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its-all plans like the horrible failure of "No Child Left Behind"
BS. All the 47 nations doing better than us in education have centralized national education policies, strong public schools and government-funded college. The reason behind public education failures in the US is the GOP sabotaging and undermining public education, the same party RP bows to and which will tell him not to run as an independent candidate. He will obey like he's ALWAYS done.
02:35 AM on 01/12/2012
"Ron Paul wants the states to decide on things like head starts, education, and so forth. When the federal government has that kind of power, we end up with BS one-size-fBS. All the 47 nations doing better than us in education have centralize
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ucated scientists work in this country.) It's actually you who needs to get more information about what's going on outside of this country. First of all, you obviously have no idea that New Zealand and Sweden have been subjected to massive waves of immigration. Only fooIs like R.u.s.h can believe these are lily white paradises and those who don't know any better.
Secondly no, teachers aren't paid more in those countries. In fact the US ranks squarely in the middle of the OECD countries. I'll post a link below.
So, you clearly are uninformed and in no position whatsoever to patronize me.
10:35 PM on 01/12/2012
I'm a scientist. That makes me even more qualified than you to speak about scientific education. And because I'm a scientist, I work with people educated in other countries every day (you probably have no idea how many foreign-edSecondly no, teachers aren't paid more in those countries. In fact the US ranks squarely in the middle of the OECD countries. I'll post a link below.
So, you clearly are uninformed and in no position whatsoever to patronize me.
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sts", if something does not appear in the Consitution as it was originally written, it is unconstitutional. What they manage somehow to overlook, is the fact that the Constitution was written by people who realized that time changes all things. There are provisions for amendments to the Constitution for that reason. Sometimes the people who amend the Constitution get it wrong (prohibition), but most of the time they get it right. The Constitution of the United States is a living, growing, adaptable document, not a set-in-stone rigid set of rules. Even Scalia is correct in the fact that women's rights are not in the original Constitution. However, I, for one, am grateful that time and wisdom altered that mistake. Now, if we could alter Scalia.
12:39 AM on 01/12/2012
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s and airplanes are unconstitutional!!!
12:26 AM on 01/12/2012
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12:33 AM on 01/12/2012
Is Ron Paul in the constituti_________
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tional,"
Major fail. Social Security has kept Millions from starving after they get too old to work and with
the Federal minimum wage of just over $7.00.....does he believe that saving for your old age would be more important than food and having a roof over ones head?
11:50 PM on 01/11/2012
"You know, Social Security, and these other programs are unconstituMajor fail. Social Security has kept Millions from starving after they get too old to work and with
the Federal minimum wage of just over $7.00.....
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y a Christian value, but to Christ's horror not something modern Christians seem to understand from his teachings) then you aren't "stealing" anything from someone to help those in need. Let's face it, if you believe that helping those in need means you're stolen from, you are actually advocating throwing human beings away like yesterday's trash.
By your logic, there would be no taxes, and hence no public works (roads, schools, airports, etc.) And no matter how many people died in the street, you'd be happy because you could keep a dollar or two to spend on yourself.
03:20 AM on 01/12/2012
In a society in which we all agree to care for those who need caring for (supposedlBy your logic, there would be no taxes, and hence no public works (roads, schools, airports, etc.) And no matter how many people died in the street, you'd be happy because you could keep a dollar or two to spend on yourself.
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y a Christian value, but to Christ's horror not something modern Christians seem to understand from his teachings) then you aren't "stealing" anything from someone to help those in need. Let's face it, if you believe that helping those in need means you're stolen from, you are actually advocating throwing human beings away like yesterday's trash.
By your logic, there would be no taxes, and hence no public works (roads, schools, airports, etc.) And no matter how many people died in the street, you'd be happy because you could keep a dollar or two to spend on yourself.
03:20 AM on 01/12/2012
In a society in which we all agree to care for those who need caring for (supposedlBy your logic, there would be no taxes, and hence no public works (roads, schools, airports, etc.) And no matter how many people died in the street, you'd be happy because you could keep a dollar or two to spend on yourself.
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on." That's his answer to everything.
11:49 PM on 01/11/2012
I wonder what Ron Paul would of said to women in the early 1900's that wanted the vote. "Forget it. That's not in the constituti__________
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Things have changed in the last 200 years...... we can't go backwards!
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onalist, but pick and choose the things that are unconstitutional, according to your own statement, yet say you would not eliminate them?
This exactly why Adams, Jefferson, and the others who wrote and approved the constitution recognized that it needed to be a living document and gave the congress to the power to create legislation that enabled the govern int the times in which they found themselves. The constitution is not a rigid static document.
