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 Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2012 12:17 pm Post subject: Deregulation -- NFL with no referees |
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| The Republicans continually cry for deregulating everything so why not test what happens with their theory. For the first 3 weekends next fall the NFL games will be played with no referees/officials. After all the players are professionals and know the rules, therefore, there's no reason to pay others to explain those rules. |
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| Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2012 1:32 pm Post subject: |
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| The first step is done as the NFL locked out the officials in a labor dispute. |
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You know the analogy is flawed, right? Deregulation isn't removing all of the referees, it's cutting back the rules, and minimizing enforcement. Contract disputes(which are the rules making the game still a game) are still considered part of the legal framework whether it is Republicans or Democrats. The issue is just whether some of the other details are maintained.
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| Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2012 2:16 pm Post subject: |
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| Awesomelyglorious wrote: | | You know the analogy is flawed, right? Deregulation isn't removing all of the referees, it's cutting back the rules, and minimizing enforcement. Contract disputes(which are the rules making the game still a game) are still considered part of the legal framework whether it is Republicans or Democrats. The issue is just whether some of the other details are maintained. |
How about just one referee, picked by the home team, encouraged to keep his intervention minimal?
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| Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2012 2:25 pm Post subject: |
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| This is a ridiculous analogy that isn't even really worth discussing |
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| Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2012 10:34 pm Post subject: |
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| Vigilans wrote: |
How about just one referee, picked by the home team, encouraged to keep his intervention minimal? |
That'd probably be a corrupt system. The analogy doesn't exactly fit a business situation in any case. So, deregulation keeps enforcement, it just reduces the set of items enforced, and in the process, it cuts jobs no longer needed to enforce things that are no longer enforced. However, it still allows the enforcement of most things.
I mean, I understand that this is an effort at rhetoric, but this is not a cutting analysis, and anybody who thinks it is, is just outright wrong. Most of the people who despise economic deregulation actually LIKE social deregulation, so.... the problem isn't just that it is analogous to something, it's the results.
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| Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2012 10:38 pm Post subject: |
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| Jacoby wrote: | | This is a ridiculous analogy that isn't even really worth discussing |
Haha. You just did. |
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| Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2012 11:00 pm Post subject: |
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| Awesomelyglorious wrote: | | Vigilans wrote: |
How about just one referee, picked by the home team, encouraged to keep his intervention minimal? |
That'd probably be a corrupt system. The analogy doesn't exactly fit a business situation in any case. So, deregulation keeps enforcement, it just reduces the set of items enforced, and in the process, it cuts jobs no longer needed to enforce things that are no longer enforced. However, it still allows the enforcement of most things.
I mean, I understand that this is an effort at rhetoric, but this is not a cutting analysis, and anybody who thinks it is, is just outright wrong. Most of the people who despise economic deregulation actually LIKE social deregulation, so.... the problem isn't just that it is analogous to something, it's the results. |
I think the analogy may have been meant to be tongue in cheek, since it is a somewhat common rhetorical device amongst American politicians to use football terminology as an endearment method to show voters their "all-American" side. In Canada they do it with Hockey to a much lesser degree.
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| Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2012 11:31 pm Post subject: |
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| Their needs to be a referees in the NFL just ones that make good calls and not dumb ones. |
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| Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2012 11:34 pm Post subject: |
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| Joker wrote: | | Their needs to be a referees in the NFL just ones that make good calls and not dumb ones. |
This is about deregulation.
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| Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2012 11:35 pm Post subject: |
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| Awesomelyglorious wrote: | | Joker wrote: | | Their needs to be a referees in the NFL just ones that make good calls and not dumb ones. |
This is about deregulation. |
I know I was talking about Football  |
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| Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2012 2:15 am Post subject: |
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| Hell yah, get rid of the refs and just let them fight to the death as a public spectacle. Maybe they could sick lions on prison inmates too for the halftime shows. |
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| Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2012 2:22 am Post subject: |
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| Burzum wrote: | How about we take the leftist approach and make it against the rules for the good players to play well?
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No SS dude, the leftist approach would be equally sharing ad revenue no matter who plays better or wins. ...Oh, wait, the NFL does that already. |
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| Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2012 7:39 am Post subject: |
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| JNathanK wrote: |
No SS dude |
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| JNathanK wrote: | | the leftist approach would be equally sharing ad revenue no matter who plays better or wins. ...Oh, wait, the NFL does that already. |
And not letting good players play well. |
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