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cf4c9cbf-2019-04-17T11:47:24Z-00056-000 | Greg Anrig and Bernard Wasow. "Twelve reasons why privatizing social security is a bad idea." The Century Foundation: "Reason #5: The odds are against individuals investing successfully."]: "Privatization advocates like to stress the appeal of 'individual choice' and 'personal control,' while assuming in their forecasts that everyone’s accounts will match the overall performance of the stock market. But studies by Yale economist Robert J. Shiller and others have demonstrated that individual investors are far more likely to do worse than the market generally, even excluding the cost of commissions and administrative expenses. Indeed, research by Princeton University economist Burton G. Malkiel found that even professional money managers over time significantly underperformed indexes of the entire market." [read extended quoted in argument page.] |
cf4c9cbf-2019-04-17T11:47:24Z-00026-000 | Privatized social security accounts vulnerable to downturns |
cf4c9cbf-2019-04-17T11:47:24Z-00011-000 | Social security is basically a giant ponzi scheme. |
cf4c9cbf-2019-04-17T11:47:24Z-00034-000 | Privatizing social security would wrongly enrich banks. |
cf4c9cbf-2019-04-17T11:47:24Z-00004-000 | Private social security accounts are voluntary. |
cf4c9cbf-2019-04-17T11:47:24Z-00058-000 | Eliot Spitzer. "Can we finally kill this terrible idea?" Slate. February 4th, 2009: "Furthermore, as Paul Krugman has pointed out, the would-be privatizers make incredible—even impossible—assumptions about the likely performance of the market to justify their claim that private accounts would outdo the current system. According to Krugman, their worldview would require the price-earnings ratio in the market to be around 70 to 1 by midcentury. That would make the market at the height of the last bubble look grossly undervalued. Their performance numbers simply do not work." |
cf4c9cbf-2019-04-17T11:47:24Z-00074-000 | Andrew Roth. "Privatize Social Security? Hell Yeah!" Club for Growth. September 21, 2010: "Democrats will say supporters of personal accounts will allow people's fragile retirement plans to be subjected to the whims of the stock market, but that's just more demagoguery. First, personal accounts would be voluntary. If you like the current system (the one that is raidable by politicians), you can stay put and be subjected to decreasingly low returns as Social Security goes bankrupt. But if you want your money protected from politicians and have the opportunity to invest in the same financial assets that politicians invest in their own retirement plans (most are well-diversified long term funds), then you should have that option." |
cf4c9cbf-2019-04-17T11:47:24Z-00067-000 | "Privatizing Social Security Still a Good Idea." San Diego Union Tribune: "The problem is that the system is unsustainable, as should be evident with the impending retirement of 70 million baby boomers - brought to you by smaller corps of younger workers who will be taxed to the gills to pay for it. Consider this: In 1946, the cost of supporting one retiree was divided between 42 workers. Now we're approaching the point where the cost of each retiree will be divided between only two workers. That is bound to put enormous strain on those workers. The real trouble begins in 2016 when - according to the experts - more will be going out in benefits than coming in as payroll taxes." |
281ab12-2019-04-17T11:47:28Z-00026-000 | Direct democracy is too slow and inefficient. |
46e96378-2019-04-17T11:47:47Z-00024-000 | A 2008 US stimulus package threatens to worsen inflation. |
4ffa1617-2019-04-17T11:47:22Z-00021-000 | Schools should not be feeder systems for military/war. |
a9ca9e97-2019-04-17T11:47:19Z-00042-000 | MJ Rosenberg. "Obama Should Support Palestinian Statehood at the United Nations." Huffington Post. July 22nd, 2011: "Taking their case to the United Nations is a powerful statement by the Palestinian leadership that they have rejected terrorism once and for all and are determined to live in peace alongside Israel. It is also a sign that the 'hard men' of violence who once dominated Palestinian politics are relics of the past. The future belongs to people like Salam Fayyad who, in the words of renowned New Republic writer and life-long Zionist, Leon Wieseltier, is the man who 'all Israelis and Palestinians, who are not maniacs, have dreamed' of." |
