Curious to see if there are plans out there, since I could not find any.

There aren't; financing the deficits of things like SS simply cannot be done by increased taxes on the richest in society. There isn't enough potential revenue there, especially given the unintended consequences which will likely ensue. Let's be honest, it isn't all that surprising. Sanders is all rhetoric; he likes to go on about Sweden and their wonderful model of social democracy, despite the fact that--unlike his rhetorical flourishes would have you believe--they don't soak the rich.

but after reading the premise, I have to wonder what makes people think I'll like it more than 1984.

Mate it's all about decadence and the loss of intellectual appreciation; should speak right to your hatred of hedonism. Plus the State is a lot less cartoonishly evil in BNW.

You didn't even read my response

Except I did; the contention that he slid headfirst into the wall--and that this is what killed him--is false.

Quote from: PSU on October 14, 2015, 06:56:25 PM

Registered Democrat for reasons beneficial to myself.

Just curious: how is it beneficial?

Probably allows him to vote in a lot of the primaries; it's the same for Slash.

Registered Conservative.

Quote from: Casper on October 14, 2015, 03:49:41 PM

Quote from: MyNameIsCharlie on October 14, 2015, 03:36:43 PM

Quote from: Casper on October 14, 2015, 03:35:18 PM

Police are police, not babysitters. If the guy couldn't sit still then it's his own fault.

Umm... They intentionally bounced him around in the back. Sure, they didn't mean to kill him, but they definitely wanted to harm him

Well, I wasn't there, so I can't say whether they intentionally meant to our not.

It's a fairly common occurrence. Most times the people are only slightly injured. What happened in this case, he was basically hog tied and put on his belly. When they short-stopped, he slid headfirst into the front wall.

There's nothing worse than people who don't actually fucking read the OP. Gray sustained injuries to the extent that he did precisely because he tried to get up.

Quote from: Ronnie Pickering on October 14, 2015, 07:19:58 AM

Women should not be in infantry positions.

I don't care what bullshit equality argument you throw at me. Safety comes before any kind of tenuous quota someone has to fulfill.

If a woman is qualified to hold an infantry position, why shouldn't she be allowed to do it?

Detriment to unit cohesion and operational efficiency.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind ending

Shit man.

Quote from: Meta as Fuck on October 13, 2015, 10:39:52 PM

Quote from: Tsirist on October 13, 2015, 10:38:45 PM

The composition of the drafted force is irrelevant to the question of whether there should be a draft to begin with.

Which is exactly my point. . . We should stop expending political capital on issues which are comparatively irrelevant.

Eh, it's a huge moral problem from my point of view to make the draft exclusive to men. If we're not getting rid of the draft, making it more reasonable is no sin.

The point being it isn't reasonable when you actually take the costs of implementation into account for such an insignificant "victory".

The composition of the drafted force is irrelevant to the question of whether there should be a draft to begin with.

Which is exactly my point. . . We should stop expending political capital on issues which are comparatively irrelevant.

It's weird how the media ignores Sander's existence despite his popularity.

>got the second most amount of minutes during the debate

Fuck it, anyway, Sanders is a Scandinavia fetishist.

Quote from: Meta as Fuck on October 13, 2015, 10:19:09 PM

-Clinton is a woman.
-Bernie Sanders doesn't like Wallstreet.
-Chaffe was just happy to be there.
-O'Mally exists.
-And Webb killed a man.

That's the impression I got.

Your pick for winner?

They all suck.

-Clinton is a woman.
-Bernie Sanders doesn't like Wallstreet.
-Chaffe was just happy to be there.
-O'Mally exists.
-And Webb killed a man.

That's the impression I got.

Quote from: eggsalad on October 13, 2015, 03:29:31 PM

Quote from: Meta as Fuck on October 13, 2015, 03:26:28 PM

I'm genuinely surprised at the people in this thread--who oppose the draft--effectively celebrating a doubling said draft on the basis that it's "gender equality" and the "next best option".

What the fuck kind of logic is that? Progressivism has become a parody of itself.

You're not doubling the number of needed draftees, you are dividing the burden of the needed amount across the populace in a way that doesn't discriminate based on genitalia.

^
come the fuck on meta

Who cares? It's not a substantial change from the status quo regarding the existence of the draft, and granting this kind of political capital and flexibility to a reform on the basis of vapid ideas of gender equality is utterly ludicrous. It's essentially: "If we can't get rid of it, let's inflict it on everybody equally". Fuck that. This isn't fucking progress; it's a pointless policy with a vapid basis.

And shit, if the US ever needs the draft I'd imagine combat roles would be mostly in demand. Even if you agree with desegregating combat roles, the evidence is pretty clear that women are not as physically capable in most instances. That would be logistically bothersome at a time of what should be immense need.

However, significant barriers still exist to ending global absolute poverty by 2030.

World Bank:

WASHINGTON, October 4, 2015 – The number of people living in extreme poverty around the world is likely to fall to under 10 percent of the global population in 2015, according to World Bank projections released today, giving fresh evidence that a quarter-century-long sustained reduction in poverty is moving the world closer to the historic goal of ending poverty by 2030.

