Comments on: Mutual fund theory of government http://unrepentantindividual.com/2005/11/19/mutual-fund-theory-of-government/ ...the only me I know Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:38:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: CGHill http://unrepentantindividual.com/2005/11/19/mutual-fund-theory-of-government/comment-page-1/#comment-2887 CGHill Mon, 21 Nov 2005 21:45:21 +0000 http://unrepentantindividual.com/2005/11/19/mutual-fund-theory-of-government/#comment-2887 Lately, I think of the GOP as money-market guys: you'll always get your one percent, but they have bigger fish to fry while guppies like me double our holdings in 72 years. :) Lately, I think of the GOP as money-market guys: you’ll always get your one percent, but they have bigger fish to fry while guppies like me double our holdings in 72 years. :)

]]> By: dustbury.com http://unrepentantindividual.com/2005/11/19/mutual-fund-theory-of-government/comment-page-1/#comment-2886 dustbury.com Mon, 21 Nov 2005 21:42:55 +0000 http://unrepentantindividual.com/2005/11/19/mutual-fund-theory-of-government/#comment-2886 <strong>I have $4 in pennies on my desk</strong> Brad Warbiany's Mutual Fund Theory of Government: Republicans are bond investors. They think government can offer certain expected returns (services) to you. Those returns aren't very big, but they're dependable.... I have $4 in pennies on my desk

Brad Warbiany’s Mutual Fund Theory of Government: Republicans are bond investors. They think government can offer certain expected returns (services) to you. Those returns aren’t very big, but they’re dependable….

]]> By: Brad Warbiany http://unrepentantindividual.com/2005/11/19/mutual-fund-theory-of-government/comment-page-1/#comment-2882 Brad Warbiany Mon, 21 Nov 2005 15:39:55 +0000 http://unrepentantindividual.com/2005/11/19/mutual-fund-theory-of-government/#comment-2882 Yeah, choosing something for Republicans was very difficult, and nothing quite fit right. The point was more against democrats and trying to manage every little bit of society, and that Libertarians would be simpler and yet perform better. I had to come up with something for the Republicans, and bonds were the best I could think of. Yeah, choosing something for Republicans was very difficult, and nothing quite fit right. The point was more against democrats and trying to manage every little bit of society, and that Libertarians would be simpler and yet perform better. I had to come up with something for the Republicans, and bonds were the best I could think of.

]]> By: Libertarian Jason http://unrepentantindividual.com/2005/11/19/mutual-fund-theory-of-government/comment-page-1/#comment-2881 Libertarian Jason Mon, 21 Nov 2005 15:27:27 +0000 http://unrepentantindividual.com/2005/11/19/mutual-fund-theory-of-government/#comment-2881 It's ironic you use the analogy of the bond investors for Republicans, given their propensity to use debt financing for their version of big government... I don't quite agree though... You make Republicans seem more conservative than libertarians in the role that government should play for society... If anything, libertarians are the ones advocating a minimalist State...hell, we don't promise _anything_! I might say that Ls are index funds...Ds would be dot-com and hi-tech funds...and the Rs are emerging market funds... (in keeping with their ambitious foreign policy goals...) It’s ironic you use the analogy of the bond investors for Republicans, given their propensity to use debt financing for their version of big government…

I don’t quite agree though… You make Republicans seem more conservative than libertarians in the role that government should play for society… If anything, libertarians are the ones advocating a minimalist State…hell, we don’t promise _anything_!

I might say that Ls are index funds…Ds would be dot-com and hi-tech funds…and the Rs are emerging market funds… (in keeping with their ambitious foreign policy goals…)

]]> By: Brad Warbiany http://unrepentantindividual.com/2005/11/19/mutual-fund-theory-of-government/comment-page-1/#comment-2876 Brad Warbiany Sun, 20 Nov 2005 11:10:33 +0000 http://unrepentantindividual.com/2005/11/19/mutual-fund-theory-of-government/#comment-2876 The point being that Republicans think they can manage social programs better by not promising as much. And Democrats are quick to use the "it's for the CHILDREN" line over and over, and it's gotten them pretty far... It might not be the slickest marketing campaign, but the best marketing campaign is the one that works. The point being that Republicans think they can manage social programs better by not promising as much.

And Democrats are quick to use the “it’s for the CHILDREN” line over and over, and it’s gotten them pretty far… It might not be the slickest marketing campaign, but the best marketing campaign is the one that works.

]]> By: theogon http://unrepentantindividual.com/2005/11/19/mutual-fund-theory-of-government/comment-page-1/#comment-2875 theogon Sun, 20 Nov 2005 02:29:51 +0000 http://unrepentantindividual.com/2005/11/19/mutual-fund-theory-of-government/#comment-2875 Republicans are good managers of social programs? Democrats have slick marketing campaigns? Would that it were. Republicans are good managers of social programs? Democrats have slick marketing campaigns? Would that it were.

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