a9ca9e97-2019-04-17T11:47:19Z-00027-000 | Peace can only be achieved by Israel and Palestine, not UN |
a9ca9e97-2019-04-17T11:47:19Z-00059-000 | Remarks by President Obama in Address to the United Nations General Assembly. The White House. September 21st, 2011: "Let us be honest with ourselves: Israel is surrounded by neighbors that have waged repeated wars against it. Israel’s citizens have been killed by rockets fired at their houses and suicide bombs on their buses. Israel’s children come of age knowing that throughout the region, other children are taught to hate them. Israel, a small country of less than eight million people, look out at a world where leaders of much larger nations threaten to wipe it off of the map. The Jewish people carry the burden of centuries of exile and persecution, and fresh memories of knowing that six million people were killed simply because of who they are. Those are facts. They cannot be denied. The Jewish people have forged a successful state in their historic homeland. Israel deserves recognition. It deserves normal relations with its neighbors. And friends of the Palestinians do them no favors by ignoring this truth, just as friends of Israel must recognize the need to pursue a two-state solution with a secure Israel next to an independent Palestine." [Extended quote in argument page]. |
a9ca9e97-2019-04-17T11:47:19Z-00067-000 | Ahmad Tibi. "Rejection of Palestinian statehood denies freedom." Politico. September 15th, 2011: "After 20 years of failed negotiations caused largely by Israel’s insistence on retaining parts of the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, as well as refusing to allow Palestinians the right of return, the Palestinians of the occupied territories are taking their case to the United Nations. They are refusing to allow Washington to kick the can endlessly down the road. More than 130 nations are expected to side with the Palestinians. Only a small number are expected to stand in the way. Yet Washington is determined to place the blame for the coming confrontation on the Palestinians. This is unfair. It is unreasonable to expect Palestinians to give up this nonviolent option." |
a9ca9e97-2019-04-17T11:47:19Z-00008-000 | Arab Spring doesn't change fact that bilateral solution required. |
a9ca9e97-2019-04-17T11:47:19Z-00061-000 | US Ambassador to the UN said on NPR on September 22nd, 2011: "While we are very consistent in our principled stand that we want to see freedom, democracy, respect for human rights everywhere in the world, including throughout the Arab and Muslim world — that is the goal, of course, for the people of Palestine. But they want a state and they want a state that has defined borders, that has a capital, that has the viability to deliver goods and services and benefits to the people. That's what we want to see. But there's no way to accomplish that through a vote in the Security Council and in the General Assembly. A vote here is merely a statement on a piece of paper. It doesn't change anything on the ground for the Palestinian people the day after. If it accelerated the negotiations, we would say yes. The reality is quite the opposite. The process that must occur will be that much more complicated in the wake of this kind of one-sided action."[10] |
a9ca9e97-2019-04-17T11:47:19Z-00062-000 | Remarks by President Obama in Address to the United Nations General Assembly. The White House. September 21st, 2011: "it is the Israelis and the Palestinians -- not us –- who must reach agreement on the issues that divide them: on borders and on security, on refugees and Jerusalem.... let us make peace, but a peace, most importantly, that will last." |
a9ca9e97-2019-04-17T11:47:19Z-00070-000 | Explanation of Vote by Ambassador Susan E. Rice, U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations, on Palestinian UN Vote. February 18th, 2011: "While we agree with our fellow Council members—and indeed, with the wider world—about the folly and illegitimacy of continued Israeli settlement activity, we think it unwise for this Council to attempt to resolve the core issues that divide Israelis and Palestinians. We therefore regrettably have opposed this draft resolution." |
a9ca9e97-2019-04-17T11:47:19Z-00019-000 | Palestinian statehood via the UN would undermine Syria, Iran. |
