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  1. Most people who are stuck in poverty can trace it to bad decisions. Also, private schools perform better than public ones.

  2. Yeah... I want the state to help those people. They are human beings.

    Yeah... I don't think everyone can go to a private school. If teacher wages in public schools were as good as those in private schools (I am taking that they aren't for granted) I am sure they would be more even.

  3. Gotta agree with Olof there. So what if your bad decisions got you there? I don't think all the very rich people made all the right choices in life. Some of them might have even gotten there by cheating or illegal ways (take Madoff as an example). And what about the child of a poor family? What bad decision did he make?

    I agree with you that more has to be on the private sector's shoulder. But there have to be measures for when the private sector fucks up or is about to do so. Like the recent financial crisis. If there had been better regulations or if the people running the investment banks were less greedy, the whole thing could have been avoided.

    These are specially important when your country has such effect on the international scene. I am suffering today financially because your bankers made many mistakes in the last decade. I'm not an American and I don't depend on your government, but your private sector's mistakes are affecting me.

  5. Looks like you didn't watch 'Waiting for Superman' documentary. Guggenheim made it.

  6. Originally posted by Mr_Trek:[..]

    That would be nothing. I sometimes think you fail to understand the value of things like freedom and democracy.


    Is it because I defend countries like Libya or Iran when democratic West is trying to blow them up?!

    Or is it because I point at bad sides of democracy and capitalism that we have nowdays? You know, if you want anything to be better, you have to criticize it. Nobody needs to hear about good sides of democracy, everyone knows that.
  7. Gaddafi was bombing his own people, maybe you missed that.

    Maybe you missed when I just criticized one of the greatest democracies there is, the US.
  9. I ain't going to help those who wont help themselves. If were gonna give two years of unemployment, why not a instead go with a grant, to get job training? Just saying.
  10. I seriously doubt there are a lot of people living in serious poverty that don't want to stop living in poverty.
  11. I seriously doubt that the 50 percent of Americans getting free shit from the gov, want to stop.
  12. Happy b-day F.A. Hayek.
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