Re: Obama Understands Economics in Spite of Himself

 
On Dec 13, 2010, at 5:02 PM, Karl wrote:
I find it impossible to have a moral argument for any austerity whatsoever for
taxpayers until there is austerity for bankers.
To do so is to condone one of the biggest thefts ever.
 
**no one os doing any such thing though.  There are legitimate discussion on
both issues that need to be had, and refusal to deal with one is not going to
help anything on the other.
 
It is exactly the refusal to deal with the bankster issue that is the problem.
(and I don't mean YOU here...I mean everyone)
 
**I agree, but I see no point in making the problem even larger.
 
**And again, I am not arguing that.  But I think it si a moral fallacy to say
“they are thieves, so we can be too…”
 
Is stealing your own money back that was stolen from you thievery?  Robin Hood
principle applies?
 
**I refuse to argue the semantics of stealing here.  The point is that you are
making a moral equivalency argument.

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