I dream of living in ... a World Without Dictators! I'm a Libertarian Paternalist in Slovakia - Freedom with Responsibility - 10% of income into your own Pension; Tax Loans for education, health, housing; now supporting Employment Maximizing Companies!

Obama will be my President.

There's a great book called:
The Evolution of Cooperation.

It talks about multiple prisoner's dilemma games, simulated on computer, and strategies to 'win'.

Tit for Tat.
Wins, over time.

Assume the other is honest, you be honest.  After that, copy what the other did.

Nixon was treated somewhat unfairly (the crook).  Carter, not so much.  Reagan, unfairly; but he overcame it.  Bush I, not so much ('read my lips' -- liar).  Clinton, not so unfairly UNTIL his perjury (a federal crime), and then the Rep rage at the unfairness of the media not being as unfair to Clinton as they had been to Reagan (loudly) and Nixon (unspoken, mostly).

Clinton's false statement lies were more clearly untrue than Nixon's.  With Watergate, the Left got to blame Vietnam on the Reps, not the Kennedy/LBJ folks who got into the mess.
Plus, the Dems got to vote for losing S. Vietnam ('74-'75), after Peace in 1973 -- but blame it on Nixon/Ford, and the 'never possible to win' lie.

For anybody who believes in Freedom and Democracy, the S. Viet sell out by the Democratic Party was a violation of American ideals.  But in my 1976 vote for Carter, I wasn't thinking of Killing Fields at all, just how I didn't like pardoning Nixon, and didn't like our Pres. bending over with a football ready to snap.  Nor did I like him stumbling off planes.

Tit for Tat.  Until it stops.
Maybe if Obama does what conservatives want, it would stop -- too bad the anti-bailout (Christian?) wing disagrees with the elite pro-bailout Bush wing. Reps don't know what they want, in economic policy.

We should want a rapid end to deflation, a mild inflation.
Print money, now.
No more bank bailouts, there's too many of them.  The bad ones are the ones asking for gov't cash, probably far less than 20%, tho most of the biggest.
(via Megan)

Posted by: TomGrey at 11/26/08 02:20 | link | comments (1)
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#1  27 November 2008 - 03:25

 

Pretty much concur, with a similar history. I hope for the best from Obama, but am pretty darn suspicious of him.

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