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One of the most crucial reasons that education from K-12 in this country is so bad are activists and aspiring politicians who run for School Boards and prevent people who have the interest and learning to keep the schools funded and educating students well from serving on the Boards. These people are out to attract att...
k-12 education
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One of the most crucial reasons that education from K-12 in this country is so bad are activists and aspiring politicians who run for School Boards and prevent people who have the interest and learning to keep the schools funded and educating students well from serving on the Boards. These people are out to attract att...
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One of the most crucial reasons that education from K-12 in this country is so bad are activists and aspiring politicians who run for School Boards and prevent people who have the interest and learning to keep the schools funded and educating students well from serving on the Boards. These people are out to attract att...
problems in education
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One of the most crucial reasons that education from K-12 in this country is so bad are activists and aspiring politicians who run for School Boards and prevent people who have the interest and learning to keep the schools funded and educating students well from serving on the Boards. These people are out to attract att...
education problem
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I went to a great public school as a child. Every term there'd be some new student in my class who'd just been expelled from a parochial school. Of course, the public school has to take those kids. That taught me as a child why private schools look like they have such a great success rate. They can kick out their lowes...
cherry-picking students
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I went to a great public school as a child. Every term there'd be some new student in my class who'd just been expelled from a parochial school. Of course, the public school has to take those kids. That taught me as a child why private schools look like they have such a great success rate. They can kick out their lowes...
public school
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I went to a great public school as a child. Every term there'd be some new student in my class who'd just been expelled from a parochial school. Of course, the public school has to take those kids. That taught me as a child why private schools look like they have such a great success rate. They can kick out their lowes...
private and public education
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I went to a great public school as a child. Every term there'd be some new student in my class who'd just been expelled from a parochial school. Of course, the public school has to take those kids. That taught me as a child why private schools look like they have such a great success rate. They can kick out their lowes...
charter schools
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I went to a great public school as a child. Every term there'd be some new student in my class who'd just been expelled from a parochial school. Of course, the public school has to take those kids. That taught me as a child why private schools look like they have such a great success rate. They can kick out their lowes...
school
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I went to a great public school as a child. Every term there'd be some new student in my class who'd just been expelled from a parochial school. Of course, the public school has to take those kids. That taught me as a child why private schools look like they have such a great success rate. They can kick out their lowes...
public schools
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I went to a great public school as a child. Every term there'd be some new student in my class who'd just been expelled from a parochial school. Of course, the public school has to take those kids. That taught me as a child why private schools look like they have such a great success rate. They can kick out their lowes...
none
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Unfortunately in this nation owned and led by the greediest, most unethical, and immoral executives America has, none of them care about the American people and wouldn't think twice about keeping a $5 fee instead of letting the baby have some milk. Its a sad, sad America today with no emotion left for the human conditi...
fees
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Unfortunately in this nation owned and led by the greediest, most unethical, and immoral executives America has, none of them care about the American people and wouldn't think twice about keeping a $5 fee instead of letting the baby have some milk. Its a sad, sad America today with no emotion left for the human conditi...
american
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Unfortunately in this nation owned and led by the greediest, most unethical, and immoral executives America has, none of them care about the American people and wouldn't think twice about keeping a $5 fee instead of letting the baby have some milk. Its a sad, sad America today with no emotion left for the human conditi...
wealthy us corporations
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Unfortunately, the NY Times could not find any voices addressing the true idiocy of this discussion: its ideas of "progress," of quantitative "intelligence," and amassing individual characteristics as a statement for "society." One man even has the gall to say that our growing intelligence has prepared us "even to reas...
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Unfortunately, the NY Times could not find any voices addressing the true idiocy of this discussion: its ideas of "progress," of quantitative "intelligence," and amassing individual characteristics as a statement for "society." One man even has the gall to say that our growing intelligence has prepared us "even to reas...
progress in society
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Unfortunately, the NY Times could not find any voices addressing the true idiocy of this discussion: its ideas of "progress," of quantitative "intelligence," and amassing individual characteristics as a statement for "society." One man even has the gall to say that our growing intelligence has prepared us "even to reas...
growing intelligence
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Unfortunately, the NY Times could not find any voices addressing the true idiocy of this discussion: its ideas of "progress," of quantitative "intelligence," and amassing individual characteristics as a statement for "society." One man even has the gall to say that our growing intelligence has prepared us "even to reas...
