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that could include the POWER to do anything...POWER CORRUPTS!!!
clarify...do you mean teachers should have more value than all athletes and entertainers?
Teachers are part of the education system, so yes. Again, a state paying loads of money to keep a football and then cutting funds for education is ludicrous.
Power doesn't corrupt, people corrupt!!!
So is spending millions of dollars on new gymnasiums and raising all the students tuition's and reducing financial aid....not at a private college, but at a State University in NY.
Man am I ever lucky I was part of the Canadian educational system growing up. That's one thing that Canada does proper.
Man am I ever lucky I was part of the Canadian educational system growing up. That's one thing that Canada does proper.
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How's that single payer healthcare wor king out?
When Obamacare started changing how doctors are compensated here, that's why thousands of doctors have retired before they wanted to and left the medical field altogether.
Man am I ever lucky I was part of the Canadian educational system growing up. That's one thing that Canada does proper.
when I was in 3rd grade they were just starting this thing called busing...in those days schools were mostly designated white or black, and the primarily black schools were poorly funded and staffed. black children scored much lower on test scores and this was designed to elevate back scores more equal to whites. the scores for black children did go up, but the scores for white children started to drop. today both black and white children's scores are below what they were before this started.
I am actually a proponent of integration of schools and feel this was needed and the right thing to do...what I am against is how poorly this was administrated to allow the results to have turned out so negatively... today American children[both black and white]score very poorly against other industrialized countries...the whole damned education system needs a good overhaul, imo!!!
when I was in 3rd grade they were just starting this thing called busing...in those days schools were mostly designated white or black, and the primarily black schools were poorly funded and staffed. black children scored much lower on test scores and this was designed to elevate back scores more equal to whites. the scores for black children did go up, but the scores for white children started to drop. today both black and white children's scores are below what they were before this started.
I am actually a proponent of integration of schools and feel this was needed and the right thing to do...what I am against is how poorly this was administrated to allow the results to have turned out so negatively... today American children[both black and white]score very poorly against other industrialized countries...the whole damned education system needs a good overhaul, imo!!!
This stuff is crazy reading stories like this....its like you know it happened in the past, but then people from that era experienced it talk about it but I still have this feeling this cant be real!
Ive actually met older black men (just a very small few out of many) that still want to socially engineer blacks to be lifted out and whites to be furthered dumbed down to make what happened 50 years ago more fair today. Makes no sense. Im like, I want to lift everybody up....they dont wanna hear it. I tell them I wasnt born with a silver spoon in my mouth either, but no they dont wanna hear it.
ok...I was looking back on those early days of busing. this was also around the same time private schools became really popular for those who could afford them....so the wealthy politicians who passed the bills that instituted integration of black and white schools, were sending their kids to exclusive white private schools....then came Vietnam and the wealthy kids of politicians all got exemptions[check out the song fortunate son by credence Clearwater revival], the politicians were sending poor kids to Vietnam while their kids were all enrolled in college or otherwise exempt....now we come to Obamacare--the very same politicians who passed Obamacare into law exempted themselves and their families...imagine that!!!!!
does anyone else see a pattern here....maybe if politicians had to live under the laws they pass there would be a higher success rate!!!
Its so funny, people that I debate with in real life about Obamacare usually have nothing to say when I ask them if they say its so good, then why did they exempt themselves with the laws they enforce on others?
Back to your youth...black people liberated into white schools only to be sent off by force overseas to go protect their "freedom" that was just handed over to them and murder millions of yellow people that was triggered by black liberator Lyndon Johnson's false flag attack to justify war. And when they came back home many of them were spat on and homeless and most people didnt give a crap.
Government, lol
ALL veterans were treated like crap back then but that is fodder for another day...the real truth here is that the very people passing these laws are not living under them....maybe if politicians had to suffer consequences of laws they pass they would put more effort into making them successful.
I think the penalty for not being covered under Obamacare is up to $1000. I am curious how many people would rather pay the penalty?
