What bailout are you talking about? Be specific. I've made no assertions about that whatsoever. You are hallucinating. barfo
It affects interstate commerce, adds to the deficit, and is a bigger burden on the taxpayer not just passenger. The advanced figures show it, the Supreme Court supports me, you made a bad assertion. Barfo you're clearly not ready for this subject and you lacked basic logic. A bailout is a general term I use for any ignorant burden the taxpayer takes, you have nothing against me.
This is a really lame argument. If you don't think a GPA helps anybody with anything in life, that is an understandable position to hold. But to think that a high GPA will help "me", but a higher GPA won't help somebody else is an absurd and inconsistent position if you also think that redistributing somebody's wealth will help others.
I see GPA redistribution in almost every class I take. There is always a weak link in group projects but the group as a whole gets the grade. Often workload is not even and the work submitted is based off of one or two people's ideas. Is this fair? It's in the groups best interest to defer to the strongest members. If all the members contribute equally the submission might not be as strong and everyone's grade would suffer.
I think huevonkiller is my new favorite poster. He's like if BenDavis503 spent all his time drinking Rockstar and scanning wikipedia articles while half-listening to Michael Savage. Also hating commas. Why do you hate commas? You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to barfo again.
This is a great post and probably because I'm a namby-pamby-socio-commu-marxi-muslim liberal. But it gets to the heart of one thing that many conservatives don't want to accept: that people are inherently different, come from different areas of life, have different views on what is important, and have different social situations. Cutting funding that millions of people depend on (and not just because they are lazy, stop rolling your eyes) will not "inventivize" them, it will simply make the crack they slip through open up that much quicker. And GOD, don't you hate it when filthy bums ask you for money? Why don't they get a job?
they are just lazy hobos willing to take a shot in the mouth for some rubbing alcohol, and they make $1000 bucks a day begging anyways, i ask THEM for money
Wow...normally just one is bad. That's hitting the jackpot. Though I'd surmise that most practicing Muslims would be highly against your socio-commu-liberal agenda, whether or not they go with the namby-pamby side. What did those people in social situations depend on before our tax dollars were made available to them? And what happened when they fell through that "crack"? For the record, I accept that people come from different situations. I came from a pretty poor one and made out relatively well, and am raising my kids for it to be even better for them. But America was not and is not set up to be an entitlement state. For one, we don't pay nearly enough in taxes. There's no rule (either of nature or of law) that states that a functioning, working human being can work at 64 but must retire and go on the government dole for their medical and income at 65 while continuing a lifestyle that wasn't sustainable and they hadn't saved for. There's no rule that states that someone incapable or unwilling to work must continue to be subsidized for doing so. We are all allowed to make (for the most part) our own choices of lifestyle, worship, spending, etc...what has been cut from society in the last half-century or so is a recognition that consequences come with those choices. And we have now created entire generations who seem to think that because someone was ill and unable to study, they should be given a degree certifying completion of accredited learning objectives at a satisfactory level even though they didn't do the work. That, in my humble opinion, is complete and utter horseshit. WTF? I hate it when they ask for money, I give them a card to our church's food bank, ClothesLine and job training program, and they throw the card away in front of me and curse me for not giving them money. But that's ok...we're all wicked, and there but for the grace of God go I.
Why would you want to give your GPA to someone who didn't do enough work or effort to pass his classes? Let's say, hypothetically, that you give them some of your GPA and they graduate. What good is that degree going to do them? They obviously didn't do enough work to have the degree benefit them, and with so many people out there with bachelors degrees right now, that degree won't do them much good. You, on the other hand, would graduate with a higher GPA, possibly go on to graduate with honors, and that's going to reward your efforts and give you a better chance at getting a good job. The whole point of the article is to point out that those who work hard are rewarded. That's the whole point of capitalism. Those who work hard are rewarded. Why should someone who does the bare minimum of work be rewarded with free handouts? Obviously there are some people who are screwed over by the system because no system is perfect, but by and large it is the best system in existence. Hard work = high rewards.
I would tweak this a bit. I'm sure we all know people who work really hard, but just don't get something...conversely, there are people that never have to study that seem to just "get it" easily. I'd say that "high achievement" = high rewards.
Actually, Muslims essentially invented the socialist state a thousand years ago, but that is neither here nor there. Today, it's the namby-pambyness that has gotten everyone into a little tiff. They probably depending on their family and/or community, and then fell on hard times. Falling through the cracks can mean a lot of different things. It can be not being able to afford school and working at McDonalds for the rest of your life, or it can be not being able to afford rent and living out of your car. This is an all to common scenario, even with our "nanny government." I'm with you so far. So what should be done with people that are incapable of working? Sure, but you cannot choose what class you are born into. Or how you are raised. Or if you get a disease or an injury. Or if you are laid off because your neo-conservative asshole bosses shipped your position overseas, or technology made your job obsolete. Or if your neo-conservative asshole white-collar criminal boss took your entire retirement fund in a massive accounting scheme. Wait, what? I'm lost now. I gave a dude a dollar and then he asked me for 50 more. That's pretty irritating. I may have considered giving him another dollar if he so wasn't so obviously a crackhead. But the first dollar is always free. If I were homeless, I would take food and/or support any way I could get it, but I would be pretty bitter that in order to get help I had to be proselytized to.
You clearly missed the point of the article. The point of the article wasn't whether or not others should want to support, give to or help those with less. I can totally understand Treaty_of_Batum's feeling that he would give up his to help another, and I do the same on my own. The point of the article was to point out the hypocrisy of those saying that want to spread wealth around, but when put in terms that would directly and possibly negatively affect themselves, their views and opinions change.
