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Out of mild curiousity, what country are you speaking about? I have been around here and there and never found a land free from corporatists (the 21st century "tptb"
Originally posted by SaturnFX
Historically, its been better to deal with someone getting taxed more than a person whom lost their main social programs. a person getting overtaxed a bit still has a job and stuff...a person using social programs often has nothing and is far more desperate than the person worrying about a 4% hike in their tax rate.
Originally posted by Sentinel412
reply to post by SkurkNilsen
You know mocking me is not going to help you in this debate. You're just wasting your time. Other than that if you don't have anything to add to this thread, just mocking people whose like this guy who dares to step up against the liars... well, what the hell are you doing here anyway? You and Saturn is actually just derailing the thread in the last few pages.
edit on 11-12-2010 by Sentinel412 because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by PsykoOps
Very articulate and good speaker. However wait few more years and little more of publicity and power and he'll be the very thing he is fighting against now. That's what happens to 99% of people who get into politics. I don't think he'll be any different. When he runs in his first election he will think this speech was only a mistake as his opponents can use soundbytes from it against him.
Originally posted by Exuberant1
Originally posted by SaturnFX
Historically, its been better to deal with someone getting taxed more than a person whom lost their main social programs. a person getting overtaxed a bit still has a job and stuff...a person using social programs often has nothing and is far more desperate than the person worrying about a 4% hike in their tax rate.
People don't deserve to have subsidized post-secondary schooling. Job training maybe, but no one should be using tax payer's dollars to fund their college/university experience.
If someone is unemployed, they should be fed and housed at most - not sent to college or university on everyone else's dime.
Originally posted by SkurkNilsen
reply to post by Sentinel412
Hungary....
Oh! You mean the country that makes homosexuals watch hetero porn to check if they are really homosexual, that Hungary?
Yeah, you are in the forefront when it comes to beeing humanists here in Europe ain't you?
Originally posted by boondock-saint
well dogey
the kid's got spunk
I'll give him that
but what spunk will he have
when those bullets start
zinging over his head?
that ain't no video game
with a pause button.
and it don't come
with cheats
but I do admire his courage
and fortitude. Maybe he
should be prime minister
cheers
boonedit on 12/10/2010 by boondock-saint because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by PsykoOps
Very articulate and good speaker. However wait few more years and little more of publicity and power and he'll be the very thing he is fighting against now. That's what happens to 99% of people who get into politics. I don't think he'll be any different. When he runs in his first election he will think this speech was only a mistake as his opponents can use soundbytes from it against him.
Originally posted by Whyhi
reply to post by GlennCanady
They say that if you drink 1ppm Fluoridated water for just 10 years, you will lose 10-20 IQ points!
By "They" I'll assume you mean some random guy who heard it from a friend of his who read some pseudoscience and wanted to spread said pseudoscience around.
"These negative correlations between IQ and urinary As and between IQ and urinary fluoride indicate that exposure to medium levels of As or fluoride, or both, could affect children’s intelligence... This study indicates that exposure to fluoride in drinking water is associated with neurotoxic effects in children."
“We found that exposure to fluoride (F) in urine was associated with reduced Performance, Verbal, and Full IQ scores before and after adjusting for confounders. The same pattern was observed for models with F in water as the exposure variable.... The individual effect of F in urine indicated that for each mg increase of F in urine a decrease of 1.7 points in Full IQ might be expected.”
"A few epidemiologic studies of Chinese populations have reported IQ deficits in children exposed to fluoride at 2.5 to 4 mg/L in drinking water. Although the studies lacked sufficient detail for the committee to fully assess their quality and relevance to U.S. populations, the consistency of the results appears significant enough to warrant additional research on the effects of fluoride on intelligence."