ethic
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Unfortunately, the NY Times could not find any voices addressing the true idiocy of this discussion: its ideas of "progress," of quantitative "intelligence," and amassing individual characteristics as a statement for "society." One man even has the gall to say that our growing intelligence has prepared us "even to reas...
human intelligence
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Unfortunately, the NY Times could not find any voices addressing the true idiocy of this discussion: its ideas of "progress," of quantitative "intelligence," and amassing individual characteristics as a statement for "society." One man even has the gall to say that our growing intelligence has prepared us "even to reas...
quantitative intelligence
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The troubling thing here is not that there are those who object to the pageant, but they wish to end it for the majority who find it beneficial, and appealing. Oh those poor folks just don't get that they are "exploiting women, so I'd better step in, and save them from themselves.
miss america
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The troubling thing here is not that there are those who object to the pageant, but they wish to end it for the majority who find it beneficial, and appealing. Oh those poor folks just don't get that they are "exploiting women, so I'd better step in, and save them from themselves.
pageant
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The troubling thing here is not that there are those who object to the pageant, but they wish to end it for the majority who find it beneficial, and appealing. Oh those poor folks just don't get that they are "exploiting women, so I'd better step in, and save them from themselves.
beauty pageants
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The troubling thing here is not that there are those who object to the pageant, but they wish to end it for the majority who find it beneficial, and appealing. Oh those poor folks just don't get that they are "exploiting women, so I'd better step in, and save them from themselves.
beauty pageant
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The troubling thing here is not that there are those who object to the pageant, but they wish to end it for the majority who find it beneficial, and appealing. Oh those poor folks just don't get that they are "exploiting women, so I'd better step in, and save them from themselves.
women
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The troubling thing here is not that there are those who object to the pageant, but they wish to end it for the majority who find it beneficial, and appealing. Oh those poor folks just don't get that they are "exploiting women, so I'd better step in, and save them from themselves.
pageant
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NO, NO NO- This is just another conservative ploy to defund pubic institutions and make them (for profit) private. Read Diane Racitch's "Death and Life of the Great American School System". A former Bush "supply sider" discounts the widespread mantra that charter schools and choice are good for education. I have worked...
home schoolers
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NO, NO NO- This is just another conservative ploy to defund pubic institutions and make them (for profit) private. Read Diane Racitch's "Death and Life of the Great American School System". A former Bush "supply sider" discounts the widespread mantra that charter schools and choice are good for education. I have worked...
defund public education
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NO, NO NO- This is just another conservative ploy to defund pubic institutions and make them (for profit) private. Read Diane Racitch's "Death and Life of the Great American School System". A former Bush "supply sider" discounts the widespread mantra that charter schools and choice are good for education. I have worked...
charter schools
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NO, NO NO- This is just another conservative ploy to defund pubic institutions and make them (for profit) private. Read Diane Racitch's "Death and Life of the Great American School System". A former Bush "supply sider" discounts the widespread mantra that charter schools and choice are good for education. I have worked...
public institutions
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NO, NO NO- This is just another conservative ploy to defund pubic institutions and make them (for profit) private. Read Diane Racitch's "Death and Life of the Great American School System". A former Bush "supply sider" discounts the widespread mantra that charter schools and choice are good for education. I have worked...
a tax break
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NO, NO NO- This is just another conservative ploy to defund pubic institutions and make them (for profit) private. Read Diane Racitch's "Death and Life of the Great American School System". A former Bush "supply sider" discounts the widespread mantra that charter schools and choice are good for education. I have worked...
private education
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NO, NO NO- This is just another conservative ploy to defund pubic institutions and make them (for profit) private. Read Diane Racitch's "Death and Life of the Great American School System". A former Bush "supply sider" discounts the widespread mantra that charter schools and choice are good for education. I have worked...
school privatization
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NO, NO NO- This is just another conservative ploy to defund pubic institutions and make them (for profit) private. Read Diane Racitch's "Death and Life of the Great American School System". A former Bush "supply sider" discounts the widespread mantra that charter schools and choice are good for education. I have worked...
public school funding
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NO, NO NO- This is just another conservative ploy to defund pubic institutions and make them (for profit) private. Read Diane Racitch's "Death and Life of the Great American School System". A former Bush "supply sider" discounts the widespread mantra that charter schools and choice are good for education. I have worked...
charter schools
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NO, NO NO- This is just another conservative ploy to defund pubic institutions and make them (for profit) private. Read Diane Racitch's "Death and Life of the Great American School System". A former Bush "supply sider" discounts the widespread mantra that charter schools and choice are good for education. I have worked...
