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is being a good hardworking but poor student doing nothing? then a free higher education is not a handout either

you say a free college education is rightful payment for serving in wwii, and i agree. but it was just another new crazy liberal progressive "socialist" "handout" idea from roosevelt's time, like social security

the gi bill can be defined as deserved or undeserved, depending upon how heartless or thoughtful you are

http://www.neh.gov/humanities/...

As the G.I. Bill made its way through the House and Senate committees, the unemployment assistance, education, and training provisions came under fire. Republicans worried the bill would lead to further expansion of the federal government. Much of the rhetoric echoed the debates over how to respond to the Great Depression, as members questioned whether these programs would encourage or discourage veterans from finding jobs. Colmery, who was no fan of the New Deal, bristled at the suggestion that veterans would turn into shiftless workers upon their return. The bill placed time limits on the benefits to prevent it from becoming an open-ended program like Social Security, the cornerstone of the New Deal.

On March 24, the Senate passed the G.I. Bill unanimously, but the House continued to debate the unemployment and education provisions for another two months. Rankin, chair of the House veterans committee, had evolved into one of its sharpest critics. An unrepentant segregationist, he worried that African-American veterans would use the benefits to avoid work and live off the government. Rankin also didn’t see the need to give African Americans the same benefits as whites.

By late April, Atherton publicly called out Rankin for delaying the bill. “If Mr. Rankin means that he wants to deny unemployment insurance to the men now carrying a bayonet for Uncle Sam, the veterans of the American Legion intend to fight him right down the line and to take the issue to every voter in the country.” When Rankin continued with his antics, the other members of the committee banded together to defy their chairman and move the bill forward. After a stormy debate, the House passed its version of the G.I. Bill on May 18. Unemployment insurance had survived, but veterans would only be eligible for twenty-six weeks, as opposed to fifty-two weeks under the Senate version.

think about how you see the gi bill as not an entitlement for freeloaders, but a deserved payment for service, which i agree with. but now think about how some conservative assholes and trolls today think things like funding basic education and basic healthcare are entitlements for undeserved freeloaders. now think about how such ignorant opposition to progress today will be viewed in the future, like you and i read past opposition the gi bill today

everyone deserves a good education. or we do not really live in a meritocracy

I always have loved the archives... Add to this the The National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP)
http://www.neh.gov/projects/ndnp.html

and Project Gutenburg and librivox, and you have one heck of a great amount of info online freely available to everyone!

I don't think it's available yet. I believe this is the program you're referring to: http://www.neh.gov/projects/ndnp.html

The timeline (http://www.loc.gov/ndnp/ndnptimline.html) mentions a "General-access Phase 1 prototype launched" in Jan 2007.

Oh drats! You found us out! Me and ol' George's academic staff are in on it together! Shhhh! Tell noone!

You discontinue your shallow analysis at the point at which the US installed missiles in Turkey. Thus, obviously in your analysis this is the cause - you refuse to consider any other factors (the conduct of the Soviet Union following WWII, the construction of the Berlin Wall, the massacare of millions of innocent Germans, Kruschev's posturing, etc). If you start your account of history with an action by one party, by your account everything is a result of that action. But this is only because you are distorting the truth.

I also neglected to consider the position of Uranus and all its sattelites at the time, the edicts of King Richard the 1st and the fashion sense of Katarina The Great. The specific question we were discussing was Cuban Missile Crisis. Not what Stalin ate for breakfast on May the 7th in 1934. If the question was "who was the first to draw blood, the USSR or the West" the answer is ... the West. You see, when the 1918 Bolshevik Revolution against the Tzar and his buddies occured with the subsequent civil war, the USA (and others, including Canada - then still under British command) sent (using an excuse of "rescuing" Czech troops) an expeditionary force to "limit" the Bolsheviks in the East and if possible to put them down. The US troops actually fought the Red Army. On Russian soil. Using bullets too. Real ones. People got killed dead. There is your "first punch". Since you asked, I am only pleased to oblidge. And you are welcome!

