Several interviewees proposed that the value of economic studies and scientific reports supporting smoking bans is diminished in political debates when countered by anecdotal economic and job loss arguments.
Instead, these political advisors suggested that the industries' influence with government is via the currency of job loss arguments – however spurious – because "if you make decisions that cost jobs, that's a very serious political issue" [political advisor].
The mass-loss argument hinges on the internal behavior of the pulsing star, and Neilson's team assumes that its layers are moving out of sync when the outer layers are falling in, the inner layers are pushing out and vice versa.
They have argued that the law will lead to higher energy costs and job losses, arguments that resonate with many voters in a state with a 12.4 percent unemployment rate.
If the Fed suffered too much of a loss, the argument goes, the Treasury would have to bail out the Fed, leading to an economic catastrophe.
If parents have hearing loss, the argument goes, they are less likely to get good jobs, which increases the chances that their children will live in poverty.
The belief there, then, is the "loss-leader" argument, where labels simply hope that the number of auditions will translate into some sales and the math is worth risking it.
The US Chamber of Commerce, Senator Sam Brownback, and local "tea party" protests have similarly made job loss the central argument against climate legislation.
"Stop-Loss" makes no argument beyond the recognition of that fact.
One problem, just to mention in passing, is that she skips over about 50 years of important sociological, anthropological, and historical research that raised serious doubts about the loss-of-community argument.
Those relationships that make it through the tests of time, that make it through the ups and down of life, from arguments, loss of jobs, money problems, teenagers, midlife crisis, health issues, and mothers-in-laws, to boot, are built on an integral strength that is based on real connection.
