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(...) All US citizens, one presumes... (...) Well, it would be kind of hard to match those decimal places exactly when you had 10 points in the sample, but I see your point. :-) (...) Not a chance. You see, Lugnet does not represent the Lego-playing (...) (24 years ago, 21-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Is it ~OK~ for government to subsidise profit making industry?
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(...) Why is that? (...) If they have to rob from the rich (or more accurately, middle class) to give to the poor, at least this way they're doing it in a way that supplies the poor a way to see to themselves. What could you possibly object to? (...) (24 years ago, 21-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Wellll, one of you are anyway. (...) How so? (...) What consensus is that? What I think is that he made an educated guess. When you are quoting government statistics, those are also educated guesses. So his statistic is as valid as the numbers (...) (24 years ago, 21-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Thank you very much for the inputs Maggie..:-) (...) Actually, although we (me and my wife) earn quite above the average in Turkish terms, (minimum legal wage is 107 million TL here, and 1 USD=1.25 million TL), I think it does not buy us a decent (...) (24 years ago, 21-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Occasionally, I am in favour of government intervention in the employment market. Despite that, when I read the story below, I thought this was the one area where companies and individuals did not need handouts / subsidies. Can it really be ~OK~ for (...) (24 years ago, 21-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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