You mean the social security system that is NOW BROKE?
Given that we are having to send the same units over and over again because we don’t have enough enlisting for government pay, maybe not so much.
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No, private enterprise is better because there is no insistance on keeping it going when it fails (Usually).
If a private school put out 20% of functional illiterates, it wouldn’t be in business long. Public schools- ahhh, throw more money at 'em that’ll do it.
The social security system is broke due to administration inefficiency?
Yeah! And imagine how well it would be doing now if we had privatized it when Bush wanted to!
What’s the criteria for determining if a website is gay or not? It’s only attracted to same-domain websites? Sleek and stylish formatting? Embedded mp3s from Broadway musicals?
Actually it says gay in the websites header, if you clicked on the link provided…
Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
I don’t know, my 401K is doing okay these days.
I don’t think that was an answer, really, but the fact is, at some point, we are going to have to cut benefits (The One is already talking about it) and limit who can get it, perhaps by means testing.
For the record, this lazy government employee (LGE) once worked 181 consecutive days of 12 hours or more, in the Iraq war. And unlike the contractors working with me doing the same work (who were generally paid more), I paid taxes on all of it.
It’s tempting to respond to your insult against government workers by saying something equally blanket about conservatives and blind faith in the private sector in the face of contradictory evidence. But I know plenty of thoughtful conservatives who aren’t so dogmatic (some are fellow LGEs), and I don’t want to insult them. I’d rather let the insult pass than appear ignorant.
Oh, and I volunteered for two such deployments, so one LGE allowed us to spare two military personnel from repeat deploying (or the U.S. govt. from overpaying on two contractors).
Guy, I was in the military, too.
Rank, E-6, MOS 76Y30, in case you were interested.
Worked with a lot of guys who were outstanding, lots of guys who joined the military because no one else would have them, and a few of them mustered out as big of losers when the got in.
My complaint about the current war (and yes, I’m going to rip Bush here) is that when this went down, they should have invoked selective service, built a very large army very quickly and had 20 divisions ready to keep the peace in Iraq. I honestly think it’s foolish to trust the defense of this country to anyone you can scam into enlisting on the promise of a scholarship most of them never see.
I’m not thrilled with the contractor thing, personally, but the reason the military did it was because they couldn’t enlist enough guys to do the support and service arms.
Social Security is not broke. If we don’t do something in about 3 decades, it will pay 80 percent. Do you understand what broke means? You must have gotten that at Fox.
I’m aware of the site, yes. It is self-described as a “leading online news source offering a broad range of information on politics, pop culture, gay culture, media, entertainment, photography, fashion, technology, men, music, and travel.” The writers don’t hide their interest in news items that gay people might be interested in. It’s pretty small-minded to call it a “gay website”.
Slight nitpick: I have never been in the military, apologies if that wasn’t clear.
Thread-search-by-userpost-results Moment of Zen:
“Bachmann announces she’s running”
Like all those trade schools such as ITT Tech? Or the Beauty Schools and Model Academies? Those all suck and are still in business.
As a Canadian, I feel the best advice I can give is: you have a country that is okay most of the time. Don’t fuck it up by electing crazy people.
Yeah, but l look at who they cater to.
They cater to the people who sit at home all day waiting for the welfare check while they watch Jerry Springer.
The kind of people who are only suseptible to those scams because after 12 years of Public School, they don’t have the reasoning skills to realize they’ve been scammed, and got the socialist indoctrination that the world owes them a living.
“I have a house and a fridge full of food, therefore we don’t need welfare programs.”
Jet Li is talking about cutting benefits?
Wow, that is some twisted logic there. “Private education is better than public education, except for where it isn’t in which case it’s the fault of public education. And people who are trying to get off unemployment and learn a trade in order to support themselves doing honest work are only doing so because they think the world owes them a living.”
Clearly you must have attended public school to think that any of that makes sense.
Nothing like taking a statement out of context to criticize it.
I don’t consider these trade schools that advertise on daytime TV to the Springer set to be education. They are a scam, out to scam dumb people. Clearly any voucher program for CHILDREN wouldn’t work like that. There would be some regulation on how they work, and they’d have to submit to some kind of standardized testing just like everyone else does.
But, yeah, I think these scams build off the same mentality. “You can become a qualified nurse’s assistant in three weeks! Government tuition available!”
The only place where “success” comes before “work” is in the dictionary.
In other words, they’d be run by the government. Isn’t there a word for schools run by the government?
Why all the fuss about Bachmann running for POTUS? I have it from a high-placed source in the government, speaking on the record and for attribution, that she was [post=13750220]born[/post] in [thread=607211]Canada[/thread]. That settles everything, doesn’t it? 
NO, they would be forced to meet STANDARDS.
For instance, here’s a government agency I have nice things to say about- OSHA. OSHA does not have a bureaucrat in every work place. Doesn’t need to. But they do have established standards of what can and can’t be considered safe, and they have compliance documentation to prove you are doing that. And they don’t tell you how to run the rest of your business.
Now, if you did that with a voucher system- this is the bare standard you have to meet to get a voucher, schools would meet those. Students must be able to do work at grade level, teach certain criteria. etc. You’d probably have to set the bar a bit higher than the abyssmal place public education is at.