Say It Ain't So Joe: the LvMI's Joe Salerno Now Pumping Trump

r3volution 3.0 said:
No, that's the meaning of the words he wrote in this language we call English.

Q. If I say "There's at least one dog in my house," I am aware of how many dogs in my house?

A. one
B. more than one
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SMFH. Sorry, I'm not patient enough to discuss this politely with you. I don't care about the election anyway. I'll leave this to y'all from here out unless something worthwhile is posted.
 
heavenlyboy34 said:
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SMFH. Sorry, I'm not patient enough to discuss this politely with you. I don't care about the election anyway. I'll leave this to y'all from here out unless something worthwhile is posted.
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It sounds like you are running away from the debate. I'm aware of at least one person on this forum named heavenlyboy34.
 
Has Rand been talking about the fed in his presidential campaign?

I've gotten the impression that he has deliberately avoided the issue.
 
erowe1 said:
Has Rand been talking about the fed in his presidential campaign?

I've gotten the impression that he has deliberately avoided the issue.
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That's my number one complaint of Rand Paul's campaign so far. He should know what kind of support it would bring if he started to bring the issue up. He's taking the Cato/Beltway/Reason libertarian approach to his campaign, and that's a bad thing in my opinion.
 
r3volution 3.0 said:
No, that's the meaning of the words he wrote in this language we call English.

Q. If I say "There's at least one dog in my house," I am aware of how many dogs in my house?

A. one
B. more than one
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C. There is not enough information to say if either A or B or correct.
 
erowe1 said:
Has Rand been talking about the fed in his presidential campaign?

I've gotten the impression that he has deliberately avoided the issue.
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It's listed as an issue on his website. Can't say the same for Trump. There's nothing about it on Trumps website. So I wouldn't say Rand is avoiding it. Rand is Mr. Audit the Fed. It's his bill. He stood in congress talking about it longer than Trump has about immigration.
 
fr33 said:
It's listed as an issue on his website. Can't say the same for Trump. There's nothing about it on Trumps website. So I wouldn't say Rand is avoiding it. Rand is Mr. Audit the Fed. It's his bill. He stood in congress talking about it longer than Trump has about immigration.
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Good point about the website.
 
lol, as far as I know, kids in third grade can figure out the difference between one and one or more. here we have some idiot -that's the accurate word- who is unable to tell the difference. try mastering third grade math.
 
erowe1 said:
Has Rand been talking about the fed in his presidential campaign?

I've gotten the impression that he has deliberately avoided the issue.
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Why are you promoting Trump over Rand?

(since we have idiots here, the above was sarcasm, I have to point out)
 
jj- said:
lol, as far as I know, kids in third grade can figure out the difference between one and one or more. here we have some idiot -that's the accurate word- who is unable to tell the difference. try mastering third grade math.
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He didn't say "one or more". Way to misrepresent.
 
fr33 said:
He didn't say "one or more". Way to misrepresent.
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He said "at least one". "At least one" means "one or more".

I didn't know elementary school math was so hard! What a fucking idiot!
 
erowe1 said:
"At least one" = "One or more"
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Ok, then this short blog post wasn't worth writing or reading. If at least one is against the federal reserve, then perhaps almost all are as well. Given the lack of context Salerno provides us with, we have no idea if opposing the Fed is popular or not, if we apply no other evidence that isn't supplied by the blog post.
 
jj- said:
He said "at least one". "At least one" means "one or more".

I didn't know elementary school math was so hard! What a fucking idiot!
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While that may be technically true, you are ignoring the implications of the wording.

He was deliberately ignoring others that he should have been aware of, otherwise he would have said "two or more."

I have never heard "at least one" used to denote "at least two."

Also, rereading the original excerpt makes it pretty obvious that the phrase "well at least one" is the frustrated colloquial form of "only one."
 
It will be cool if when they finally have a debate that focuses on the economy the majority of Republicans on the stage come out swinging against the Federal Reserve.
 
staerker said:
Also, rereading the original excerpt makes it pretty obvious that the phrase "well at least one" is the frustrated colloquial form of "only one."
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I don't see that. He's commenting on Trump's recent remarks. Those are the news of the day. And it looked to me like he was pretty judicious about not implying that Trump was certainly the only one.
 
Maybe 100% of the candidates oppose the Fed since at least one does. We here know that 2 do. The Mises Institute apparently doesn't know who does except for one person.

*Edit: Shouldn't the Mises Institute be celebrating that everyone is against central banking?
 
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erowe1 said:
"At least one" = "One or more"
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Right, hence it implies that the speaker is uncertain as to whether it is one or more; i.e. he only knows of one, but is not rejecting the possibility that there is another.

Hence Salerno's statement implies he is only aware of one candidate with those views (Trump); i.e. he is not aware that Rand too holds those views.
 
Here is Rand's position on the Federal Reserve:


Rand Paul Supports an Audit of the Federal Reserve

The Federal Reserve was created by Congress and is supposed to be overseen by Congress. The Fed is now in every nook and cranny of banking with unprecedented regulatory powers and no Congressional oversight. I believe the Fed should be audited and the regulatory power should be placed back under the control of Congress.

A complete and thorough audit of the Fed will finally allow the American people to know exactly how their money is being spent by Washington. For too long, the Fed has been operating under a cloak of secrecy. The American people have a right to know what the Federal Reserve is doing with our nation's money supply.

I will continue my fight to audit the Fed and restore transparency and fiscal sanity to our nation’s checkbook.

(emphases in original)

That is, to my knowledge, Rand's only official position on the subject. That is also, to my knowledge his only unofficial position.
 
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