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		<title>The Greek Family</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 09:21:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Political Ramblings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thus, the family decides to democratically decide whether to pay back the loan. Unsurprisingly the result is to continue as before and default on the loan, completely ignoring the liabilities they have accepted and signed for.<br /><div><img src="http://westergaard.eu/wp-content/plugins/gd-star-rating/gfx.php?value=0.0" /></div><div>Rating: 0.0/<strong>5</strong> (0 votes cast)</div><br />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Workers&#8217; Unions, Equal Wages and Minimum Wages are as bad as Monopolies and Cartels</title>
		<link>http://westergaard.eu/2010/10/why-workers-unions-equal-wages-and-minimum-wages-are-as-bad-as-monopolies-and-cartels/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=why-workers-unions-equal-wages-and-minimum-wages-are-as-bad-as-monopolies-and-cartels</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Oct 2010 10:24:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Political Ramblings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Liberalism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post has 1513 words. Reading it will take approximately 8 minutes.Here I&#8217;ll argue that workers&#8217; unions have similarities to monopolies and that equal/minimum wages have similarities with cartels, and note the difference in how these are dealt with. Monopolies and Cartels Monopolies have a bad ring to them.  Nobody likes monopolies, in peoples&#8217; minds [...]<br /><div><img src="http://westergaard.eu/wp-content/plugins/gd-star-rating/gfx.php?value=3.7" /></div><div>Rating: 3.7/<strong>5</strong> (3 votes cast)</div><br />]]></description>
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		<title>Forslag: Privatiser DR</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Oct 2010 07:43:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Political Ramblings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Danish]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DR]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Licens]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This post has 303 words. Reading it will take approximately 2 minutes.Ok, ok, det lyder umiddelbart vanvittigt, da DR jo giver dundrende underskud, men der er alligevel mening med galskaben. Hvis man ser bort fra den ligyldige nicheproduktion af lav-kvalitets-TV til alt for h&#248;je priser, r&#229;der DR jo over landets eneste statsautoriserede gestapo-inddrivningsenhed, som kan [...]<br /><div><img src="http://westergaard.eu/wp-content/plugins/gd-star-rating/gfx.php?value=4.5" /></div><div>Rating: 4.5/<strong>5</strong> (2 votes cast)</div><br />]]></description>
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		<title>Taxes and the Nash Equilibrium, and Why the Social State Consequently Blows</title>
		<link>http://westergaard.eu/2010/09/taxes-and-the-nash-equilibrium-and-why-the-social-state-consequently-blows/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=taxes-and-the-nash-equilibrium-and-why-the-social-state-consequently-blows</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Sep 2010 12:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Political Ramblings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Democracy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now, the idea of the Nash equilibrium is that by altering one's own behavior from maximizing for yourself regardless of the strategy of others, you can get a solution that is better to everyone.  Compare this to a soccer match.  If both teams play against each other, they have to run around like idiots for 2 * 45 minutes, eventually possibly having one team or the other score more goals.  If they just agree that soccer sucks (it's almost part of the name anyway), and go out for a couple cold ones, they both get a draw, but have instead a nice time for an hour and a half.<br /><div><img src="http://westergaard.eu/wp-content/plugins/gd-star-rating/gfx.php?value=5.0" /></div><div>Rating: 5.0/<strong>5</strong> (1 vote cast)</div><br />]]></description>
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		<title>On State-sponsored Art</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 14:42:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Political Ramblings]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Britney]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post has 1375 words. Reading it will take approximately 7 minutes.In this post I am in no way trying to define art – whenever I write art, you&#8217;re welcome to read almost anything you want, be it music, paintings, crap in a can, soccer matches, movies or something completely else. It&#8217;s no secret, I&#8217;m [...]<br /><div><img src="http://westergaard.eu/wp-content/plugins/gd-star-rating/gfx.php?value=0.0" /></div><div>Rating: 0.0/<strong>5</strong> (0 votes cast)</div><br />]]></description>
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		<title>I Vote Against!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 18:26:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Political Ramblings]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post has 585 words. Reading it will take approximately 3 minutes.Nobody wants to hear more about it!  It&#8217;s polluting the news worse than any soviet mid-70s coal power plant could ever pollute the air.  I&#8217;m, of course talking about the climate conference (yeah, not gonna dignify them by a link) thats causing criminality to [...]<br /><div><img src="http://westergaard.eu/wp-content/plugins/gd-star-rating/gfx.php?value=5.0" /></div><div>Rating: 5.0/<strong>5</strong> (2 votes cast)</div><br />]]></description>
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		<title>Isn&#8217;t Socialism Really Un-solidary?</title>
		<link>http://westergaard.eu/2009/11/is-socialism-unsolidary/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=is-socialism-unsolidary</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:01:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Political Ramblings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the following I'll use left and right to be purely economical terms.  That is, the more left a party is, the more it is for economical equality: everybody should earn the same despite ability and (the more left you get) willingness to work.  At the same time, the more to the right you get, the more you are for everybody should earn their own money and pay their own expenses.

Communism dictates that the state (or people) own everything and all are paid the same amount or the amount they need.  Capitalism dictates that we pay nothing to the common kitty, and hence there is nothing to distribute; you basically want to get as much of the money you earn as you can.  Most countries are somewhere in between nowadays.<br /><div><img src="http://westergaard.eu/wp-content/plugins/gd-star-rating/gfx.php?value=0.0" /></div><div>Rating: 0.0/<strong>5</strong> (0 votes cast)</div><br />]]></description>
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		<title>Kniver det med forståelsen…</title>
		<link>http://westergaard.eu/2009/09/kniver-det-med-forstaelsen/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=kniver-det-med-forstaelsen</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2009 17:44:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Political Ramblings]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For omkring halvandet år siden, var der en del knivstikkerier i diverse danske byer.  Det fik folk op af stolene; der var bombastiske avisartikler med lækre overskrifter i store bogstaver samt dejlige blodige billeder, så en døende branche kunne få kunstigt åndedræt og sælge nogle aviser, der appelerede til den laveste fællesnævner.

Nu bliver folk så faktisk dømt efter loven.  Alle må selvfølgelig være tilfredse med det.  Bortset fra, nu er alle de, der før var imod knive i nattelivet, pludselig er en slags for. … Desuden udlægger aviserne loven som om, der er en obligatorisk minimumsstraf på 7 dage i fængsel.  Meget få er faktisk klar over, det ikke er sandt.  Lad os starte med selve loven: …

Selv er jeg imod loven.  Ikke så meget på grund af dens indhold, som ikke siger mig en skid, da jeg ikke bruger knive, og da slet ikke i nattelivet.  Mere på grund af, den indskrænker den personlige frihed, men det er jo det, politikere er bedst til.<br /><div><img src="http://westergaard.eu/wp-content/plugins/gd-star-rating/gfx.php?value=0.0" /></div><div>Rating: 0.0/<strong>5</strong> (0 votes cast)</div><br />]]></description>
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		<title>Damn Socialism!</title>
		<link>http://westergaard.eu/2009/09/damn-socialism/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=damn-socialism</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 00:04:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Political Ramblings]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post has 702 words. Reading it will take approximately 4 minutes.Today I got my heating bill for the last year.  It always infuriates me.  People, who know me, know I usually wear shorts, and I don&#8217;t mind if it&#8217;s chilly.  For the sake of my computers, which don&#8217;t particularly like it too cold, I [...]<br /><div><img src="http://westergaard.eu/wp-content/plugins/gd-star-rating/gfx.php?value=0.0" /></div><div>Rating: 0.0/<strong>5</strong> (0 votes cast)</div><br />]]></description>
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