Is Ron Paul having an affect on the national dialog?
Posted on March 19th, 2008 by bile Categories and Tags: Uncategorized, CNN, economics, elections, inflation, Iraq, politics, poll, Ron Paul, taxesJust saw on CNN a poll (this appears to be it) that “Of the over 1,000 American adults surveyed in the poll conducted March 14-16, 65% said they are ‘very concerned’ about inflation, and 26% said they are ’somewhat concerned.’” Inflation was the number one worry over job lose, house value and stock market drops. Perhaps people always worried about inflation and I wasn’t paying attention or given when it’s low people don’t concern themselves as much with it so it doesn’t register in polls.
A commercial break happened after the poll report and the next segment to report on was about how much we’ve spent in Iraq over the past 5 years and how that money could have been spent on domestically.
It’s nice to see that even if Paul isn’t doing well people are talking about some of the same topics he is trying to make main components of his campaign.
8 Responses to “Is Ron Paul having an affect on the national dialog?”
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March 19th, 2008 at 7:35 am
These are big issues. NPR talks about them pretty much non-stop.
March 19th, 2008 at 8:52 am
It wasn’t "news" until the media companies finally decided that the shit has hit the fan. (And now they focus so much on it I think they have introduced a feedback loop into the problem.) During the primaries they seemed more interested in character stories than issues like this. Fast forward to today and McCain is pretty lucky that the Democrats are still gridlocked, otherwise they’d be pounding him on economic issues. As an aside, I had a thought the other day that perhaps economics is more important to teach in schools than history. We certainly haven’t gotten anywhere trying to not repeat history, so maybe economics is worth a shot.
March 19th, 2008 at 9:36 am
History is very much an aspect of economics IMO. The study of human action is primarily a historic practice.
March 19th, 2008 at 9:45 am
History is economics… damn, bile beat me to the punch
Oh and in this country news is a product, so you can’t really blame companies for selling what they think people want to buy. News has little to do with actual information.
March 19th, 2008 at 10:22 am
In an abstract sense, yes history is economics, but I doubt a historian could do the same job as an economist. Their expertise possibly overlap, but economics is but a subset of the human interaction that history is interested in.
March 19th, 2008 at 11:29 am
"Human interaction" is the market… the economy. I’m not saying a historian is an economist but an economist has to be a historian.
March 19th, 2008 at 11:42 am
So all human interaction is "the market"?
March 19th, 2008 at 11:47 am
Given you cant differentiate between interactions which do or don’t affect the individual’s future interactions… yes. Economics scales values of goods… that can only be done through interactions between individuals both which involve trading of goods and services and those which don’t.