[pathetic attempts at ridicule of the GWU research snipped]

Your credentials in this regard as compared to the GWU researchers are nil. Zippo. Nada. You are only making yourself look more idiotic by trying to refute them. If you have problems with that research, email the contact on that page, I am sure as soon as you provide appropriate historical evidence, they will update their findings in your favor. Until then, you just make me laugh.

I'm interested to know - which parts do you think were fabrications?

The parts dealing with the Cuban Missile Crisis being percipitated by the Berlin Wall for example.

That the USSR slaughtered millions of innocent Germans after WWII in an act of "retributive justice" (this is thoroughly documented - I suggest you look up the words "Berlin Airlift" for starters)?

This is quite a study in hipocrisy here. Perheaps you never heard of bombing of Dresden? As to USSR slaughtering "millions of innocent Germans" neither you or I have any right to pass any sort of moral judgement on a nation who lost over 20 million people to the German Army, an army which commited unspeakable acts of evil against truly innocent (as in not complicit in Hitler's plan) civilians in their campaign. Having said that, I never heard of any mass murder of German civilians after the WWII by the USSR and the Berlin Airlift was due to isolation of West Berlin geographically within East Germany, who in an escalation of tit-for-tat bravado, refused passage to trains from West Germany. Perheaps you will be so kind as to provide some info on this "retributive justice" phenomenon with millions of dead German civilians everywhere.

That the USSR erected the Berlin Wall (I suggest you pay a visit to reality for that one)?

Actually, it was East Germany who asked for and got the wall.

That Kruschev did not wish to expand control of the USSR?

Now this is pretty funny. Khrustchev?! How about this. Something about "peaceful coexistence", visits to the USA etc.

It was just a matter of time before a project of this scope got off the ground. I would like to see them team up with Project Gutenberg (and perhaps archive.org) to provide images of the material. Throw in the little transcoder and perhaps wikipedia and we will soon have a killer information resource that can be cross-referenced to silly proportions. This is a boon for research. Projects like this and the public library of science will add much to collective knowledge. It would also be nice to see them team up with the newspaper project! Next stop--public domain LOC!!!

Reunite Church and State? UNCheck ... due to no links to supporting data

Hold citizens with[something missing ;-);-);-)] trial or bail? UNCheck ... due to no links to supporting data

Nation building without proper cause? UNCheck ... due to no links to supporting data

Tax breaks that only benefit the rich? UNCheck ... due to no links to supporting data

Dismantle the EPA and let Corporations write Enviro Laws? UNCheck ... due to no links to supporting data

Create a Police State where you can spy on cizitens with impunity? Pending/already going on ??? no links to supporting data

Famous Phrase To Know and Love: "data talks and bullshit walks" ... Where are your links to data supporting your claims???

This nation has gone to Hell and the changes they are making and have already made are going to haunt us for the next 50 years. [childish expletive removed] ... Dude, you are like several decades/centuries late and an Euro short ... Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it:

Sedition Act of 1918

Sedition Act of 1798

A remembrance from "The Decade of Greed (1990s)" and its fun stock market bubble with its "White Stain of Courage"

Coach Wooden: A player who makes a team great is more valuable than a great player. Losing yourself in the group, for the good of the group, that's teamwork.

Mr. Gates: Collecting data is only the first step toward wisdom. But sharing data is the first step toward community.

I've always thought of myself as both a literary historian and a literary critic, someone who loves archives and someone who is dedicated to resurrecting texts that have dropped out of sight."

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And finally,

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I predict this ad will win many awards.

"Prof. Gates: Collecting data is only the first step toward wisdom. But sharing data is the first step toward community."

I've always thought of myself as both a literary historian and a literary critic, someone who loves archives and someone who is dedicated to resurrecting texts that have dropped out of sight."

Most of these items are taxpayer funded. It would be possible to use taxes to fund creative works, but I don't think it would be a terribly popular idea in most countries (besides old-style communist countries like North Korea)

You might want to check out the NEA and NEH. While you may be correct in thinking they're not terribly popular, you can have public funding of the arts without repressive totalitarian regimes, starvation, and people trying to escape to China(!) for a better life. Come to think of it, I'd bet the average North Korean cares more about where his next meal is going to come from than whether some poet was commissioned to pen an epic tribute to their "Glorious Leader".

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