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11401
« on: November 02, 2014, 04:03:23 PM »
And I'll be sat here, waiting for you to provide evidence for the worthlessness of the U.S. dollar.
And I swear to God, if you post Peter Schiff. . .
Easy
http://www.usdebtclock.org/
Not to mention the debt is most likely a LOT higher than that since the government borrows so secretively from so many sources. We still owe debts for World War I over 100 years ago.
The debt isn't as big a problem as most people seem to think. We can carry - not that we should - more debt than we do before we face serious problems; see: Japan. That isn't, of course, to say fiscal discipline is unimportant. Plus, Chinese holding of debt actually gives America a fair bit of leverage. If a man owes you $300,000, you wouldn't want to fuck him around.
11402
« on: November 02, 2014, 03:55:51 PM »
Maybe they just don't want to sell as much to us because they know our money is no good.
What?
You forgot to take your Marinol for that lobotomy today?
You're confusing a supply-side issue for a demand-side one.
False, your sources are simply unreliable.
And I'll be sat here, waiting for you to provide evidence for the worthlessness of the U.S. dollar. And I swear to God, if you post Peter Schiff. . .
11403
« on: November 02, 2014, 03:50:28 PM »
Maybe they just don't want to sell as much to us because they know our money is no good.
What?
You forgot to take your Marinol for that lobotomy today?
You're confusing a supply-side issue for a demand-side one.
11404
« on: November 02, 2014, 03:47:21 PM »
Maybe they just don't want to sell as much to us because they know our money is no good.
What?
11405
« on: November 02, 2014, 03:43:44 PM »
If you have the Libertarians, you should have the Greens too.
11406
« on: November 02, 2014, 03:36:32 PM »
Do you know anybody like this? I know a girl in my form class, and it pisses me the fuck off to no end. We once got into an argument about the legalisation of drugs and she thought she'd won by dismissing the idea and saying "do you have any idea what a person on cocaine is like?"
11407
« on: November 02, 2014, 03:15:10 PM »
11408
« on: November 02, 2014, 03:12:16 PM »
Government should prioritize the people first in the form of tax breaks, reductions, and even tax free weekends.
I agree so long as deductions aren't included.
11409
« on: November 02, 2014, 03:11:12 PM »
Further proof Communism doesn't work.
lolwut?
China isn't communist
LOL ARE YOU STOOPID OR SUMMAT?
11410
« on: November 02, 2014, 03:06:41 PM »
From the BBC.Growth in China's manufacturing sector slowed in October, an official survey suggests, reinforcing concerns about a slowdown in the wider economy.
The country's Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) fell to a lower-than-expected 50.8, from 51.1 in the previous month. Any score above 50 represents growth.
Analysts had forecast a small rise in the pace of growth.
Recently released figures showed the wider Chinese economy growing at its slowest pace for more than five years.
Growth between July and September was 7.3% compared with a year earlier, down from 7.5% in the previous quarter.
"There remains downward pressure on the economy, and monetary policy will remain easy," said analysts at China International Capital after the PMI data was published on Saturday.
Growth target
Beijing recently unveiled measures designed to stimulate consumer spending, including relaxing limits on home purchases and injecting billions of dollars into the country's biggest banks.
China's central bank has also cut certain inter-bank interest rates.
The government aims to achieve 7.5% economic growth this year, although many analysts believe it will struggle to meet this target. There is speculation it may take further steps to boost growth.
Such high levels of growth are needed to ensure enough jobs are created for China's huge and increasingly-educated population.
But the growth ambitions are much higher than expected rates in more developed economies - latest figures show the US economy growing at an annual rate of 3.5%. Further proof Communism doesn't work.
11411
« on: November 02, 2014, 02:34:13 PM »
You're in support of stimulus packages?
I would've been in the 1930s.
I'm much more of a monetarist than a fiscalist, although I'm not at all opposed to government investment.
To clarify: stimulus is effective only marginally, but it still "works".
Just like breaking windows does create business for window installers.
That would only be true if crowding out was a problem during recessionary time-periods, which is suspect. Nonetheless, that's pretty much exactly the reason I oppose fiscal stimulus and support monetary stimulus; political discretion is oftentimes a joke. As for government spending as a whole, it really only need happen in instances where the market is quite obviously failing to provide sufficient infrastructure and, even then, it should include the market in its financing.
11412
« on: November 02, 2014, 02:28:16 PM »
You're in support of stimulus packages?
I would've been in the 1930s. I'm much more of a monetarist than a fiscalist, although I'm not at all opposed to government investment. To clarify: stimulus is effective only marginally, but it still "works".
