America has a lot of problems, a vast portion of the population is uneducated, the health care systems are a joke, more money is spent on weapons and defense contracts on an already totally over sized and bloated military that on hospitals and schools combined.
What would fix this? Should we vote for the person who promises more hospitals and better health care, or the one who promises to wipe out our enemies in the war against terror? as a whole terrorism doesn't really affect us that much, more people die in car accidents that terrorist attacks and the biggest form of damage to our society is fear, fear that leads us to vote for people like George Bush, personally i think that the no 1 way to fix America is "Education", school should not only be free, but mandatory.
One problem with this is, the current supposed democratic government, if you can call it that, doesn't want people to be educated. i personally believe, call me a conspiracy theorist if you want, that the main presidential candidates aren't really running the country, but are in fact puppets.
It doesn't matter who you vote for these days you have the same behind the scenes bureaucracy controlling everything. American democracy makes me laugh... the presidential candidates work for the same people and are just in it for the fame "look ma I'm the president", "oh just like your father" they will make anyone president these days, all they have to do is what they are told and take the flak, do u think George bush is intelligent enough to come up with any of these plans?? rhetorical question don't answer it. truth about American democracy is, it doesn't matter who you vote for you still voting for the same people, and they use popular media and charismatic leaders to herd the stupid average American to do there bidding, "thats why Americans will never be schooled and Christianity is so popular because its just another tool to control you!
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Anonymous2007-02-09 7:23
>>37
"Im not talking about per capita... Im talking about actual physical size, I.E. spread of resources.. which I think we deal with quite well, and you still just made your argument with a random thesis the contents of which you didn't even copy pasta... bad form"
So you mean that US health care is cheap if divided by area? Seems somebody is evading. And i did not realise there is netiquete involved when posting sources (seems most dont bother except the gunnuts). I think that just because this thesis (which is based on data collected and analyzed by WHO) does not support your belief you become more stringent. Cant you just for the sake of argument assume it is true, US has one of the least effiecient healthcare systems in the developed world, so we can discuss the causes of this and make this debate, you know, constructive?
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Anonymous2007-02-09 11:07
>41
Honestly I was commenting on your debating skills, I didn’t find it to convincing for you to say "my arguments over there go read it"
>> does not support your belief you become more stringent
actually I don’t have any concrete beliefs on health care, I was testing yours
>> US has one of the least efficient healthcare systems in the developed world, so we can discuss the causes of this and make this debate
- Not a centralist government, this puts the healthcare burden on the states, that on its own is a problem (not that I think it should be)
- commonplace of malpractice suits, can cause downgraded, or down right refusal in area's where these suits run rampant, ask John Edwards about this
- Refusal by politicians to reform Medicare.... yeah this is a pretty big one, Medicare is such a huge failure that many doctors would rather not see their Medicare patients nearly as much as they should because the billing is so terrible
- Insurance companies setting standard payoffs for medical procedures, not a good idea.., especially when most insurance companies use financial stats without any medical backing to determine these, it also deters doctors from undercharging lower-class patients
- lack of a good medical lobby organization, most "medical" lobby organizations around today are made up of department heads and insurance execs rather than actual doctors.
-general lack of interest over healthcare reform, not nearly as much as a central issue as it should be
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Anonymous2007-02-12 16:42
I love how people are blaming the American people for their president. It's kind of hard to make the right choice when you're fed only two choices, both of which look equally shitty and are equally lying to try to seem like they're the greatest candidates ever when theyre both equally corrupt self-interested corporate drones that in the end represent the same thing.
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Anonymous2007-02-12 17:26
>>43
Well, invent the multiparty state! Oneparty state has fail all over it you know!
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Anonymous2007-02-13 3:19
>>44
That'd kinda require control of the American mass media.
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Anonymous2007-02-13 11:42
>>45
Well, lucky for you that your founding fathers werent as lehtargic as you. Otherwise youd still be sucking queen cock.
>>47
Its a science to counter tyranny. Its very easy. Everybody go get a gun or a knife and when you see a rich motherfucker making trillions paying minimum wage, shoot or stab him.
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Anonymous2007-02-13 17:07
Poverty can never be eliminated. The capitalist system doesn't work like that.
Humans do not all have equal skill levels and even some with a good education will slack off due to human nature, thus they will end up trolling the bottom of the barrel.
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Anonymous2007-02-14 2:51
>>51
BASIS FOR THAT ASSERTION IS WHAT EXACTLY? HUH? HUH? idiot.
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Anonymous2007-02-14 2:52
>>52
thanks for contributing more BASELESS FRIGGING GENERALIZATIONS as if they were facts. now FUCK OFF
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Anonymous2007-02-14 3:52
Inequality will always exist in a capitalistic society, but I think it's not too bad as long as there is mobility (As in people who work hard earn enough to bring up their standards of living, and useless people like Paris Hilton born into money need to work to maintain it or end up on the streets)
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Anonymous2007-02-14 5:10
>>54
"Humans are all of equal skill in all things" is a generalisation, not "Humans do not all have equal skill levels".
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Anonymous2007-02-14 6:18
>>56
then it is not a falsifiable statement and holds no truth value, weasel-chan. get lost.
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Anonymous2007-02-14 6:19
>>56
and btw, the entire >>52 is a generalization based on an unfalsifiable statement.
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Anonymous2007-02-14 7:34
it's funny people think it's a myth about how Americans don't know simple things such as geography and the prime minister of Iraq. Seriously go out and ask people, they don't know. These are college students.
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Anonymous2007-02-14 10:31
>>59
Did you ask a geography student? I suspect not. Americans are good at making money, this is all that matters as with money you can employ someone to do the things you can't do. There are no problems.
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Anonymous2007-02-14 10:52
I support communism. That way noone has a say in the shit. Plus people in America would learn the value of hard work, instead of living off of mommy and daddy's money until they're 30 years old.
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Anonymous2007-02-14 11:15
>>60
Americans seem good at paying money. Expensive war and expensive health care. Nation full of suckers, but thats what you get when you dont educate the populace. Does anybody know what country has had the highest percent of people fooled by the nigerian email scam? I dont, but i can guess...
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Anonymous2007-02-14 17:16
Unfalsifiable? "Humans do not all have equal skill levels" is something called COMMON SENSE.
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Anonymous2007-02-14 17:18
Europeans seem good at being taxed. Expensive taxes and subsidizing unemployed muslims on welfare. Nations full of suckers, but thats what you get when you dont educate the populace.
but without the nigerian email scam to back up the claim. your statement is pretty fucking useless. and I'M actually an American. Europe sucks for so many different reasons, but a wholly uneducated populace isn't one of them...sorry.
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Anonymous2007-02-14 17:46
>>63
you're missing the point. my objection was that you cannot use that as a premise for your proposition because it can't be false. it needs to be falsifiable for that.
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Anonymous2007-02-14 17:58
>>66
If it's not false it's true and thus should be used as a premise for a proposition. Assuming of course you want that proposition to be correct.
>>66
So you believe all people have equal skill levels? It doesn't need to be falsifiable because its so obviously true that its hilarious. Guy1 sucks at schoolwork while guy2 is good at schoolwork. Wow, "Humans do not all have equal skill levels" just proven.
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Anonymous2007-02-14 20:28
>>66
"Humans do not all have equal skill levels" is the result of the falsification of the hypothesis "Humans do all have equal skill levels." That hypothesis was falsified long ago, thus "Humans do not all have equal skill levels" can be considered true.