An aggie, I see. I helped write Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Yes, we're all 'invited', so let's act like company, OK? Lives are literally at stake and I don't have time to babysit. I'm really sorry for your disability, thank you for your helpful 'social skills' advice, too. I obviously need it.

Too bad, too.

andyvancleve, you're obviously here for entertainment's sake. I'm not.

On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 10:17 PM, B. Nicholson <togetherinparis@gmail.com> wrote:

Being nice is important, but so is correction. Ignorance and preposterous supposition cannot go unchallenged, especially here. I've gone to graduate school in economics, you are what? A history major? "I personally believe that agriculture should be subsidized in this country but not for export. Its a matter of national security for us to produce our own food. The only food we should export is to give to starving people."Did you not say that? The libraries are full of books and I am here at a computer full of fools.

Being nice is important, but so is correction. Ignorance and preposterous supposition cannot go unchallenged, especially here. I've gone to graduate school in economics, you are what? A history major? "I personally believe that agriculture should be subsidized in this country but not for export. Its a matter of national security for us to produce our own food. The only food we should export is to give to starving people."Did you not say that? The libraries are full of books and I am here at a computer full of fools.

"The problem with anybody being able to be sued is its one thing to sue someone with a hundred billion dollars who has a dozen lawyers on retainer and another thing entirely to sue someone who makes 20 thousand a year and if he loses will be in the poor house."

Tell me about it. People with big money and two law firms on retainer are formidable opponents in a court of law. I ought to know. Star Wars was my idea. I invented the Force and the story for Titanic was mine, too. I'm personal friends with the Clintons, Spielbergs, even the evil Bushes, and I was with all of them at the very beginning--a lot of good it does me down here on this trash heap, huh? I'm happy, though. Abandoned by the old friends of my youth, my work keeps me warm. I found the cure for drug-addiction, another one for criminal behavior. It's only a matter of time before some nabob repeats my experiment and sees what I have seen. So, don't envy the rich and famous. Instead draw strength from your poverty, there is more power in creativity of desperation than can ever be available to them.

In a deflation, prices seem to be dropping all over the place when it is actually money that is increasing in value. The Chinese subsidy could be pre-emptive, plausibly,--OK, bad joke, but in economic reality land it is a gift to American consumers, a tribute if you will. We shouldn't scapegoat the Chinese if it isn't in our interest. Of course it is anyone's prerogative to shop where they wish, but remember this: we are a continent here. We are going to eat. We are the ones exporting more food than anybody else on this planet, it is to American farms and fields that foreigners look for their sustenance. Sure Chinese apples will give us fits for our apple workers and growers, but in the greater scheme of things, the Chinese will import more soy beans to more than make up for it. (It is also harder for China to adulterate apples than, say, milk. Harsh, but true.)

"I personally believe that agriculture should be subsidized in this country but not for export. Its a matter of national security for us to produce our own food. The only food we should export is to give to starving people."

If America only exported to starving people, America would starve. In economics we have a mathematical proof that trade benefits always outweigh protectionism, so your personal belief is in error, grave and dangerous error actually. Please think more.

Check out Tom Khun's Structure of Scientific Revolutions.

Of course not. That sums it up nicely.

How odd? I learned the opposite when I took the R & D course at Georgia Tech. How things have changed since the seventies.

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