Statistics about non-economic matters can be manipulated as well. One of the most disturbing is regarding war casualties from Iraq. The government has a great incentive to downplay the number of Americans who have died in Iraq as to make the cost of the war look smaller and not surprisingly, they’ve taken full advantage of it.
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Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics: Iraq War Casualties
under: Game Theory, Individual v. Collective, Live and Learn, Obama Says, Trust
Tags: Afghanistan War, Al-Qaeda, American soldiers, Barack Obama, casualties, CBS News, coalition of the willing, Department of Defense, George Bush, Halliburton, iraq, Iraq War, Joseph Stalin, military veterans, NBC News, New England Journal of Medicine, ORB Group, Osama Bin Laden, Pentagon, post traumatic stress syndrome, Saddam Hussein, suicide, The Lancet, U.S. military, Vietnam War, Walter Reed, war on terror, war protests, WMD, World War II
A Status Quo You Can Believe In
…from what I have gathered, our current president believes we need to change a few things. Well, I agree with him. I thought President Bush was a disaster. Unfortunately, though, other than the ridiculous hero worship and cult of personality that Obama’s got going, it really doesn’t seem like much of anything is changing.
under: Deficits, Energy, Live and Learn, Obama Says, Taxes, Treasury, Trust
Tags: Afghanistan War, bailout, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Change, Climate Change, cult of personality, deficit, deregulation, dreams, financial crisis, George Bush, Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, Guantanamo Bay, Hillary Clinton, hope, Iraq War, Jewel vs. NSA, Joe Biden, John McCain, Medicare Part D, Michael Moynihan, Patriot Act, rendition, status quo, stimulus package, surge, TARP, Tim Geithner, wiretapping
Did Osama Bin Laden Win?
We fell right into our enemy’s plan. We executed it to a “T”. Osama Bin Laden knew very well he couldn’t defeat the United States militarily. What he did know was that he could get us stuck in the Middle East, throwing money away fighting endless insurgencies.
Sorry Folks, War is Actually Not Good For the Economy
War is horrible… but it’s good for the economy. I cannot, for the life of me, think of a more dangerous myth than that. This facade has become so prevalent in the national conscience that it’s simply taken for granted… Seriously though, why would anyone actually believe this without at least a little skepticism? Wars are enormously destructive and shift resources from human needs, to human destruction.
under: Deficits, Dollar, Energy, Federal Reserve, Live and Learn, Treasury, Trust, Uncategorized
Tags: Afghanistan War, Candide, deflation, Department of Veteran Affairs, Economic Stimulus, Franklin Roosevelt, GDP, Great Depression, Iraq War, Keynesian Economics, military-Keynesianism, New Deal, Robert Higgs, unemployment, Voltaire, War, World War II
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