Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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Originally Posted by flips333

This **** pisses me off to no end. EVERY single wave of imigrants to this country... Came here... Was **** on by the majority, first generation buckeled down, told the second generation to get as far into school as possible repeat, and thus that group was accepted. The Polish, the irish, the italians, the jews, and now that is being instilled in hispanic immigrants. Parents work assess off, get kids through school. It's like history never happened. Maybe history never happened for the uneducated.

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yep. I see literally no possible reason why anyone wouldn't want education more readily available and easier to attain. None. I get you don't NEED it for a lot of jobs, but in the history of mankind, has better education ever hurt anyone or any group? Hell no

You want to make America Great Again, make the colleges great again. Honestly our innovation stemmed from our secondary education system. When America took off it was because we gobbled up half the best minds Europe had to offer from 1900-1940, due to Nazis, wars and having a more free academic environment (Tenure in the US was a boon to attracting the best, US tenure is still way more sturdy than EU tenure). At that time intellectual property they came up with in their research was theirs... (not true today). I wish people with MAGA hats had an understanding of what actually happened in the past.

You know what happens when the colleges are free.... Grade inflation ends. Secondary education has become a business, because all the public funding has dried up. If it was free then you would either HACK it, or fail out. colleges could truly challenge students without a worry they would go belly up because of it.

I'm sure this will provide fuel to the fire for those crying foul with college, but I am not one to ignore a problem.
http://www.gradeinflation.com/

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Originally Posted by Hawkeye15

Ok, stick with me here, you clearly don't get it.

Our parents, were able to do the following on an average salary:

Buy a single family home
Raise 2-4 kids on a single income
Stash away retirement savings, and actually retire at a decent age
Have affordable healthcare
Send their kids to college if they chose to

All of this on an average income.

Today, that isn't possible. It's not. You claim we are doing better financially in America than most other places, but you are wrong. That used to be true. It isn't anymore. Wages have not stuck with the costs of homes rising, the cost of education rising, the cost of child care rising, the cost of healthcare rising, nor anything else for that matter. Over half of all Americans have no retirement savings, and debt on top of it. You claim its all about choices. Fine. The point is, those same choices were made only 30 years ago with the ability for people to afford all of those items that people can no longer afford on average salary.

Wage gap is getting worse. The disparity in wealth has never been greater. The middle class is shrinking by the day. If this is the America you want, have it. Because it's not the America we all grew up in. And if I hear a single baby boomer talk about how the younger generations are lazy, I am going to neck chop them.

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That's the product of a growing country. It would happen in any other circumstances. You don't seem to be able to connect the dots. There were less people, more land, and the local person could find a job without being highly educated because of manufacturing. Those days are over. America is being overpopulated, there are less high paying jobs due to it being a certified process, and less land. We are doing better financially in America than most other places. Working minimum wage here makes you wealthy in other third world countries. If your goal is to retire and live life, that is what you should do. It's called PURCHASING power. You don't understand the reasoning why things happen. You just say it happens and offer relatively zero explanation as to why. I've read that you stated you would buy a home in Minnesota than like say, NYC because you get so much space and can live comfortably. You would be HARD PRESSED to find anyone in NYC willing to live in Minnesota. They would rather pay their rent here. Stop dismissing the choices of people and expect a life where they can enjoy themselves. If you do the correct things, you should be able to enjoy yourself. Your problem is you're talking about those who have 3-4 kids and a deadbeat dad. Otherwise, I don't know how you can possibly think 50-60 hours wouldn't fill the basic needs of life. It more than enough does that.

People who think going to college makes you more educated are unbelievably naive. The only way you can be more educated is by having the want to learn. That's the first thing. The second is to use what you learn and apply them. My brother is a CPA and every year, he has to learn new accounting tools, methods, format, etc., It's a requirement. He becomes more educated because he wants and has to learn about this. College would have never taught him any of this. The problem with people getting educated is they aren't going to want to do these things in their free time. If people spent more time researching topics that interest them instead of playing Fortnite, they would all be more educated. Sadly, people on their free time want to relax and enjoy themselves. When you're in college, you're bound to a certain criteria so you most likely have to do more research and studies but that isn't the outlier here. The outlier is those who want to be more educated can do so with or without college.

