y****t
发帖数: 10233 | 1 human shield vs suicide bombers...
who's life is more meaningful?
think hard...
wait a sec first, where does my butt sit again... |
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y****t
发帖数: 10233 | 2 what do you know?
of course i am talking about budget deficit, which is more meaningful than
national debt.
unless you can lay out the real numbers.
举个例子来讲,我借了你$5块钱,我就有了$5块钱的debt.可别忘了,我手头同样也多了$5
块钱cash.
而我拿了$5块钱却花了$10块钱,这样我就有了$5 deficit.
你说deficit跟debt,哪个更有含义? |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 3 http://20smoney.com/2010/11/03/core-issues-that-continue-to-go-unaddressed/
With the election festivities over, maybe the politicians both old and new
can now get to work. Fat chance right? Well, we can hope. The problem is
that all the rhetoric is regarding surface level issues in my opinion. Not
meaningless, but not core issues. Included in these, I will put health care
(debatable), Bush tax cuts, etc. This is all people want to talk about.
Like I said, these aren’t meaningless, but unti... 阅读全帖 |
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f*******e
发帖数: 4531 | 4 Working class just follow instruction to do something. It is indeed
enterpreneurship that truly motivate people and organize people to work on
meaningful thing. |
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y****t
发帖数: 10233 | 5 you are truly the one stupid.
A simple example, they get the power through the votes, like healthcare bill
, the useful idiots keep voting the wrong guys thinking they own them, they
are screwed.
not only they are screwed, they drag everyone else into this.
That's why there was the last November, the better check n balance as a result greatly prevent the progress for those people keep grabing the power.
freedom is one generation away from extinction.
Now, either you stand up do sth meaningful, o... 阅读全帖 |
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y****t
发帖数: 10233 | 6 Open up your freaking eyes!
November happened, it is not my delusion.
If you keep your loser atitude, nothing gonna happen. That's what i said,
either man up do sth meaningful and positve, or shut up mind your own
business. |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 7 By Adam Yoshida
I have longed argued that one of the primary problems with the thinking of
our well-meaning liberal friends is that they tend to live in the world of "
wouldn't it be nice" and then attempt to argue that people who dissent from
this view are just plain bad. Nowhere is that tendency better exemplified
than in the battle over Climate Change.
Most of us are familiar with the concept of the "prisoner's dilemma." It's
an exercise in game theory where two men are arrested for a crime... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 8 http://articles.boston.com/2011-04-27/news/29479557_1_unions-ob
House votes to restrict unions
Measure would curb bargaining on health care
April 27, 2011|By Michael Levenson, Globe Staff
House lawmakers voted overwhelmingly last night to strip police officers,
teachers, and other municipal employees of most of their rights to bargain
over health care, saying the change would save millions of dollars for
financially strapped cities and towns.
The 111-to-42 vote followed tougher measures to broad... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 9 Supreme Court: AZ Can Require Employers to Verify Citizenship Status of
Workers
Thursday, May 26, 2011
By Fred Lucas
Citizens of Hazleton, Pa., Support Anti-Illegal Immigration Ordinances
(CNSNews.com) – In an early test of state immigration reform laws, the
Supreme Court ruled on the side of enforcement regarding an Arizona
immigration law that allows penalties up to revocation of business licenses
for employers that knowingly hire illegal aliens.
The Arizona law in question in this case requir... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 10 By LUCA DI LEO
The U.S. economy barely added jobs for the second month in a row in June and
the unemployment rate rose to the highest level this year, dashing hopes
the economic recovery is getting back on track and putting pressure on
policymakers to react.
The nation's unemployment rate ticked up to 9.2% in June, with only 18,000
non-farm payrolls added to the economy. WSJ's Sudeep Reddy and Phil Izzo
join the News Hub panel to break down the numbers.
Nonfarm payrolls rose 18,000 last month, f... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 11 By Monty Pelerin
Our economic problems rightfully dominate the news. However, they are
merely symptoms of a bigger, underlying problem: government.
For many, the previous paragraph is heresy. They "know" that government is
necessary and good. They "know" that government solves problems and brings
order to the chaos that would prevail in its absence. "They" are wrong!
Government has become little more than a carefully crafted myth based on
propaganda disseminated by government itself. It has... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 12 posted at 10:50 am on December 7, 2011 by Ed Morrissey
Two years ago, the Obama administration practically staged an airlift of
leading Democratic officials to the UN climate conference in Copenhagen.
Barack Obama himself made an appearance, as did Nancy Pelosi, Hillary
Clinton, and even Republican Senator Jim Inhofe, who went to represent the
AGW skeptics and demand answers to the then-breaking Climategate scandal.