1a514fda-2019-04-17T11:47:23Z-00012-000 | Compulsory voting helps protect voter access. |
1a514fda-2019-04-17T11:47:23Z-00035-000 | Compulsory voting expands government, limits freedom. |
1a514fda-2019-04-17T11:47:23Z-00043-000 | Mandatory voting would compel broader campaign messaging. |
1a514fda-2019-04-17T11:47:23Z-00037-000 | Not voting is often a form of political expression. |
1a514fda-2019-04-17T11:47:23Z-00022-000 | Voting is not a civic duty. |
1a514fda-2019-04-17T11:47:23Z-00061-000 | "The Case against Compulsory Voting." Musings. January 16th, 2010: "compulsory voting will require processes and man power to ensure adherence. Its a massive expansion of government and hence a colossal waste of tax payers money." |
1a514fda-2019-04-17T11:47:23Z-00046-000 | Mandatory voting broadens representation and legitimacy. |
1a514fda-2019-04-17T11:47:23Z-00001-000 | Compulsory voting would undermine barometer of interest. |
1a514fda-2019-04-17T11:47:23Z-00039-000 | Mandatory voting does not enhance legitimacy of govt. |
1a514fda-2019-04-17T11:47:23Z-00025-000 | Compulsory voting is smaller intrusion than jury duty, taxes, etc. |
1a514fda-2019-04-17T11:47:23Z-00010-000 | Money spent on mandatory voting is better spent elsewhere. |
1a514fda-2019-04-17T11:47:23Z-00048-000 | Voting is not only a right, but a responsibility. |
1a514fda-2019-04-17T11:47:23Z-00004-000 | Compulsory voting seen as social norm where it exists |
b67fc3fb-2019-04-17T11:47:41Z-00222-000 | Clayton H. McCracken, director of Inter Mountain Planned Parenthood, Fall 2000 - "Most of the patients come to our abortion clinic as a result of failure of a birth control method, or a failure of our system to provide birth control."[26] |
b67fc3fb-2019-04-17T11:47:41Z-00108-000 | Abortion deprives a fetus of an entire human future: |
b67fc3fb-2019-04-17T11:47:41Z-00038-000 | Abortion is just when birth control fails (involuntary impregnation) |
40f19507-2019-04-17T11:47:33Z-00068-000 | "Commentary: No Child Left Behind needs revision". McClatchy. December 11, 2008 - "schools should be judged on whether each child progresses from one year to the next, which is called a 'growth model.' It asks, did the child's knowledge and skills grow at least one year's worth? Are children who are behind getting enough attention to help them catch up? Those are the important questions, not whether this third grade scores better than the previous year's third-grade class [under no child left behind]." |
40f19507-2019-04-17T11:47:33Z-00070-000 | There is some information in the world that is essential to know as a means of communicating effectively and analytically with other individuals in society, whether as a citizen or in the marketplace. Standardized tests help ensure that all students learn this important information. It is true that this information can be cut-and-dry and perhaps even boring, including history, literacy (reading comprehension), and math. Yet, it is, nevertheless, essential, so testing for it and ensuring students know the information is socially and educationally valuable. Yet, it is also true, that this essential information does not constitute all the information that a community may believe their children should know. |
40f19507-2019-04-17T11:47:33Z-00040-000 | NCLB standardized tests are a poor measure of school performance |
40f19507-2019-04-17T11:47:33Z-00101-000 | When teacher accountability is based on test scores, teachers are often motivated to cheat, by modifying student standardized tests so that more pass. This does not help the students and teachers should not be put in this position. |
40f19507-2019-04-17T11:47:33Z-00090-000 | Alfie Kohn. "NCLB: 'Too Destructive To Salvage'". Common Dreams. May 31, 2007 - "according to a recent 50-state survey by Teachers Network, a non-profit education organization, exactly 3% of teachers think NCLB helps them to teach more effectively. No wonder 129 education and civil rights organizations have endorsed a letter to Congress deploring the law's overemphasis on standardized testing and punitive sanctions. No wonder 30,000 people (so far) have signed a petition at educatorroundtable.org calling the law 'too destructive to salvage.'" |
40f19507-2019-04-17T11:47:33Z-00091-000 | Charles Murray. "Acid Tests". Wall Street Journal. July 25, 2006 - "It pushes classrooms toward relentless drilling, not something that inspires able people to become teachers or makes children eager to learn." |
