Renowned French economist to join Obama’s team

[i'va biggen]

I know you were dickhead It was my sarcasm ..

[essence]

Originally Posted by OliviaHoward

So are you saying the poor don't make good choices, are stupid, un-educated?

I'm with Chica, her resume seems a bit light on practical knowledge.

No I am not, I said there are examples where poor people make stupid choices.

You are clearly stupid, that does not necessarily mean you are poor.

Chica has clearly never read her resume, her whole emphasis is on details and practice.

Either Chica is stupid, or you are stupid for assuming Chica said something which he did not.

Some strippers are intelligent, I date one who used to be a stripper many years ago, but there are strippers who are stupid, who have no idea how to save for a rainy day, or to go to school, or anything. Don't start the 'I know a stripper who goes to school' nonsense, it will only show your stupidity again.

All is not the same as one or some.

Geez, somebody take that gun off her before she shoots her other foot.

[Seedy]

All these supposed experts, from universities, or newspapers, do not know a damn thing. The only thing they have ever run is their fucking mouths. Give me someone who has run a successfull buisness any day of the week, over these arrogant so called experts. Motherfuckers could not find their asses with a god damn funnel.....

[Chica Chaser]

Originally Posted by essence

Chica has clearly never read her resume, her whole emphasis is on details and practice.

Either Chica is stupid, or you are stupid for assuming Chica said something which he did not.

Hell, I posted her resume. She may be smart as a whip but I would prefer to see someone with some real-world, proven background for a presidential advisory position. All the academic accolades are great, but that doesn't always translate into real-life situations.

So I may not be the smartest guy walking around, granted, but sometimes common sense should be a driver.

[Yssup Rider]

Essence, I think it's probably fair to assume that Chica Chaser is one of THEM.

OP would rather blow a man in the bus station in Salina than admit that anything worthwhile came from France.

And please put your hands together and offer a Laurel and Hardy handshake to our new DIPSHIT OF THE YEAR ... SEEDMAN55. The COCKSUCKER has earned it.

[essence]

Originally Posted by Chica Chaser

Hell, I posted her resume. She may be smart as a whip but I would prefer to see someone with some real-world, proven background for a presidential advisory position..

The problem, cheecka, is that you never got beyond the resume, you never bothered to take a look at what her views and experience are.

If you did, you would see that 'practical', 'pragmatic', 'based on real world experiences' jump out in all reviews.

She is the opposite of theoretical, any theories she may formulate are based on detailed personal evidence gathering (actually, I'm not sure how much of it is her own field work, or based on field work of others).

Take a look at the following links, and then come back with your comments - in particular, take a look at her book, pooreconomics, and reviews of it:

http://devpolicy.org/mistakes-the-po...ures-20121126/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/b...the-world.html
http://pooreconomics.com/about-book
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUYzqAFrY8Y
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxKdc8snnlw

OK, to help out the lazy ones, here is the home page of the pooreconomics book:

Why would a man in Morocco who doesn’t have enough to eat buy a television?
Why is it so hard for children in poor areas to learn even when they attend school?
Why do the poorest people in the Indian state of Maharashtra spend 7 percent of their food budget on sugar?
Does having lots of children actually make you poorer?
For more than fifteen years Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo have worked with the poor in dozens of countries spanning five continents, trying to understand the specific problems that come with poverty and to find proven solutions. Their book is radical in its rethinking of the economics of poverty, but also entirely practical in the suggestions it offers. Through a careful analysis of a very rich body of evidence, including the hundreds of randomized control trials that Banerjee and Duflo’s lab has pioneered, they show why the poor, despite having the same desires and abilities as anyone else, end up with entirely different lives.

[CJ7]

why not cut to the chase and just come out and say no matter who Obie wants to do what, you (as in rightwing fringe group) are totally against it ???

[CuteOldGuy]

Originally Posted by CJ7

why not cut to the chase and just come out and say no matter who Obie wants to do what, you (as in rightwing fringe group) are totally against it ???

Well, you are right, CBJ7, that would be simpler. And 99% of the time you'd be right. But this time, I'm not so sure. I'm starting to think she may be a good choice.

[CJ7]

Originally Posted by CuteOldGuy

Well, you are right, CBJ7, that would be simpler. And 99% of the time you'd be right. But this time, I'm not so sure. I'm starting to think she may be a good choice.

so 99% of the time youre a rightwing fringe groupie? .... but Im thinking like you on this one

[Guest050715-1]

Originally Posted by Chica Chaser

Hell, I posted her resume. She may be smart as a whip but I would prefer to see someone with some real-world, proven background for a presidential advisory position. All the academic accolades are great, but that doesn't always translate into real-life situations.

So I may not be the smartest guy walking around, granted, but sometimes common sense should be a driver.

You sir are stupid and incorrect! ALL the poor strippers in the whole world that make bad decisions are at fault! My God man, poor people er strippers er poor strippers make dumb decisions because they are dumb and poor. LOL

Seriously, of course your right. Nothing takes the place of real experience. Education is the starting point not the ending point.

Honestly, it kind of seems that Obama likes to be the smartest / most regal person in the room so he surrounds himself with people with as little experience as him or are less capable than himself if he can. There are exceptions, people he needed or favor repaying, but all in all, he doesn't really have an strong, broadly balanced team. His first term, the Clinton staffers carried the water, now......................we'll see.................

[Seedy]

Originally Posted by Yssup Rider

Essence, I think it's probably fair to assume that Chica Chaser is one of THEM.

OP would rather blow a man in the bus station in Salina than admit that anything worthwhile came from France.

And please put your hands together and offer a Laurel and Hardy handshake to our new DIPSHIT OF THE YEAR ... SEEDMAN55. The COCKSUCKER has earned it.

ROTFLMMFAO....... Thanks sup, you can call me Seedy.....oh yea, I am the cock, your the sucker.....lmmfao

[essence]

Originally Posted by OliviaHoward

You sir are stupid and incorrect! ALL the poor strippers in the whole world that make bad decisions are at fault! My God man, poor people er strippers er poor strippers make dumb decisions because they are dumb and poor. LOL

Seriously, of course your right. Nothing takes the place of real experience. Education is the starting point not the ending point.

Honestly, it kind of seems that Obama likes to be the smartest / most regal person in the room so he surrounds himself with people with as little experience as him or are less capable than himself if he can. There are exceptions, people he needed or favor repaying, but all in all, he doesn't really have an strong, broadly balanced team. His first term, the Clinton staffers carried the water, now......................we'll see.................

There goes the other foot.

[Chica Chaser]

France’s Esther Duflo, a world renowned economist, has been nominated by US President Barack Obama to join a government body dedicated to advising the administration on global development policy.

Called the Global Development Council, the group was founded by Obama in 2010 to help shape US development efforts abroad.
http://www.france24.com/en/20130105-...ma-team-policy

WTF do we have a "Global Development Council" for? US development abroad? Developing what exactly? I thought we were broke?

As far as the lady, Ms Duflo, I'm sure we will never hear her name in the media again. So lets hope she gives the President some sound advice in her role.

And I'm somewhat alarmed that Ms Howard is agreeing with me on something.

[Yssup Rider]

Brilliant.

[Guest050715-1]

Originally Posted by essence

There goes the other foot.

What? Your dumb, poor stripper girlfriend's 9" stilleto fall off and hit you in the balls?

See this is why I've kinda stipped posting in here. Say something on point not just hate mongering.