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11 years ago @ http://trinidadexpress... - Some cultures left out... · 0 replies · 0 points

So where is Afro-Trinidadian culture? Does it not exist? Do black people not exist in Trinidad?

12 years ago @ Big Journalism - Media Matters Blames C... · 0 replies · +1 points

Relative poverty rates are used in the belief that no one's income should fall so far as to socially exclude them from ordinary living patterns, customs and activities.

12 years ago @ Big Journalism - Media Matters Blames C... · 0 replies · +1 points

In America I think most social programs have compliance and requirements; it's just that when they become so strict that people can't readily meet them, recipients are left worse off. Therefore rules surrounding government aid need to be lax enough to provide for those who need it and strict enough to inspire people to work.

In general this is the case. Two welfare cases which conservatives frequently protest against are workfare and free lunches for school children. In the first instance patrons are working and need support to eat and survive. In the second school children need to be fed or else many times they will just go hungry. Saying that the private industry can provide widespread solutions to these problems is wrong-headed.

12 years ago @ Big Journalism - Monday Crib Sheet: "Re... · 0 replies · +1 points

What recent history is that?

12 years ago @ Big Journalism - Monday Crib Sheet: "Re... · 0 replies · +1 points

1. I never said history shows that only white men held slaves.

2. I never said all white men are racist.

3. History does not showcase blacks as the only racists. This is what I said. You have to disprove this assertion to properly respond to my argument which you have not done.

12 years ago @ Big Journalism - Media Matters Blames C... · 0 replies · +1 points

Government spending doesn't necessarily destroy net wealth. It depends on where the money is going to, what use it's put towards and the dividends that occur from it. I gave you an admittedly controversial example in war but there are others.

When the government built America's infrastructure - the roads and bridges we use today - it enriched America's business and communication climate by reducing costs for transportation and increasing efficiency. The nation's wealth grew. When the Canadian government nationalized health care, it made the nation healthier and reduced health costs, which also allowed people to work longer and amass more money. The nation's wealth grew.

Good government sucks in wealth from some and produces more of it for everyone.

12 years ago @ Big Journalism - Media Matters, Despera... · 0 replies · -3 points

Saying that AIPAC is loyal to Israel over the United States is not anti-Semitic. Case closed.

12 years ago @ Big Journalism - Media Matters Blames C... · 9 replies · -24 points

Media Matter doesn't argue Christians are the cause of poverty. That's a straw man. It mocks Fox News for understating the poverty Americans suffer through everyday while trumpeting evangelism at every turn.

Dana Loesch is either very dishonest or unimaginably dumb.

12 years ago @ Big Journalism - Media Matters Blames C... · 4 replies · -4 points

It depends.

Government spending on war and the military industrial complex destroys wealth and creates it at the same time. The number of people who graduate from Navy and Army schools with degrees in physics and engineering alone is a long term wealth generator. Moreover, the American weapons industry benefits from greater supply for its products, which pays dividends into the economy. That said, the trillions we spend on war drives us deeper into debt.

So, as with anything sufficiently complex, there are not only costs but tradeoffs too. The problem is when the former are more apparent than the latter.

When the government opens up education to a broader number of people, there is a net creation of wealth and opportunity. Likewise when it lends support to the single mother through raising her child and getting an education, the amount of wealth created for both people far outweighs the cost.

12 years ago @ Big Journalism - Monday Crib Sheet: "Re... · 4 replies · -8 points

History says otherwise.

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