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Re: Decision 2016
I REALLY recommend reading the responses from each candidate in that document from sciencedebate. They really give great insight into the candidate's actual positions.
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Nukatha you won't win me over by comparing Johnson to Stein since I already think worse of her as a candidate compared to Johnson.
The big and important thing economically for me is this. There are quite a few situations where the best thing for society as a whole is not something a profit maximizing company would be interested in and in some cases would actively oppose. Hence why I'm super wary of "the free market will fix it" solutions. ~Dysole, who will add on to wriggz's earlier statements that economic models are based on their assumptions and so rarely do people check their assumptions My Twitch Channel where I play Scape and other things My YouTube Channel where the games get uploaded later Dysole's Draft Rankings Map Thread (Not responsible for psychic damage) Customs Battle Reports This sentence is seven words long. This sentence is not seven words long. |
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My conduct and tone will speak for itself. I don't care to talk about the talking.
Edit: medicine can be sold and would therefore be unregulated as I read that quote. |
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I don't understand not voting, or treating my vote like it doesn't matter. This country is full of dangerous people with whom I disagree, and I expect they are voting. Why the heck wouldn't I?
Edit: oops. Double post. |
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@Ranior
I read your long post, but just haven't had time to give a thoughtful response yet. Here goes something: My apologies for that logical leap, inferring that the student loan system was significantly responsible for the public school tuition increases. On the topic of Wisconsin, wasn't the recent tuition freeze motivated by the UW system posting a rather large budget surplus, implying that tuition was higher that it needed to be? But don't get me wrong here. I'm in Arizona now. And every time a state/local bill comes through to raise public education funding (usually by some tax increase), I vote for it. Of course, AZ ranks I believe 48th in spending per student, and has the absolute worst Public teacher retention in the nation, so it is abundantly clear to me that it needs significant improvement. I'm just of the opinion that education is better handled at the State level, so that rather than attempting to have nationwide standards, we can have 50 different educational laboratories, so that every state can learn from each other state's successes and failures. Plus, when national standards are implemented, it plays right into the hands of the likes of textbook companies Pearson and Houghton-Mifflin, who make bank off of such standards, with seemingly little demonstrable benefit in the classroom. When each state sets their own standards, it reduces the power of what I would call 'big education lobbies'. Sure, they'll flock to California and Texas, as they've got the largest populations, but the barrier of entry to the realm of educational materials is much lower overall than with national standards. Bottom line, I think I generally agree with you. K-12 education is a necessary investment into society as a whole, and pays out huge dividends in the betterment of society. Collegiate-level education is increasingly necessary for a number of fields, (like yours and mine), but certainly not for many others. Lots of current college students (and this is just anecdotal from what I've seen teaching at the college level) would be better off hopping into a trade school, entry-level position in their field of choice, or some other shorter term education to get them directly started in some industry. What it comes down to for me is that National standards are simply too overbearing and uniform to work across an entire nation the size of the US. Individual state-run education programs can try new and unique approaches that if successful can be tried elsewhere, and if failures can be dropped without damaging any other state. In addition, (on the legal side of things) no where in the Constitution is a federal education system established, and therefore I would argue all legal authority over education is, and ought to be, left to the several States. I'll leave for now with the following quote, which I think is rather powerful. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Fr%C3%...%A9ric_Bastiat Quote:
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I believe that the state can often do a better job with many of those things than a private interest could. I think the state should be able to ensure that all of its citizens have access to things like education. Capital gain should not play a part in essentials like that.
Your quote does not really follow with the rest of your post either. It is the private, for-profit, colleges that are creating the worst debt problems. 10 Years of Gencon/Scapecon Battle Reports - Comic Battle Reports - Probability Calculator App - Reverse the Whip Army Archetypes "It's all about the game." - Sgt. Ernie Calhoun |
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I prefer to see a balance in our government. When either party is in control of both the White House and Congress, they just seem to go too far right or left. |
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So I am/was the only APK Republican.
Thanks Rich. Should be a fun debate tonight. A cloud can change its semblance, yet retain its will With the intimacy of destruction, One knows what it is to be alive The empty sky holds no reflection, for sorrow - Eslo Rudkey |
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It is just scary how often we see Governments sticking to Ideologies when faced with Success. If the world worked differently and instead of Communism failing and Capitalism succeeding, it was the other way around, wouldn't it seem foolish to hold on to the free market? Clearly Russian and China have learned that Capitalism is better for those that want to become wondrously Powerful and Rich and the common people, explaining why they have switched. I liked Sanders argument of pointing to Europe and saying "Why can't we have what they have?". Germany is Working, France is (mostly) working, Scandinavia is working and they have rights to Education, Health, and Labour, that are as foundational as Free speech and Baring Arms is in the US. I'm reminded by Hyundai. Many will remember these were discount cars that were cheap and crappy. What did Hyundai do? The bought a Corrolla (Top rated car at the time) and told their engineers to make one and put a Hyundai brand on it. Now Hyundai is a class leader. No shame in copying the best. Ironically this was at the same time as when the Big 3 were looking for government bailouts, while they continued to do the same thing (Big, Inefficient, expensive but not high end, etc.) Finance is Ruining America As an aside, I read an article about how the Wage Gap and low taxes from the Ultra Rich (Fund Managers) have eroded the middle class. The Crux of the argument was in the 60's and 70's the bulk of the money moving around in the stock market was used to make stuff (40 cents on the Dollar). Since the 80's (when taxes fell to record lows) it has been 10 cents. We have incentivized the market to keep the money moving around the market or end up in the bank accounts of very few. If 90% of your salary goes to taxes, you don't try to make another Million, you keep that money in your business thru R&D, innovation and expansion (all create new jobs). When the "free market" is aloud to run rampant this is what happens. Individuals start working only for themselves and those luck few become super rich while the rest are left out to dry. |
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FWIW, I don't think our current split - Democratic President, Republican congress - is doing the nation any favors. The House spent far more money investigating Benghazi - a political witch hunt - than was spent investigating 9/11, and instead of doing real business it voted to recall the ACA one bazillion times. And the Senate has disgraced the founding fathers and the Constitution the Republican Party claims to hold so dear, by declining to consider a nominee to the Supreme Court.
So I'm not persuaded that it's always for the better to have a party split between the Executive & the Legislative branches. There may have been a time when that was true, and that time may come again, but I don't think that time is now. |
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Relatedly, here's a good article that discusses issues the media has had covering politics that I was discussing with @Rich10 earlier. We are starting to see a shift in the way Trump is covered, although it's coming alarmingly late in the cycle. The NYT front-paging an analysis piece that calls out Trump falsehoods, for instance. They're starting to realize that stenography-as-journalism plays into Trump's hands, and he simply can't be covered like a normal candidate. |
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I liked this article
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10 Years of Gencon/Scapecon Battle Reports - Comic Battle Reports - Probability Calculator App - Reverse the Whip Army Archetypes "It's all about the game." - Sgt. Ernie Calhoun |
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