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iorgfeflkd · 5 months

No i blame it all on the blacks, not blame it all on all the blacks.

iorgfeflkd · 5 months

I wanted to blame this all on the blacks, who are likely the source but certainly the biggest offenders. I cringe when I hear it, almost want to weep when I catch myself doing it.

iorgfeflkd · 6 months

When did "Can I get" become common speak? I swear it makes me want to scream, and I feel like i'm the only one

andrewstogi · 6 months

Something not tea related and not on capitol would be sweet as shit. I suggest a private wine tasting at my apartment.

andrewstogi · 6 months

This is the gayest idea I've ever fucking heard.

goldandguns · 7 months

because things are tough right now and life aint fair; didn't anyone ever tell you that?

goldandguns · 7 months

You jump off a bridge, we need less people excusing less than maximum effort as evidence of being a victim

goldandguns · 7 months

No, your concept of "live decently" means being a millionaire. That's the point. You want to drive a new car, own a house, feed a family, all while not actually trying very hard. I work my ass off and I do just fine, as does my sister, as does my other sister, as does her husband, as does my fiancee, as does her brother, as does most of my friends. Those who don't simply aren't trying hard enough or have too high of standards.

redvolkswagen · 8 months

I have a problem with public funds going to religious private schools.

I somewhat agree.

Well, if education is local, why are state governments, including Wisconsin's, cutting so much of the education budget?

Because we were spending too much to begin with. Why do we insist on controlling costs for healthcare but education should just get more more more?

I frankly have no idea what it costs $30K/year to go to college

I can explain this, but I don't know if you're going to believe me because it puts the situation in a terrible, unfixable place for most liberals/moderates, even conservatives.

College costs a lot because the federal government began to back student loans. They were guaranteed by the government, so they were very easy to get. This had the intended effect of getting more people to college. The federal government now runs student loans entirely, as you know; and they only dole out so much per pupil. Colleges know this, and they know most of their students are getting loan money. Since it is incredibly easy to get money to go to school, there is no price pressure on the cost of education; fewer and fewer people are doing proper cost benefit analysis and determining if college is the right thing for them (I'm of the opinion that for most, it is not, but that's another subject). So people just go, and colleges have no reason not to let their costs rise; they know they can continue to get money, so why keep costs down? Obviously schools make these attempts, but not in a real way, say, that a car company wants to keep the costs of their cars down so they can attract buyers.

Since education money flows, and the government says we can loan X to each student, colleges have let costs rise to X. Every time X goes up, costs follow. If there were natural price pressures, this would not happen and prices would be reasonable; we could have students putting themselves through college! Imagine!

The dilemma is of course you can't just take the federal loans away; most people wouldn't be able to go to school. If you put a cap on loan amounts, less people will go (god forbid!)and if you don't support sending more kids to college, you're a monster, so any way you look at it we're fucked. The solution is far gone, as we've let this get too far out of hand in the name of politics and some desire to create a "level playing field."

I understand the desire, but that doesn't make it any less wrong.

redvolkswagen · 8 months

im in class i'll get you more real data but watch the lottery, it's also a good criticism of teachers unions

redvolkswagen · 8 months

The private schools that succeed are those that are quite expensive

Some of the best private schools are cheaper than public schooling. Public schools are crazy expensive.

In DC, there was a pilot voucher program that was very successful. In Harlem, there's a pseudo-privatization program (Watch The Lottery) which is also showing success. Let's not forget that private schools put out better students than public.

Education is local because why does California's reps' get a say in what kids in Wisconsin are taught? I don't understand why people think that curriculum will go wildly off the map if not reigned in by the government. The dept of ed has grown more than 4x in the last 15 years with no improvement in any key metric. Why keep doing it???

People will still teach math, they'll still teach evolution. Teachers will still be liberal, and the same shit will happen, teachers will just have more time and energy customizing their coursework to better serve students instead of wasting time conforming (often cheating) to federal requirements that haven't made a lick of difference

redvolkswagen · 8 months

I am a firm believer in localization of educational policy. There's no reason for the federal government to set educational policy with the specificity they currently do. A step beyond I prefer privatization, but that's another discussion.

