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  1. Joe_Stocks

    Government fails Oher, Rich Christian family saves him

    Hi Smoke, Yeah, no proof. The economy stumbles along. LBJ in a nod to the deceased Kennedy passes his tax cut package and the economy grows like gangbusters and this just happens to coincide with a slight reduction of poverty. Keep your head in the sand. Smoke, you are way too smart to...
  2. Joe_Stocks

    Government fails Oher, Rich Christian family saves him

    Hi mball, And this is the crux of the issue. What would you propose we do to help the welfare system that fails millions of people on a daily basis? Would you make the broken system even bigger? I see little in this discussion about what liberals (or whatever you call yourselves...
  3. Joe_Stocks

    The real climate change catastrophe

    Since Climategate broke a couple of weeks ago none of the major networks have covered it in their broadcasts (NBC, CBS, ABC), unless they have covered it in the last day or so. It makes sense that NBC won't give their viewers the news regarding Climategate, GE owns NBC and is set to get...
  4. Joe_Stocks

    What has Sarah Palin actually done?

    Hi Sunstone, For the sake of raising a child with two parents. Yes. It's called sacrifice and not always thinking about yourself. So, the 25% of teens with an STD is a product of what now?
  5. Joe_Stocks

    What has Sarah Palin actually done?

    Hi TAL, I would like to see where abstinence-only is taught around the country to see if you are correct.
  6. Joe_Stocks

    The Libertarian Viewpoint

    Hi TAL, Do you have an actual example of this ever happening? I wouldn't even know how a private company could create a bubble. Bubbles are created by government banks playing around with the monetary policy (tinkering with interest rates). For example, was the housing bubble created by a...
  7. Joe_Stocks

    Government fails Oher, Rich Christian family saves him

    Hi Quagmire, If I was being so ambiguous then why was everyone accusing me of wanting to scrap the entire welfare system? Quagmire, you are better than this. The reality is I wasn't being ambiguous at all. I was using Michael's story to demonstrate the catastrophic failure of our welfare...
  8. Joe_Stocks

    Government fails Oher, Rich Christian family saves him

    Hi Mestemia, Now you are grasping at straws. I quoted specific evidence of the actual poverty rates over the past 50 years to illustrate how poverty hasn't been reduced in any significant way with the advent of our billion dollar welfare system. Then I pointed out specific places (inner...
  9. Joe_Stocks

    What has Sarah Palin actually done?

    Hi Dallas, Teaching kids to have 'safe' sex has led to 25% teens being infected with an STD. Sounds like a great strategy.
  10. Joe_Stocks

    What has Sarah Palin actually done?

    Hi Sunstone, It looks like people were a lot more repsonsible back then.
  11. Joe_Stocks

    What has Sarah Palin actually done?

    Hi mball, Look at what happens when we teach them how to have 'safe' sex. 25% of teens get STDs. Is this a good social outcome? It looks like in that crazy backward time teens got a lot less STDs. I think, maybe, they knew what they were doing and maybe now that we are so enlightened...
  12. Joe_Stocks

    What has Sarah Palin actually done?

    Hi Smoke, Well of course you know where a conservative goes from here. First, the families should be informing their children about their values concerning sexual behavior. For those children that do not have strong family support systems I would advocate that the schools teach that...
  13. Joe_Stocks

    What has Sarah Palin actually done?

    Hi Dirty, I understand your point, but their individual actions are informed by something, right? I would say, if it is not the sex education it is the culture at large telling them that promiscuous behavior is okay and here is how you can be 'safe' doing it. And 25% of teens having an STD...
  14. Joe_Stocks

    Hitchens surprisingly misunderstands Palin's conservative appeal

    Hi mball, What I am disputing is that it is more of a Republican trait. Obama is giving corporations billions via his stimulus package. And this is the biggest stimulus bill in our history. So, it looks like Obama, a Democrat is giving corporations more money that any president ever...
  15. Joe_Stocks

    Government fails Oher, Rich Christian family saves him

    Hi Mestemia, No, I think you are posing a silly question that impossible to find out on an epistemological level. That is why I posted the poverty rates. Poverty is something we can measure. Finding out who has been 'helped' and 'not helped' by our current welfare system is question close...
  16. Joe_Stocks

    Government fails Oher, Rich Christian family saves him

    Hi Quagmire, You would be wrong. I believe there is nothing wrong with self-interest. You are the one who took the cheap shot and got personal as we were discussing the effectiveness or lack thereof of our welfare system. You couldn't or wouldn't discuss the merits and demerits of our...
  17. Joe_Stocks

    Government fails Oher, Rich Christian family saves him

    Hi Alceste, I think his grandmother had more to do with that. I am wondering if you ever look at the results of government welfare programs. Since you brought up single-mindedness. Conservatives and libertarians can never point out the results of these programs. When we do, our...
  18. Joe_Stocks

    Government fails Oher, Rich Christian family saves him

    Hi Mestemia, Nice rhetorical move. The answer to your question is most likely impossible to ascertain (you win, yippy!). Pose a question that nobody can answer and then take the high road. I did post the poverty rates for the past 50 years. Smoke and I are discussing the actual policies...
  19. Joe_Stocks

    Government fails Oher, Rich Christian family saves him

    Hi mball, I think this is an understatement. For millions the welfare system isn't flawed it is useless and completely ineffective. No, I'm pointing you to places where the system is useless and completely ineffective. It is not just flawed in these locales, it is failing. And your...
  20. Joe_Stocks

    Government fails Oher, Rich Christian family saves him

    Hi Smoke, I would say that Kennedy's tax cuts had a more beneficial impact at alleviating poverty than LBJ's billion (and now trillion) dollar entitlement programs of the Great Society. After the Kennedy tax cut was passed the economy grew and unemployment fell. I would say that is...
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