11413
« on: November 02, 2014, 02:25:37 PM »
Obama's stimulus, in Q2 of 2012, was estimated by the CBO to be $831bn. The cumulative rate of inflation since 1933 is about 1550pc, which would place the New Deal at $825bn. Does anybody else find this incredibly surprising?
11414
« on: November 02, 2014, 02:12:59 PM »
Because you can totally trust the CIA to not be biased against China.
11415
« on: November 02, 2014, 12:37:49 PM »
Would do a breath analyzer test on her. If not above .08% then good to go
If you think a girl would fuck you after breathalysing her, you're definitely a virgin.
Nah, if she's blonde and dumb, I'd tell her it's a game
You could probably get away with telling her its your penis.
11416
« on: November 02, 2014, 12:36:24 PM »
Would do a breath analyzer test on her. If not above .08% then good to go
If you think a girl would fuck you after breathalysing her, you're definitely a virgin.
11417
« on: November 02, 2014, 12:31:49 PM »
itt: moralfags
11418
« on: November 02, 2014, 12:27:35 PM »
Of course I do it.
11419
« on: November 02, 2014, 12:22:36 PM »
Marijuana is a gateway drug. Eventually they'll start doing crack and heroin.
Please tell me you're joking.
What's next? Corporations have to pay for weed breaks?
Fuck yeah. Stick it to the Man.
11420
« on: November 02, 2014, 12:15:20 PM »
just as how a person can't get hold of an Apache helicopter.
You underestimate me.
11421
« on: November 02, 2014, 12:13:47 PM »
Marijuana is a gateway drug. Eventually they'll start doing crack and heroin.
Please tell me you're joking.
11422
« on: November 02, 2014, 11:55:53 AM »
I'm not against it. Sheesh, I'm not that sadistic.
11423
« on: November 02, 2014, 11:51:42 AM »
It's far easier to get a gun illegally in America than it is in the UK. That's really what needs to be attacked,
11424
« on: November 02, 2014, 11:50:19 AM »
>calling me a faggot
>doesn't even want to be fucked by a manly man
>wants to be fucked by a girly man
That made me giggle like a fucking child.
11425
« on: November 02, 2014, 11:48:48 AM »
Is that your own idea, or is that what they do in one of the countries whose education system you were admiring?
My own. I don't know enough about the inner workings of Finland's education system - or any other country for that matter - besides decentralisation and cultural approval. So, hey, I could be wrong.
11426
« on: November 01, 2014, 07:37:18 PM »
And in what way could that be achieved? Raising salaries?
More money =/= better progress. If you want my immediate reaction, then I'd say largely breaking up the teachers' unions and implementing a system where the performance of a teacher is linked to financial incentives and student satisfaction, with more control given to the school over salary, pay and the minutiae of the courses and more control given to the teachers over the capacity of the headteacher. All long-term; not well enough acquainted with the workings of the education system to try and come up with anything short-term.
11427
« on: November 01, 2014, 07:30:13 PM »
You continue to say that government regulation is changing how the school functions. To deny this is nothing more than bare-faced idiocy. Besides government, however, the idea needs to be enshrined culturally. In this sense, it has been more successful in the likes of Scandinavian nations - like Finland - where teaching is actually seen as a profession of repute and educational responsibility is devolved to the lowest possible level. In the U.K., at least, the national curriculum is ludicrously long (I think it was Nick Clegg who noted this like 4 years ago in the 2010 debates) and the culture of standardised testing is pervasive to the point where 10 and 11-year-olds are given them and judged on their aptitude to succeed on them. The idea is not one of getting the government out of education - not in the slightest - the idea is to realise which system best produces educated people and how we should arrive at that. I'm not going to be able to point you to an Act of Parliament which dictates that teachers must be mechanical and uninteresting, because that would be nothing more than facile.
11428
« on: November 01, 2014, 07:23:01 PM »
Who?
Didn't expect you to be using Truth Revolt.
11429
« on: November 01, 2014, 07:18:54 PM »
Is there a specific regulation you are referring to in which teachers are mandated to "sit at the front and give [you] data which [you] then write down and have to learn"?
At no point did I make the implication that there was a government regulation which orders teachers to behave in such a manner. If that were the case, I wouldn't be able to differentiate between good and bad teachers.
11430
« on: November 01, 2014, 07:17:36 PM »
I don't know about the UK, but here in the US, if you leave education solely to local governments, you will have pseudoscience out the ass.
Which is why I, at least in principle, support Common Core. Nobody's arguing for a lack of standardised tests or a national curriculum. However, you're missing the point. The point is not, necessarily, what we teach but how we teach and which methods are best at facilitating an environment which encourages things we invariably want to encourage. The point is not to throw it back to the schools and say "you deal with it", but to fundamentally alter the structure of education and how we think about learning so we are capable of throwing it to the schools with the expectation of broadly good outcomes.
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