Missouri_Mike
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LMAO! One of the best rage posts I've seen in a couple days. Nice job Dragon, keep on posting. I'm going to check out who give you agree's or such. Making a list for the retard club.
Where is the U.S. in these world rankings?
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Lewdog
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No it isn't our duty. While yes it is humane to do, I find it funny that in the same forum that people talk about moochers in our society getting welfare and needing to take care of themselves, that you would argue we need to continue taking care of other countries with our military... They need to start taking care of themselves... until it gets to the point that despite trying they still can't stand on their own.
Dragonlady
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Rage?? When I stop laughing, I'll finish the post.
Dragonlady
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And it's a lie. Americans didn't go into Kuwait because it was the "right thing to do". They did it to protect the property of American oil companies in Kuwait. Cheney went into Iraq because he wanted control of Iraq's oil. It wasn't about weapons of mass destruction, it was always about the oil. The Iraqi's refused to let Americans have it, and Bush said OK.
When a genocide was happening in East Timor, did the US intervene? East Timor you say. Never heard of it. Damn skippy you haven't heard of it or the genocide. There were no "American interests" in East Timor.
Europeans want American military bases in Europe because they boost the local economy. Same with the Japanese. But to say that you HAVE to have this big military because it's the right thing to do is total and complete bullshit. You have a big military because you WANT to be the most powerful nation in the world.
Are there serious military threats? Yes. The Russians and the Chinese. It was ever thus. But that doesn't mean you need to spend nearly half your federal budget on the military. If you stopped trying to rule the world, you could spend even less.
TheDude
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You'd get a high score for efficiency. Takes an American five months to walk from the Pacific to Atlantic (Big ass F)
Actually my University in Ireland was a swap college with Stanford... After 6 months they were told they didn't need to pass our exams because they kept failing...
Maybe it was because our legal age of drinking is 18 but Irish colleges pick completely on academic achievement. therefore if you work the hardest (with some brains) in High School you can get the better courses.
Public Colleges are better Private in Ireland for this reason. you only go Private because you hadn't the ability and/or work ethic to get into Public.
There is very little Student Debt as fees are generally paid for and graduates usually travel for a year after college.
We call the final two years of High School the rat race and nothing concentrates their mind like a recession. Courses are there on a supply and demand basis, crap course no demand... So you do the state exams in June, Results in August (you can calc your points) and your offer is in the paper a week later but your will know from min level for that course anyway.
The system is simple, very transparent and has high trust...
frigidweirdo
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Do you really think this is important to the argument? The point was made, and the point still stands regardless of where Bell came from.
Standing on the shoulder of giants. Bell didn't do it all by himself.
The whole thing was one Big Oil subsidy... Would have been better to stay at home and develop a cheap battery technology, a trillion would have gone a long way in that... Could have cured Cancer with the change..
ThunderKiss1965
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And everyone of them probably spend less on those 10 things than we do. Liberal answer, throw more money at it.
frigidweirdo
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Yeah, there are lots of ways of making things work. Some parts of US education are good, others not so good. I don't know the Irish education system, but I've seen good stuff in Austria, Germany, the UK etc.
Great thread but I think we all want to see your source.
Wow that is going super deluded...
Education... Did you notice all the ones at the top have great Public Education which is a Leftie thing... They all have powerful Teachers unions which defend education standards and a Public who demand excellence... Finland pay there teachers 6 figure salaries...
Healthcare... All Single payer systems... I experienced a few of them and they are that good. But then they spend there money on preventive and primary care... They laugh when they here uninsured have to resort to ER, very expensive and the wrong place to managed care...
Transportation... Seriously compare Europe to US... Close in size and Population... Europeans use Public Transport.. This is infrastructure, even Trump admitted that was a disaster falling apart.
Saying that I don't think China is there in any of those categories... I say they put there finger on the scale...
Dragonlady
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What would you know about people in other countries? Have you ever travelled or lived abroad?
Japan is a socialist country with a better work ethic than the US. I don't know any young people in Canada who are living on the dole. Most worked their way through school and even those who are under-employed are employed. We have pretty much full employment here, and low welfare rates.
My son-in-law has a full-time job (he's a roofer), and picks up extra work on weekends. He has a crew of friends he calls on if the job is too big for him. Sometimes his friends will call looking for extra work (they all have jobs). My daughter has plans to open a business when her kids are in school (she has a 17 month old toddler and is expecting a baby in August). In the meantime she's happy and grateful to be able to stay at home with her babies. Having said that, she often babysits for her mom friends when they are working.
nat4900
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My point was (and is) that republicans have always advocated for the PRIVATIZATION of education, health and transportation (and the prison system).......Bottom line is this, the only objective aspect that we're really good at is our military....of that we can all agree on.......and you should note, the military is the only thing that republicans do NOT want to privatize (although long gone are the days when the foot soldier fed him/herself.)
Trump's nominees as secretaries for the O/P 3 systems all want to privatize.
Trump's nominees as secretaries for the O/P 3 systems all want to privatize.
Dragonlady
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What's sad is that until Republicans began starving the public education system, and politicizing it, the US did have one of the best public education systems in the world. Since Reagan began promoting vouchers and Charter schools, and home schooling, the public system has declined, precipitously.
Republicans hate public anything. Their preferred method of setting up government programs is to overburden them with administration, and means tests, making them expensive, inefficient and unable to do what they were intended to do, and then say "government programs don't work". Nowhere have they been more effective with this strategy than with the education system.
Derelict_Drvr
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Nope. That first mechanical computer, called an Abacus, was invented by the Chinese.
Alan Turing came up with a more powerful computer in 1936. It was, however, still a mechanical computer.
During WWII, an Englishman named Tommy Flowers invented a programmable computer. Still, a mechanical computer.
The fathers of the first true, modern day digital computer were Americans named John Atansoff and Cliff Berry in 1937, and developed until 1942 at Iowa State College.
The above is all fine and dandy, but all of our modern "appliances", including computers, would not have been possible without the invention of Alternating Current by Serbian-American Nikola Tesla and harnessed by American Thomas Edison.
Unkotare
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Depends on what level of education they are talking about. Public schooling in the U.S is shit.
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No source for your information. Guess we're just supposed to take your word for it, huh?
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