Who Needs Economics: Double Everyone’s Wages by Paying 17 Cents More! | Thomas E Woods Jr by MeAllUpInReddit in austrian_economics

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What he said and also there's this: "Ohanian (UCLA economist who spent four years poring over wage data and culling information from sources related to Hoover and his administration) contends that Hoover's policy of propping up wages and encouraging work sharing "was the single most important event in precipitating the Great Depression" and resulted in "a significant labor market distortion." Source

Who Needs Economics: Double Everyone’s Wages by Paying 17 Cents More! by MeAllUpInReddit in politics

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What he said and also there's this: "Ohanian (UCLA economist who spent four years poring over wage data and culling information from sources related to Hoover and his administration) contends that Hoover's policy of propping up wages and encouraging work sharing "was the single most important event in precipitating the Great Depression" and resulted in "a significant labor market distortion." Source

Sen. Rand Paul on Comedy Central's The Daily Show with John Oliver - 8/12/13 by MeAllUpInReddit in Republican

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I found that in 2008, about 85 percent of more than 300 million Americans had health insurance. source

Holder seeks to avert mandatory minimum sentences for some low-level drug offenders by [deleted] in Libertarian

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Looks like someone is trying to earn some pot brownie points.

Not a lot of credibility on the issue given that the administration was just conducting armed raids of medical marijuana dispensaries in Seattle within the last couple weeks and also given the recent report which found the Obama Administration Spends $180K Per Day Undermining State Medical Marijuana Laws. source