Politics below the jump.

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04/22/2014 at 16:28 • Filed to: None

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!!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! The Supreme Court ruled that states can repeal Affirmative Action. This is a good thing, just one step close to completely blind applications.


DISCUSSION (9)


Kinja'd!!! Satoshi "Zipang" Katsura > Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis
04/22/2014 at 16:34

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Kinja'd!!! dogisbadob > Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis
04/22/2014 at 16:48

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I think they should replace the race-based admissions with economic affirmative action.

Instead of giving minorities extra consideration, just do it with lower income. Black != poor


Kinja'd!!! davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis
04/22/2014 at 16:52

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I'm glad politics are treated roughly the same as NSFW on OPPO.


Kinja'd!!! BoxerFanatic, troublesome iconoclast. > dogisbadob
04/22/2014 at 17:05

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Get the government out of picking winners or losers altogether, and stop over-taxing people.

Amazing what people might be able to afford, and how generous that financially advantaged people can be when their money, or it's inflation-degraded value, isn't usurped by government bureaucracy.

Government shouldn't be running the student loan industry in the first place, or have anything to do with privately offered financial aid, or scholarships. Taking taxpayer dollars to pay for something elective to someone else who hasn't earned that value is a dangerous precedent to set... and entitlement is growing around that wealth re-distribution in every sector that the government has it's hooks into.

"The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money." -Quote or variant sometimes attributed to Benjamin Franklin and Alexis De Tocqueville, and re-quoted by Ronald Reagan.

Financial assistance in any context is best offered as generosity from some people to other people in the private sector. Taxing people at the end of law enforcement's guns, is not generous or cheerful giving, it is legalized theft that no one else but government is allowed to do.


Kinja'd!!! jariten1781 > dogisbadob
04/22/2014 at 17:16

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Already exists. That's the entire idea behind head start programs, public schools, after school programs, school buses, school lunch assistance, government aided loans/grants, student health insurance, etc. There's 12-14 years of low income affirmative action before the college admissions process then cheaper schools once you're in.


Kinja'd!!! davedave1111 > BoxerFanatic, troublesome iconoclast.
04/22/2014 at 17:16

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I think we all agree on the need to help people, we just argue about different ways of doing it. Personally I agree that it's patently obvious that big government doesn't work very well, but that doesn't mean there aren't better ways of achieving the same things as part of a much smaller, more rational form of government.

All major economies have ridiculously complicated tax systems, for example. There are much simpler, more economically efficient ways of raising any given amount of revenue than the ways we do it.

Similarly, people have proposed vastly simplifying the welfare system by giving a basic income of $10k a year to every adult in the US, regardless of wealth, and getting rid of most poor assistance programs.


Kinja'd!!! KylesPerGallon > Satoshi "Zipang" Katsura
04/22/2014 at 17:18

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Probably got their job through affirmative action...


Kinja'd!!! BoxerFanatic, troublesome iconoclast. > davedave1111
04/22/2014 at 18:19

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Why Government?

Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. - George Washington.

Helping people does not require government intervention, it requires responsible people.

It is a very big pet peace of mine for someone to sit down and say "the Government needs to take care of this issue that is crossing my mind. They should pay for this or that." and then think themselves magnanimous, as if they are caring and beneficent.

Government DOESN'T EARN MONEY. It TAXES money away from those who earn it, so when people say that government should do something, or pay something to one group of people, then they are INHERENTLY doing it at the expense of another group who has no choice but to pay their legally obligated taxes.

Business is discretionary. Charity is discretionary. TAXES are obligatory.

Just try to not pay them. And continue to insist on NOT paying them. Eventually you will be hauled to jail by a law enforcement officer with a GUN.

If what you say is true, that everyone has a different preference for helping people... then why not leave them to do it in the manner they see fit, without involving government.

Taxation for re-distribution is NOT one of the enumerated powers of the federal government. The federal government is a united front for all the states in dealing with foreign affairs to prevent hostility and invasion from the outside, and an institution of law and order between the states to protect citizens' rights to life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness through individual private property ownership, from criminality and fraudulent abuse within the borders of the United States.

The Government is not a charitable organization, it is political power, and the US Constitution FENCES that power into a very specific role, and protects the rights of the states, and the people from intrusion with the bill of rights. Amendments 9 and 10 are just as important as the others, and nobody remembers those.

You have your opinions on how to help people... it is your freedom, and your responsibility to see to that.

It is not your responsibility, and it is a political perversion to limit someone else's freedom by forcing them to pay for your idea of responsibility, rather than practicing their own.


Kinja'd!!! Biapilotaceman > Satoshi "Zipang" Katsura
04/22/2014 at 18:40

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I think what happened here is they used a long exposure to bring out the shine on the car and ended up snagging a dog.