Comments for The Cure for Budget Deficits: Train More Deficit Hawks at http://www.cepr.net , comment 1 to 11 out of 11 comments http://www.cepr.net Fri, 24 May 2013 12:05:30 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/the-cure-for-budget-deficits-train-more-deficit-hawks#comment-16925 Divide and conquer. - uncle bruno Sun, 17 Jun 2012 13:27:47 +0100 http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/the-cure-for-budget-deficits-train-more-deficit-hawks#comment-16922 It's so unfathomable to me that people can make predictions about the future with so much certainty, and convince others to believe those predictions, despite predictions almost always being wrong (eg Dow 36000, peak oil circa 2005). Humans also tend to put their short-term interests before their long-term interests, so focusing on potential long-term problems and neglecting current problems is a strange development. - Nateo Sun, 17 Jun 2012 08:33:11 +0100 http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/the-cure-for-budget-deficits-train-more-deficit-hawks#comment-16921 Nateo you are thinking too hard. the bad guys will just say that the deficit is going to cause unemployment. and it doesn't have to make sense. all they want to do is get "the youth" carrying around a little jingle... the deficit is too high. i'm going to have to pay for it. so we need to cut social security." even that may be thinking too hard. they just need the people to think "we're all going to die" and then the smooth talking man can save us all by "cutting entitlements." and we will be so grateful to him. people do not think in complete sentences, much less careful arguments. - coberly Sun, 17 Jun 2012 07:23:13 +0100 http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/the-cure-for-budget-deficits-train-more-deficit-hawks#comment-16919 It makes perfect sense. Youth voters should support policies that lead to high youth unemployment, because in 20 or 30 years the young may have unsustainable debt. Wouldn't being unemployed make any debt level unsustainable? - Nateo Sun, 17 Jun 2012 05:44:30 +0100 http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/the-cure-for-budget-deficits-train-more-deficit-hawks#comment-16915 Mr Ferguson doesn't know he hasn't the qualifications to write in this field but he gets paid a lot by those who gain from his eloquent misinformation; ignorance is his financial bliss. - D Isenman Sun, 17 Jun 2012 03:46:17 +0100 http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/the-cure-for-budget-deficits-train-more-deficit-hawks#comment-16914 no, Dean not close. far past. last seen headed over the infinite horizon. - coberly Sun, 17 Jun 2012 03:03:31 +0100 http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/the-cure-for-budget-deficits-train-more-deficit-hawks#comment-16913 "Investors are willing to make long-term loans to the country at 1.5 percent interest" Investors are willing to make 20 year loans to the country at a real (ignoring inflation) interest rate of approximately 0%. - foosion Sat, 16 Jun 2012 23:43:42 +0100 http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/the-cure-for-budget-deficits-train-more-deficit-hawks#comment-16912 Many health experts said you must have a good night rest. In this article, you just showed us many points including the typical baseless claims plus now, what NOT to read or do in order to have a good night rest. Not to do - don't read this kind of hyperbole, baseless articles right b4 bed time. Another note: don't watch news as you likely will be so upset from watching or listening to a Bishop's Etch-a-Sketch performance. - James Sat, 16 Jun 2012 21:32:16 +0100 http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/the-cure-for-budget-deficits-train-more-deficit-hawks#comment-16911 If you're going to read this stuff at night, pour yourself a little glass of brandy first. - PeonInChief Sat, 16 Jun 2012 20:36:11 +0100 http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/the-cure-for-budget-deficits-train-more-deficit-hawks#comment-16910 A balanced budget amendment? Seriously, Niall? All that education, and this is what the man seriously proposes as a "solution to [the debt] problem"? Is this what's meant by a straw man argument? I count on you, Dean, to read and report on subsequent installments of this malarkey so the rest of us don't have to. - S.D. Jeffries Sat, 16 Jun 2012 19:45:05 +0100 http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/the-cure-for-budget-deficits-train-more-deficit-hawks#comment-16909 I would worry that "serious people" might take your suggestion seriously, Dean. - Sandwichman Sat, 16 Jun 2012 17:43:41 +0100