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		<title>By: Mary Sue</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2012/walter-williams/disaster-ignorance/comment-page-1/#comment-3903698</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mary Sue]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2012 10:14:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[one is the broken &lt;i&gt;window&lt;/i&gt; theory, the other is the broken &lt;/i&gt;glass&lt;/i&gt; theory.  My poor memory has forgot which is which. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>one is the broken <i>window</i> theory, the other is the broken glass theory.  My poor memory has forgot which is which. </p>
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		<title>By: tanstaafl</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[tanstaafl]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2012 03:10:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I can&#039;t understand why folks who live next to the ocean never give a thought to what will happen when the hurricane visits.  And why the insurance company does not want to sell you flood insurance. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I can&#039;t understand why folks who live next to the ocean never give a thought to what will happen when the hurricane visits.  And why the insurance company does not want to sell you flood insurance. </p>
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		<title>By: Mary Sue</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2012/walter-williams/disaster-ignorance/comment-page-1/#comment-3894309</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mary Sue]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2012 01:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[eeeeeeeeeeeeeexactly ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>eeeeeeeeeeeeeexactly </p>
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		<title>By: riverboatbill</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[riverboatbill]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2012 00:54:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The family could have bought a tank full of gas ,camping gear and left town before the storm hit. Or they could have invested in camping gear,hand pumps for gas stations,spam,bullets, band aids and booze and made a tidy profit. In either case they would have been taking a course of action more helpful  than a photo op. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The family could have bought a tank full of gas ,camping gear and left town before the storm hit. Or they could have invested in camping gear,hand pumps for gas stations,spam,bullets, band aids and booze and made a tidy profit. In either case they would have been taking a course of action more helpful  than a photo op. </p>
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		<title>By: R.C.</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[R.C.]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2012 22:34:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just because a person is a Nobel laureate--does not mean they are highly intelligent or highly knowledgeable--for the most these people are very ordinary; and its important to note here that often Nobel prizes are handed out for political purposes to people who do not deserve them, e.g., Al Gore and Barack Obama! ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Just because a person is a Nobel laureate&#8211;does not mean they are highly intelligent or highly knowledgeable&#8211;for the most these people are very ordinary; and its important to note here that often Nobel prizes are handed out for political purposes to people who do not deserve them, e.g., Al Gore and Barack Obama! </p>
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		<title>By: Mary Sue</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2012/walter-williams/disaster-ignorance/comment-page-1/#comment-3893484</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mary Sue]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2012 22:05:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, I didn&#039;t hear anything about that. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well, I didn&#039;t hear anything about that. </p>
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		<title>By: Donald DaCosta</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Donald DaCosta]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2012 19:38:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unfortunately, Mr. Williams cogent analysis requires some thoughtful contemplation. It is not as immediately obvious as the gouging and disaster narratives which are, on the surface, seemingly rooted in comon sense. The economic intricacies of American capitalism is full of these esoteric, illogical situations that render it impossible to understand without digging deep, getting past the initial, emotional reactions that predominate the public mindset. Getting past that is an exercise in frustration. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Unfortunately, Mr. Williams cogent analysis requires some thoughtful contemplation. It is not as immediately obvious as the gouging and disaster narratives which are, on the surface, seemingly rooted in comon sense. The economic intricacies of American capitalism is full of these esoteric, illogical situations that render it impossible to understand without digging deep, getting past the initial, emotional reactions that predominate the public mindset. Getting past that is an exercise in frustration. </p>
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		<title>By: tagalog</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[tagalog]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2012 18:23:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The &quot;broken window theory&quot; is a scenario that is intended to address the issue of struggling against deterioration of a neighborhood from crime and neglect, not the alleged creation of new wealth from rebuilding after a disaster. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The &quot;broken window theory&quot; is a scenario that is intended to address the issue of struggling against deterioration of a neighborhood from crime and neglect, not the alleged creation of new wealth from rebuilding after a disaster. </p>
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		<title>By: tagalog</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[tagalog]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2012 18:20:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rebuilding after a disaster may bring money into the economy, but one must also take into account the loss of business and the lack of wealth-creation due to the destruction of business from the disaster.  One probably outbalances the other.  So it&#039;s not only the diversion of money to deal with the rebuilding, it&#039;s the loss of business from the disruption. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Rebuilding after a disaster may bring money into the economy, but one must also take into account the loss of business and the lack of wealth-creation due to the destruction of business from the disaster.  One probably outbalances the other.  So it&#039;s not only the diversion of money to deal with the rebuilding, it&#039;s the loss of business from the disruption. </p>
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		<title>By: dan</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[dan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2012 17:59:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fact is that illegal .You cannot by law jack up prices in a event of  like Sandy hurricane ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Fact is that illegal .You cannot by law jack up prices in a event of  like Sandy hurricane </p>
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		<title>By: Robert A. Hall</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Robert A. Hall]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2012 15:41:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unfortunately, nothing is more prevalent in our Obama-Phone, loot-the-Future voters than economic ignorance, which politicians prey upon to hold power. Witness the election. I will link to this from my Old Jarhead blog.  &lt;a href=&quot;http://(www.tartanmarine.blogspot.com)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;(www.tartanmarine.blogspot.com)&lt;/a&gt; 
 
