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What do you think the military spends?
So you want the military to buy Iraqi domestic goods, even though the domestic industry is in shambles because of the chaos?
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So you want the military to buy Iraqi domestic goods, even though the domestic industry is in shambles because of the chaos?
“I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
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Do dollars magically disappear when they fall into the hands of Iraqis?Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
What do you think the military spends?
So you want the military to buy Iraqi domestic goods, even though the domestic industry is in shambles because of the chaos?
I drank beer. I like beer. I still like beer. ... Do you like beer Senator?
- Justice Brett KavanaughComment
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Who ever said they'll fall into the hands of the Iraqis in the first place? With all the industries messed up, they have little, if anything to sell. Much wiser to get what you need overseas instead of waiting for the Iraqis to form domestic industry again, which could take ages because of the chaos.“I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
- John 13:34-35 (NRSV)Comment
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The 'chaos' is not sufficient to explain the continued failure to restart the Iraqi infrastructure. What chaos there is is concentrated in the Baghdad area, and even there, it's hardly Somalia or the DRC. The chaos is not some unavoidable thing, like a thunderstorm, it was, at the very least, controllable.Comment
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You're point is that dollars aren't in circulation in Iraq?
On only a limited basis.
What do you think the military spends?
Dinars.
Do you have another point?
Only that there's nothing an Iraqi could do with a dollar he has than buy an imported product or convert it into Dinars, whereby another Iraqi would have that same dollar. Saying that there are too many imports doesn't make any sense at all. What else would they do with their dollars?I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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The funny thing is....according to Kidonomic Theory, the Iraqui people should now be at full employment!
Anything that's done to reduce the chaos and improve national stability will be a "productivity enhancer" and according to Kid, the only thing they (productivity enhancers) do is cost jobs....which means that the Iraqis are doomed. As order improves, their productivity will increase, and an increasing numbers of Iraquis will be jobless because of it....I paid attention in Kid's class....
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I would like to make very clear that this free market is very beneficial to Iraqis. It might look to them like a rather untidy affair, but there are no shortages of basic goods because of it, and many advanced goods are in plentiful supply. It took several years for the German economy to have no shortages of basic goods after World War II, for comparison purposes with an economy that was heavily managed post-war.I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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Who care about what currency they are using. Obviously you didn't want to address the real issue, because that point is irrelevant.Originally posted by DanS
Only that there's nothing an Iraqi could do with a dollar he has than buy an imported product or convert it into Dinars, whereby another Iraqi would have that same dollar. Saying that there are too many imports doesn't make any sense at all. What else would they do with their dollars?
What else would they spend their money on? Domestic goods and services. If there are goods and services that can't be produced in Iraq and they are absolutely needed than export them. Start organizing the Iraqis and giving them information to start more industries and businesses.I drank beer. I like beer. I still like beer. ... Do you like beer Senator?
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The so called "Free Market" really is a sacred cow to you all, isn't it? Did you try to explain why it is The Answer To Everything to the East Germans during these last 15 years when they were liberated from the evil Commies? You may have a hard time...Within weeks they'll be re-opening the shipyards
And notifying the next of kin
Once again...Comment
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Recovering from decades of communism takes timeComment
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The 'chaos' is not sufficient to explain the continued failure to restart the Iraqi infrastructure. What chaos there is is concentrated in the Baghdad area, and even there, it's hardly Somalia or the DRC.
It is when that chaos also extends to economic paralyzation. There is no stable government in Iraq now, and that prevents buisnesses from running 'as usual'. When there is stability (which comes from bring the country out of chaos) then the government can begin to address the problems of all the people out of work because the bureaucracy has fallen and all the domestic businesses whose production has fallen due to the war and its aftermath.“I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
- John 13:34-35 (NRSV)Comment
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as much as i disagree with harsh free-marketeering, isn't it a bit soon to say the free market has failed iraq
eimi men anthropos pollon logon, mikras de sophiasComment
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Productivity is not important right now. A real plan to create jobs and reach full employment very soon is.Originally posted by Velociryx
The funny thing is....according to Kidonomic Theory, the Iraqui people should now be at full employment!
Anything that's done to reduce the chaos and improve national stability will be a "productivity enhancer" and according to Kid, the only thing they (productivity enhancers) do is cost jobs....which means that the Iraqis are doomed. As order improves, their productivity will increase, and an increasing numbers of Iraquis will be jobless because of it....I paid attention in Kid's class....
-=Vel=-I drank beer. I like beer. I still like beer. ... Do you like beer Senator?
- Justice Brett KavanaughComment
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as much as i disagree with harsh free-marketeering, isn't it a bit soon to say the free market has failed iraq
Especially since Communists are willing to wait forever for their 'revolution'.
“I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
- John 13:34-35 (NRSV)Comment
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bleh, capitalism won't survive forever, and it more then likley will end up into an (anarcho)-communist style society, but it won't happen for a very long time (hundreds of years).Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
as much as i disagree with harsh free-marketeering, isn't it a bit soon to say the free market has failed iraq
Especially since Communists are willing to wait forever for their 'revolution'.
the reds are just to damn impatient, reveloutin now!! and all that.
eimi men anthropos pollon logon, mikras de sophiasComment
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