I like the free education idea. But instead of a free education, how about 100% amnesty to the bill, once completed. Make people responsible for the payment of the bill until the degree is fulfilled.
When all else fails, go with white supremacy is the biggest threat to the country and ignore everything else.
posted by ernest_t_bassI like the free education idea.
I don't. Loans are readily available to pretty much anyone. The idea that the taxpayer should pay someone's $200k bill for an art history degree from Columbia doesn't address the problem of runaway education costs. In fact, it makes it worse.
What betrays this entire concept is the simple fact that all degrees are NOT equal, from a public interest perspective. Maybe we would want to provide free tuition for med school, but then doctors generally can expect to earn enough to easily repay their loans.
posted by iclfan2When all else fails, go with white supremacy is the biggest threat to the country and ignore everything else.
Just wait until the unequal outcomes in healthcare gather steam. It's an issue far more real and much larger than the perception of cops killing people.
You see a story here and there, but for most part the woke media isn't going to poke that bear because they want to be able to go to their doctor/hospital without being harassed and threatened.
posted by iclfan2When all else fails, go with white supremacy is the biggest threat to the country and ignore everything else.
They said they were going to unite us.
posted by gutThat's more in a response to "reparations," or something like that. I am NOT in favor of free education for everyone.I don't.
posted by ernest_t_bass
That's more in a response to "reparations," or something like that. I am NOT in favor of free education for everyone.
That's an interesting idea, but perhaps misguided. No one needs a handout for college if they are able and making smart choices. That college-able person is already lifting themselves up.
I think small business investment and K-12 investment would be more effective. Free, structured daycare might make the most sense.
Of course, with the whole reparations thing it will never be enough. It will never end. Poor, uneducated immigrants come to this country all the time and able to succeed despite all the obstacles they face, including said "systemic racism". Had this debate with a friend one time and he laughed condescendingly "haha, people should just move to where opportunities are?". I said "people do it all the time from thousands of miles away without barely a dime in their pocket". And that was the end of that debate.
posted by j_crazyI mean, the discrimination that happened in our past is atrocious. Period. Non-negotiable. But I refuse to feel this white guilt bullshit that this administration is hellbent on pushing onto us. At this point, just stop talking about how bad it was and do something to make it right. Give free education to all descendants of the victims of Greenwood, do something else, stop talking and trying to widen the divide that this shit put into place and try to help the recovery even though we're 100 years even acknowledging what happened.
You can't give free stuff to people based upon their ancestors' sufferings else where do you stop. You can segment the population in infinite different ways until literally every person can claim membership to a subset that was wronged at some stage. Every person belongs to some group that was wronged, and to some group that did the wronging. There's no escaping it.
I believe a lot of black people hate being stygmatized by the BLM, reparations crowd. They're like the majority of the world who wishes to go about their business and earn their keep.
If the government wants to help the best thing they can do is stop destroying our money and get the fuck out of our ways. Until that happens, everything else is a waste of time.
posted by justincredibleIf the government wants to help the best thing they can do is stop destroying our money and get the fuck out of our ways. Until that happens, everything else is a waste of time.
The nine most terrifying words in the english language.
posted by majorsparkThe nine most terrifying words in the english language.
I'm from the government, bend over and take it.
Thanks a lot
posted by Spock
Thanks a lot
Isn't this a HIPPO violation?
About as bad as it can get ........... she is beyond pathetic!
https://www.foxnews.com/media/kamala-harris-slammed-cringe-response-border-questions-joke-laugh
wtf is this shit?
JUST IN - Biden, Johnson commit to a 15% global minimum tax amid talks of exemptions for China.
— Disclose.tv 🚨 (@disclosetv) June 10, 2021
posted by justincrediblewtf is this shit?
JUST IN - Biden, Johnson commit to a 15% global minimum tax amid talks of exemptions for China.
— Disclose.tv 🚨 (@disclosetv) June 10, 2021
Actual quote?
My understanding is the G7 agreed to the framework and they will bring it before the G20, which does include China in the coming weeks.
Just another hollow fucking conclusion from these cluster fuck countries that none will follow and we will end up footing the bill
Dementia Joe, making China great again
A minimum global tax is dumb af. Punishing small nations for providing tax havens? Fucking compete with them.
posted by justincredibleA minimum global tax is dumb af. Punishing small nations for providing tax havens? Fucking compete with them.
I assume there is 0% chance of it actually happening.
posted by justincrediblewtf is this shit?
JUST IN - Biden, Johnson commit to a 15% global minimum tax amid talks of exemptions for China.
— Disclose.tv 🚨 (@disclosetv) June 10, 2021
Dum
At first I thought that tweet was directed at you
posted by ernest_t_bassDum
At first I thought that tweet was directed at you
Lol
“Birthing people” used in Biden’s budget. Making up new terms everyday.
SEN. LANKFORD: "Can you help me get a good definition of 'birthing people?'"
— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) June 11, 2021
BECERRA: "We're trying to be precise in the language that's used."
SEN. LANKFORD: "Mom is a pretty good word. That's worked for a while." pic.twitter.com/tE6uBPQFVM
posted by iclfan2“Birthing people” used in Biden’s budget. Making up new terms everyday.
SEN. LANKFORD: "Can you help me get a good definition of 'birthing people?'"
— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) June 11, 2021
BECERRA: "We're trying to be precise in the language that's used."
SEN. LANKFORD: "Mom is a pretty good word. That's worked for a while." pic.twitter.com/tE6uBPQFVM
That one popped up last month around Mothers Day ........ perhaps the last one we'll have
Eco-terrorist is Biden's nominee for Bureau of Land Management ..............so cool
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-blm-nominee-eco-terrorists