Robert A. Hall 
USMC 1964-68 
USMCR, 1977-83 
Massachusetts Senate, 1973-83 
Author: The Coming Collapse of the American Republic 
All royalties go to help wounded veterans 
For a free PDF of my 80-page book, write tartanmarine(at)gmail.com 
 ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Unfortunately, nothing is more prevalent in our Obama-Phone, loot-the-Future voters than economic ignorance, which politicians prey upon to hold power. Witness the election. I will link to this from my Old Jarhead blog.  <a href="http://(www.tartanmarine.blogspot.com)" rel="nofollow">(www.tartanmarine.blogspot.com)</a> </p>
<p>Robert A. Hall<br />
USMC 1964-68<br />
USMCR, 1977-83<br />
Massachusetts Senate, 1973-83<br />
Author: The Coming Collapse of the American Republic<br />
All royalties go to help wounded veterans<br />
For a free PDF of my 80-page book, write tartanmarine(at)gmail.com </p>
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		<title>By: PhillipGaley</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[PhillipGaley]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2012 13:31:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If in the very least, our learned author fails in opportunity to have made clear: causality, response, and effect. 
 
If a storm blows down an old fence, and you replace the broken mess with sound posts, can the wind be logically said to have caused a new fence, or a new fence to be built?  No.  And simply upon the reasoning that, all things being maintained in equivalent status, while for opportunity and necessity to have so done, the rotting posts had been so for some time&#8212;and, as to why the posts had not earlier been replaced there may have been various reasons say, your own long-term sickness or, someone else&#039;s&#8212;the storm merely brought those things (opportunity and necessity) to the fore as controlling considerations. 
 
It has been said that, a man with a wife and family will do anything for money.  I agree with those who say that, most of the world&#039;s work is done by people who don&#039;t feel well, and in that way, simple storm damage can be a triggering mechanism which combine with other things to bring forth any number of considerations which will impel one to go beyond the limits of endurance and strength and money and time, which one would have wished for himself, . . . ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If in the very least, our learned author fails in opportunity to have made clear: causality, response, and effect. </p>
<p>If a storm blows down an old fence, and you replace the broken mess with sound posts, can the wind be logically said to have caused a new fence, or a new fence to be built?  No.  And simply upon the reasoning that, all things being maintained in equivalent status, while for opportunity and necessity to have so done, the rotting posts had been so for some time&mdash;and, as to why the posts had not earlier been replaced there may have been various reasons say, your own long-term sickness or, someone else&#039;s&mdash;the storm merely brought those things (opportunity and necessity) to the fore as controlling considerations. </p>
<p>It has been said that, a man with a wife and family will do anything for money.  I agree with those who say that, most of the world&#039;s work is done by people who don&#039;t feel well, and in that way, simple storm damage can be a triggering mechanism which combine with other things to bring forth any number of considerations which will impel one to go beyond the limits of endurance and strength and money and time, which one would have wished for himself, . . . </p>
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		<title>By: dickymo johnston</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[dickymo johnston]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2012 13:03:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If youe enjoy this compelling common sense reasoning, I highly recommend reading 19th-century economist Frederic Bastiat. His &quot;Economic Sophisms&quot; is an entertaining refutation of many dumb ideas accepted as by too many as beneficial, ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If youe enjoy this compelling common sense reasoning, I highly recommend reading 19th-century economist Frederic Bastiat. His &quot;Economic Sophisms&quot; is an entertaining refutation of many dumb ideas accepted as by too many as beneficial, </p>
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		<title>By: Mark Rogers</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark Rogers]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2012 11:40:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Indeed it is the politico-bureaucratic mindset that leads to nonsense of this kind: people whose response to scarcity is to raise taxes are in no position to understand how pricing works. The result is that even a relatively educated citizenry follow their leaders, see in Mr Williams&#039;s article the complaints about the higher prices of everything (and the disgusting political opportunism of the Governor and the Attorney General). Scarcity means that you go without and the prices of what is available are a warning: why should you expect everything to remain the same in situations like this? You have to decide on what your priorities are, and it is precisely this moral aspect of pricing that the welfarist-entitlement mentality destroys. I write on these matters at goldcoin.org. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Indeed it is the politico-bureaucratic mindset that leads to nonsense of this kind: people whose response to scarcity is to raise taxes are in no position to understand how pricing works. The result is that even a relatively educated citizenry follow their leaders, see in Mr Williams&#039;s article the complaints about the higher prices of everything (and the disgusting political opportunism of the Governor and the Attorney General). Scarcity means that you go without and the prices of what is available are a warning: why should you expect everything to remain the same in situations like this? You have to decide on what your priorities are, and it is precisely this moral aspect of pricing that the welfarist-entitlement mentality destroys. I write on these matters at goldcoin.org. </p>
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		<title>By: Mary Sue</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mary Sue]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2012 07:33:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yay, Walter Williams! 
 
Oh yeah, the &quot;broken window theory&quot; of economics.  I learned about that.  Matter of fact I think I got the full details about it (and how it&#039;s fallacious to expect it to produce economic growth) on Rush&#039;s show (I think you were subbing in?)! 
 
Leave it to &quot;compassionate&quot; libs to try to dismantle the very thing that encourages more supply (high prices) during a time when people need more supply.  And then not understand what they&#039;re doing. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yay, Walter Williams! </p>
<p>Oh yeah, the &quot;broken window theory&quot; of economics.  I learned about that.  Matter of fact I think I got the full details about it (and how it&#039;s fallacious to expect it to produce economic growth) on Rush&#039;s show (I think you were subbing in?)! </p>
<p>Leave it to &quot;compassionate&quot; libs to try to dismantle the very thing that encourages more supply (high prices) during a time when people need more supply.  And then not understand what they&#039;re doing. </p>
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