[Vision2020] Dale Courtney Refuses to Publish My Response

[Nicholas Gier]

Thanks, Tom, but how did you get by the "moderator"?

Nick

On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 10:58 AM, Moscow Cares <moscowcares at moscow.com>
wrote:

> Two things, Nick . . .
>
> - I copied and pasted your comment to Courtney’s article as a response.
>
> - You’ve got to realize that a large potion of his articles are sourced
> from rt.com (Russian Times) out of the other Moscow (the one in Russia).
>
> Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .
>
> "Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)
> http://www.MoscowCares.com <http://www.moscowcares.com/>
>
> Tom Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho
>
>
> On Dec 14, 2017, at 10:17 AM, Nicholas Gier <ngier006 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Good Morning Visionaries:
>
> Dale Courtney, moderator of the site right-mind.us, has refused to
> publish this reply to his recent letter to the Daily News.
>
> Hi Dale:
>
> You seemed to have forgotten that I responded to you on this question
> earlier on a letter you wrote to the Lewiston Tribune on exactly the same
> topic. You posted the letter on your site and I responded with what I've
> posted below.
>
> If you did not forget about this exchange, then you are just being
> intellectually dishonest. Doug Wilson did this after our abortion debate in
> 1993, and that is when I began to lose respect for him. When anyone refuses
> to respond to points already made and pretends that they have not been
> made, then he has not only lost the debate but also his virtue.
>
> Now to the point: Obama inherited on-going debt from Bush, namely, huge
> amounts due to his tax cuts and unfunded wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. This
> is in stark contrast to the relatively small debt that Obama incurred because
> of the ACA and the stimulus, which nearly all economists say was a success.
>
> Using figures from the Congressional Budget Office, the Center for Budget
> and Policy Priorities has calculated the long-term effects of various
> elements of the national debt, assuming that the Bush tax cuts are still in
> place. (This was before the current tax bill.) By 2019 those cuts will
> amount to $600 billion of the debt burden as opposed to $75 billion for
> Obama’s programs. We will still be paying $320 billion for the Great
> Recession (due to a drop in tax revenues) and $150 billion for the wars in
> Iraq and Afghanistan.
>
> And once again, since you don't understand the connection, when a
> government runs deficits, it adds to its debt. Clinton reduced the annual
> deficit until there was a surplus. That, dear sir, reduced the national
> debt. Bush turned around and added to it. When Obama reduced the annual
> deficit from 10% to 3.2%, he was reducing the national debt.
>
> After nearly a year of Trump it is back up to 3.5% and it will go much
> higher with the new tax bill. The result will be an increase in the
> national debt. This is what happened with the Reagan tax cuts, and he then
> had to raise taxes seven times, but that did not, primarily because of
> excessive defense spending, prevent the tripling of the national debt.
>
> By the way, the deficit for the Eurozone is now 1.3%, and their debt is
> now easing because of this. Greece is almost running a surplus with a
> deficit of only .8%. Socialist Sweden is running a 1% surplus.
>
> Yours for honest debate (hopefully one that does not needed to be
> repeated),
>
> Nick
>
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>
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>
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>
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A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they
shall never sit in.

-Greek proverb

“Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-imposed immaturity.
Immaturity is the inability to use one’s understanding without guidance
from another. This immaturity is self- imposed when its cause lies not in
lack of understanding, but in lack of resolve and courage to use it without
guidance from another. Sapere Aude! ‘Have courage to use your own
understand-ing!—that is the motto of enlightenment.

--Immanuel Kant
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