Education is local, and that's where the policy needs to come from.

redvolkswagen · 8 months

Well, he goes on to quote several books and speeches from korean, japanese, and chinese leaders who agree with that statement and are endeavoring to americanize their education system so they can produce entrepeneurs. it's not unsubstantiated, the fact pattern is just hard to transcribe

redvolkswagen · 8 months

i didn't make it up, i pulled it from the book i referenced

redvolkswagen · 9 months

"biotechnology-a broad category that describes the use of biological systems to create medical, agricultural, and industrial products-is...dominated by the United States. More than $3.3 billion in venture financing went to U.S. biotech companies in 2005, while European countries collectively received half that amount." "Follow on equity offerings...in the US were more than seven times those in europe" "US biotech revenues approached $50 billion in 2005, five times greater than those in Europe..."

"Other educational systems teach you to take tests; the amercian system teaches you to think. It is surely this quality that goes some way in explaining why America produces so many entrepreneurs, invetors, and risk takers..."

29% with 5% of the worlds population...Doesn't matter if they are American born at all, you're ignoring the important number, which is how many are american and or working in America. We are the progress powerhouse of the world, and there is no denying it. Didn't mean to say per capita, i meant as percent of gdp. R&D spending in the US was more than double the second place spender, and after the top 3 it spends as much as the next 18 countries combined. Even in price parity gdp, it's about twice what china spends.

Nothing racist about wanting to compare segments of the population. If you had a bum leg, would you consider your ability to play baseball against all of baseball players, or would you contextualize your performance with your disability? I'm being pragmatic, some people don't have the stomach for it.

It's not even apples and oranges. It's comparing an elephant to a goat.

The degrees of separation are identical for these two comparisons.

edit: source for quotes is post american world by fareed zakaria

redvolkswagen · 9 months

Or the top, teachers keep complaining about how they make so much less than the rest of us

redvolkswagen · 9 months

If you want to compare systems, it's only proper to consider similar groups of people. Singapore doesn't have underprivileged, black, gang populated areas. We do. We have different challenges than they do, but when you consider similar groups, you see the US really pulls ahead. Yeah, access to HC-apparently, according to the UN, it's supposed to be free. Just because we (used to) make people work to get money to exchange for services like healthcare, we get knocked down on the list. There's a reason over 90% of Nobel winners in almost every field are Americans; socialism doesn't support progress. You say we can do it now, and we can, but only if we want to stay the way we are now or possibly degrade over time. Look at per capita R&D spending in the US vs eurozone countries, it's laughable! They're literally living off of our advancements.

redvolkswagen · 9 months

We're failing? I'm ending this discussion here, but you're delusional if you think the US is anything but the best or one of the best, in just about everything. R&D, healthcare (remove access as a condition and we score #4 I think), education (remove low income areas and we are better than shanghai, see post american world by fareed zakaria), aeronautics, energy development, income, wealth, military, media-we're the center of all of it. I know it's more fun to shit on the US these days but you're all a bunch of clowns!

No, I don't have a source for my theory on marx because it's my theory on marx

Butabah · 9 months

You're right in that it's not enough data, however, asians are still terrible drivers and if I had the energy to get the data to prove it I would.

redvolkswagen · 9 months

a true socialist state

That'd be because Marx designed his set of conditions for true socialism so they could never feasibly happen, and thus he could always be right in the eyes of his believers.

Some examples include setting up farming cooperatives and the state taking control of industry.

Butabah · 9 months

You think asians drive almost three times as much as women?

redvolkswagen · 9 months

Of course there is a distinction, but there are also many similarities.

Butabah · 9 months

15.0 per 100,000 Hispanic/Latino people died from motor vehicle injuries in USA 2001 (NCHS, 2003)

15.6 per 100,000 white people died from motor vehicle injuries in USA 2001 (NCHS, 2003)

21.8 per 100,000 men died from motor vehicle injuries in USA 2001 (NCHS, 2003)

25.9 per 100,000 American Indian or Alaska Native people died from motor vehicle injuries in USA 2001 (NCHS, 2003)

25.9 per 100,000 Asian/Pacific Islander people died from motor vehicle injuries in USA 2001 (NCHS, 2003)

9.3 per 100,000 women died from motor vehicle injuries in USA 2001

Asians are either more prone to death or they're just bad drivers.

Butabah · 9 months

With just 16% of the world’s cars, trucks, buses and motorcycles, Asia accounts for more than half of the roughly 1.2 million traffic fatalities that the World Health Organization (WHO) estimates occur globally every year. More than 600,000 Asians are killed and another 9.4 million are severely injured in traffic accidents annually

redvolkswagen · 9 months

I think a "good thing" is to give people economic freedom. Forcing them to save for retirement is an infringement on their freedoms, and it's wrong in the first place.

That'll just create more poor old people on Medicaid, living off SS

Just more forced retirement. Should not exist in a free society.

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