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- From: bucknerb@bnr.ca (Brent Buckner)
- Subject: Re: "Death of America"
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.185140.17250@bnr.ca>
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- Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ontario, Canada
- References: <1993Jan6.194108.26770@oracle.us.oracle.com>
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 18:51:40 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan6.194108.26770@oracle.us.oracle.com> kwee@oracle.uucp (Karl Wee) writes:
- >bucknerb@bnr.ca (Brent Buckner) writes:
- >>
- >>In article <1992Dec29.034309.17334@oracle.us.oracle.com> kwee@oracle.uucp (Karl Wee) writes:
- >
- >I didn't mean to say your analysis is invalid.
-
- >
- >However, analysis of your kind is what permits politicians to suit campaigns
- >to their private agendas.
-
- At least I presented explicit assumptions and numbers. Analysis
- of your kind strikes me as a political campaign in and of itself.
- Again, I invite you to answer the poster's question
- that brought me into this thread.
-
- >>>
- >>>My entire message has been: let's not risk our future by playing with
- >>>this stuff. Don't do speculative analysis.
- >>
- >>Any analysis of possible outcomes is speculative.
- >
- >So?
-
- So your own analysis of the possible outcome of the debt
- situation is speculative.
-
- >
- >>>The proper role of economics, in the first place, should have been to tell
- >>>society to be conservative because it can only reliably do steady-state and
- >>>not dynamic analysis. But no, you guys choose to stay in your mathematically
- >> ^^^^^^^^
- >>I find this offensive.
- >
- >It was not meant to be friendly. I'm sick and tired of social "scientists"
- >acting superficially like real scientists and ignoring basic common sense
- >and screwing things up for everybody!
- >
-
- I resent being ascribed membership in a group of which I am not a part.
-
- >Most of my comments were not directed at any individual but at economists in
- >this country as a whole. I simply found in your posting an example of
- >the absurdity that economists indulge in.
-
- Please make sure to explicitly direct your comments, or we will
- end up in a flame-war.
-
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