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Justifying Illegal workers on the cheap products they produce is just another example of privatize the benefits but socialize the costs. The benefits come to mainly the business owners who can produce cheaper products and their by increase their profit margin. Plus the works are less likely to complain if they are mist...
illegal immigration's impact on private business and taxation
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Justifying Illegal workers on the cheap products they produce is just another example of privatize the benefits but socialize the costs. The benefits come to mainly the business owners who can produce cheaper products and their by increase their profit margin. Plus the works are less likely to complain if they are mist...
cost of illegal immigration
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Justifying Illegal workers on the cheap products they produce is just another example of privatize the benefits but socialize the costs. The benefits come to mainly the business owners who can produce cheaper products and their by increase their profit margin. Plus the works are less likely to complain if they are mist...
how businesses use cheap illegal labor to produce cheap products so they can increase their margins, whereby the taxpayers are responsible for paying for the illegal immigrants' social benefits.
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Justifying Illegal workers on the cheap products they produce is just another example of privatize the benefits but socialize the costs. The benefits come to mainly the business owners who can produce cheaper products and their by increase their profit margin. Plus the works are less likely to complain if they are mist...
illegal immigration
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Justifying Illegal workers on the cheap products they produce is just another example of privatize the benefits but socialize the costs. The benefits come to mainly the business owners who can produce cheaper products and their by increase their profit margin. Plus the works are less likely to complain if they are mist...
illegal labor
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Justifying Illegal workers on the cheap products they produce is just another example of privatize the benefits but socialize the costs. The benefits come to mainly the business owners who can produce cheaper products and their by increase their profit margin. Plus the works are less likely to complain if they are mist...
illegal workers
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Justifying Illegal workers on the cheap products they produce is just another example of privatize the benefits but socialize the costs. The benefits come to mainly the business owners who can produce cheaper products and their by increase their profit margin. Plus the works are less likely to complain if they are mist...
illegal
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Assad, Iran, Sadr's Army,etc.etc., We are in a quagmire of our own making- the region has been severely destabilized since our invasion of Iraq. Why did we not then leave well enough alone as no real threat was posed to our security...Isis does not yet pose a threats to any American except those rash enough to be invol...
the u.s.
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Assad, Iran, Sadr's Army,etc.etc., We are in a quagmire of our own making- the region has been severely destabilized since our invasion of Iraq. Why did we not then leave well enough alone as no real threat was posed to our security...Isis does not yet pose a threats to any American except those rash enough to be invol...
war in iraq
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Assad, Iran, Sadr's Army,etc.etc., We are in a quagmire of our own making- the region has been severely destabilized since our invasion of Iraq. Why did we not then leave well enough alone as no real threat was posed to our security...Isis does not yet pose a threats to any American except those rash enough to be invol...
invasion of iraq
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Assad, Iran, Sadr's Army,etc.etc., We are in a quagmire of our own making- the region has been severely destabilized since our invasion of Iraq. Why did we not then leave well enough alone as no real threat was posed to our security...Isis does not yet pose a threats to any American except those rash enough to be invol...
middle east wars
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Assad, Iran, Sadr's Army,etc.etc., We are in a quagmire of our own making- the region has been severely destabilized since our invasion of Iraq. Why did we not then leave well enough alone as no real threat was posed to our security...Isis does not yet pose a threats to any American except those rash enough to be invol...
isis
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Assad, Iran, Sadr's Army,etc.etc., We are in a quagmire of our own making- the region has been severely destabilized since our invasion of Iraq. Why did we not then leave well enough alone as no real threat was posed to our security...Isis does not yet pose a threats to any American except those rash enough to be invol...
army
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Assad, Iran, Sadr's Army,etc.etc., We are in a quagmire of our own making- the region has been severely destabilized since our invasion of Iraq. Why did we not then leave well enough alone as no real threat was posed to our security...Isis does not yet pose a threats to any American except those rash enough to be invol...
non-intervention
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Assad, Iran, Sadr's Army,etc.etc., We are in a quagmire of our own making- the region has been severely destabilized since our invasion of Iraq. Why did we not then leave well enough alone as no real threat was posed to our security...Isis does not yet pose a threats to any American except those rash enough to be invol...