In the end, Obama could only produce a non-binding agreement that even he
didn... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 13 By Timothy Gordon
The ongoing imbroglio with Denver Bronco quarterback Tim Tebow has made
plain three really unflattering facts about the secular-progressive ("sec-
prog") movement in this country. Tebow's straightforward and unapologetic
Christianity has been received by NFL mensae magnae (contradiction in terms?
) as a type of threat. These folks have responded by building upon the
previously gathered strength of the anti-Christian movement in this nation.
Such a movement, by the way, is far... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 14 by Vic Laurie
Many have been arguing that access to the Internet is a basic human right to
be included with Thomas Jefferson’s “unalienable” rights of Life,
Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. Vint Cerf, often called the father of
the Internet, says this claim is confusing the actual basic rights with a
particular mechanism for enabling them. In a New York Times Op-Ed piece, he
writes:
But that argument, however well meaning, misses a larger point:
technology is an enabler of rights, not ... 阅读全帖 |
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k***n
发帖数: 3158 | 15 no need to ask what if
this is exactly what has been happening for so long and that's why
there hasnt been any meaningful cut on anything
so it's a good move for Dr Paul to try to find a way of fighting
the status quo |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 16 Downgrade of Debt Ratings Underscores Europe’s Woes
By LIZ ALDERMAN and RACHEL DONADIO
PARIS — Standard & Poor’s downgraded the credit ratings of France, Italy
and seven other European countries on Friday, a move that may have more
symbolic than fundamental financial impact but served as a reminder that
Europe’s economic woes were far from over.
Another memory jog came Friday from Greece, the original source of Europe’s
debt troubles. Talks hit a snag between the new Greek government and the
ban... 阅读全帖 |
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y****t
发帖数: 10233 | 17 should you google some facts instead of spewing garbages again and again,
keeping making yourself a moron, the conversation will be much more
meaningful, for everybody. |
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a**t
发帖数: 3833 | 18 you finally said something meaningful, and fun fun fun... |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 19 The Church of Obama
The president his issued his own Act of Supremacy.
By Mark Steyn
Announcing his support for Commissar Sebelius’s edicts on contraception,
sterilization, and pharmacological abortion, that noted theologian the Most
Reverend Al Sharpton explained: “If we are going to have a separation of
church and state, we’re going to have a separation of church and state.”
Thanks for clarifying that. The church model the young American state wished
to separate from was that of the British mo... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 20 March 9, 2012
Gallup has a poll that informs us that voter enthusiasm is higher for
Republicans today than it is for Democrats. This is not a big surprise
considering that it is the GOP that is the party currently on the outside
looking in at the Oval Office. It is pretty common to see the party on the
outs a bit more enthusiastic than the party in. But the Democrat’s numbers
show that the bottom fell out for them since 2007.
What Gallup found was that by 53% to 43%, Republicans held the edge in... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 21 What’s Your Plan?
By Mark Steyn
April 14, 2012 4:00 A.M.
In the end, free societies get the governments they deserve. So, if the
American people wish to choose their chief executive on the basis of the “
war on women,” the Republican theocrats’ confiscation of your
contraceptives, or whatever other mangy and emaciated rabbit the Great
Magician produces from his threadbare topper, they are free to do so, and
they will live with the consequences. This week’s bit of ham-handed
misdirection was “the... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 22 Democratic Senate budget chairman reverses course, will not offer budget
this year
BY: Andrew Stiles - April 17, 2012 6:08 pm
Senate Budget Committee chairman Kent Conrad (D., N.D.) will not draft a
Democratic budget before the 2012 election, he announced Tuesday.
Instead of going through the traditional markup process in the committee,
Conrad said he would introduce the 2010 report drafted by the Bowles-Simpson
fiscal commission, and then indefinitely delay a vote in order to allow
time for ... 阅读全帖 |
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P*********0
发帖数: 4321 | 23 look at this board. It's you who shits around all day with nothing
meaningful. |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 24 By Kim Zigfeld
Watch out, Mr. and Mrs. America: Spanish celebrity chef José Andrés and
the New York Times are worried about what you have been eating, and they
intend to make you change your evil ways. Luckily for you, however, Andrés
is yet one more ignorant European, utterly clueless about American politics
and values, so his efforts will prove futile and helpless.
According to the NYT, Andrés "wonders why the most powerful country in the
world won't spend money to help the poor eat better." ... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 25 Arizona is hosting several competitive primaries Tuesday, including a GOP
battle for the Senate seat being vacated by Republican Sen. Jon Kyl and a
Democratic fight for the seat held until recently by Rep. Gabrielle Giffords.
But Arizona’s big matchup is between two House Republican freshmen elected
in 2010 with tea party support, Reps. Ben Quayle and David Schweikert.
