Jun 19, 2011

We should get out of Afghanistan as soon as possible

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  1. We will not succeed in trying to modernize countries that want to live in the 12th century. 

  2. We can't force other countries to want Democracy. If it doesn't seem like something they want, then we aren't going to convince them. It is the 21st centery. They have access to all the books, data, and examples of history that we do. Let them figure it out themselves.

  3. We can bomb terrorist training camps from 1 mile up in the sky. 

  4. We killed Osama Bin Laden. 

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        The president was right to ensure that hospitals that want federal funds allow gay partners to have the same rights as married couples

        Background: The President issued a Presidential Memorandum directing the HHS Secretary to ensure that those hospitals that receive Medicare and Medicaid funds will give gay and lesbian patients and their families the compassion, dignity and respect they deserve in difficult times, as well as widows and widowers with no children, members of religious orders, and others whom otherwise may not have been able to receive visits from good friends and loved ones who are not immediate relatives, or select them to make decisions on their behalf in case of incapacitation.





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        1. The separation of church and state requires that you allow gay couples to arrange their lives as they wish. A gay person's partner should have similar life and death decision making preferences as a heterosexual partner. 

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              Jun 18, 2011

              Gays should be allowed to serve openly in the military

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              Reasons to disagree:
              1.  Front operating field combatants group dynamics should not include romance. 

              2. This is a debate about soldiers being required to defend their country while living and rooming in close quarters with each other. It is a fact that their effectiveness depends on mutual trust and uncomplicated camaraderie. Sexual relations or tension between soldiers, of whatever gender, undermines this bond. Every man must trust one another without sexual tensions at high levels.



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                    Too many Americans live without hope for a better future or access to good, family-supporting jobs

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                    Reasons to disagree:
                    1. No American has the right to not hope for a better future. If they have no hope, then its not our fault.

                    2. Everyone has access to good family supporting jobs, but you can't just let a Jr. High student be a doctor or lawyer, they have to be willing to educate themselves first. 

                    3. Too many is a relative term. Basically there are as many people without hope who due to their natural gifts, upbringing, are not very hopeful. But if people with no high school education can come hear and make a living as a taxi driver, without even speaking the language, then Americans should shut up, and stop complaining. 



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                          After school programs are good

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                          1. Because many people have to work until 5, and don't get home until 5:30, we need after school programs to keep un-supervised kids off the streets, and out of gangs. 

                          2. After school programs as a form of childcare is much better than the type of welfare that just hands money over to poor people, because after school programs helps poor people have jobs, and contribute to society. 

                          3. Once your kids are back in school, the government should help you work a normal work day. 

                          4. Children should be in school for the same time duration as a typical work day. This obviously, would allow parents to work without having to pay for child-care.

                          5. For those parents who want to spend more time with their children they don't have to send their kids to after school programs. 

                          6. Your never going to have enough after school programs to please all parents, some of whom don't ever want their kids to come home in the evening, but watching kids until 5, or 5:30 shouldn't be to bad. We can keep it so that it isn't just for lazy people that don't want to be parents, and just for poor people who need to work, so they can provide for their families.

                          7. Instead of providing after school programs government should just require businesses to let people only work hours that their kids are in school.

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                                Jun 11, 2011

                                The Federal Government shouldn't duplicate services provided for by the states

                                Reasons to agree:
                                1. When you have administrators in Federal, State, and County agencies all with the same responsibility you are wasting money.

                                2. When you have administrators in Federal, State, and County agencies all with the same responsibility there is no accountability for the performance of any of the government agencies.

                                3. When the federal government has a mission that is the same as more local governments, they often don't really do anything besides set standards which the local agencies are not required to follow, and funnels money which they takes from individuals in each state, and put is back into other states. This whole process is overly complex, prone to corruption, bad incentives, inefficient with our money, and leads to bad results. 

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