invasion of iraq
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Assad, Iran, Sadr's Army,etc.etc., We are in a quagmire of our own making- the region has been severely destabilized since our invasion of Iraq. Why did we not then leave well enough alone as no real threat was posed to our security...Isis does not yet pose a threats to any American except those rash enough to be invol...
invasion of iraq
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Assad, Iran, Sadr's Army,etc.etc., We are in a quagmire of our own making- the region has been severely destabilized since our invasion of Iraq. Why did we not then leave well enough alone as no real threat was posed to our security...Isis does not yet pose a threats to any American except those rash enough to be invol...
fighting in middle east
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People are lulled into a false sense of me me social intellectual security. With the advent of access to everything in every- ones face all of the time one begins to complete the question asked a celebrity or politician and actually believes that they have a grasp of most abstract concepts, when what they really own is...
people
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People are lulled into a false sense of me me social intellectual security. With the advent of access to everything in every- ones face all of the time one begins to complete the question asked a celebrity or politician and actually believes that they have a grasp of most abstract concepts, when what they really own is...
nothing is original
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People are lulled into a false sense of me me social intellectual security. With the advent of access to everything in every- ones face all of the time one begins to complete the question asked a celebrity or politician and actually believes that they have a grasp of most abstract concepts, when what they really own is...
false intellectualism
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People are lulled into a false sense of me me social intellectual security. With the advent of access to everything in every- ones face all of the time one begins to complete the question asked a celebrity or politician and actually believes that they have a grasp of most abstract concepts, when what they really own is...
social media
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Does a country that produced Sir Isaac Newton, Michael Faraday, and Charles Darwin - to name a few - does the U.K. not have enough courage to recognize the monarchy for what it is? A sad, limp remnant of a bygone era? Modern descendants of thugs who engaged in slaughter, rape and pillage before anointing themselves 'ki...
royal couple
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Does a country that produced Sir Isaac Newton, Michael Faraday, and Charles Darwin - to name a few - does the U.K. not have enough courage to recognize the monarchy for what it is? A sad, limp remnant of a bygone era? Modern descendants of thugs who engaged in slaughter, rape and pillage before anointing themselves 'ki...
u.k
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Does a country that produced Sir Isaac Newton, Michael Faraday, and Charles Darwin - to name a few - does the U.K. not have enough courage to recognize the monarchy for what it is? A sad, limp remnant of a bygone era? Modern descendants of thugs who engaged in slaughter, rape and pillage before anointing themselves 'ki...
monarchy
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Does a country that produced Sir Isaac Newton, Michael Faraday, and Charles Darwin - to name a few - does the U.K. not have enough courage to recognize the monarchy for what it is? A sad, limp remnant of a bygone era? Modern descendants of thugs who engaged in slaughter, rape and pillage before anointing themselves 'ki...
u.k. monarchy
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Does a country that produced Sir Isaac Newton, Michael Faraday, and Charles Darwin - to name a few - does the U.K. not have enough courage to recognize the monarchy for what it is? A sad, limp remnant of a bygone era? Modern descendants of thugs who engaged in slaughter, rape and pillage before anointing themselves 'ki...
a modern family
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Does a country that produced Sir Isaac Newton, Michael Faraday, and Charles Darwin - to name a few - does the U.K. not have enough courage to recognize the monarchy for what it is? A sad, limp remnant of a bygone era? Modern descendants of thugs who engaged in slaughter, rape and pillage before anointing themselves 'ki...
thug
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Does a country that produced Sir Isaac Newton, Michael Faraday, and Charles Darwin - to name a few - does the U.K. not have enough courage to recognize the monarchy for what it is? A sad, limp remnant of a bygone era? Modern descendants of thugs who engaged in slaughter, rape and pillage before anointing themselves 'ki...
monarchy
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Does a country that produced Sir Isaac Newton, Michael Faraday, and Charles Darwin - to name a few - does the U.K. not have enough courage to recognize the monarchy for what it is? A sad, limp remnant of a bygone era? Modern descendants of thugs who engaged in slaughter, rape and pillage before anointing themselves 'ki...
english royalty
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Does a country that produced Sir Isaac Newton, Michael Faraday, and Charles Darwin - to name a few - does the U.K. not have enough courage to recognize the monarchy for what it is? A sad, limp remnant of a bygone era? Modern descendants of thugs who engaged in slaughter, rape and pillage before anointing themselves 'ki...