The fight was personal and hard-hitting from the outset, and that harshness
has only ratcheted up in recent days. Supporters of ... 阅读全帖 |
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P*********0
发帖数: 4321 | 26 my pleasure. I do enjoy talking with you as long as you talk nicely. thus we
can have meaningful discussions. |
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P*********0
发帖数: 4321 | 27 这个好像瘸子走路怪地不平。我就不说我的观点了。看看格林斯潘怎么说的
In March 2008, Greenspan wrote an article for the Financial Times'
Economists' Forum in which he said that the 2008-financial crisis in the
United States is likely to be judged as the most wrenching since the end of
World War II. In it he argued: "We will never be able to anticipate all
discontinuities in financial markets." He concluded: "It is important,
indeed crucial, that any reforms in, and adjustments to, the structure of
markets and regulation not inhibi... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 28 Steyn哀叹今日美国：每年花5万美元学费上精英大学的Fluke要求纳税人给她提供避孕
药；中学生可以在家长不知情的情况下堕胎，但如果她在家门口卖柠檬水却会被罚款
A Nation of Sandra Flukes
The tragedy for America is that she’s all too typical.
By Mark Steyn
According to Georgetown Law student Sandra Fluke, invited to address the
Democratic convention and the nation, America faces a stark choice this
November. “During this campaign, we’ve heard about two profoundly
different futures that could await women in this country — and how one of
those futures looks like an offensive,... 阅读全帖 |
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d*****s
发帖数: 5610 | 29 其实都是光看电视，不看数据，不自己分析的。
吃福利最多的是主流人种的低收入的那些，但是这都不是太大的问题，只要经济增长了
，吃福利的人就会下降。关键是经济增长问题。
把眼睛老是往某些少数民族盯，真是没出息。
但是美国政府开支中最大问题是medicare，这个是67岁以上医疗全包，很多费用是在临
终前3个月上面花费了巨大金钱，这个和什么种族根本没有关系。美国政府其他开销不
是大问题。所以Obama的Obamacare方向没有问题，就是timing有问题。
以下是一个doctor的建议，如果cut 美国medicare cost by 50%，他说的不见得全对。
http://www.oftwominds.com/blogaug12/cut-healthcare-in-half8-12.
Some time ago I told you how I could cut health care costs in half and
provide every American with the healthcare they need (not necessarily the
healthca... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 30 By Jim Smith Ph.D. ABD
September 25, 2012
My blog post “Apple, Offshoring and the Decline of the American Middle
Class,” attracted several thoughtful responses that each deserve thorough
discussions. I will try to address them in a series of posts here over the
next few weeks, starting with an interesting question from Allen:
“What I don’t understand about making phones and iPods overseas: It’s all
done by automation, right? No one is placing or soldering tiny
microelectronic components by hand.... 阅读全帖 |
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z****0
发帖数: 3942 | 31 http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2012/10/03/fact-che
3:51PM EST October 4. 2012 - In the first presidential debate Wednesday
night, President Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney packed their
responses with accusations about each other's policies and defenses of their
own.
Here are a few claims that deserve a deeper look:
Private-sector job gains
Claim: Obama said the U.S. economy has created 5 million private-sector jobs
the past 30 months.
DEBATE: Battle of economic visions
Fact... 阅读全帖 |
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l*********s
发帖数: 5409 | 32 No need to bet. Rommy will execute the same policy: printing money. The
country is in grid lock: half against taxation and half against cutting
welfare. Any meaningful changes will be political suicide, leaving printing
money the only via choice. |
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b*****t
发帖数: 758 | 33 Ok, let me try to explain.
It depends on how you do the poll. If Foxnew has a web poll, no matter how
many samples there are, it does not mean anything because the samples (
people who go to the Foxnew website) are mostly republicans (not random). To
get a meaningful poll, you need to have true random samples, which is much
more costly to get than just putting something on the web. So real unbiased
polls rarely go beyond a few hundreds to a few thousand people. Polls with
more than 10000 samples... 阅读全帖 |
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n****l
发帖数: 15 | 34 Some suggestions for Romney after watching last night’s debate:
1. President Bush’s legacy: will only be judged by history, stand up for
his character (like not blaming problems for previous president, engaging
the wars at time most people approved on, not kicking the crisis down the
road) Never bad mouth the former boss (interview 101).
2. Fairness of 14% tax rate: election is not about who pays higher tax
rate, is about who has better chance to lead the country for meaningful
recovery. P... 阅读全帖 |
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y****t
发帖数: 10233 | 35 you have to understand effort does not translate to meaningful. |
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k***n
发帖数: 3158 | 36 he defined something that is opposite to the reality
and asked others to choose
how much more stupid you can get than this?
