I teach all day. I’m tired. 
There’s a pill for that.
Red pill? 
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Boomer don’t give af, shocking
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People who think there’s a viable center are known as centrists. They should be known as pitiable fools…
New York is the only US state losing population faster than California. The state is likely to lose at least one Congressional seat, maybe two, in 2021 redistricting.
Despite a new redistricting plan enacted after 2010, I think NY Democrats will go into 2021 with enough oomph to redistrict NY14 into nonexistence (merge it into one or more existing districts) if they wish.
AOC has spent several recent weekends encouraging residents to participate in the 2020 census to avoid undercounting there. It would probably behoove NY Democrats to force her into competing in a district with more Republicans than NY14, given the clout New York state has within the national Democrat Party.
If the national party wishes to retain as much power as it seems, they don’t have to outright kneecap AOC into irrelevance. Just give her a new district to run in, and a little more to think about.
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Difficult as some of them probably aren’t legal lol.
To be fair to her, the exodus of NY didn’t began with her. Businesses have already been moving to places like Texas and Florida. And when jobs go, people go. But her move with Amazon sure didn’t help, and she has likely drove away businesses who may have wanted to stay or go into NY as well.
New Yorkers should be pissed she drove away economic opportunities for her minuet of fame.
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New York is the only US state losing population faster than California
And guess where they’re going?
The NYC real estate market is an unfunny caricature of itself. An apt I paid 1200 for in rent in '97 and was getting hosed then in BK rents for 8000/9000 a month now. Very average houses sell for 1m. Of course people are leaving, NYC isn’t for people anymore.
The median home price of my area just went up 14%. In January alone. DM me for tips on where to invest! 
The facts show: New Jersey sucks.
This is hilarious. If Trump had made this goof it would be all over the MSM until vigorous calls for impeachment would surely issue forth.
As is pointed out, what makes it hit the heights of not-ha-ha funny is that Keynes insisted that income inequality was a key to strong economic growth.
Doesn’t AOC have a degree in Econ? Like, one she did not purchase online?
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This is a disgraceful column. Clearly she meant Milton Friedman, but had to mash it up into Milton Keynes, because of her anti-semitic democratic audience.
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Beat me to it! 
You guys bumping the AOC thread made me think you were going to talk about the New Way Forward deal she backs. I actually read it, Tucker is not exaggerating its a doozy.
Her first draft was probably named “New Leap Forward” but someone made a Google search and suggested her to change it
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I have no interest in her lack of knowledge of economists. What would concern me, if she ever becomes a major political player, is her apparent support of the short-termism of Keynes. Attractive politically, but very dangerous. I think his ambivalence with regards to producing offspring was a big factor in his worldview.
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Might be a US thing. In most university programs, undergrads learn about Keynes’ impact on fiscal policy in the first, basic course on macroeconomics. Keynes’ ideas about short-term borrowing, where no new tax revenue is made explicit (just borrowing) are sketched out at a high level. Ime nothing is said at all about Keynes personal life. All discussion is restricted to his ideas only.
Milton Friedman of course explained the rise in GDP caused by short-term borrowing as strictly an effect of monetary levels. Because understanding the differences between the two schools requires more exposure to Keynes than econ 101, discussion of Friedman’s monetary policy is usually only undertaken in more advanced courses.
So it’s not her lack of knowledge about economists that bothers me, it’s that she purports to have some knowledge of macroeconomics and fiscal policy. Her comments seem to reveal that she was never exposed to Friedman, however.
If you attended an American university as a serious student of econ, and you’re only 29 ffs, you’re not going to conflate Milton Friedman with JM Keynes. Noway, no how.
So bottom line it just goes to show how empty her rhetoric and her resume are.
Also, she seems to be yet another case where Democrats project their own faults (she’s becoming a bit of a cult) onto Republicans (Dems say they’re a cult of Trump).
What the heck did Keynes think about offispring, anyway?
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That’s a very long response to one sentence. Could you summarise what you want me to respond to, if in fact you do?
Sure.
What the heck did Keynes think about offspring?
I think he wasn’t interested in future generations because he wasn’t likely to breed. He lost a child, of course, but I’m not convinced it was important to him.