The Solution To Poverty?

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@mustardness
You have a lot of hate yourself, so accusing people of having hate when you have it yourself is hypocritical.
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How long before their chanting Seig Heil at Trump's rallies?
Poverty to this fake statement, DART in a nutshell

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@Alec
You have a lot of hate yourself, so accusing people of having hate when you have it yourself is hypocritical.
I have a lot of mature, moral and rational logical common sense coming out of my mouth, and you have not the slightest idea what any of that is on this issue because of your ego and some fundementalist religous nonsense, is my best guess.

Do you understand the words coming out of my mouth and off my finger tips?

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@ebuc
No one does ebuc. I doubt even you understand the things you say.

But Alec was correct. You do have a lot of hate yourself. And that fact does make you look hypocritical.

Have your predictions about Trump come true yet?
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@ethang5
You do have a lot of hate yourself.
Ego based false drivel aka false proejections and false narrative.E ego working overtime.

Have your predictions about Trump come true yet?
When you can offer a specific prediction by me, I can better address you question. 

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The solution to poverty is actually to eliminate the war on poverty because it is counterproductive.
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The solution to poverty is actually to eliminate the war on poverty because it is counterproductive.
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@Alec
Poverty is.

Poverty is an intrinsic part of human social structure.

War on poverty is just a worthless soundbite.
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There's no poverty on Mars,

Because there is no people on Mars

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@zedvictor4
How long before their chanting Seig Heil at Trump's rallies?

This has already happened.  


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@coal
Every president has a jester
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@coal
No doubt.
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@Buddamoose
1m × 350m = 350 billion
350,000,000,000,000

(350 trillion)
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@zedvictor4
Poverty is.

Poverty is an intrinsic part of human social structure.

War on poverty is just a worthless soundbite.

I disagree.
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@Alec
Was there ever a time when things were truly different?

And given the prospects for short term social development, what chance do you honestly think there is, for things to change in the future?

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I've got some solutions to poverty: Fix our broken education system so people can be smarter in life and thus more productive, let law-abiding adults have guns to protect themselves so their wealth doesn't get stolen so easily, get rid of the stupid laws designed to "fight climate change" that are costing people so much money, stop smoking and vaping, stop doing drugs, get rid of near-useless low-paying college majors like Lesbian Dance Theory, and stop going soft and easy on illegal aliens and criminals.
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And then who would vote for them Christen?

They will NEVER do these things because that would erode their voting base of poor, illiterate, masses.

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@Justify
I respectfully suggest you don't hold your breadth waiting for them to do it.
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@Christen
Smart people will be smart.

And less smart people will be less smart.

And guns are the solution?

And aliens are little green creatures from outer space.

And if Lesbian Dance Theory is marketable, then that's capitalism for you.

And money is the one true God.
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@zedvictor4
And love of that "god" is the root of all evil.

Said 2,000 years ago, but spot on.

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@Christen
 Fix our broken education system
How?

get rid of near-useless low-paying college majors like Lesbian Dance Theory
YES!!!  I wholeheartedly agree.  The notion that this is a class that people go into debt over absolutely disgusts me.

stop going soft and easy on illegal aliens and criminals.
What's wrong with illegal immigrants?  If my great grandfather had to pass the current immigration system, I doubt he would succeed.  He knew like no English.
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@Alec
For starters, we can fix our education system by not focusing so much on standardized testing.

We also learn lots of useless stuff in school, like, information that is several centuries old, that doesn't apply today.

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@Christen
I don't like Standardized tests.  I prefer standardized HW.

information that is several centuries old, that doesn't apply today.

Like what?
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@Alec
Here's just 1 example of a textbook filled mostly with information that is centuries old: https://ghs.ecboe.org/UserFiles/Servers/Server_24860/File/The_Americans_Unit_1%20(2).pdf
These are the kinds of things they teach in school. Information that is centuries old, and information about ancient Roman empires and stuff that are centuries old, as opposed to the more modern more important stuff that we need to learn today, like filing for taxes.

