I’m pretty sure **mhendo **is poking at **Iamnotivan **for specifying the gender of the minister.
I am agreeing. The “also” was in reference to mhendo.
Look there’s a lot to dislike about the provincial government that has nothing to do with them being liberal but your characterization is wrong.
OECD noted that Canada had slipped in math (and reading) and that the slippage was across almost all provinces. In response “The province [Ontario] is offering two-day sessions on both math and reading for all teachers, as well as encouraging teachers to upgrade their skills through courses offered by the Ontario College of Teachers. The Progressive Conservative education critic Rob Leone even agreed with the aim of the project - better teaching - saying “Part of the issue, and folks have talked about this, is that the math training of teachers isn’t sufficient to the job”
Now you can argue his point is that we need more math/science graduates teaching math instead of what the minister proposed but I’m at a loss as to what could be easily and immediately implemented.
Obamacare – Heritage Foundation and Mitt Romney
Cash for Clunkers – explain how this was stupid
Big-ass Bailouts – Bush bailed out the banks. Obama saved the auto industry. Again, explain how this was stupid.
PS Just because you disagree with an idea, that doesn’t mean the idea itself is stupid. Carry on.
Solyndra!
Solyndra’s been mentioned a few times, hasn’t it?
Actually, despite being a lefty and an Obama supporter, i think that Cash for Clunkers was a stupid program and a waste of money.
While it resulted in some additional sales, and got some smoke-spewing gas guzzlers off the road, the cost per incremental sale was too high, the fuel economy requirements were not sufficiently focused on economical vehicles, and the program drove up prices on the used car market, meaning that it provided subsidies for new car buyers while acting as an effective anti-subsidy precisely for car buyers with the greatest financial hardships. There were other problems that i could probably come up with if i tried, but those are the first that come to mind.
The affordable care act / "Obama"care is pretty much a clunker.
Democrats wanted to go left, Republicans wanted to go right, and instead of using their majority to steer the country in a direction at all, Democrats decided to compromise the legislation until it became middle-way garbage.
There are two ways to do things. Like you mean it, or not at all. Half-assing it won’t get the job done.
Universal care is a good idea. Free market would be a good idea, if people were guaranteed a living wage when they hold down a job (as all great conservative ideas are, which is a great idea* in an ideal alternate reality*).
The half-ass free-market subsidized by the government approach is the sickly lovechild of two opposing philosophies, and in general, sucks out loud.
I’m actually impressed that bad idea is managing to do good. It is slightly better than inaction, on the whole, but it’s still watered-down compromised bullshit.
My biggest complaint is- the reason why the poor don’t buy healthcare isn’t because there’s no government mandate requiring us to purchase it. It’s because 600 dollars for rent and 200 dollars for food and another couple hundred for utilities doesn’t leave room for 300 dollars for health care on top of another 100 plus for car insurance.
Mandating them to purchase things they can’t afford on a thousand dollars a month won’t make them purchase it. Raise the minimum wage, dumbasses.
Let’s keep this thing going, people! Trader Joe’s withdraws its plans to build on a vacant lot in a poor neighborhood when an activist group claimed it would lead to gentrification.
And of course it’s Portland. Only in Portland do they worry about a business attracting too many white people.
On the one hand I get the fears over gentrification and the history of the issue. On the other, it’s a vacant lot, Trader Joe’s has (AFAIK) a decent reputation as an employer, and the alternative to gentrification seems to be the view that poor neighborhoods must forever remain utter shitholes or else the middle-class whites will come in and drive out the poor blacks. And some of the local residents and merchants seem a tad pissed off:
If only there was some kind of thread in great debates showing how the Trade Joe’s thing was because people were against massive government handouts to corporations and not just against white people, and in fact how everyone passing along the story is being dishonest in doing so.
Sorry, this isn’t the “stupid racist dogwhistling of the day” thread.
“Stupid Liberal Idea Of The…”
every other month?
And as stated above, the Trader Joe’s issue is not stupid; see referenced thread.
I would like to thank the previous two posters for helpfully providing a link to the fucking thread they supposedly want us to consult.
I would like to thank the previous poster for helpfully providing the necessary sarcasm.
And if I thank the previous poster for the sarcasm about the sarcasm (meta-snark?), maybe we can get this thread to catch up to the Stupid Republican Idea thread…
Oh, wait, that one’s over 12,000… never mind.
By Og, this is a terrible thread.
“Stupid Liberal communications strategy of the day,” maybe? They’ve got a legitimate complaint, but boy did they cock up the messaging.
I honestly wouldn’t mind this thread containing more references to legitimately stupid liberal ideas.
Come on, there are dumbass politicians and commentators on the liberal side of things who are constantly spouting things that make me ashamed to be associated with them. They’re no less worthy of ridicule.
Totally agree. But this thread is almost pure fail.
Indeed.
I’d say a 10 to 1 ratio of "stupid ideas’ posts pretty much reflects the political makeup of the board, so no surprise there. As with most intarweb sites, the echo chamber relfects the makeup of it’s denizens.
Clearly, there are 90% more stupid Republican ideas than Democrat ideas because, hey, liberal ideas rock.
Honestly, I wouldn’t attribute it just to the board’s bias. Most democrats here are capable of pointing out when someone on “their side” says something incredibly dumb. It’s just that republican are a lot more likely to say something phenomenally stupid.
No, you obviously don’t.