"In our study, it was shown that the average IQ of children in a fluoride endemic area was somewhat lower than the control, but the result was not significant (P>0.05). The rate of children with “low” IQs, however, was elevated as compared to the control, and this was very statistically significant... Our study showed that, within the fluoride endemic area, the average IQ of children suffering from dental fluorosis is clearly lower than those that show no signs of the disease, and this result is very significant (P
Originally posted by SaturnFX
Originally posted by Exuberant1
Originally posted by SaturnFX
Historically, its been better to deal with someone getting taxed more than a person whom lost their main social programs. a person getting overtaxed a bit still has a job and stuff...a person using social programs often has nothing and is far more desperate than the person worrying about a 4% hike in their tax rate.
People don't deserve to have subsidized post-secondary schooling. Job training maybe, but no one should be using tax payer's dollars to fund their college/university experience.
And thats where you and I disagree philosophically.
Originally posted by Sentinel412
reply to post by SaturnFX
Hungary is not eastern block anymore. It's Central Europe. As I live here, sorry, but I know this better.
Oh, and George Soros is an Anti-Hungarian figure. He is not Hungarian anymore and he is not welcomed in Hungary at all (Maybe you not heard about this.). He tried to bring our country to total bankrupcy two years ago with some bank manipulations, but we caught him, had proof in his involvement and he needed to pay few hundred millions this year to our country.
edit on 11-12-2010 by Sentinel412 because: (no reason given)
Relation to Hungarian politics
In the 1980s Viktor Orbán -Chairman of Fidesz (1994–2000, 2000-) and Prime Minister (1998–2002, 2010-) - and László Kövér - Chairman of Fidesz (2000)m Secret Service Minister (1998–2002) and Speaker of the National Assembly of Hungary (2010-) - were Soros scholarship recipients. Furthermore the Orban cabinet's Deputy Prime Minister István Stumpf - now member of the Constitutional Court - was a member of the Soros Foundation's Board of Trustees between 1994 and 2002.
Originally posted by SaturnFX
Clearly someone is spending the money that taxpayers have been using to pay for education..someone needs to figure out where that is going.
It has to be initiated sometime...perhaps it should have been done over a 30 year plan, but either way...it needed to happen.
Originally posted by teapot
Perhaps democratically elected governments should start to hear what their electorates are telling them instead of sucking up to their money mongerer friends. Oh wait! The current UK govt was not democratically elected! Nobody voted for this govt! And the deputy prime minister is coward and a turncoat! More than enough to turn the stomach of an Englishman!
Originally posted by SaturnFX
Well, I wont lie..I don't know what the current dynamics of your government is over there...but when I was there, the representatives were elected in democratically...then the representitives voted.
The UK is not a democracy (same as how the US is not a democracy), and the average pleb in society doesn't spend time understanding all the issues the representitive must..
Originally posted by SaturnFX
its their job to know whats going on, and so they may see "the bigger picture" and vote accordingly.
I wont give you a politics 101 on this..just saying, the general people often do not know what they truely want (well, besides free stuff)..democracy is a nightmare because people generally are ignorant to the details.
its why we have representatives to begin with.
I am of the belief that if the education -does- help you land a decent job, then yes...you should pay it back. If you go and get your batchlers and still no job, I think they are being very reasonable in not demanding payback until such a time as you are doing well.
Originally posted by Sentinel412
reply to post by SaturnFX
Hungary is not eastern block anymore. It's Central Europe. As I live here, sorry, but I know this better.
Oh, and George Soros is an Anti-Hungarian figure. He is not Hungarian anymore and he is not welcomed in Hungary at all (Maybe you not heard about this.). He tried to bring our country to total bankrupcy two years ago with some bank manipulations, but we caught him, had proof in his involvement and he needed to pay few hundred millions to our country in this year.edit on 11-12-2010 by Sentinel412 because: (no reason given)
In 1984, he founded his first Open Society Institute in Hungary and pumped millions of dollars into opposition movements and independent media. Since the fall of the Soviet Union, Soros' funding has continued to play an important role in the former Soviet sphere.
In June 2009, Soros donated $100m to Central Europe and Eastern Europe to counter the impact of the economic crisis on the poor, voluntary groups and non-government organisations.