The Bank uses an updated international poverty line of US $1.90 a day, which incorporates new information on differences in the cost of living across countries (the PPP exchange rates). The new line preserves the real purchasing power of the previous line (of $1.25 a day in 2005 prices) in the world’s poorest countries. Using this new line (as well as new country-level data on living standards), the World Bank projects that global poverty will have fallen from 902 million people or 12.8 per cent of the global population in 2012 to 702 million people, or 9.6 per cent of the global population, this year.

Actual poverty data from low income countries come with a considerable lag but the organization, which released the information on the eve of its Annual Meetings in Lima, Peru, based its current projections on the latest available data.

Jim Yong Kim, World Bank Group President, said that the continued major reductions in poverty were due to strong growth rates in developing countries in recent years, investments in people’s education, health, and social safety nets that helped keep people from falling back into poverty. He cautioned, however, that with slowing global economic growth, and with many of the world’s remaining poor people living in fragile and conflict-affected states, and the considerable depth and breadth of remaining poverty, the goal to end extreme poverty remained a highly ambitious target.

“This is the best story in the world today -- these projections show us that we are the first generation in human history that can end extreme poverty,’’ Kim said. “This new forecast of poverty falling into the single digits should give us new momentum and help us focus even more clearly on the most effective strategies to end extreme poverty. It will be extraordinarily hard, especially in a period of slower global growth, volatile financial markets, conflicts, high youth unemployment, and the growing impact of climate change. But it remains within our grasp, as long as our high aspirations are matched by country-led plans that help the still millions of people living in extreme poverty.”

In April 2013, nine months after Kim became president of the World Bank Group, its Board of Governors endorsed two goals: to end extreme poverty by 2030, and to boost shared prosperity by raising the incomes of the bottom 40 percent of populations.

Kim said that further reductions in poverty rates would come from evidence-based approaches, including:  broad-based growth that generates sufficient income-earning opportunities; investing in people’s development prospects through improving the coverage and quality of  education, health, sanitation, and protecting the poor and vulnerable against sudden risks of unemployment, hunger, illness, drought and other calamities. These measures, he said, would also greatly boost shared prosperity, improving the welfare of the least well-off in every country. 

“With these strategies in place, the world stands a vastly better chance of ending extreme poverty by 2030 and raising the life prospects of low-income families,” said Kim.

 

Poverty remains concentrated in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia

For the last several decades, three regions, East Asia and Pacific, South Asia, and Sub-Saharan Africa, have accounted for some 95 percent of global poverty. Yet, the composition of poverty across these three regions has shifted dramatically. In 1990, East Asia accounted for half of the global poor, whereas some 15 percent lived in in Sub-Saharan Africa; by 2015 forecasts, this is almost exactly reversed: Sub-Saharan Africa accounts for half of the global poor, with some 12 percent living in East Asia. Poverty is declining in all regions but it is becoming deeper and more entrenched in countries that are either conflict ridden or overly dependent on commodity exports.

The growing concentration of global poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa is of great concern. While some African countries have seen significant successes in reducing poverty, the region as a whole lags the rest of the world in the pace of lessening poverty. Sub-Saharan poverty fell from an estimated 56 percent in 1990 to a projected 35 percent in 2015. Rapid population growth remains a key factor blunting progress in many countries—as this year’s Global Monitoring Report to be launched on October 8 shows.

In its regional forecasts for 2015, the Bank said that poverty in East Asia and the Pacific would fall to 4.1 per cent of its population, down from 7.2 per cent in 2012; Latin America and the Caribbean would fall to 5.6 per cent from 6.2 in 2012; South Asia would fall to 13.5 per cent in 2015, compared to 18.8 per cent in 2012; Sub-Saharan Africa declines to 35.2 per cent in 2015, compared to 42.6 per cent in 2012. Reliable current poverty data is not available for the Middle East and North Africa because of conflict and fragility in key countries in the region. *For more detail on the regional forecasts, see page 6 of attached Policy Research Note.     

“Development has been robust over the last two decades but the protracted global slowdown since the financial crisis of 2008, is beginning to cast its shadow on emerging economies,” said World Bank Chief Economist Kaushik Basu, a former Chief Economic Adviser to the Indian Government. “There is some turbulence ahead. The economic growth outlook is less impressive for emerging economies in the near future, which will create new challenges in the fight to end poverty and attend to the needs of the vulnerable, especially those living at the bottom 40 percent of their societies.”     

Measuring Poverty Globally and Nationally   

The updated global poverty line and rate are based on newly-available price data from across the world- impacting not only where the global poverty line is drawn, but the cost of the basic food, clothing, and shelter needs of the poorest around the world. However, this global measure is only one of many important measures to track in order to better reach the poor and vulnerable.

“When global organizations set global goals, we have to be able to compare progress across countries using a common measure, treating the absolute poor in one country the same as in another, “ said Ana Revenga, Senior Director of the World Bank’s Poverty and Equity Global Practice. “But just as important are the national poverty lines set by each country, reflecting their own standard of living. These are crucial for governments and policy makers when they are planning the programs that will improve lives, or the policies that will help bring the poorest in their country out of destitution.”

Revenga said the World Bank Group would continue to work with its country clients and partners to improve how it measures and tracks poverty, to build country statistical capacity and fill persistent data gaps, and to integrate solid data and analysis into its development work to better reach people and their families who live in entrenched poverty.