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Old 07-30-2018, 11:48 AM   #43
Pete F.
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Originally Posted by Jim in CT View Post
"So she was wrong or misspoke, haven't we all?"

That is a fair point, I sure have been wrong and have mis-spoke. But I admit it when I do. Has she? And I'm not asking to get elected to a position where I am writing federal law.

"Does that also make them (conservatives) Morons?"

Nope. Conservatives believe that to make something cheaper, you actually have to somehow reduce the cost of that something. Liberals believe you can make something free, by having the feds provide it. One of those two ideas is, in my opinion, moronic. The other is completely in line with mathematical reality.

"Where is your evidence that professors are The driving factor in the increased cost of college?"

If you looked at the financial statements of a typical college, what do you really think the biggest expenses are? It will be faculty tuition & expenses, and building construction.

"All the evidence I see is that they are a contributing factor, but not the largest."

Too bad you didn't share any of that evidence.
https://www.npr.org/2012/06/26/15576...e-costs-higher
https://www.cnbc.com/2015/06/16/why-...nd-rising.html
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features...-skyrocketing/
https://www.mercatus.org/%5Bnode%3A%...atest-research


"You also did not rebut her views on Congress"

I haven't seen her views on Congress. She's an admitted socialist who has made huge promises of freebies with zero ideas of how to pay for it, Proves once again you didn't watch it, just condemn based on your preconceived notion, I disagree with her but she has a plan she doesn't know what unemployment is (but she'll say anything to make the GOPs unemployment rate sound like it's a bad thing), she thinks Israel invaded Palestine, Should Israel get a free pass, 100 years ago it didn't exist and she was at a rally with Bernie Sanders where a shout out was given to a convicted cop killer, and as far as I know, she didn't speak against it. Wrong rally

I don't know every single detail of her platform. But I know more than enough. And I want her right where she is, getting invited to make speeches all over the country, I want the DNC to convince voters in purple states that she is the future of the party.

You cannot embrace socialism in a huge, heterogeneous country, if you've given it two seconds of rational thought. It's just not possible. Socialism can maybe work in a tiny country with rich natural resources, and very strict immigration, say Norway, where everyone has an oil well in their backyard, so everything can be provided, as long as they don't let too many people in. If we tried that here, we'd be Venezuela within ten years.
Last I knew none of my relatives in Norway had an oil well, all worked and made a living. None have been bankrupted by failing to have great health.

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