I absolutely support GOP's economy policy
but the problem is that they don't do what they say when they get into
the office, just like Obama did.
they always talk about the small-government policy and not running the
welfare
system but they pumped and lost trillions dollars in the military complex
and offered the prescription drug benefit.
all politicians want to expand the... 阅读全帖 |
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k***n
发帖数: 3158 | 37 the pay table can be viewed at
http://www.opm.gov/oca/12tables/html/gs.asp
you can change 12 to previous years to see how much changes there were
year by year since 03.
It seems Obama has froze their salary for three years
while under Bush, it kept going up
That's the problem of this GOP, they kept talking about smaller government
but kept doing the opposite when they were in power
The fact that the mainstream GOP has not been doing what they promised
was the root cause of the rise of the Tea Pa... 阅读全帖 |
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A*****a
发帖数: 52743 | 38 别瞎整这些无意义的小儿科统计了
under GOP是什么意思？under GOP's presidency? 那国会那些狗娘养的也是GOP?
同样道理，民主党的总统也是加上共和党的国会。别把这些东西都贴到总统一人身上。
a
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l******d
发帖数: 1633 | 39 at least you need to compare salary to GDP ratio, or salary to inflation
ratio
raw data is less convincing here
a
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meaningful |
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k****k
发帖数: 3322 | 40 I agree with you. If he can write something meaningful, I may have a little
respect on him. |
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P*********0
发帖数: 4321 | 41 come on? still waiting for meaningful argument... |
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k***n
发帖数: 3158 | 42 which country is 更友好 now?
I mean a meaningful large country |
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c*****n
发帖数: 14445 | 43 not meaningful to talk about this now
all you can do is to vote against the party that you do not like |
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m****e
发帖数: 255 | 44 I think you have reached the right conclusion. "talking to yourself" is
usually the case. Look no further otherwise you will be disappointed.
If you want meaningful discussion, check out Quora.
talking |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 45 .
By GILLES CASTONGUAY
Italian auto maker Fiat SpA F.MI +0.84% said on Friday it is cutting a
quarter of the workforce at a large plant in Poland that makes its Fiat 500
and a small car for Ford Motor Co. F +2.02% amid shrinking demand for new
cars in Europe.
Fiat, struggling to stem losses at its operations in Europe where its sales
have slumped to lows not seen for decades, said it would cut 1,500 of 5,800
jobs at the Tychy complex. It is Fiat's biggest cutback since closing a
plant in its hom... 阅读全帖 |
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e*****r
发帖数: 700 | 46 现在不努力，长大了就哭罢。美国如果科技上有足够的竞争力就不会提什么STEM法案。
雇主不会因为你是美国人就不把工作给更有竞争力的移民，房价会被高收入的移民推高
，私立学校也会更多的移民后裔面孔。现在很多行业都是全球竞争。移民孩子的勤奋只
不过是其他国家勤奋孩子的缩影，移民孩子不拼，其他国家的孩子可不会不拼。
Dec. 11 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. schoolchildren trailed Asian
peers on one of the largest international tests of math, science
and reading, highlighting a challenge to American competiveness.
Eight countries or regions including South Korea, Singapore
and Hong Kong outscored the U.S. in eighth-grade math, while
nine did in science, accord... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 47 Baron Bloomberg says gun control will make us safer. The question remains:
Safer for whom?
Not one to let a tragedy go to waste, within hours after the Sandy Hook
Elementary School shooting, anti-rights New York Mayor Bloomberg went on the
offensive:
“Calling for ‘meaningful action’ is not enough,” New York Mayor Michael
Bloomberg, co-chairman of Mayors Against Illegal Guns, said in a statement
yesterday. “We need immediate action. We have heard all the rhetoric before
.”
In my last post, I note... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 48 by Jammie
Nice. Take a tragedy and raise money off it! Do these ghouls ever stop
exploiting tragedy and trying to profit off it simultaneously? As horrible
as last Friday’s events were it’s been unseemly how eager Democrats are to
take away Second Amendments rights while trying to shake down the public
for even more tax money.
Two Democratic state lawmakers are preparing a comprehensive gun control
bill that would prohibit firearms with a capacity of more than 10 rounds of
ammunition, expand... 阅读全帖 |
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g*****1
发帖数: 286 | 49 You just gave a figure without any specific data source. Is it from Canadian
government or is it cooked up by some guys in the street?. I cannot even
see this data is for Canda.
If you want to have meaningful discussion, please make sure your data is
correct. |
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g*****1
发帖数: 286 | 50 1. mass killing has been risen quite significantly. that is what stirred
this outcry.
2. the data you presented is not relevant to anything. The statistics you
provided do not mean that gun ban will increase the decrease the gun
homicide rate.
3. Since we haven't had complete gun ban in usa, to see the impact of gun
ban, the only way we can understand its effect is to study the meaningful
data from other countries like UK and Australia, instead of imagining the
consequence in your brain. |
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