http://groups.yahoo.com/group/deleonism-list/ De Leonism Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:28:25 GMT davidasearles http://groups.yahoo.com/group/deleonism-list/message/1778 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/deleonism-list/message/1778 rewrite: Every price rise in every commodity that workers buy means that much less they receive in return for their labor. Sun, 08 Nov 2009 11:42:35 GMT davidasearles http://groups.yahoo.com/group/deleonism-list/message/1777 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/deleonism-list/message/1777 Marketplace "devaluation" of the currency is one way that workers wages go down. Every price rise in every commodity a work has to but is just that much less Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:11:17 GMT BUD http://groups.yahoo.com/group/deleonism-list/message/1776 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/deleonism-list/message/1776 USA: Looming Default on Debt, Inflationary Chaos, and Anarchy;- Causes Devaluation of Money in Competative World Marketplace. Bud Collectivist, Red Patrol. Red Sat, 07 Nov 2009 11:24:26 GMT davidasearles http://groups.yahoo.com/group/deleonism-list/message/1775 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/deleonism-list/message/1775 ... What's similar is the same old Ken Ellis broken record trying to justify his own lame ideas by the "it's better than Petersen" tired old song. I rarely Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:06:54 GMT davidasearles http://groups.yahoo.com/group/deleonism-list/message/1774 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/deleonism-list/message/1774 neither can you show Ken how such a scheme would do anything but temporarily and I would say only slightly do anything to reduce the glut of supply of labor Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:43:10 GMT davidasearles http://groups.yahoo.com/group/deleonism-list/message/1773 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/deleonism-list/message/1773 ... You would be happier if no side debated? Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:41:37 GMT davidasearles http://groups.yahoo.com/group/deleonism-list/message/1772 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/deleonism-list/message/1772 NY Times column +++++++++++++++++++ http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/06/why-not-a-wpa/ November 6, 2009, 10:44 am Why not a WPA? By Paul Krugman A Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:41:37 GMT davidasearles http://groups.yahoo.com/group/deleonism-list/message/1771 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/deleonism-list/message/1771 The previous question to Ken was for him to show just how reducing the number of hours an worker worked in a week would increase the hourly value of labor Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:52:33 GMT Bob Howes (vegan) http://groups.yahoo.com/group/deleonism-list/message/1770 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/deleonism-list/message/1770 David, I am not interested in this kind of one sided debate. Bob Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:31:42 GMT Ken Ellis http://groups.yahoo.com/group/deleonism-list/message/1769 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/deleonism-list/message/1769 Here is a contribution to the swt forum that bears on a question I debated here a few weeks ago with Dave. The benefits of shorter working time are so Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:16:20 GMT davidasearles http://groups.yahoo.com/group/deleonism-list/message/1768 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/deleonism-list/message/1768 ... So what I'll do with my apartments is to rent them to people who cannot afford them family at a time, but because there are so many poor people looking for Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:13:06 GMT Bob Howes (vegan) http://groups.yahoo.com/group/deleonism-list/message/1767 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/deleonism-list/message/1767 David, The market is open to rich and poor alike. The advantage of selling to the poor is that there are a lot of them and they spend all the money they get. Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:07:52 GMT davidasearles http://groups.yahoo.com/group/deleonism-list/message/1766 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/deleonism-list/message/1766 "thinking globally" is a really nice sounding phrase - but the idea that socialists "have to begin thinking in more global terms" implies that socialists Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:02:14 GMT Bob Howes (vegan) http://groups.yahoo.com/group/deleonism-list/message/1765 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/deleonism-list/message/1765 "Socialists have to begin thinking much more in global terms to confront these problems. We have to stop behaving as if it were the 1840s. The world is a Sun, 01 Nov 2009 16:27:40 GMT davidasearles http://groups.yahoo.com/group/deleonism-list/message/1764 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/deleonism-list/message/1764 side with a person? I do that in bed but not in discussing an argument. Specifically what is the argument, and what do you see as strength or deficiency in