A good education starts at home. Neither of my parents were college educated but my sister and I both graduated HS early. I completed HS one full blah blah bootstrap bullshit blah blah
Ah, the "teach the controversy" canard. Have you made your monthly offering to the Flying Spaghetti Monster?
Why can't we try a little of everything and continue funding the things that work best?
For every charter school that is better than a public one (because it got more funding), two charters are worse. So, you want the best option funded - public education.
The children of parents who make that choice are sadly the offspring of people who should have never been allowed to breed in the first place.
Too bad you weren't born a century ago in the right country, then you would have had your chance at participating in eugenics, rather than speaking wistfully of it.
Nobody is entitled to be paid for their "level of education" except to any degree which that education actually translates to improved proficiency at their job.
Uh huh. As if you wouldn't want more money from a job that required a master's degree and continuing education, than a mere bachelors.
Because she won't let the teacher's unions continue to undermine the quality of public education in the name of their own political and financial objectives?
Teachers unions protect public education, but your distain for democracy, workers and due process is noted. Skip anecdotes as they are invariably 1) distorted 2) problem was lazy administration, not the union 3) easily countered with anecdotes from non-union, for-profit entities.
Part of the reason is that American culture doesn't sit well with concentration and intellectual endeavours. Students need "encouragement" to switch off their g*dforsaken cellphones during lectures and in class.
You could have just said "pull yourself up by your bootstraps, bitches" and saved yourself a lot of typing. But false premise is still false - success is really determined by how rich your parents are, not how hard you work. The high point of George W. Bush's career would have been his stint as an assistant manager of a Burger King - before the first of eight cocaine busts - if his name was George Baker.
And I am sure Americans won't mind paying more for their goods. I am sure they won't end up going to China for them instead. There are plenty of cheap asses to go around.
Goods are already priced to maximize profits - you know that fast food chains charge the same amount for their food, whether in the U.S. or Australia where the minimum wage is twice as high? Years ago a study was done that said it would cost all of 46 cents a cart if Wal-Mart were to increase their minimum wage to $12.50 an hour - and that's if they passed all of the wage increases onto customers, as opposed to out of quarterly dividends.
The more of the world's top talent that comes to America, the better.
Not when its purpose is to depress the wages for America's talent. H1-B employers should be made to pay market wages - plus a $200,000 excise tax for each person they employ. Then we'll know there's an actual shortage, and not just another scheme to force down wages, like the "non-poaching" agreements they got sued for.
If you have a resource that's cheap and you wall it off, what do you call that? Typically, we call it "artificial scarcity." Somehow it's different if the resource is labor. I suggest you study a history of guilds--something we now call "Racketeering".
10 pounds of corporatist bullshit in a 5 pound sack. No American worker gets the benefit of third world costs of living while having to compete with third world workers imported by their own government. Imported for the sole purpose of lowering labor costs for corporations.
The only reason your family suffers is because they can't make it in a meritocracy.
If the United States was a meritocracy, George W. Bush would be lucky to be the assistant manager of a Burger King, and you'd find 50% of investment bankers and dot com millionaires coming from a background of destitution because they studied hard in school.
If it weren't for German immigrant scientists (many undocumented, some Nazis) in the US during WWII, you'd be writing that in Japanese and you wouldn't be writing it from your iPhone...
Riiiight, because we had to use nukes to end their occupation of California, or something. The Japanese navy was already destroyed, and their army driven back to their own lands before the nukes were dropped.
Without German scientists we wouldn't have had the A-bomb, and we would have had to invade the Japanese home islands, costing potentially hundreds of thousands of US soldiers.
That's the American storyline that you learned in school. But as is frequently the case, it's complete horseshit. The Japanese navy was already destroyed, the three most powerful navies in the world (UK, France, US) were free to focus on containing Japan, and the Russian army was marching eastward. There was no need to invade and force your orgasm, I mean unconditional surrender, with an invasion.
Conservative leaning is a weird way to describe libertarianism.
Conservatives are all about fellating big business. Libertarians are all about letting big business run wild with no restraints whatsoever. You need a venn diagram?
Trump has to follow either the US Constitution, or whatever Congress decides he's allowed to do.
We've been in a post-Constitution environment for some time. The 4th, 6th, 7th and 8th Amendments have been toilet paper since the Bush Administration. Then there was Obama waging war on Libya when Congress explicitly did not authorize it - something his own VP threatened Bush with impeachment if he had done the same to Iran.
The same professor in a world where Microsoft doesn't force updates: "Microsoft's continued refusal to automatically update users computers has put the entire industry at risk from hackers and viruses! Users are clueless drones who don't know to keep their computers updated and Microsoft should do it for them!"
That's a great point, if this same professor has railed against other operating systems that don't force automatic updates, like Linux or OS X. If he hasn't done that, then you've got a non sequitur.
That's exactly what happened and I proved it to you. Do you believe that the United States was created because native americans decided to start a war with the native white population and the whites won? The level of willful ignorance is the same.
You do realize that in Israel, Muslims citizens have full rights, and there is no "apartheid".
Are you a willfully ignorant racist or a sophist of Biblical proportions? Palestinians who aren't Israeli citizens have no right to vote, are denied access to Jewish-only roads throughout the occupied territories, have their land stolen without notice, and are subjected to a brutal blockade where the Israeli government openly speaks of collective punishment and putting the Palestinians "on a diet" - i.e. starve them just a little bit.
