Muda69

Liar, at least according to past statements you have made on this very forum. And even if your statement was true, will you accept such entitlements when you become eligible? And if you do accept will you accept payments and services until you reach the point of your contributions (plus interest of course) then principally decline to receive any more? Please, feel free. Will you please tell us the government K-12 school and government university you attend so I can do the same for you?

After listening to Mr. Dershowitz's comments I wonder if the deified Mr. Lincoln should be posthumously impeached: https://books.google.com/books?id=zb71VEtR-boC&pg=PA195&lpg=PA195&dq=lincoln+order+sherman+indiana+soldiers+be+released+to+vote+during+the+civil+war&source=bl&ots=Xklh1Rv3J8&sig=ACfU3U2nJ0H6sAy4adNjrAGDtuimBFM3_A&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi3iu2P9a3nAhUBKawKHejjDHMQ6AEwDHoECA0QAQ#v=onepage&q=lincoln order sherman indiana soldiers be released to vote during the civil war&f=false Do strongly asking Mr. Sherman to pull Indiana soldiers away from the fighting, therefore further endangering the soldiers from other states who had to stay, in order to assure a political victory, is ok?

Acquit if You Must, But Don't Endorse the Dershowitz Argument: https://reason.com/2020/01/30/acquit-if-you-must-but-dont-endorse-the-dershowitz-argument/

As your irrational hatred of Trump has blinded you. Really really sad.

Yep, I'm nothing but a tax paying hypocrite. Good job gonzo, you got me. I'll be contacting Indiana State University in the near future and inquiring as to what my tuition would have been had I not been an Indiana citizen, then paying them the difference as a donation. Then my libertarian conscience will be clear. While I'm going that will you please justify your receiving more in Social Security and Medicare benefits over your lifetime that what you actually paid in? Because you know that is how the current system works.

Your willful ignorance is outstanding. Just for shits and grins here is the commonly accepted definition of the word "entitlement" in the context of government. from the U.S. Senate nonetheless: Hmm, I don't recall ever receiving payments from Indiana State University, both during my years attending the institution and my years after as an alumni. But I surely recall sending payments, many of them, to Indiana State University.

Republican Senators Say the Truth Is Irrelevant in Evaluating the Gravity of Trump's Misconduct: https://reason.com/2020/01/29/republican-senators-say-the-truth-is-irrelevant-in-evaluating-the-gravity-of-trumps-misconduct/

A conservative viewpoint concerning Mr. Dershowitz's "hypocrisy": https://spectator.org/dershowitz-defends-democracy/

Trump Supporters Score Higher on Verbal Ability Tests: https://reason.com/2020/01/30/trump-supporters-verbal-ability/#comments

*sigh* Again, look up the definition of "entitlement" and get back with us. I know it is a multi-syllable word but I know you can do it!

*yawn* Frankly I don't have the time nor the inclination to dig back through pages of GID OOB forum posts to prove that you are the liar, not I. At least have the guts to admit it, Gonzo. Yes, I do. And I have a good idea of where your twisted mind is trying to go. So please explain for the entertainment of us all how a public university, this one established by an act of the Indiana General Assembly in 1865, is an federal entitlement just like Social Security. I'll be waiting with baited breath.

*sigh* Yes, you have. Numerous previous post by you, IIRC a number of them was a discussion about your contention that Social Security was not a federal entitlement program. A quaint that was quickly debunked. So you are lying. Typical. Citation(s) needed.

Republican Deficit Hypocrisy Will Make America's Debt Problems Much Harder To Solve : https://reason.com/2020/01/29/republican-deficit-hypocrisy-will-make-americas-debt-problems-much-harder-to-solve/ Uni-party to the Max. At the expense of our country's future.

Haven't you acknowledged in the past on this forum that you currently receive Social Security entitlement benefits? Or was that a lie on your part? As for the "fewer entitlements" challenge, I seriously doubt it.

US population growth slowed this decade due to lower immigration rates and fewer births: https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/31/us/us-population-growth-slow-due-to-lower-migration-fewer-births-trnd/index.html So again, forcing "The Rich" to pay for your entitlements is the logical course of action. Got it.

But, but don't we need government policy and laws that will force up the birth rate, again so we can have more happy worker drones paying taxes to fund government entitlements like your social security check?

US fertility rate is below level needed to replace population, study says: https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/10/health/us-fertility-rate-replacement-cdc-study/index.html So I expect higher immigration rates to make up the needed difference?

Then what exactly are you claiming?