40f19507-2019-04-17T11:47:33Z-00061-000 | Standardized tests poorly measure real student learning |
4c11bb9f-2019-04-17T11:47:33Z-00041-000 | Cooperation, not competition, is best way to improve schools. |
4c11bb9f-2019-04-17T11:47:33Z-00012-000 | Privatization of public schools through vouchers is a good thing. |
4c11bb9f-2019-04-17T11:47:33Z-00059-000 | Cooperation between schools, city and local officials, communities, and educational groups is the best way to improve schools. It ensures that information and resources are shared and that everyone works together to improve the educational system collectively. Competition is much the opposite. It ensures that school administrators do not share information that may undermine their "competitiveness" and distracts attention away from the most important thing - how to best educate children - and focuses more on how to out-compete other schools. When combined with testing regimes (such as exists in No Child Left Behind), it often creates a perverse obsession with "teaching to the test" as a means of producing a higher average test score compared to other schools. This may have no relation to the quality of an education. |
4c11bb9f-2019-04-17T11:47:33Z-00081-000 | Vouchers allow individual school cultures to develop, enabling teachers to choose schools that promote teaching approaches that match their teaching styles, and enable students/parents to choose schools that match the students learning styles and abilities. |
4c11bb9f-2019-04-17T11:47:33Z-00100-000 | Education is used to inculcate values that the society believes in and to promote social and civic awareness. Religious schools promoting anti-female policies, for example, should not be receiving taxpayer funding in the form of vouchers. This violates the constitutional separation of church and state. State funds cannot be separated from state control. It matters not whether the state is not directly making the choice to fund religious schools. Taxpayer funds should not be allowed to be directed toward religious schools.[15] |
fca1d19b-2019-04-17T11:47:27Z-00016-000 | Net neutrality "replaces technological solutions with bureaucratic oversight. |
fca1d19b-2019-04-17T11:47:27Z-00024-000 | Some data should be allowed to move faster |
fca1d19b-2019-04-17T11:47:27Z-00047-000 | "Editorial: Net neutrality not so neutral." OC Register. September 25th, 2009: "One difficulty with government guaranteeing entitlements at the expense of others is the problem of those who abuse the free ride. Bandwidth-hogging services such as person-to-person file sharing and downloadable video from sites like YouTube and Google strain network capacities. Broadband providers legitimately claim they have a right to regulate such traffic over their networks, which may mean giving priority to their own services or charging varying rates. [...] That's why large bandwidth providers such as Verizon and AT&T have opposed previous 'net neutrality' proposals. Their networks would be abused. And that's why operations like Google want net neutrality mandated by federal regulations. They could offer services without sharing the whole cost to provide them over broadband networks." |
fca1d19b-2019-04-17T11:47:27Z-00002-000 | Internet providers have a right to control their networks |
fca1d19b-2019-04-17T11:47:27Z-00025-000 | Net Neutrality is a solution in search of a problem |
fca1d19b-2019-04-17T11:47:27Z-00003-000 | Net neutrality has historical precedent |
fca1d19b-2019-04-17T11:47:27Z-00071-000 | "Editorial: Net neutrality not so neutral." An Orange County Register. September 25th, 2009: "What's at stake is who gets control, and who pays the cost. We believe businesses, yes even big corporations like AT&T, have a right to control what they own and to operate without financial penalty imposed by the government." |
fca1d19b-2019-04-17T11:47:27Z-00026-000 | Net neutrality allows some sites to hog bandwidth |
fca1d19b-2019-04-17T11:47:27Z-00012-000 | Net neutrality forces network owners to operate in suboptimal ways |
fca1d19b-2019-04-17T11:47:27Z-00020-000 | Net neutrality impairs development of broadband infrastructure: |