The same rationale that permitted the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments is the same rationale that permitted the development of legislation to creat Head Start. It's the same rationale that enabled congress to create the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
If Ron Paul is okay with permanently structured institutional racism, discrimination, bias and unfairness, then he will maintain his so-called constitutionalist stance because that will allow him to just ignore the conditions at the root cause of problems within the nation.
The constitution was created as a framework. The founding fathers expected future generations to be wise but fill it in.
11:53 PM on 01/11/2012
Bingo! That's what a lot of folks who support Ron Paul don't stop to consider.Things have changed in the last 200 years.....
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10:06 PM on 01/11/2012
This is the kind of position that puts the lie in liar. How to you claim that that you are a constitutiThis exactly why Adams, Jefferson, and the others who wrote and approved the constituti
The same rationale that permitted the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments is the same rationale that permitted the developmen
If Ron Paul is okay with permanentl
The constituti
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ProudToBeVeryLiberal:
"FACT CHECK: Ron Paul Personally Defended Racist Newsletters"
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/12/27/395391/fact-check-ron-paul-personally-defended-racist-newsletters/
How do you reply to that Binea?
09:51 PM on 01/11/2012
To the utterly uninformed RP supporters who claim he never wrote the racist comments on his newsletter"FACT CHECK: Ron Paul Personally Defended Racist Newsletter
http://thi
How do you reply to that Binea?
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Paul has been caught in a bold faced lie and his supporters are in denial.
Good post PTBVL. .Paul admits to saying those disturbing things.
10:02 PM on 01/11/2012
The Paulites refuse to accept the truth about Dr.Paul.I doubt they will even bother to go to the link.It's really sad.Paul has been caught in a bold faced lie and his supporters are in denial.
Good post PTBVL.
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PurpleTomato 10:20 PM on 01/11/2012
If you will go to the link provided you'll find that Paul does not deny the incendiary words.Paul tells the Dallas Morning News in 1996 that the words he wrote in his 1992 newsletter were taken out of context.Dr_____________
PatrickforOon purposely remains silent on many matters because the founders in fact wanted flexibility to a degree. Remember that a majority of 535 Representatives and a filibuster-proof majority of 60 Senators must AGREE on what 'one regards as "good,"' and then the President must SIGN it into law. So it can hardly be said that the last rule is to 'do whatever you want.' Checks and Balances, Joseph.
Two questions: Who checks and balances the transnational corporations and international banks? and question two: how is the 60 vote rule around filibuster constitutional? The GOP uses that one all the time...
10:31 PM on 01/11/2012
It does not fail the logic test. The ConstitutiTwo questions: Who checks and balances the transnatio
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ProudToBeVeryLiberalans" often use the same rhetoric as R.u.s.h L.i.m.b.a.u.g.h down to the same words, like calling taxes "other people's money" and claim that they're legal theft.
Clearly these s.o.c.i.o.p.a.t.h.s don't care much for the underprivileged who would be wiped out in a "libertarian" society, but I wonder if they would be willing to pay for a private army, private police and private firefighters. Maybe, just maybe, they're colossal h.y.p.o.c.r.i.t.e.s? You know, like their Republican hero who's been railing against the government for ages while at the same time living off a government paycheck...
09:45 PM on 01/11/2012
Funny how "libertariClearly these s.o.c.i.o.
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FACT: countries with the most social programs have the least poverty.
FACT: we're fast becoming a third-country nation, as our social programs are sIashed ever more.
11:11 PM on 01/11/2012
"The poor just keep growing with your ideas in place."FACT: countries with the most social programs have the least poverty.
FACT: we're fast becoming a third-coun
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ProudToBeVeryLiberals that we can't end all of the unconstitutional programs overnight."
Just because he calls something "unconstitutional" it doesn't make it so. Heck he calls Social Security unconstitutional when the SCOTUS ruled in 1936 that it's absolutely constitutional.
"I think Paul's idea of gradually transitioning back to a free society makes sense."
Oh yeah, a "free" society in which corporations can do whatever they want (because there's no longer any semblance of corporate regulations), the underprivileged have no social programs to rely on and Alabama will ban evolution and put creationism on textbooks. Some "free society"...
10:41 PM on 01/11/2012
"PauI understandJust because he calls something "unconstit
"I think Paul's idea of gradually transition
Oh yeah, a "free" society in which corporatio
Social Security already is a retirement protection system. That's how it's designed. We "work" our way out of it through taxable contributi