Must We Fight over What Children Will Learn?: https://www.cato.org/blog/must-we-fight-over-what-children-will-learn What caused this misery? The public schools, the very institutions that “father of the common school” Horace Mann said would create harmony, fostering “a general acquaintanceship…between the children of the same neighborhood….[Where] the affinities of a common nature should unite them together so as to give the advantages of pre‐occupancy and a stable possession of fraternal feelings….” Specifically at issue was the teaching of the development of life on Earth, a topic that inescapably implicates deep‐seated religious beliefs, and that for many requires either that only creationism or evolution be taught. As ABC News explained, “The argument in Dover is of a special kind, where to let the other side win a little is to lose your own cause entirely.” Public schooling — in which diverse people are required to pay for a single system of government‐run schools — inherently sets up such “special” conflicts. When two things cannot be simultaneously taught as true, or different values dictate different polices, one side must win, and the other lose. Alas, such conflicts, while not always as destructive as Dover’s, are not particularly rare. In 2005 — the same year as the Dover battle — Cato’s Center for Educational Freedom began collecting examples of conflicts like Dover’s, pitting diverse values, or other intensely personal matters such as racial identity or culture, against each other. The intent was to illustrate that assuming public schooling will create harmony is dangerous, even if it is widely accepted. Indeed, it makes little logical sense: as we’ve learned from history, people do not happily sacrifice the things that make them who they are. The end product of that initial collection was the report “Why We Fight: How Public Schools Cause Social Conflict.” Later, as we continued to collect conflicts, we decided to put our growing database on the Web, in searchable map form, so that wonks, reporters, and members of the public could see the kinds of very personal battles being fought in public schools, and get a sense that neither side is absolutely “right” nor “wrong,” but all are following their beliefs about what is right. We also wanted people in districts experiencing conflicts, and reporters covering them, to be able to locate places that may have suffered similar conflicts, and perhaps learn how they were ameliorated. Unfortunately, about nine months ago the application we had been using to generate Cato’s Public Schooling Battle Map was phased out, and ever since we have been working to replace it. But today, in the midst of National School Choice Week, we are ecstatic to report that the new Map is up and running! It is not perfect — we will be adding more features soon — but it is working once again. The Map contains 2,267 conflicts in thousands of districts and every state. Often the battles are centered at the state level, where everything from sex education standards to history curricula may be determined, meaning no one in the state can escape the conflict. And while the districts on the Map represent only around 9 percent of all districts, they contain roughly 44 percent of the country’s total student population. This is likely a function of our primary information source being media reports, and media tending to be concentrated in places with more people. There are also doubtless some people unhappy with school policies or curricula who do not formally complain, or if they do no reporter hears about it. The Map, then, is at best a baseline of conflicts, not a comprehensive view. What does this have to do with school choice? Choice is fundamentally different from public schooling; its basic structure is far more conducive to peace and equality. Rather than forcing diverse families and communities to control a single system to get what they want taught, choice enables everyone to seek out what they need and desire. Rather than forcing everyone into a political arena, it lets them peacefully coexist. Hopefully the Map will reach many eyes, and help people realize that one side winning and the other losing, or maybe both having to sacrifice cherished parts of themselves, should not be the only possible outcomes when people disagree. Especially, we hope that reporters will use the Map, and write more articles like the too‐rare ABC News piece with which this post started. Articles that focus not just on the two sides, like reporting on a boxing match, but that delve into the nature and underlying causes of the conflict. Maybe even articles that turn a spotlight directly on the zero‐sum nature of public schooling. Because there is a more equal, more peaceful, way to structure an education system: school choice.

And you expect such a "tax the rich" scheme to actually pay for all these huge government entitlements? Good luck with that. https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2019/02/26/698057356/if-a-wealth-tax-is-such-a-good-idea-why-did-europe-kill-theirs

https://www.npr.org/2019/05/15/723518379/u-s-births-fell-to-a-32-year-low-in-2018-cdc-says-birthrate-is-at-record-level The uni-party has to look at this trend with dismay. Without more happy little worker drones to fund their increasingly larger tax-and-spend schemes like Medicare For All, Free College Education, Endless Wars in the Middle East, etc. what are they going to do? "Tax the rich" even more?

Discrediting Bolton Won’t Be Easy for Team Trump: https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/01/trump-impeachment-trial-john-bolton-not-easy-to-discredit/ On one side I want this Senate Trial to be over, on the other side it would be interesting to hear what Mr. Bolton has to say under oath.

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