I don't think anyone is arguing anything else.
What most of us are arguing for is universal health care so that people can actually get and afford health care. My dad was a small business owner and had to go without insurance for his entire life. He just could not afford the premiums, which...
Sorry, but you are wrong. If you want to see how efficient a system is, you have to look at all the parts. If India treated it's wealthiest people perfectly but let people die in the gutter, no one in their right mind would say that system is a great model. Like I said, Americans are still in...
This isn't the 1950s when America topped every conceivable measure. By your own admission, you are terribly ignorant when it comes to the strides the rest of the world has made in the last 60 years. The US isn't even in the top 10 countries to live in anymore. By almost every conceivable...
You'll sing a different tune if/when you lose your job.
Explain to me why, literally, dozens of countries can insure all their citizens for less money than what we currently do. On top of that, they enjoy considerably higher quality of life in almost every measurable index. Our system is...
It's an okay first step. The end game has to be a system like France, Germany, Norway, Finland, etc etc etc. Our current system sucks, plain and simple.
You act as if you know thousands of Iranians, lived amongst them and know them as you know your own familiy. From being from that part of the world, I can say that you are not even in the slighest correct about half the things you just said. Iranians are one of the most religious people in the...
The last time the West meddled with Iran, they deposed the democratic government and installed a ruthless dictator.
The best thing to do is let this thing take it's course. Chances are that the Middle East will be fundamentally changed in the next 30 years. The only thing the US should do...
By Allies, I meant the Cold War standings, not the entire Allied contingent. And the Allies were more than those three countries. There were over 70 countries that had forces land on the beaches in Normandy.
Do some research. The consensus among historians is that Germany already lost in...
Wrong, the Allies did nothing but hasten Germany's defeat. Germany's defeat was assured in 1943 when it lost the Battle of Kursk against the Russians. All Normandy did was bring Germany's defeat in April 1945 instead of August 1945 or October 1945.
yea, you do, it's called the Supreme Court. File briefs with the Supreme Court and bring down all those departments, programs, laws, and such you find unconstitutional. Should be a slam dunk, the way you guys talk about it.
Again, you people keep bringing up the constitutionality arguments. It's quite obvious you don't know what the Constitution actually means because there are literally thousands of departments, programs and such that are "unconstitutional" by the definition you use.
As for being a drain, yes...
You are one of the biggest reasons why these forums are a fucking joke. The P&N forums at cracked.com are so much better because douchebags like yourself are one and done when it comes to posting.
The problem is that there is no choice in healthcare. You can choose to buy cheap tires or to just ride on worn-out tires. In healthcare, there is often no choice or a set of very limited choices, of which, the consumer has nearly no power in. If you have headaches for three straight days...
You're an idiot.
You can't choose your health insurance provider on any meaningful level. If you work, you are beholden to your employer's health care provider, which is much cheaper on every level than if you bought your own policy (pre-tax vs post-tax dollars is just one criterion)...
Helping the developing nations develop clean power is a great idea.
Why? Their infrastructure is not as entrenched as ours is. They already need to add power plants to generate electricity. So instead of allowing gas/oil/coal, we should be pushing nuclear/wind/solar. In fact, these...
The bill is garbage. I would simply let the healthcare problem spiral out of control. Might as well, that's pretty much the only way we get change in America. When shit gets so bad it forces your hand. Right now, this bill is less than useless. It's a waste of money. Sure it covers...
There's been a lot of mixed messages in the economy, but I'll be damned if I can hear about them in any great detail except on specialist websites. The MSM is more focused on the upbeat news than the downbeat indicators. This is just one of those indicators that you can't ignore. Every single...
There's a big difference in degrees.
People who get degrees in Art History and East Asian Pottery (not even joking, this was a major you could get) are going to have a tough time finding a job.
On the other hand, if you get a degree in a demanding field (eg...
Remember, the study compared lottery winners vs lottery losers, not schools. The effect of parenting should be approximately equal, leaving only the quality of the school as the sole measure of student's progress.
That's not true. When you compare the winners of the charter school lottery and those who did not win (in effect, taking out the parent part of the equation, since in both cases, they were involved enough to enter and hope for the lottery to go their way), charter school students are heads and...
It's not even that. Look at charter schools. They have ~1/3rd or less the money spent per child but their students routinely hit the top 10% or higher in nearly every case. Charter schools in the inner city do approximately as well as suburban schools, schools that have 4, 5, even 6 times as...
What benefits do you receive from the NPT? To me, it sounds like a crock of shit. Sign this piece of paper and forsake nuclear technology forever. Meanwhile, your enemy, who didn't sign the piece of paper, yea he's free to develop any nuclear technology he wants.
It's a crock of shit, if I...
Your post makes no sense. There's almost no support in Iran to overthrow the entire government. Even the reform candidates have continually espoused preserving the Islamic Republic.
Second, a war with Iran will do the US as much harm as it does to Iran. Just taking that much oil off the...
Sanctions almost never work. All they do is galvanize support for the regime. What needs to be done is Iran has to be shown that developing nuclear weapons is not in it's best interests. Sanctions didn't stop South Africa from pursuing a nuclear weapons program. The threat of annihilation...
Your strawman just gets flimsier and flimsier. By the way, it was that bastion of liberal thought, Richard Nixon, that started this whole mess.
Secondly, both conservatives and liberals have interpreted the Constitution in ways that fit their agenda. And, not surprisingly, both...
The simple answer is that the US needs to look at what works around the world and ruthlessly implement those policies in our country. Too bad it'll never happen. Republicans will never support it because of two reasons. One is because they can never accept that other countries can do things...
I think you made a very good case for legalization. How exactly can you fight a 15,000% profit? If you kill Sanchez, then Hernandez steps in to fill the vacuum.
What would happen if the profit incentive was gone? Just like how we no longer have gangs of bootleggers running around shooting...
The US cannot afford another arms race, especially running trillion dollar deficits.
What do you think will happen when we develop such a weapon? The Chinese and Russians will develop an even more massive retaliatory response. Unfortunately, this time, the global economic system puts the...
Terrorism isn't about the number of people killed but the symbolism of the act. Very few people died in the Reichstag fire, but it galvanized the public into supporting Hitler.
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