Yeah I remember Michael Moore once was going around washington dc and walking up to politicians and handing them over a volunteer enlistment form for their children. Boy did they look offended, lol.
Besides the penalty (which I hear they may even raise) I wonder if the withheld income taxes are not enough to cover things (or non-tax paying citizens) if it will turn into civil asset forfeiture abuse.
I feel bad for poor people. They were told they will get health care and the solution is buy insurance that you cant afford and when you go to the doctor pay the outrageous deductible that costs the same price at 100% for your checkups..... but now you have less money in your pocket to pay for it, so maybe just skip the doctor visit and save the trouble. Just be sure to buy your insurance, its good for politicians collecting lobby money and stock holders! Thanks Obama!
funny how the insurance companies had final approval of Obamacare and were [consultants].
How was health care for you before the 70's with Nixon and managed care policies.
Was it more affordable? Were you charged $25 for a qtip? If you have no money, did doctors refuse people?
Did you know doctor's oaths are only voluntary now upon graduation?
I joined the navy right after high school 1976, then went to school on GI bill in philipines after that...so I can't say what it was like before Nixon----geez, I am not that old:amish:
You guys watching Obama's final puppet show tonight? I know I am, the stuff he lies and spews about is hilarious.
My wife usually goes in the other room, I usually give commentary during the whole speech she dont wanna here it, lol
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But it's a puppet show only because people with liberal views will applaud, people with conservative views will scoff. No shiit everyone wants more jobs, opportunities, security, equality, better education, etc. but no one is walking away saying, "yeah teamwork!!! We'll do it together!!"
Too divided. Those who disagree sit home and mock, those who agree clap.
You guys watching Obama's final puppet show tonight? I know I am, the stuff he lies and spews about is hilarious.
My wife usually goes in the other room, I usually give commentary during the whole speech she dont wanna here it, lol
I caught the part about Obama saying college should be obtainable for every American..what a joke!!!
in my day only the brightest 5-10% even thought about college unless mommy and daddy had tons of money to 'donate'. college actually meant something then, now so many who shouldn't be in college are, that it has become watered down.
back in the day companies had programs called 'OJT'[on the job training], if you took a test and had aptitude for a job the company would teach you what you needed to know to do the job. companies even had professors come in and offer classes that could lead to advancement and promotions, this is what we need today....Obama should be offering incentives to companies to train people specific things needed to do specific jobs!!!
giving a supervisor job in manufacturing to someone with a college degree in communication is just plain ridiculous, imo. in the end that persn will still be need to be trained in specifics of that job. on the other hand masters and phd degrees are a different story so don't go there with what about doctors/lawyers/teachers....
He throws in the word "free" too much, nothing is free. Everybody will pay for college, peoples taxes go up....people who want nothing to do with college or already payed for college themselves will have their taxes go up to pay for that.
Before you know it 2 year school will be the equivalent of a GED.
Good point that it is and going to be further watered down. On the job training/education is an awesome concept to re-establish in full force and give incentives to companies to push for that.
I just got in from a 2 hour session at the gym. Looks like I missed out tonight... Completely forgot about Obama's speech
Finished the speech....CNN people saying this is his best since 2008. Well, if you analyze what he said in 2008, its his best at being a evil liar who spend the next 8 years completely flip flopping on all his campaign promises,.....so in those regards they are right about last night.
Seriously, I did not hear a single line that sounded above a 4th grade level of understanding, and not a single line that wasnt straight bullshyt.
You mean you didn't hear him go into his thesis on quantum dynamics? lol jk ... I still need to catch up and check it out sometime, just for fun
I wish politicians in general would stick to their campaign promises. They rarely do, and if it's big change, it usually gets half assed in order to get passed. That's the big takeaway from this past term I think.
His campaign took a very interesting road when it turned to that whole "Yes we can" thing. I knew it was all hype, and it worked. It wasn't a revolution, and nothing revolutionary would come out of his term, but it was advertised as such. Great intentions though lol
That whole Nobel peace prize was such a joke too. The most ridiculous thing ever.
what a thread