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fredtoast
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JUL 27, 08:06 PM
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Some answer other than "get rid of everyone on the other side".
I have a couple of ideas.
1. Take money out of elections. Make them all publicly funded. Have to work out some details on exactly how easy it would be to qualify, but I think this would be the best move we could make to try and get things back to normal.
2. Make all public schooling state funded with equal funding to all schools. Unequal education opportunity is one of the biggest issues perpetuating the cycle of poverty in this country. The most disadvantaged children with the most obstacles to overcome get the worst schools while the kids with all the advantages and the easiest lives get the best schools. People from high dollar neighborhoods will scream bloody murder, but at least we will finally force them to be honest about what a huge advantage their children have.
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82-T/A [At Work]
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JUL 27, 08:48 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by fredtoast:
Some answer other than "get rid of everyone on the other side".
I have a couple of ideas.
1. Take money out of elections. Make them all publicly funded. Have to work out some details on exactly how easy it would be to qualify, but I think this would be the best move we could make to try and get things back to normal.
2. Make all public schooling state funded with equal funding to all schools. Unequal education opportunity is one of the biggest issues perpetuating the cycle of poverty in this country. The most disadvantaged children with the most obstacles to overcome get the worst schools while the kids with all the advantages and the easiest lives get the best schools. People from high dollar neighborhoods will scream bloody murder, but at least we will finally force them to be honest about what a huge advantage their children have. |
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I'm sorry, I can't take this post seriously with all the stuff you've been posting the past month.
As for #2, public schools are almost entirely funded by the states through property taxes. The only time public schools get money from the Federal government is through specific programs, or things like COVID relief. But public schools have always been state funded.
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Vintage-Nut
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JUL 27, 09:11 PM
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The Underlying Cause to 'Fix' Things:
Earth is dying because of overpopulation with no 'real' solutions on the horizon...
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williegoat
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JUL 27, 09:32 PM
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The way we "fix things" is to drain the swamp, secure the border and return to the Constitution.
Stop the corruption, stop the invasion and insure equal justice for all Americans.
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rinselberg
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JUL 27, 10:56 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by Vintage-Nut:
The Underlying Cause to 'Fix' Things: Earth is dying because of overpopulation with no 'real' solutions on the horizon... |
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"It's Easy When You Know How"
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Vintage-Nut
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JUL 27, 11:51 PM
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Take Another Toke Rinse.....
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MidEngineManiac
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JUL 27, 11:59 PM
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We dont
It has gone beyond the fixable point. Technology speeded things up, but it would have happened anyway sooner or later.
Humans are tribal in nature. Every single "empire" in history has fallen and fractured into tribal-type factions after getting "too big" and trying to be too much to too many.
We are past the "too big" point.
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Patrick
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JUL 28, 12:58 AM
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Now if Trump had proposed something like that on the US/Mexican border, he might've been on to something! 
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fredtoast
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JUL 28, 01:33 AM
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| quote | Originally posted by williegoat:
The way we "fix things" is to drain the swamp, secure the border and return to the Constitution.
Stop the corruption, stop the invasion and insure equal justice for all Americans.
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Why not just say.
"Do good. Don't do bad."
It is just as vague and meaningless, but you don't have to type as much.
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fredtoast
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JUL 28, 01:48 AM
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| quote | Originally posted by Vintage-Nut:
The Underlying Cause to 'Fix' Things:
Earth is dying because of overpopulation with no 'real' solutions on the horizon...
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Actually the earths population will soon stabilize and then begin to drop.
As countries advance from third world economies to modern industrial their birth rates drop dramatically. Many countries already have negative growth rates (higher death rate than birth rate). China is kind of panicking over it.
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