monarchy
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So after all this time, nothing has changed, it brings to mind Israel and Palestine. Stalemate. So this is just a game of 'chicken'. Does that benefit the citizens of either of our countries? Is this progress or stagnation? Given the Cuban population in Florida, which we all know sways politics, is vehemently against t...
sanctions
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So after all this time, nothing has changed, it brings to mind Israel and Palestine. Stalemate. So this is just a game of 'chicken'. Does that benefit the citizens of either of our countries? Is this progress or stagnation? Given the Cuban population in Florida, which we all know sways politics, is vehemently against t...
isreal
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So after all this time, nothing has changed, it brings to mind Israel and Palestine. Stalemate. So this is just a game of 'chicken'. Does that benefit the citizens of either of our countries? Is this progress or stagnation? Given the Cuban population in Florida, which we all know sways politics, is vehemently against t...
cuban population in florida
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So after all this time, nothing has changed, it brings to mind Israel and Palestine. Stalemate. So this is just a game of 'chicken'. Does that benefit the citizens of either of our countries? Is this progress or stagnation? Given the Cuban population in Florida, which we all know sways politics, is vehemently against t...
cuba
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So after all this time, nothing has changed, it brings to mind Israel and Palestine. Stalemate. So this is just a game of 'chicken'. Does that benefit the citizens of either of our countries? Is this progress or stagnation? Given the Cuban population in Florida, which we all know sways politics, is vehemently against t...
the u.s.
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So after all this time, nothing has changed, it brings to mind Israel and Palestine. Stalemate. So this is just a game of 'chicken'. Does that benefit the citizens of either of our countries? Is this progress or stagnation? Given the Cuban population in Florida, which we all know sways politics, is vehemently against t...
cuba
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So after all this time, nothing has changed, it brings to mind Israel and Palestine. Stalemate. So this is just a game of 'chicken'. Does that benefit the citizens of either of our countries? Is this progress or stagnation? Given the Cuban population in Florida, which we all know sways politics, is vehemently against t...
sanction
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So after all this time, nothing has changed, it brings to mind Israel and Palestine. Stalemate. So this is just a game of 'chicken'. Does that benefit the citizens of either of our countries? Is this progress or stagnation? Given the Cuban population in Florida, which we all know sways politics, is vehemently against t...
cuba
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I started working when I was 12, at 14 I was working in construction during summers (starting in 1960) making $.50 an hour. My first year paying into Social Security was in 1963 making $1.35 an hour. Last year 2014 as an IT Business Analyst at 68 I made $58 an hour. I never thought that work was fun although in 54 year...
workers
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I started working when I was 12, at 14 I was working in construction during summers (starting in 1960) making $.50 an hour. My first year paying into Social Security was in 1963 making $1.35 an hour. Last year 2014 as an IT Business Analyst at 68 I made $58 an hour. I never thought that work was fun although in 54 year...
work
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I started working when I was 12, at 14 I was working in construction during summers (starting in 1960) making $.50 an hour. My first year paying into Social Security was in 1963 making $1.35 an hour. Last year 2014 as an IT Business Analyst at 68 I made $58 an hour. I never thought that work was fun although in 54 year...
social security
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I started working when I was 12, at 14 I was working in construction during summers (starting in 1960) making $.50 an hour. My first year paying into Social Security was in 1963 making $1.35 an hour. Last year 2014 as an IT Business Analyst at 68 I made $58 an hour. I never thought that work was fun although in 54 year...
wage
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The banks made deliberate decisions that they correctly believed would increase their profits immensely if nothing blew up on them and would increase their profits moderately if they were caught and had to pay modest fines. No matter what they did, the banks and their management would make out like successful bandits w...
big banks
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The banks made deliberate decisions that they correctly believed would increase their profits immensely if nothing blew up on them and would increase their profits moderately if they were caught and had to pay modest fines. No matter what they did, the banks and their management would make out like successful bandits w...
big banks
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The banks made deliberate decisions that they correctly believed would increase their profits immensely if nothing blew up on them and would increase their profits moderately if they were caught and had to pay modest fines. No matter what they did, the banks and their management would make out like successful bandits w...
bank
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The banks made deliberate decisions that they correctly believed would increase their profits immensely if nothing blew up on them and would increase their profits moderately if they were caught and had to pay modest fines. No matter what they did, the banks and their management would make out like successful bandits w...
control
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The banks made deliberate decisions that they correctly believed would increase their profits immensely if nothing blew up on them and would increase their profits moderately if they were caught and had to pay modest fines. No matter what they did, the banks and their management would make out like successful bandits w...
