retain with that kind of money?

[KSMountain]

Let’s say a more real “recovery” really starts next year. If there are signs of inflation then I could see the Fed bumping say 0.5% next fall, and then another 0.5% at the very next meeting.

I don’t think that would be unprecedented.

So then blammo, you’d be 1% higher (on the fed funds rate anyway) in a pretty short amount of time.

[KSMountain]

Let’s say a more real “recovery” really starts next year. If there are signs of inflation then I could see the Fed bumping say 0.5% next fall, and then another 0.5% at the very next meeting.

I don’t think that would be unprecedented.

So then blammo, you’d be 1% higher (on the fed funds rate anyway) in a pretty short amount of time.

[KSMountain]

Let’s say a more real “recovery” really starts next year. If there are signs of inflation then I could see the Fed bumping say 0.5% next fall, and then another 0.5% at the very next meeting.

I don’t think that would be unprecedented.

So then blammo, you’d be 1% higher (on the fed funds rate anyway) in a pretty short amount of time.

[KSMountain]

Let’s say a more real “recovery” really starts next year. If there are signs of inflation then I could see the Fed bumping say 0.5% next fall, and then another 0.5% at the very next meeting.

I don’t think that would be unprecedented.

So then blammo, you’d be 1% higher (on the fed funds rate anyway) in a pretty short amount of time.

[KSMountain]

Let’s say a more real “recovery” really starts next year. If there are signs of inflation then I could see the Fed bumping say 0.5% next fall, and then another 0.5% at the very next meeting.

I don’t think that would be unprecedented.

So then blammo, you’d be 1% higher (on the fed funds rate anyway) in a pretty short amount of time.

[KSMountain]

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[KSMountain]

Spam in fried rice is delicious!

[KSMountain]

Spam in fried rice is delicious!

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