fca1d19b-2019-04-17T11:47:27Z-00058-000 | It is not essential that network neutrality be good for Internet Service Providers, so long as it is judged good for the public and websites overall, and sufficiently tolerable for ISPs. A good analogy is any piece of consumer protection regulation, such as seat belts or food-packing industry regulations, which certainly cost the businesses under consideration a little bit of money, but do so in the interest of the general public. Therefore, any conclusion that net neutrality is somewhat harmful to network owners does not mean that the idea of network neutrality is, overall, a bad idea. |
fca1d19b-2019-04-17T11:47:27Z-00043-000 | Arpan Sura. "The Problem With Network Neutrality". FreedomWorks. May 2, 2006: "Network neutrality also is bad for competition. Differential pricing of content allows competition among ISPs. If a company wants to adopt a policy of network neutrality, it is free to do so and win market share from consumers who find this attractive. If a company wants to favor video or voice content, it can find consumers and applications providers who use the Internet primarily for this purpose. [...] Niche companies that want to offer only a small fraction of the Internet can flourish, too. Imagine, for example, a company that allowed cell phone users to access sports scores and only sports scores through its Internet portal. If that company were upfront about restricting its service to a limited part of the Internet, this would not be a nefarious idea. Many people would find it quite convenient. But it would nonetheless be banned if network neutrality legislation were passed. Network neutrality will destroy many entrepreneurial ideas like this one." |
fca1d19b-2019-04-17T11:47:27Z-00029-000 | Net neutrality prevents discrimination between sites |
fca1d19b-2019-04-17T11:47:27Z-00007-000 | Net Neutrality means greater regulation of the Internet |
fca1d19b-2019-04-17T11:47:27Z-00053-000 | Network Service Providers need money to expand the critical broadband infrastructure that enables streaming data over the Internet. Many argue that the need for this expansion will rise exponentially as the demand for multimedia and streaming video grows dramatically (such media involves more bits of data, and thus takes up more broadband space). Network Service Providers envision a tier system for charging different content-providers for varying levels of broadband use. It is claimed that the revenue from this would be used to help expand the broadband infrastructure. Without such funding, network providers argue that the infrastructure will be insufficient and that consumers will suffer from slower Internet speeds. Because Network Neutrality blocks such a tiered system from emerging, many believe it prevents network owners from raising the revenue needed to make the investments that will build the robust Internet of the future. |
fca1d19b-2019-04-17T11:47:27Z-00061-000 | "Editorial: Net neutrality not so neutral." An Orange County Register. September 25th, 2009: "to bring about a utopian desire for virtually unlimited access over a limited resource, government would require broadband providers to operate in ways not necessarily in the best interest of the companies or their paying customers." |
d3a60001-2019-04-17T11:47:19Z-00013-000 | Coca is chewed by millions; ban is just impossible. |
b9ef185e-2019-04-17T11:47:34Z-00065-000 | New Orleans Mayor Nagin said in 2005 when unveiling his crime camera program: "These cameras not only record crime, they are witnesses that cannot be intimidated."[6] Indeed, when crime cameras capture a crime, they expose the reality of those involved and the details of their actions. They reveal the truth, upon which justice relies. This stands in stark contrast with less detailed testimonies and heresy, making cameras particularly valuable to the justice system. |
b9ef185e-2019-04-17T11:47:34Z-00020-000 | Damaged crime cameras can be fixed. |
b9ef185e-2019-04-17T11:47:34Z-00013-000 | Cameras help protect citizens' liberties against crime. |
b9ef185e-2019-04-17T11:47:34Z-00021-000 | Crime camera evidence is very rarely used in court cases. |
b9ef185e-2019-04-17T11:47:34Z-00074-000 | Ken Garcia. "Debate over crime cameras brings out the clueless in S.F." The Examiner. January 20, 2007 - "There’s no doubt that people with thick rap sheets don’t like them, and they’re the people who are really infringing on our civil liberties." |
b9ef185e-2019-04-17T11:47:34Z-00029-000 | Shift in crime means cameras are working, should be expanded |
