Should government correct inequality?

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  1. US Conservative

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    US Conservative Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Case in point-hillary server.

    Obama and ISIS, and his Iran deal.

    Feinsteins chinese spy.

    I could go on.
     
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    How so ??
     
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    Repeteating error is assumed. Even if there is a full scholarship, there are costs. Human capital analysis, the analysis loved by the right wingers that celebrate your posts, is based on that premise: opportunity costs of foregone earnings
     
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    I was in law school at that time and will have you know that I led a student group who wrote letters to the government of China in which we pleaded for political tolerance. Our efforts failed, of course, because world leaders, including that nitwit in chief failed to take corrective action. Yet, that same buffoon did not hesitate in Panama which is much smaller and posed less of a retaliatory risk.
     
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    LoL right. They're well known for their positions on carbon and abortion.
     
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    Why would anyone in their right mind write to a totalitarian communist government and expect any corrective action ??
     
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    Gives them bragging rights. "See, I wrote a letter." (That'll show 'em.)

    We are in a disgusting age of "woke-ism," promoted by the media and academia, both feckless.

    "Are you woke? I'm woke. Everyone who is good is woke. How can you not be woke with Hitler in the White House?"
     
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    We ain't, I was addressing our attentive audience :)
     
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    It's immoral (I suspect that all 'good' books would agree on this) to allocate finite and much needed resources to those whose position is self-inflicted - and therefore a CHOICE - while the genuinely starving die from lack of resources.

    There simply isn't the resources or time in our physical reality to stop and consider the back story of every First World addict, while innocent children are literally dying from starvation. Doing so is outrageous, I would submit.
     
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    "Woke-ism" is hilarious. It's amazing to see "woke" people actually apologizing for stating that all lives matter.

    I just finished reading "Woke: A Guide to Social Justice". It's a satirical look at woke-ism and is incredibly and tragically funny.
     
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    All the more reason to stop enabling safe First Worlders.
     
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    Spending money on "forced rehab/mental illness treatment with forced medication programs" is the only justifiable expense IMO.
     
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    I have two kids currently studying very expensive degrees. Thus far we've spent a few hundred bucks per kid, at best. Their study is covered by loans and partial scholarships, and they work part-time to cover incidentals. We could have done it on welfare, even once all three are in university. WE don't pay, and they don't pay until they begin working.
     
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    I don't think we could ever return to the days of legal institutionalisation. We're too 'woke'.
     
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    Continuing to repeat your lack of understanding of the Chicago School's human capital approach is not interesting.
     
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    Real world examples of making things work mess with your gilded theories, don't they Reivs ;)
     
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    No one has died in the US since the 1870's due to an actual lack of food.

    They are talking about Anorexia, Bulimia, and related body dysmorphia issues.
     
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    Quick read, might help you understand what has been spent on this very subject and why it has failed to improve anything!

    The War on Poverty After 50 Years
     
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    What are you guys even talking about. I need to argue with somebody but I don't know who. Or why.
     
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    I have a question. Suppose there had been no war on poverty starting with LBJ. Would behaviors have changed, with families and neighbors taking care of their own, or would there have been actual starvation and increased illegitimacy. Drug addiction, and homelessness?

    I guess we'll never know.
     
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    All the “woke folk” understand that it’s the right of a mentally ill person to be crazy.
     
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    My theories? Nope. Just the means to understand education investment, as applied by your right wing fans.
     
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    Both of which are symptoms of EXCESS.
     

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