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Listed below are comments made by Mandricard between Saturday, 27th September 2008 and Thursday, 8th October 2009.

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Tories bash the rich 00:18am on 08 Oct 2009 Ah those rich teachers whose pay is being frozen, that'll show em. Hey, the fact that you get paid far less in the public sector than the private sector is neither here nor there.

The big tory idea seems to be how to pay more for worse services.
The political detail 00:55am on 16 Sep 2009 @foredeckdave

Whilst I don't know anything of Behavioural Economics, if indeed it is the relevant authors do occupy the same position as Quine then I can only assume you mean generally accepted as the leading thinkers in the last 50 years. Otherwise I would suggest you don't know much about how Quine is viewed these days.
Can French claim innocence in tapping-up row? 6:35pm on 12 Sep 2009 The overall problem would seem to the legal twilight of anything to do with players under the age of 16. Everyone except Platini and Blatter would benefit from some clarification of the legal statuses involved because as it is the rules seem to be whims of those two.
Corus, jobs and electricity usage 4:43pm on 25 Jun 2009 "Voting independent will mean total mayhem for this country"

Sorry, what? Going back and forth between labour and the conservatives has hardly been a great success for manufacturing, and banks have done very well for themselves under both.

The fact that you want more democracy, but only as long as it gives you what you want, says it all really.
A call for debate 1:08pm on 10 Jun 2009 @129

I agree entirely, we need a form of proportional representation because the current system isn't representative of how people voted and AV wouldn't change that whereas the system you suggest would.

If you're not in favour of PR then you're basically not in favour of democracy.
Fewer votes for BNP 1:06pm on 08 Jun 2009 Then again in the local elections the conservatives got a much smaller share of the vote than last time, but greatly increased their numbers of local councillers. The BNP vote is at least an expression of democracy...
FSA say 'more capital, less risk' 1:55pm on 18 Mar 2009 If you look at the historical record you can see that many people were saying these were huge weaknesses in banking many years ago. Let's not pretend that this is only visible after the fact, it's simply that now the game's up the people who had been profiting this whole time have to admit it too.

The basic problems will remain under this new regime because short term gains are still those incentivised. Take the issue of "incentivising bankers not to take undue risks". Apart from being fairly meaningless, the point is that through complex financial instruments and slightly shady accounting practices the goal was to make risks look much smaller than they really were. Without very strong regulation therefore this is not going to happen.

As Galbraith pointed out financial catastrophes occur for pretty much the same reasons once every generation and those who make the decisions that could stop this are just yes men by this time, because the incentives are to be a yes man. If you're a naysayer you'll get sacked.
How close to capitulation? 5:00pm on 06 Oct 2008 In a few months or so, buy bonds. the gold/silver rise will stop soonish.
The First US Presidential Debate - Live 03:41am on 27 Sep 2008 Oh Justin, are you serious? You'll meet infintely more people who think that McCain is another Bush if you, umm, meet people.
The First US Presidential Debate - Live 03:37am on 27 Sep 2008 Obama congratulates McCain, who wanders aimlessly across the floor... harsh but true.

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