Our Platform for Outlining Colorado’s Future

Reasons  to agree: Reasons  to disagree:  Front operating field combatants group dynamics should not include romance.  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. Probable interest  of those who agree: Probable interest  of those who disagree: Common Interest Opposing Interest   Images  That agree    Images  That disagree Videos That agree   Videos That disagree   Website that agree Websites that disagree   Related arguments: Score : # of reasons to agree: 0 # of reasons to disagree: -0 # of reasons to agree with reasons to agree: 0 # of reasons to agree with reasons to disagree: ...

Reasons to Agree : Stagnant wages and cost of living make it harder for families to thrive Case Study: A 2023 Economic Policy Institute (EPI) report found that real wages for the bottom 50% of earners have stagnated despite economic growth. Policy Example: The Raise the Wage Act, which proposed increasing the federal minimum wage to $15/hr, was projected to lift 1.3 million workers out of poverty (Congressional Budget Office, 2021). Job opportunities vary widely based on geography and education Case Study: A 2022 Brookings Institution study found that rural areas lost 20% of manufacturing jobs between 2000 and 2020, whereas urban centers gained high-tech and service-sector employment. Policy Example: The CHIPS and Science Act (2022) aimed to create high-tech manufacturing jobs in the U.S., especially in industrial towns. Automation and globalization have reduced traditional job opportunities Case Study: The McKinsey Global Institute projects that automation could eliminate 45 million ...

Reasons  to agree: 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.  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.  Once your kids are back in school, the government should help you work a normal work day.  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. For those parents who want to spend more time with their children they don't have to send their kids to after school programs.  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...

Reasons  to agree: When you have administrators  in Federal, State, and County agencies all with the same responsibility you are wasting money. 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. 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.  Reasons  to disagree:   Probable interest  of those who agree: Probable interest  of those who disagree: Common Interest Opposing Interest   Images  That agree    Ima...

A picture says a thousand words. Why would we keep them out of a debate? Why not have the top 10 pictures that support AND oppose the same issue. Of course images are returned to Google based on an algorithm, images that have higher scores will contribute more power to the idea.

Reasons  to agree: Reasons  to disagree: Probable interest  of those who agree: They agree with the argument, outside of any interest or alterior motivation (30%) Confirmation bias (you decide that you don't like Obama, and so this becomes the prism that you see him. People always root for the home team, because over time they start to show interest, and then each new story tells them they were correct. When the other team acts badly, you get mad. When your team acts badly, you feel justified. You continue to identify with Obama, because you once did).  Your a Republican. He is on the other team. He is the enemy.  Party Affiliation Group-ism (Republican) .  Racism . Political laziness and issue crossover  (15%) Probable interest  of those who disagree: They agree with the argument, outside of any interest or alterior motivation (30%) Pro black racial preference Liberal guilt (environment) . Liberal guilt (race) .  Party Af...

As our society becomes more mobile and interconnected, the need for 21st-century transportation networks has never been greater. However, too many of our nation's railways, highways, bridges, airports, and neighborhood streets are slowly decaying due to lack of investment and strategic long-term planning. President Obama and Vice President Biden believe that America's long-term competitiveness depends on the stability of our critical infrastructure. They will make strengthening our transportation systems, including our roads and bridges, a top priority. In the Recovery Act and his first budget proposal, the President made investment in high speed rail a key investment.

President Obama did not grow up hunting and fishing, but he recognizes the great conservation legacy of America's hunters and anglers and has great respect for the passion that hunters and anglers have for their sports. Were it not for America's hunters and anglers, including the great icons like Theodore Roosevelt and Aldo Leopold, our nation would not have the tradition of sound game management, a system of ethical, science-based game laws and an extensive public lands estate on which to pursue the sport. The President and Vice President recognize that we must forge a broad coalition if we are to address the great conservation challenges we face. America's hunters and anglers are a key constituency that must take an active role and have a powerful voice in this coalition.

In the past, government funding for scientific research has yielded innovations that have improved the landscape of American life — technologies like the Internet, digital photography, bar codes, Global Positioning System technology, laser surgery, and chemotherapy. At one time, educational competition with the Soviets fostered the creativity that put a man on the moon. Today, we face a new set of challenges, including energy security, HIV/AIDS, and climate change. Yet, the United States is losing its scientific dominance. Among industrialized nations, our country's scores on international science and math tests rank in the bottom third and bottom fifth, respectively. Over the last three decades, federal funding for the physical, mathematical, and engineering sciences has declined at a time when other countries are substantially increasing their own research budgets. President Obama and Vice President Biden believe federally funded scientific research should play an important role ...

From  http://www.whitehouse.gov/issues/additional-issues "President Obama and Vice President Biden are committed advocates for children. They will make sure that every child has health insurance, expand educational opportunities for low-income children , extend resources for low-income families, support and supplement our struggling foster care system, and protect children from violence and neglect." Who isn't against violence towards children? They will make sure every child in the world has health insurance, or just America? The above paragraph is all I saw on the whole website, specifically dedicated to "child advocacy". I didn't see many specifics... But should Obama "expand educational opportunities for low-income children?  To many people, this is the most noble type of activity that a president could be engaged in. However, before stone me for daring to question something that seems so obviously beneficial, please consider the following: The Fed...

From  http://www.whitehouse.gov/issues/additional-issues : "Our nation's creativity has filled the world's libraries, museums, recital halls, movie houses, and marketplaces with works of genius. The arts embody the American spirit of self-definition. As the author of two best-selling books — Dreams from My Father  and  The Audacity of Hope   — President Obama uniquely appreciates the role and value of creative expression." This is all about trying to make artist like Obama. Romney, Cheney, and Bush also had best selling books! Does this also make them "uniquely" qualified?  Obama was wrong, in 2010 to spend $167.5 million on the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Reasons  to agree: Publicly financed art is too easily censored The federal government is too broke to be spending money on the arts.  The arts in America get enough money from the private sector that they don't need money from the federal...