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OT: American Politics

"He (Obama) wants another stimulus, he wants to hire more government workers. He says we need more fireman, more policeman, more teachers. Did he not get the message of Wisconsin? The American people did. It’s time for us to cut back on government and help the American people.”

- Mitt Romney

Sounds kinda anti-teacher to me...
 
counting phoney money that would allegedly have been spent if a certain contingency was still happening as "deficit reduction" <<<<<<<<<<<<< actually having a plan or a commitment to reducing spending
 
hockeylover said:
"He (Obama) wants another stimulus, he wants to hire more government workers. He says we need more fireman, more policeman, more teachers. Did he not get the message of Wisconsin? The American people did. It’s time for us to cut back on government and help the American people.”

- Mitt Romney

Sounds kinda anti-teacher to me...
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i'm so in your heads, its sick.
 
Challenging the affirmative action programs of American universities:

Abigail Fisher is a slight young woman with strawberry blond hair, a smile that needs little prompting, a determined manner and a good academic record. She played soccer in high school, and she is an accomplished cellist.

Ms. Fisher, 22, who is white and recently graduated from Louisiana State University, says that her race was held against her, and the Supreme Court is to hear her case on Wednesday, bringing new attention to the combustible issue of the constitutionality of racial preferences in admissions decisions by public universities.

“I’m hoping,” she said, “that they’ll completely take race out of the issue in terms of admissions and that everyone will be able to get into any school that they want no matter what race they are but solely based on their merit and if they work hard for it.”

The university said Ms. Fisher would not have been admitted even if race had played no role in the process, and it questioned whether she has suffered the sort of injury that gives her standing to sue. But the university’s larger defense is that it must be free to assemble a varied student body as part of its academic and societal mission. The Supreme Court endorsed that view by a 5-to-4 vote in 2003 in Grutter v. Bollinger.

University officials said that the school’s affirmative action program was needed to build a student body diverse enough to include minority students with a broad range of backgrounds and for the campus to have a “critical mass” of minority students in most classrooms. Interaction among students in class and around campus, said Kedra Ishop, the university’s director of admissions, helps students overcome biases and make contributions to a diverse society. “The role of U.T. Austin,” Dr. Ishop said, “is to provide leadership to the state.”

The majority opinion in the Grutter case, written by Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, rejected the use of racial quotas in admissions decisions but said that race could be used as one factor among many, as part of a “holistic review.” Justice O’Connor retired in 2006, and her replacement by Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. may open the way for a ruling cutting back on such race-conscious admissions policies, or eliminating them.

Admissions officers at colleges and universities almost universally endorse the idea that students from diverse backgrounds learn from each other, overcome stereotypes, and in so doing prepare themselves for leadership positions in society. Many critics of affirmative action say that there is at best a weak correlation between race and having a range of views presented in the classroom.

Others say the Constitution does not permit the government to sort people by race, no matter how worthy its goal. “While racial diversity on college campuses is beneficial, it cannot be attained by racial discrimination,” said Edward Blum, an adviser to Ms. Fisher and a driving force behind the Fisher case.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/09/u...firmative-action.html?_r=1&src=me&ref=general
 
theREALkoreaboy said:
ahh, that old canard. the "we can erase the deficit by stopping the iraq and afghanistan wars" gambit.
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Yeah....but there is so much free ice cream yet to be given out. obama is going to gimme free medical, foodstamps, cell phones, housing, transportation, clothes.......if reelected, he promised he gonna gimme a 60" plasma with gold buttoons.....
 
theREALkoreaboy said:
i'm so in your heads, its sick.
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You don't make sense. You enjoy all the benefits of a system you rail against. You take the side of the RWNJ crowd in a country you don't even live in, and bleat on endlessly about things that have zero impact on your life. I'm pretty damn sure that you'd be singing a completely different tune if any of it did actually have an impact on your life. This is best demonstrated in your teacher's union posts.

I just don't get it. If you believe so strongly in all of this (which we know you don't) why don't you walk the talk and move to the USA and start teaching down there.

I'll be anxiously waiting your response.

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theREALkoreaboy said:
counting phoney money that would allegedly have been spent if a certain contingency was still happening as "deficit reduction" <<<<<<<<<<<<< actually having a plan or a commitment to reducing spending
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Oh please, you dont know what you are talking about. obama saved 5 trllion dollars from stopping WW2. Sherly you have to give him credit for that. And what about the money he saved on shoes not walking two flights of stairs for those pesky security breifings.
 
HabsAddict said:
Thank God you an expert on international law........and ice cream.
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It was a war started without aggression by the other side and when there was no imminent attack from them, so self-defence was not at play. Therefore, it was an illegal war.

If you want to show that it was a legal war, make a case.
 
HabsAddict said:
Goverment has no business in media other then to regulate fair practces.
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If only the republicans and democrats agreed with this. How many times have you heard the term FCC over the last 10 years. Fines of over 350,000 for a single offense have left us with some of the most depressing radio and mainstream television. All thanks to "think about the childrennnnn".
 
Re: OT: Canadian Politics

theREALkoreaboy said:
there are many, many ways to cut back gov't without going right after the wages and collective agreements of public servants. many ways.
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Face it, you probably feel that most civil servants could do with a scale back. You didn't raise a peep about Harper cutting 20k jobs earlier this year, did you...
 
Re: OT: Canadian Politics

theREALkoreaboy said:
cut billions from agricultural subsidies
privatize the CBC
trim our foreign aid
reduce welfare benefits and/or make a serious effort to eliminate fraud and abuse
trim funding for the arts
cut billions from subsidies to business
steamline administrative costs and cut federal/provincial overlap in jurisdiction

thats just to start, without putting much thought into it at all, without having a summary of the budget in front of me.
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So pretty much everything other than cutting the military and scaling back public service salaries and pensions.

Damn you are a walking joke.
 
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