A blockade, by the way, was Israel's justification for starting the 1967 war, after their lies that they were attacked first fell apart. So by Israeli logic, Palestinian attacks in response to the blockade of the Gaza Strip are completely justified.
The only reason the Soviets tried to place missiles in Cuba was to counter the American missiles in Turkey. Full stop. Whether the resulting standoff occurred in the Atlantic or Antarctica is completely and utterly irrelevant to what started the "crisis".
Tell me, do you believe Russia's explanation that the troops in Crimea were "on vacation", too?
No more than American marines station in Guantanamo are "on vacation", for the same reason: an existing agreement for a military base. You have any more stupid bullshit, or are we done here?
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And a lot of right wing BS polluting it. For every charter that is better than a public school, two are worse.
Academic success is first, second and third dependent on how much money your parents have, not how hard you work.
In the same way the average income in a room skyrockets when Bill Gates walks into it, yes.
Or you're willfully obtuse.
Ah, the "teach the controversy" canard. Have you made your monthly offering to the Flying Spaghetti Monster?
For every charter school that is better than a public one (because it got more funding), two charters are worse. So, you want the best option funded - public education.
Too bad you weren't born a century ago in the right country, then you would have had your chance at participating in eugenics, rather than speaking wistfully of it.
Uh huh. As if you wouldn't want more money from a job that required a master's degree and continuing education, than a mere bachelors.
Teachers unions protect public education, but your distain for democracy, workers and due process is noted. Skip anecdotes as they are invariably 1) distorted 2) problem was lazy administration, not the union 3) easily countered with anecdotes from non-union, for-profit entities.
You could have just said "pull yourself up by your bootstraps, bitches" and saved yourself a lot of typing. But false premise is still false - success is really determined by how rich your parents are, not how hard you work. The high point of George W. Bush's career would have been his stint as an assistant manager of a Burger King - before the first of eight cocaine busts - if his name was George Baker.
Only until that person has to buy Frozen for the fourth time, after their kids played frisbee with the disk.
Goods are already priced to maximize profits - you know that fast food chains charge the same amount for their food, whether in the U.S. or Australia where the minimum wage is twice as high? Years ago a study was done that said it would cost all of 46 cents a cart if Wal-Mart were to increase their minimum wage to $12.50 an hour - and that's if they passed all of the wage increases onto customers, as opposed to out of quarterly dividends.
Not when its purpose is to depress the wages for America's talent. H1-B employers should be made to pay market wages - plus a $200,000 excise tax for each person they employ. Then we'll know there's an actual shortage, and not just another scheme to force down wages, like the "non-poaching" agreements they got sued for.
10 pounds of corporatist bullshit in a 5 pound sack. No American worker gets the benefit of third world costs of living while having to compete with third world workers imported by their own government. Imported for the sole purpose of lowering labor costs for corporations.
Nah, corporate democrats have it coming. And then some.
The primary role of a good pastor isn't to question the the state or powerful corporate interests, as opposed to, say, journalists.
Any particular reason you skipped the first in the post? Because it already answered all three things you brought up:
Oh, you sure did prove that - just not in the way you think you did.
If the United States was a meritocracy, George W. Bush would be lucky to be the assistant manager of a Burger King, and you'd find 50% of investment bankers and dot com millionaires coming from a background of destitution because they studied hard in school.
Riiiight, because we had to use nukes to end their occupation of California, or something. The Japanese navy was already destroyed, and their army driven back to their own lands before the nukes were dropped.
That's the American storyline that you learned in school. But as is frequently the case, it's complete horseshit. The Japanese navy was already destroyed, the three most powerful navies in the world (UK, France, US) were free to focus on containing Japan, and the Russian army was marching eastward. There was no need to invade and force your orgasm, I mean unconditional surrender, with an invasion.
You're more likely to be killed by your living room furniture than by a "terrorist". No, I'm not kidding.
Conservatives are all about fellating big business. Libertarians are all about letting big business run wild with no restraints whatsoever. You need a venn diagram?
We've been in a post-Constitution environment for some time. The 4th, 6th, 7th and 8th Amendments have been toilet paper since the Bush Administration. Then there was Obama waging war on Libya when Congress explicitly did not authorize it - something his own VP threatened Bush with impeachment if he had done the same to Iran.
That's a great point, if this same professor has railed against other operating systems that don't force automatic updates, like Linux or OS X. If he hasn't done that, then you've got a non sequitur.
That's exactly what happened and I proved it to you. Do you believe that the United States was created because native americans decided to start a war with the native white population and the whites won? The level of willful ignorance is the same.
Are you a willfully ignorant racist or a sophist of Biblical proportions? Palestinians who aren't Israeli citizens have no right to vote, are denied access to Jewish-only roads throughout the occupied territories, have their land stolen without notice, and are subjected to a brutal blockade where the Israeli government openly speaks of collective punishment and putting the Palestinians "on a diet" - i.e. starve them just a little bit.
A blockade, by the way, was Israel's justification for starting the 1967 war, after their lies that they were attacked first fell apart. So by Israeli logic, Palestinian attacks in response to the blockade of the Gaza Strip are completely justified.
The only reason the Soviets tried to place missiles in Cuba was to counter the American missiles in Turkey. Full stop. Whether the resulting standoff occurred in the Atlantic or Antarctica is completely and utterly irrelevant to what started the "crisis".
No more than American marines station in Guantanamo are "on vacation", for the same reason: an existing agreement for a military base. You have any more stupid bullshit, or are we done here?