the2real4mafol said:
A) Isn't politics a giant debate anyways? I mean so what if i couldn't vote back then, i still have the right to disagree with him and protest against him. This isn't China B) Bedroom tax is a tax on public housing, for those who have a spare bedroom. The main problem is that people who use public housing are the poorest in society. But yeah it's something specific to the UK. C) I just don't like how there is a financial barrier to healthcare in America, i would rather have everyone pay higher tax to have equal access. 1) I know it's not good for everyone to get a degree as it wouldn't be so valuable but people need to not be so ignorant of things in general./ They need to be aware of stuff like politics, economy, history etc. Ignorance breeds stupidity and hatred and is why groups like KKK still exist (even though it is very small now). We need a balance between those who do specialised jobs and just ordinary jobs. And people need to be aware of what happens out there in the world too. 2) I tend to agree with alot of what you say here 3) If the world is generally like this, why do people still believe in the American dream? Knowing they likely won't make it. 4) It's bit like in Cuba then where the doctors don't get paid very well so end up taking secondary jobs like taxi drivers. A bit of waste studying all those years isn't it? But anyway, as much as a problem in having too many graduates out there. I still don't think higher education should be a thing that's run for profit, knowledge is a wonderful thing that frees people from the tyranny of ignorance regardless of what they use it for. All education should be free for those who want to get a better job or just know more about a specific field. And yeah, i think that proposals to rate schools is just wrong. What if you are smart but you had no choice but to go to a crap school? Then you are discriminated against despite your inteligience. The cost of higher education as it stands stop some of the brightest minds who may happen to be poorer are stopped from doing well in life. |
A) No. Politics isn't a big debate. Poltics is attempting to put in the policies that will best help a country and their people... and again, if you didn't vote for the guy you can't claim he's betraying you... because you didn't vote for him. How is he doing with his actual campaign promises he made for the people who voted for him?
B) That seems perfectly reasonable to me. If you are getting free housing from the government, and have a spare bedroom... you really should fill that with some other poor person you know or pay the government some reimbursment.
C) and I prefer a system like the US where everybody can get the treatment they need, though it costs a bit more for some then others, instead of a situation like the NHS where you have to have local concil approval and people who are older or have other conditions are denied treatment because they don't fit into the preaproved areas... and if you try and pay for it yourself... you are booted from the NHS and can't even get stuff paid that you woud otherwise.
The truth is NO healthcare system can actually give everybody every medical treatment they need. It's too expensive.
When dealing with soemones actually life... it doesn't seems even less fair then the american system to force people to die for being too old or having the wrong condition or needing the wrong ind of srugery. when they've been paying their entire life to get healthcare, and then when there time in line comes up... they get turned down.
At least in the US system if you don't want to go into debt, you usually didn't spend a ton of money in the first place to not get treated like in the UK.
1) That's actually not true. Research shows that smart and educated people are just as predjudiced as stupid people. They're just better at hiding it, because they're smart.
http://www.clutchmagonline.com/2013/08/new-study-smart-people-just-as-racist-as-others-they-just-hide-it-better/
3) You don't need college to fufill the American Dream. That's just a decent paycheck and a house. Most people actally do achieve that. Though our overfocus on college has caused us to lose a lot of the good "non college" jobs. Which is extremly troubling.
However the only real way to get those jobs back is to change the culture. Get people more united to buy more local products.
4) The vast majority of colleges in the United States aren't for profit... and like was outlined... free educaiton is fine... if your willing to realize that the cost of that free education is that "good jobs" will end up paying much less and be much less available.
To me it's not worth the price. Espiecally when you've got Libraries and the Internet when it comes to just wanting to learn about something.
