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27 Jun 2012, 11:17 am

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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27 Jun 2012, 12:32 pm

The first step is done as the NFL locked out the officials in a labor dispute.



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27 Jun 2012, 1:08 pm

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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27 Jun 2012, 1:16 pm

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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27 Jun 2012, 1:25 pm

This is a ridiculous analogy that isn't even really worth discussing



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27 Jun 2012, 9:34 pm

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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27 Jun 2012, 9:38 pm

Jacoby wrote:
This is a ridiculous analogy that isn't even really worth discussing


Haha. You just did.



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27 Jun 2012, 10:00 pm

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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27 Jun 2012, 10:31 pm

Their needs to be a referees in the NFL just ones that make good calls and not dumb ones.



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27 Jun 2012, 10:34 pm

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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27 Jun 2012, 10:35 pm

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 :wink:



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28 Jun 2012, 12:17 am

How about we take the leftist approach and make it against the rules for the good players to play well?

http://hotair.com/archives/2011/09/29/1 ... ouchdowns/



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28 Jun 2012, 1:15 am

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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28 Jun 2012, 1:22 am

Burzum wrote:
How about we take the leftist approach and make it against the rules for the good players to play well?



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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28 Jun 2012, 6:39 am

JNathanK wrote:
No SS dude

...?

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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28 Jun 2012, 6:46 am

Burzum wrote:
JNathanK wrote:
No SS dude

...?

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.


That depends on whether you buy into rhetorical political devices on what "leftists" want or use reality as a reference which shows nothing of that kind


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