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There is no feasible alternative. But I think it would be wrong to assume that using both strategies (fiscal/monetary) caused the recession or made the recession worse. And I'm not even sure doing so can be considered a mistake. I think a mistake would be to take extreme measures by selecting one over the other. Mixed economies have proven to be the most stable option.
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Using both strategies equally, the effect is zero.
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You keep getting stuck into some kind of mathematical vortex when considering something that is measured by more than mathematics. You are thinking in binary opposites and so there is no centre possible. I cannot even visualize how you see things. It boggles my mind.
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Your position boggles my mind.
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The final negotiations included clauses that essentially watered it down. It was a shift towards free market capitalism, but the final clauses clung to the idea of protectionism.
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Which supports my point.
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Anyway, I've lost what we're on about. Maybe if the average American thinks like you do, ace,
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Very few do. And even fewer actually think about the things I think about.
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Right, well, in the context of your analogy, your refusal to use national poll results in favor of your own personal poll results is akin to looking outside your window to see what the weather is like in the rest of the nation.
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On one point I agree that my viewpoint is somewhat localized on this topic. I am sure the anti-Pelosi message did not work in California and some other areas of the country.
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Nobody should put blind faith in anything. However, you must realize that simply saying "I don't trust polls" isn't all that useful a response. Polls should be viewed critically based on objective criteria and one's best judgment. For instance, who funded the poll? Has the polling organization released the raw data? Have they released the questions used? Is their methodology sound? Is the sample representative of the population to which its results are inferred? How accurate have the polling organization's past polls been? Are there any recent events which might render these results obsolete? These are all good questions to ask.
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Where was this response initially when the topic of polls came up? I simply shared my experience and my knowledge and someone throws in -the polls don;t support your experience, your knowledge - to which my response will always be the same, so what! I trust my judgment, my experiences, what I see, what I discover.