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I not only wish this were possible, I'd like the Federal Reserve to be abolished. However, you compared Iceland to the U.S. with nearly 1,000 times the population. Correct me if my math is wrong, but 323,000 x 1,000 is 323,000,000. I was simply pointing out it would be a much greater, monumental challenge.
And because it isn't easy, that is a reason to not do it?
If Sanders wins, he doesn't need a single vote of support to start prosecutions.
I would like to feel the bern because Bernie is a likable, ethical, honest, hard-working man of integrity who is running a positive, clean campaign. On the other hand, some of the things he wants to accomplish seem like pie-the-sky promises that won't work. For example, I don't believe in free college---lower college costs would be good, but if a student doesn't have to invest in their own future it will dilute the quality of colleges in my opinion. I'm keeping an open mind and hope the decision becomes easier by the time my primaries come around.
I would like to feel the bern because Bernie is a likable, ethical, honest, hard-working man of integrity who is running a positive, clean campaign. On the other hand, some of the things he wants to accomplish seem like pie-the-sky promises that won't work. For example, I don't believe in free college---lower college costs would be good, but if a student doesn't have to invest in their own future it will dilute the quality of colleges in my opinion. I'm keeping an open mind and hope the decision becomes easier by the time my primaries come around.
No one is presenting free college. It just isn't paid up front. A college educated Citizen will add far more to the country in the next 40 years than one that is not overall.
No one is presenting free college. It just isn't paid up front. A college educated Citizen will add far more to the country in the next 40 years than one that is not overall.
I agree about educated citizens being an asset to the country, I believe in higher education. If "no one is presenting free college" like you say, then Bernie's proposal to make college and universities tuition free and debt free is darn close to it.
No one is presenting free college. It just isn't paid up front. A college educated Citizen will add far more to the country in the next 40 years than one that is not overall.
What if that college educated citizen is underemployed and involuntarily-out-of-field working in a job that doesn't require or make any use of a college education? Only 10-15% of all the jobs that need to be done require or make direct use of a college education. "If everyone went to college, we would have the world's most highly educated Walmart and McDonalds employees."
Over 317,000 waiters and waitresses have college degrees (over 8,000 of them have doctoral or professional degrees), along with over 80,000 bartenders, and over 18,000 parking lot attendants. All told, some 17,000,000 Americans with college degrees are doing jobs that the BLS says require less than the skill levels associated with a bachelor’s degree.
"Some of you are incredibly naive. You do understand the inflation of the 70's was a direct result of "liberal" policies including those relating to the minimum wage. The nominal minimum wage nearly double by the end of the 70's yet the chained dollar amounts (2012) were essentially the same."
You aren't saying anything other than the late-70's and early-80's were a period of high inflation. Are you contending that the minimum wage was responsible for across-the-board wage inflation?
In the 50's and 60's who were you competing with on a global scale? Today, who are you competing with on a global scale?
Some of you are incredibly naive. You do understand the inflation of the 70's was a direct result of "liberal" policies including those relating to the minimum wage. The nominal minimum wage nearly double by the end of the 70's yet the chained dollar amounts (2012) were essentially the same.
Does someone need to point out employment stats and how they relate to your work force as well?
Now what were you rambling on about?
I thought the inflation in the 70's was the result of wage and price controls. As soon as they were lifted, everybody on country raised their prices as much as they could.
We did have awful inflation but the world kept turning. I could use a little of those CD rates now. ;-)
You aren't saying anything other than the late-70's and early-80's were a period of high inflation. Are you contending that the minimum wage was responsible for across-the-board wage inflation?
There were many reasons but the main reasons were the liberal policies of the times. Those included "low unemployment at any cost" Keynesianism and the idea that if you pay more money to people at the bottom that will stimulate the economy, lower unemployment and bring inflation back in check. For a more extensive list see link below.
The New Dealers were spitting out their last bit of air as the Reagan administration took over. They had free reign for decades on end.
I thought the inflation in the 70's was the result of wage and price controls. As soon as they were lifted, everybody on country raised their prices as much as they could.
We did have awful inflation but the world kept turning. I could use a little of those CD rates now. ;-)
Wage and price controls were not the cause, they were the result and bad policy.
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I agree about educated citizens being an asset to the country, I believe in higher education. If "no one is presenting free college" like you say, then Bernie's proposal to make college and universities tuition free and debt free is darn close to it.
Again.......It is not free, the costs are only put off until they start making money and adding to the pool. Most will be paying the rest of their income producing years.
What if that college educated citizen is underemployed and involuntarily-out-of-field working in a job that doesn't require or make any use of a college education? Only 10-15% of all the jobs that need to be done require or make direct use of a college education. "If everyone went to college, we would have the world's most highly educated Walmart and McDonalds employees."
Will there be some that don't contribute as much as one would like to see? Of course.
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