b9ef185e-2019-04-17T11:47:34Z-00082-000 | Benjamin Wachs. "Crime cameras work, but SF doesn't work the cameras". SF Weekly. June 27, 2008 - "Even by the standard of San Francisco’s pretty lousy records, SF’s crime cameras have a pretty lousy record. As SF Weekly has previously reported, they’ve cost nearly $1 million, led to only 1 arrest, and have provided police with virtually no useful information [...] But here’s the funny thing … by which I mean sad: other municipalities have had crime camera programs that work. We’ve previously reported about the success of Washington D.C.’s crime cameras, which reduced crime by 19 percent in areas covered by cameras and helped catch suspects.[...] How do they do it? [...] Simple: Like D.C., Rochester actually has real people watching the cameras. SF … for some reason … doesn’t." [the issue, therefore, is not whether crime cameras are good or bad, but how to best build a strong crime camera program with practices that ensure crime cameras are being used effectively. |
b9ef185e-2019-04-17T11:47:34Z-00052-000 | Heather Knight. "Crime cameras not capturing many crimes". San Francisco Chronicle. March 21, 2008 - "The cameras have been installed in phases on some of the city's roughest streets since 2005 with large concentrations of them in the Western Addition and Mission District and others in the lower Haight, the Tenderloin and near Coit Tower. [...] The cameras have contributed to only one arrest nearly two years ago in a city that saw 98 homicides last year, a 12-year high. The video is choppy, and police aren't allowed to watch video in real-time or maneuver the cameras to get a better view of potential crimes." |
b9ef185e-2019-04-17T11:47:34Z-00075-000 | Cameras are there to protect the public. They are not in place to spy on people and have no interest in the personal lives of those on camera. The only interest is in the people breaking the law. If a person has nothing to hide then they should have no problem being filmed, they should be thankful that the authorities are trying to protec them and their peers. |
b9ef185e-2019-04-17T11:47:34Z-00000-000 | Crime cameras often have no one watching due to limited resources. |
b9ef185e-2019-04-17T11:47:34Z-00023-000 | Crime cameras help catch criminals and get them off the street |
b9ef185e-2019-04-17T11:47:34Z-00016-000 | Crime cameras in public spaces do not really invade privacy. |
b9ef185e-2019-04-17T11:47:34Z-00001-000 | Police should not waste time watching crime cameras |
b9ef185e-2019-04-17T11:47:34Z-00054-000 | "Facts about Crime cameras and the city of New Orleans". From the Office of Mayor Nagin - "These cameras help to identify who is involved with specific crimes and provide a deterrent to those who know the cameras are installed." |
b9ef185e-2019-04-17T11:47:34Z-00009-000 | Crime cameras lead to slippery slope of Big Brother surveillance. |
b9ef185e-2019-04-17T11:47:34Z-00070-000 | Ken Garcia. "Debate over crime cameras brings out the clueless in S.F." The Examiner. January 20, 2007 - "You can expect any issue that loosely covers the term civil liberties to bring out the masses in San Francisco [...] Yet, thankfully there was one argument that commissioners just couldn’t brush aside. And that is that people who live in and near neighborhoods rife with prostitution, drug-dealing, robberies and frenetic gang acti- vity desperately want surveillance cameras, and the more the better. It’s a cry that’s been heard for some time around town, and given the relatively paltry cost of the equipment. it seems but a trifle to fret over." |
b9ef185e-2019-04-17T11:47:34Z-00025-000 | Spending on cameras for a "sense of safety" is wasteful |
b9ef185e-2019-04-17T11:47:34Z-00033-000 | Crime cameras help deter crime |
b9ef185e-2019-04-17T11:47:34Z-00018-000 | Too few crime cameras are working to fight/deter crime |
b9ef185e-2019-04-17T11:47:34Z-00026-000 | Crime cameras help restore a public sense of safety |
b9ef185e-2019-04-17T11:47:34Z-00011-000 | Crime cameras are an intrusion on individual privacy rights |
b9ef185e-2019-04-17T11:47:34Z-00004-000 | Maintaining crime cameras costs too much. |
