The Goat Pen

Hacksaw wrote:Bush would get into the middle of a sentence and then you would get the sense that he was listening to the words coming out of his mouth, instead of concentrating on putting them together in the right order. He just wasn't a good public speaker.

But almost anyone who spends so much of their life in the public eye is going to flub some things from time to time. It's understandable. That's why I think it was ridiculous how much emphasis the 9:1 media put on Bush's gaffes. And it's even more ridiculous when you see how they go out of their way to ignore Obama's.

George Will wrote:From his office window, Thomas W. Horton, in his fifth month as CEO of American Airlines, can see in the distance the Manhattan-size footprint of Dallas-Fort Worth airport, where American has 85 percent market share; it also has 68 percent in Miami, gateway to South America’s booming market. A few miles from here, however, sits one of the reasons why his company nevertheless entered bankruptcy recently — the corporate headquarters of Southwest Airlines.

Southwest, the most successful of the “low-cost” carriers that proliferated after the 1978 deregulation of the industry, has been profitable for 39 consecutive years, while the rest of the industry was losing $60 billion between deregulation and 2009. Southwest, JetBlue and the others have 30 percent of the domestic market, up from 10 percent in 1999. The “two-tier” airline industry is, however, becoming a thing of the past. All carriers are going to have low costs because of what Horton calls “fear-based discipline,” a.k.a. competition.

In the last three decades, there have been 192 airline bankruptcies. Not coincidentally, fares, adjusted for inflation, are 18 percent lower than in 2000. Forty years ago, a majority of Americans had never taken an airplane trip. Now everyone is more free than ever to move about the country, air travel having been democratized by liberating it from government.

In 1938, the Civil Aeronautics Act codified a government-managed cartel. Reason magazine’s Nick Gillespie and Matt Welch report that, 34 years later, United’s percentage of market share had gone from 22.9 to 22, Eastern’s from 14.9 to 11.6 and TWA’s from 15.1 to 11.9. Why this bureaucrat’s dream of near-stasis? Because between 1950 and 1974, the Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB) received 79 applications for startup airlines and rejected them all, believing that if even one passenger would be taken from an existing carrier, competition would be excessive.

Professor Tiger wrote:My nephew summed it up this way. He says that he and his generation simply won't pay it. When the profligate Baby Boomers are in nursing homes, and the GENX'ers take over the government, they will tax social security at 100%, confiscate IRA and 401K funds, tell the Chinese to fornicate themselves with their t-bills, whatever it takes. But they will... not... devote half their take home pay for the rest of their lives for all this crap.

while we are at it Tiger, point me to one poll (any poll anywhere) that stipulates that Gen-Xers would be willing to vote for a more austerity driven Romney over a tax-and-borrow-and-spend Obama.

while we are at it Tiger, point me to one poll (any poll anywhere) that stipulates that Gen-Xers would be willing to vote for a more austerity driven Romney over a tax-and-borrow-and-spend Obama.

In the latest Gallup results broken down by age of respondents, Paul does disproportionately well with voters aged 18-34, being the preferred choice of 20 percent of that demographic nationally

Ron Paul won young voters ages 17-29 with 62 percent and 60 percent among ages 30-44.

Once again, Ron Paul proved his appeal to, by definition, an incredibly important age group in the future: those under 30 (yeah, I know, they get older. But so does the < 18 crowd). Considering the break down of the election in 2008, gaining support from a younger crowd would be a huge deal for the Republican party. Note that Ron Paul has won this portion of the vote in every state that has voted so far – and consider that two of those states were primaries, not caucuses.

Professor Tiger wrote:

while we are at it Tiger, point me to one poll (any poll anywhere) that stipulates that Gen-Xers would be willing to vote for a more austerity driven Romney over a tax-and-borrow-and-spend Obama.

More:

In the latest Gallup results broken down by age of respondents, Paul does disproportionately well with voters aged 18-34, being the preferred choice of 20 percent of that demographic nationally

http://dailycaller.com/2011/12/19/why-i ... z1sRzgGSCZ

Ron Paul won young voters ages 17-29 with 62 percent and 60 percent among ages 30-44.

http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer. ... nia/413916

Once again, Ron Paul proved his appeal to, by definition, an incredibly important age group in the future: those under 30 (yeah, I know, they get older. But so does the < 18 crowd). Considering the break down of the election in 2008, gaining support from a younger crowd would be a huge deal for the Republican party. Note that Ron Paul has won this portion of the vote in every state that has voted so far – and consider that two of those states were primaries, not caucuses.

http://dqydj.net/parsing-the-south-caro ... rengthens/

I could list at least a dozen more polls that show young voters willing to vote for Paul, who is an extremely austerity driven candidate. But you get the picture. Is there any other way I can help you?