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. . . or are you what all Democrats call a "science denier" for refuting the people they call "experts?"

. . . or are you what all Democrats call a "science denier" for refuting the people they call "experts?"

. . . or are you what all Democrats call a "science denier" for refuting the people they call "experts?"

. . . or are you what all Democrats call a "science denier" for refuting the people they call "experts?"

Is it your good luck to live in North America, Europe or Australia, where humans can still survive . . . or are you what all Democrats call a "science denier" for refuting the people they call "experts?"

. . . or are you what all Democrats call a "science denier" for refuting the people they call "experts?"

. . . or are you what all Democrats call a "science denier" for refuting the people they call "experts?"

. . . or are you what all Democrats call a "science denier" for refuting the people they call "experts?"

Can someone explain how forbidding ISPs to charge less for services that are easier and less expensive to provide is going to enhance your internet experience?

This Y!A account IS SLOWED.

> It's not my PC. Other people can log-in on my PC and have "virtually instant" click-response - but when I log-in Y!A is SOOOoo slow I can often check and respond to emails and whatnot in another window while waiting for a "question" to load to the point where I can "click in" and post a response.

> It's not my ISP. No such problem exists on other sites - not even other Yahoo sites. It's ONLY a Y!A thing.

> IT IS this particular Y!A user-account. The same slowdown happens when I go in from other machines in other locations - desktop, laptop, tablet, smartphone, mine, other people's, home, work, library . . .

> Yes, I further tested by creating a "sock account" and it blazes about Y!A unhindered. Log-it-out; log-in THIS account - and Y!A crawls almost beyond usability.

Any ideas WHY?

Each True/False scenario based on BLS data. Years shown are 3 years prior to the range of available BLS data for that set (to account for a three year lag)

"True" means you think the relationship shown exists to a statistically significant degree

"False" means you think the relationship is insignificant or is opposite.

1) 1936-2012 Less real-per capita Federal Spending : Less Total Private Employment 3 years later

2) 1952-2012 Higher Spending/GDP : More workers stuck with Part Time work 3 years later

3) 1964-2012 Bigger Federal Debt : More people losing jobs (not including layoffs) 3 years later

4) 1992-2010 Republican President : Fewer Private nonfarm mass layoff events 3 years later

5) 1992-2010 Smaller Deficit : Fewer workers laid-off 3 years later

6) 1992-2010 Higher Debt/GDP : Fewer Mass layoff events 3 years later

7) 1984-2010 Fewer Senate Democrats : More Output per Hour in Private Business 3 years later

8) 1984-2010 Smaller Deficit/GDP : Less Productivity in Nonfarm Business 3 years later

9) 1936-2012 Smaller real Deficit : More Total Nonfarm Employment 3 years later

10) 1991-2012 More Democrats (House+Senate+WH) : Fewer Discouraged Workers 3 years later

11) What is your political alignment?

> Each true/false question is based on a different Bureau of Labor Statistics data set and applies to the years shown at the end.

1) True/false: U-6 unemployment tends to be significantly higher when there are more House Republicans? 1994-2015

2) True/false: Hourly Earnings for Manufacturing Employees tend to be significantly higher when there are fewer Republicans in D.C.? 2006-2015

3) True/false: Unemployment tends to be significantly lower when Federal Spending is lower? 1948-2014

4) True/false: Median weekly earnings for Hispanic/Latino Women tend to be significantly higher when Republicans control fewer chambers (House, Senate, White House?) 1979-2014

5) True/false: There tend to be significantly fewer Private nonfarm mass layoff events when there are fewer Senate Republicans? 1995-2013

6) True/false: Employees tend to have significantly higher real earnings under Republican Presidents? 2006-2014

7) True/false: White Unemployment tends to be significantly higher under Republican Presidents? 1954-2015

8) True/false: People tend to lose/leave jobs at a significantly higher rate when Democrats control fewer chambers (House, Senate, White House?) 2000-2014

9) True/false: Employees tend to get significantly more hours when Minimum wage is higher? 2006-2015

10) True/false: There tends to be significantly fewer people "Not in the Labor Force" when there are fewer Senate Democrats? 1975-2015

11) What is your Party alignment?

1) True or False: With less real per-capita Federal spending, we can expect higher hourly earnings 2 years later? (for the next Congress to "inherit")

2) What is your Party alignment

Based on BLS data, Total Private Average Hourly Earnings of All Employees, 1982-1984 Dollars - http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CES0500000013 2006-2014

1) True or False: With more real per-capita Federal spending, we can expect lower hourly earnings 2 years later? (for the next Congress to "inherit")

2) What is your Party alignment

Based on BLS data, Total Private Average Hourly Earnings of All Employees, 1982-1984 Dollars - http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CES0500000013 2006-2014

1) True or False: The lower the top marginal tax rate is, the higher we can expect total employment to be 4 years later? (for the next President to "inherit")

2) What is your Party alignment

Based on BLS data, Employment Level - http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS12000000 - 1948-2015

1) Should you also be taxed for the action you take to generate that income? For example, if you're a Software Developer, besides your income tax, should you also be taxed based on how much code you write regardless of what (if any) income it generates? (Sort of a "doing your job tax.")

2a) If not, what justification (if any) can you see for doing that?

2b) If so, can you justify singling-out a particular field for such taxation but not applying it generally?

QUESTIONS:

1) True or False: The lower Federal spending (as a portion of GDP) is, the lower we can expect (U-6) unemployment to be 3 years later?

2) What is your Party alignment

Based on BLS data, Alternative measure of labor underutilization U-6 - 1994-2015

This is about how much "benefits" cost compared to actual wages. For instance, for 2004, "benefits" accounted for 28.63% of what the average employer spent on his average employee.

QUESTIONS:

1) True or False: The more total House, Senate and White House Democrats there are, the lower we can expect that benefit cost percentage to be (that the next President will "inherit") 4-years down the road?

2) What is your Party alignment

Based on BLS data, Private Industry Total benefits for All occupations; Percent of total compensation 2004-2014

A) Higher Real Per Capita Federal Spending

B) More House Republicans

C) More Senate Republicans

D) More D.C. Democrats (House + Senate + White House total)

E) More Senate Democrats

2) What's your party alignment?

Over some time, I posted 33 multiple choice questions, mostly about American civics and history.

After posting each question and receiving answers, responses were sorted "oldest first."

If the first answer was correct, that "player's team" won the point. If it was wrong, that "team" was locked-out, giving the other side a chance to steal the point with a correct answer but if their first response was also wrong, the round ended scoreless.

OBVIOUSLY, this is not exactly scientific. Giving the losers benefit of the doubt, I want to know from Democrats/liberals in particular what YOU think a "fairer" way to score this sort of thing might be.

> Count ALL responses?

> Score on a right/wrong percentage?

> Use "profile scans" to determine respondent's alignment rather than relying on "in answer" declarations?

> Do way with the multiple choice feature?

Honestly, I think this method isn't bad. I saw essentially the same 33 questions done in a written format and after 1,000 people or so had taken it, the "partisan disparity" was in the same ballpark (something like 45%.)