> > > =A0 =A0It is truly stunning, the amount of ignorance Bill can pull out of
> thin air.
Watching right-wingers in action has its rewards.
I criticise John Larkin for putting forward an ill-founded proposition about the effect of minimum wage legislation, and cited a useful text on the subject
Card, D. and Krueger, A. B. (1995) Myth and Measurement: The New Economics of the Minimum Wage, Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press
which John Larkin snips out of his response, preferring to make the point that he pays his employees way over the minimum wage, rather than taking the chance to cite his own authorities for the opinion he'd put forward.
Mike Terrell then does hs lap-dog act, trying to attack me for being ignorant - presumably on the basis that I should have remembered (and believed) John Larkin's frequent claims about how nicely he treats his employees.
Since Mike Terrell couldn't construct a logical argument to save his life this wouldn't normally be worthy of comment, but since the point I was originally making was that John Larkin's was exhibiting a fair measure of ignorancy, the irony makes it worth a mention.
-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen