tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12429580.post5030430978488177520..comments2024-03-26T06:28:09.125-04:00Comments on GavinThink: High Symbolism, Low Substance debateGavin Andresenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10105284501947275111noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12429580.post-76376852462277481302013-05-11T00:46:29.269-04:002013-05-11T00:46:29.269-04:00It is important to keep people fighting over unimp...It is important to keep people fighting over unimportant things.<br /><br />Provide them with TV wrestling style feud between politicians, and they will watch and take sides.<br /><br />Important policies are created and executed in silence.Edwinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00479562867101526549noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12429580.post-84791844586076699032013-04-22T12:51:08.662-04:002013-04-22T12:51:08.662-04:00I doubt legalization of weeds is actually unsubsta...I doubt legalization of weeds is actually unsubstantial as it affects imprisonment and resource allocations of law enforcement. But of course, I don't have numbers to prove it.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16748672794058254188noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12429580.post-77474438501386927972013-04-14T21:35:05.803-04:002013-04-14T21:35:05.803-04:00I agree with all except student loans. They are a ...I agree with all except student loans. They are a massive bubble deeply affecting millions of Americans for three reasons:<br /><br />(1) There is more debt in student loans <br /> than in credit card debt. (>$1 trillion)<br /><br />(2) One cannot discharge student loan debt through bankruptcy <br /><br />(3) Student loans are not given in respect to the future ability for one to repay. <br /><br />Thus we have a pool of debt that is rapidly growing, impossible to discharge through conventional means and not attached to the usually metrics enforced to ensure the market doesn't collapse. <br /><br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03820539859432625465noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12429580.post-86421777865923698672013-04-14T21:31:33.357-04:002013-04-14T21:31:33.357-04:00Gavin, student loans do have an enormous impact on...Gavin, student loans do have an enormous impact on our country's future. There is more debt in student loans than in credit card debt. They cannot be discharged via bankruptcy. And the debt is issued without regard to future ability to repay. <br /><br />That's the very definition of a bubble. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03820539859432625465noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12429580.post-19755922889815837962013-03-25T14:17:59.524-04:002013-03-25T14:17:59.524-04:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07185709951304822878noreply@blogger.com