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Posted October 19, 2011
This article also caused me to chuckle, though perhaps it's unfair or might amount to a bad editor:
http://www.npr.org/2011/10/17/141427450/herman-cains-9-9-9-plan-gets-a-closer-look?ps=cprs

To wit-
the article details how Cain's system may impact low income families disproportinately, and concludes with:
"Economists say generally people who make less money spend a larger share of their income on food and other essentials. Cain suggests that even if this is true, they can change their behavior and purchase more used items."

Does anyone else find these two sentences ridiculous paired with one another?
Post edited October 19, 2011 by strixo
Posted October 19, 2011
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strixo: It's possible. I get most of my news from NPR, which I don't believe is liberal (though there's random noise in any system...), and the only times I get sucked over to Huffington Post are the articles which tend to draw a crowd, i.e. polarize. I'll grant there's probably more to the outlet.
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hedwards: It gets complicated because outlets like NPR and the BBC are generally not going to take sides, you do find a few issues like domestic violence where NPR takes a decidedly anti-masculine position or the BBC takes a blatantly pro-Israeli position, even though in general they're pretty balanced.
Where do you get this stuff?
Posted October 19, 2011
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strixo: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/13/herman-cain-999-sim-city_n_1008952.html

Ok, so, the liberal huffington post demonstrates an uncanny similarity between Herman Cain's 9-9-9 plan and SimCity 4. While I don't buy the story, I laughed, and the gamer reference is at least amusing enough for GOG.
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hedwards: The huffington post isn't liberal. Like most news outlets it's moderate. The main exceptions being Fox "News" which usually just makes up its own news for ratings while decrying the other outlets that supposedly do that.
it was founded as the liberal alternative to the Drudge Report
Posted October 19, 2011
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hedwards: It gets complicated because outlets like NPR and the BBC are generally not going to take sides, you do find a few issues like domestic violence where NPR takes a decidedly anti-masculine position or the BBC takes a blatantly pro-Israeli position, even though in general they're pretty balanced.
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muttly13: Where do you get this stuff?
Because I've spent a lot of time following those two organizations and they have blind spots as described. If you bother to follow other organizations and do some research it's pretty clear that they're not covering those issues as impartially as they might be.
Posted October 19, 2011
It wouldn't surprise me if some of the more hardcore Sim City players could make better politicians than the ones we usually get*. The only downside is that their efficiency would be particularly brutal.



*we as in 'citizens of planet Earth'.
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