bank reform
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While I understand what the article is saying, at the same time it does a disservice to being able to stay informed about our personal health care. We are all not able to distinguish true medical research from personal stories, true, but if at the very least it starts a conversation between us and our medical provider ...
medical websites
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While I understand what the article is saying, at the same time it does a disservice to being able to stay informed about our personal health care. We are all not able to distinguish true medical research from personal stories, true, but if at the very least it starts a conversation between us and our medical provider ...
medical care
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While I understand what the article is saying, at the same time it does a disservice to being able to stay informed about our personal health care. We are all not able to distinguish true medical research from personal stories, true, but if at the very least it starts a conversation between us and our medical provider ...
health care
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In theory, this sounds wonderful. In practice, it will be a waste of money. Many reviews are conducted in many areas by the feds but the politics, ability of staff whom review, understanding of what they are reviewing, implementation, initial results and then white washing the results leaves much to be desired. The fed...
grade colleges
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In theory, this sounds wonderful. In practice, it will be a waste of money. Many reviews are conducted in many areas by the feds but the politics, ability of staff whom review, understanding of what they are reviewing, implementation, initial results and then white washing the results leaves much to be desired. The fed...
government departments
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In theory, this sounds wonderful. In practice, it will be a waste of money. Many reviews are conducted in many areas by the feds but the politics, ability of staff whom review, understanding of what they are reviewing, implementation, initial results and then white washing the results leaves much to be desired. The fed...
audit
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By beginning with the proposition that we should stop taxing capital gains, the New York Times ("Room for Debate," Aug. 16) foreshortens the options that would--in a world not vacuumed of reason by Cato Institute shibboleths--be available to policy makers and the voting public. It would be funny if it weren't so dreari...
capital gains
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By beginning with the proposition that we should stop taxing capital gains, the New York Times ("Room for Debate," Aug. 16) foreshortens the options that would--in a world not vacuumed of reason by Cato Institute shibboleths--be available to policy makers and the voting public. It would be funny if it weren't so dreari...
taxing capital gains
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By beginning with the proposition that we should stop taxing capital gains, the New York Times ("Room for Debate," Aug. 16) foreshortens the options that would--in a world not vacuumed of reason by Cato Institute shibboleths--be available to policy makers and the voting public. It would be funny if it weren't so dreari...
taxation
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My understanding is that college athletic teams were started to teach leadership, discipline and teamwork to students. With the introduction of the athletic scholarship schools went down the slippery slope of bringing in kids who either were not prepared to do collegiate work or had no serious intent of gaining a degre...
sports program in undergraduate schools
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My understanding is that college athletic teams were started to teach leadership, discipline and teamwork to students. With the introduction of the athletic scholarship schools went down the slippery slope of bringing in kids who either were not prepared to do collegiate work or had no serious intent of gaining a degre...
college teams
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My understanding is that college athletic teams were started to teach leadership, discipline and teamwork to students. With the introduction of the athletic scholarship schools went down the slippery slope of bringing in kids who either were not prepared to do collegiate work or had no serious intent of gaining a degre...
college athletic teams
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My understanding is that college athletic teams were started to teach leadership, discipline and teamwork to students. With the introduction of the athletic scholarship schools went down the slippery slope of bringing in kids who either were not prepared to do collegiate work or had no serious intent of gaining a degre...
college sports
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the truly innovative spirit of SValley has not been completely extinguished but it is swamped by the younger generation of ad men and their overvalued aps. The idealists cannot even get a job among this self congratulatory lottery winners. And as true innovation declines so to will the real economic edge. Its as ossifi...
lots of money for a few people
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the truly innovative spirit of SValley has not been completely extinguished but it is swamped by the younger generation of ad men and their overvalued aps. The idealists cannot even get a job among this self congratulatory lottery winners. And as true innovation declines so to will the real economic edge. Its as ossifi...
silicon valley
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the truly innovative spirit of SValley has not been completely extinguished but it is swamped by the younger generation of ad men and their overvalued aps. The idealists cannot even get a job among this self congratulatory lottery winners. And as true innovation declines so to will the real economic edge. Its as ossifi...
economy
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the truly innovative spirit of SValley has not been completely extinguished but it is swamped by the younger generation of ad men and their overvalued aps. The idealists cannot even get a job among this self congratulatory lottery winners. And as true innovation declines so to will the real economic edge. Its as ossifi...
younger generation
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