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Originally Posted by FlashBolt

That's the product of a growing country. It would happen in any other circumstances. You don't seem to be able to connect the dots. There were less people, more land, and the local person could find a job without being highly educated because of manufacturing. Those days are over. America is being overpopulated, there are less high paying jobs due to it being a certified process, and less land. We are doing better financially in America than most other places. Working minimum wage here makes you wealthy in other third world countries. If your goal is to retire and live life, that is what you should do. It's called PURCHASING power. You don't understand the reasoning why things happen. You just say it happens and offer relatively zero explanation as to why. I've read that you stated you would buy a home in Minnesota than like say, NYC because you get so much space and can live comfortably. You would be HARD PRESSED to find anyone in NYC willing to live in Minnesota. They would rather pay their rent here. Stop dismissing the choices of people and expect a life where they can enjoy themselves. If you do the correct things, you should be able to enjoy yourself. Your problem is you're talking about those who have 3-4 kids and a deadbeat dad. Otherwise, I don't know how you can possibly think 50-60 hours wouldn't fill the basic needs of life. It more than enough does that.

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like I said, you can have the America you are sticking up for right now. You clearly have no ability to view things through the eyes of anyone but yourself. Common for the right.

Choices haha. Like I said, the same choices now don't get you what it used to. It should however, but you want to ignore all the factors that don't allow that to happen today.

reminds me of this:

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And progress is not intelligently planned;
It's the facade of our heritage, the odor of our land
They speak of Progress, in red, white and blue
It's the structure of the future as demise comes seething through
It's progress, 'til there's nothing left to gain
As the dearth of new ideas makes us wallow in our shame
So before you go contribute more
To the destruction of this world you adore
Remember life on Earth is but a flash of dawn
We're all part of it as the day rolls on

And progress is a message that we send
One step closer to the future, one inch closer to the end
I say That progress is a synonym of time
We are all aware of it but it's nothing we refine
And progress is a debt we all must pay
Its convenience we all cherish, its pollution we disdain
And the cutting edge is dulling
Too many people to plow through
Just keep your ****ing distance
And it can't include you

It's progress, 'til there's nothing left to gain
It's progress, it's a message that we send
And progress is a debt we all must pay

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Originally Posted by FlashBolt

People who think going to college makes you more educated are unbelievably naive. The only way you can be more educated is by having the want to learn. That's the first thing. The second is to use what you learn and apply them. My brother is a CPA and every year, he has to learn new accounting tools, methods, format, etc., It's a requirement. He becomes more educated because he wants and has to learn about this. College would have never taught him any of this. The problem with people getting educated is they aren't going to want to do these things in their free time. If people spent more time researching topics that interest them instead of playing Fortnite, they would all be more educated. Sadly, people on their free time want to relax and enjoy themselves. When you're in college, you're bound to a certain criteria so you most likely have to do more research and studies but that isn't the outlier here. The outlier is those who want to be more educated can do so with or without college.

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ironic

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Originally Posted by Hawkeye15

like I said, you can have the America you are sticking up for right now. You clearly have no ability to view things through the eyes of anyone but yourself. Common for the right.

Choices haha. Like I said, the same choices now don't get you what it used to. It should however, but you want to ignore all the factors that don't allow that to happen today.

reminds me of this:

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Damn, guess I have to ignore you.

1) I'm not for the right. I'm an independent. Just so happens I dislike what Democrats are doing and the party shifting.

2) You keep saying I have no ability to see through the eyes of anyone but myself. You're wrong. I do have the ability. I just don't let it cloud my judgement. The facts are facts.

3) The same choices now shouldn't get what it used to. That's called a growing country and you can also thank globalism for it. Really, connect the dots. You haven't explained anything other than how you want things to be. You would get nowhere just complaining instead of having constructive details in what you're saying.

And my stance on college doesn't make you more educated isn't ironic. College is an outdated form of learning. It's more about colleges pocketing the $ so people can get certified. If college was truly about learning, they would put better curriculum and have better professors.

Sad to say, it took five years to have to put you on ignore but it has to be done. You're just ignoring facts and vent about how unfair life is without offering details as to why.

Oh wow, can't ignore moderators. In that case, Hawkeye, please don't respond to me and I won't respond to you. Thanks.

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Originally Posted by FlashBolt

Oh wow, can't ignore moderators. In that case, Hawkeye, please don't respond to me and I won't respond to you. Thanks.

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no problem, I will return to never responding to your "I am the smartest guy in the room" posts again.

Good luck brochacho

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Originally Posted by Hawkeye15

no problem, I will return to never responding to your "I am the smartest guy in the room" posts again.

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I just wish he’d figure out how to use paragraphs...

The biggest difference is one has a micropenis and one doesn't.

E: Oh ****, I guess I wasn't on the last page.

Wait Hawkeye is a moderator? And he lets the **** fly from the left here but posters from the right get banned by far less?

Shocking!


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Lol Hawkeye the dirty liberal socialist.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: Amazon abandoning its plans for a New York headquarters proves 'anything is possible'

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It's not a good thing, lol.

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Originally Posted by fingerbang

It's not a good thing, lol.

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Depends. LOL.