50689d14-2019-04-17T11:47:19Z-00172-000 | "5 Myths about going to law school." Penelope Trunk's Brazen Careerist. May 16th, 2007: "Myth 4: I'll be able to advocate for the little guy. If you are independently wealthy, you can advocate for the poor, fight for environmental justice, defend civil rights, etc. But if you are like the typical law school graduate today, you will finish with substantial debt. Public interest jobs are too low paying to accommodate a heavy debt burden. Some law schools have a debt-forgiveness program for people going into public interest jobs, but the salaries are so low that they are often hard to manage even in light of debt forgiveness." |
50689d14-2019-04-17T11:47:19Z-00149-000 | David Lat. "In Defense of Going to Law School." Above the Law. July 13th, 2010: "4. Not everyone graduates with debt (or with as much debt as some people think). I was lucky enough to graduate law school debt-free; my parents paid for my college and law school. And I’m not alone. According to the Law School Survey of Student Engagement (figure 7), over 10 percent of law students will graduate with zero debt, and another 5 percent or so will graduate with less than $20,000 in student loans. So somewhere between 15 and 20 percent of law school graduates leave school with little to no debt — and a valuable professional degree to show for their efforts. There are several reasons why perhaps a fifth of law school graduates have little or no debt. Some have parents, grandparents or spouses who are willing to help out with educational costs. Some have savings from pre-law-school careers, in lucrative fields such as finance or consulting. And some attend reasonably priced state schools and/or receive very generous scholarship money. The dean of one top 25 law school told me earlier this year that about two-thirds of his school’s students receive some form of scholarship aid from the school. [...] So the 'sticker price' of law school, in terms of the cost you see on the law school website or in brochures, can be misleading. Many students aren’t paying full freight — and many of the students who are paying full freight can afford to." |
50689d14-2019-04-17T11:47:19Z-00074-000 | Short-term law careers undermine law school "investment." |
f89bdc44-2019-04-17T11:47:43Z-00088-000 | Handguns are most needed for self-defense in the hands of citizens that are under the most threat, such as in DC's crime-ridden streets. A ban on handguns in DC is contrary to this logic. |
f89bdc44-2019-04-17T11:47:43Z-00043-000 | A ban on legal handguns disadvantages citizens against armed criminals. |
f89bdc44-2019-04-17T11:47:43Z-00000-000 | The implications of the DC handgun ban are not supported nationwide. |
f89bdc44-2019-04-17T11:47:43Z-00017-000 | Since other gun classes have been banned, so too can handguns for reasonable ends. |
f89bdc44-2019-04-17T11:47:43Z-00039-000 | Handguns are particularly needed for self-defense in a crime-ridden DC. |
66e94586-2019-04-17T11:47:39Z-00005-000 | "Privatization is a neoliberal and imperialist plan. Health can’t be privatized because it is a fundamental human right, nor can education, water, electricity and other public services. They can’t be surrendered to private capital that denies the people from their rights." - Hugo Chávez during his closing speech at the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil. January 31, 2005. [2] |
3f68778d-2019-04-17T11:47:34Z-00009-000 | Nationalization of US autos wrongly advances socialism in the US. |
3f68778d-2019-04-17T11:47:34Z-00130-000 | The US is already leaning toward socialism significantly with its major $700 billion bailout. Nationalizing the auto industry would further this unfortunate series of events. |
3f68778d-2019-04-17T11:47:34Z-00100-000 | "Saving Detroit". Economist. 13 Nov. 2008 - "The carmakers retort that being in Chapter 11 will poison their business. Buying a new car is a long-term gamble on there being dealers, spare parts and a thriving second-hand market for your vehicle. Drivers overwhelmingly tell surveys that they would not take the risk when Mercedes and Toyota make perfectly good alternatives. But $50 billion is a lot to stake on a hunch. A wiser bet is that whatever consumers say today, the stigma of being in Chapter 11 would fade, obscured by price cuts, advertising and most of all news that the car companies were tackling their remaining problems. Remember that, in many ways, Chapter 11 is more stable and predictable than depending upon the government." |
3f68778d-2019-04-17T11:47:34Z-00040-000 | Chapter 11 bankruptcy will help autos restructure and regroup. |