Whale Tagger wrote:On a slight tangent: If the crime for embezzlement was a mandatory 40 years in prison, it would vanish. The problem with this sort of thing has always been the lack of punishment.
Whale Tagger wrote:Oh, believe me, I know, B-man. We get punished for it every day.America lives and breathes by the code that no one is responsible. Doesn't matter what it is, I am not responsible. I hit a kid while I was drunk? Well, I have a drinking problem due to abuse as a child, not my fault. I've had 10 jobs in the last 6 months? Well, I had an unstable home life as a kid, not my fault.No matter how many times it is demonstrated that life is not and cannot be fair, people still try to convince themselves it is and should be.
JasonZavoda wrote:One thing that I see everyday is the failure of public education. I tutor math at a community college and the state school system has graduated thousands of students who have received absolutely no education in math, and I mean absolutely none.While I hold adults responsible for all their actions these newly adult students were not responsible for the system inflicted on them and in that case I only hold them partly to blame for their lack of education. The fact that they are trying now to gain the skills that should have begun in kindergarten does them a great deal of credit. The test of evolution is how early they realized that they needed to push themselves forward for the education that was being denied to them.
mbassoc2003 wrote:I have been to many of the world's countries, and I'm sure the more well travelled of you will concur, between the USA and the UK, we have, by far, the two laziest countries in the world. I'll pay a man the same wage regardless of what colour his skin is, or which country he comes from. In the UK I'd take an Estonian or a Pole before a British worker any day of the week, because they are more intelligent, they'll be ready to start work in the morning without fail, they won't f'ck off at 2pm because they can't be arsed with doing a full days work, and they are both polite and respectful to other workers and the general public at large.
mbassoc2003 wrote:Socialism does not work in any society because it breeds laziness and feckless indifference. It also encourages stupidity and ignorance. Socialism and capitalism will never be compatable, and one day, your counry or mine will wake up and realise this, because both the UK and the US suffer from the same social problems to one degree or other, and we both have the same ignorant naive socialist ideologists who spend their time spouting about the rights of individuals to sit on their arse and do f'ck all.The next evolutionary step will be the move to a purely capitalist economy, but it's unlikely to happen in anyone here's lifetime, because both our country's hamper and hold back inovation, and prey on the talented and use them to keep the lazy majority alive.
mbassoc2003 wrote:you from personal experience as an employer that year on year, brittish children are getting thicker and thicker.
mordrin wrote:I think the degree to which you are wrong is monumental, but it's my understanding that in-depth socio-politcal debates rarely end well on forums such as this and are generally strongly discouraged for exactly that reason.
Pipswich wrote:Not liking taxes is one thing. Suggesting that those who pay them are foolish and characterizing those who need support in the way that you have done so is mean spirited, callous and evidence of a greedy, selfish and malicious steak in your character.
