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Goddamn clown mayor of Champaign

Started by merithyn, April 19, 2010, 08:53:12 AM

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Caliga

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ulmont

Quote from: Oexmelin on April 20, 2010, 07:44:32 AM
Quote from: Caliga on April 20, 2010, 07:25:09 AM
When low class, blue-collar, uneducated idiots are put in charge of things like, say, budgets, hilarity often ensues. :cool:

How would you characterize what happens when high class, white collar, educated wiseguys are put in charge of things like, say, budgets ?

SEC v. Goldman Sachs.

Malthus

Quote from: Oexmelin on April 20, 2010, 07:44:32 AM
Quote from: Caliga on April 20, 2010, 07:25:09 AM
When low class, blue-collar, uneducated idiots are put in charge of things like, say, budgets, hilarity often ensues. :cool:

How would you characterize what happens when high class, white collar, educated wiseguys are put in charge of things like, say, budgets ?

The difference is in orders of magnitude.  :lol:
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane—Marcus Aurelius

The Minsky Moment

Quote from: ulmont on April 20, 2010, 08:40:07 AM
Quote from: Oexmelin on April 20, 2010, 07:44:32 AM
Quote from: Caliga on April 20, 2010, 07:25:09 AM
When low class, blue-collar, uneducated idiots are put in charge of things like, say, budgets, hilarity often ensues. :cool:

How would you characterize what happens when high class, white collar, educated wiseguys are put in charge of things like, say, budgets ?

SEC v. Goldman Sachs.

Congress sets the SEC's budget, and they are not high class.
The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists.
--Joan Robinson