But instead they teach you that:

The Roman Catholic Church was the dominant religious institution in western
Europe. The leader of the church—the pope—and his bishops had great political
and spiritual authority. In the spiritual realm, church leaders determined most
matters of faith. Parish priests interpreted the scriptures and urged the faithful to
endure earthly sufferings in exchange for the promise of eternal life in heaven,
or salvation. Priests also administered important rituals called the sacraments—
such as baptism and communion—that were thought to ensure salvation.
Hand in hand with the belief in salvation was the call to convert people of
other faiths. This missionary call spurred Europe to reach out beyond its borders
first to defend, and then to spread, the faith.
CRUSADING CHRISTIANITY By the early 700s, Muslim armies had seized
huge areas of Asia and North Africa, along with most of the Iberian Peninsula,
where Spain and Portugal sit. To regain this territory, Spanish Christians waged a
campaign called the reconquista, or reconquest. By 1492, the forces of the combined kingdoms of Queen Isabella of Castile and King Ferdinand of Aragon, who
married in 1469, finally drove the Muslims from the peninsula. This victory
ended more than seven centuries of religious warfare. A
united Spain stood ready to assert itself internationally and
to spread Christianity around the globe.
Meanwhile, Christian armies from all over western
Europe responded to the church’s call to force the Muslims
out of the Holy Land around Jerusalem. From 1096 to 1270,
Europeans launched the Crusades, a series of military
expeditions to the Middle East in the name of Christianity.
In the end, these bloody Crusades failed to “rescue”
the Holy Land, but they had two consequences that
encouraged European exploration and expansion. First,
they sparked an increase in trade, as crusaders returned
home with a new taste for products from Asia. Second, the
Crusades weakened the power of European nobles, many
of whom lost their lives or fortunes in the wars. Monarchs
were able to take advantage of the nobles’ weakened ranks
by consolidating their own power. Eventually, monarchs
sponsored overseas exploration in order to increase their
wealth and power.
DECLINE IN CHURCH AUTHORITY The Crusades had a
third long-term consequence: the decline of the power of
the pope. The ultimate failure of these campaigns weakened
the prestige of the papacy (the office of the pope), which
had led the quest. Power struggles in the 1300s and 1400s
between the church and European kings further reduced
papal authority and tipped the balance of power in favor of
the monarchies.
Disagreements over church authority, along with outrage over corrupt practices among the clergy, led to a reform
movement in the early 1500s. This movement, known as
the Reformation, divided Christianity in western Europe
between Catholicism and Protestantism. This split deepened
the rivalries between European nations during the period of
American colonization and sent newly formed Protestant
sects across the Atlantic to seek religious freedom.
All useless information that you aren't gonna remember, and this was just from 1 page alone.

We spend too much time learning about ancient this and ancient that. It's absurd.
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@Christen
Good point.  Schools should teach you more about life skills, like investing and filing for taxes.
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Lol, nobody ever taught you nerds how to file for taxes? I mean I can understand in Alec's case since his education isn't finished yet he probably just hasn't gotten to that point so that makes sense. Not sure how old Christen is though.

Not like filing taxes is hard anyway. If you don't understand the basic concept after about 10 minutes of Google surfing then you probably have a learning disability. But yeah I do recall that we had 2 days whole devoted to the subject in my personal finance class in highschool. Way more time than they really needed to give it honestly.
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@Discipulus_Didicit
First off, my birthday is on my profile.

Second, while it is true that we "nerds" can simply google the life skills we want to learn, the question is, why can't we instead learn those life skills in school and just google the historial facts from centuries ago? Why do we need to learn useless historial facts from centuries ago instead of googling those facts on our own time and have our time in school dedicated towards the more important stuff?
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@Justify
We need to focus on what's important, not on what you find "interesting". It's important that citizens know how to do things like taxes, registering to vote, what to do in an emergency situation, how to cook, how to operate computers, and so on.

We can't have so much time wasted learning useless facts from centuries ago. We aren't going to remember much of it anyways.
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@Christen
First off, my birthday is on my profile.

According to your profile you are over 20 years old.

Nobody ever took a half hour out of their life to teach you how taxes work in all that time? Seriously?

Wow.

Okay well here are the basics:

1) Hire a tax professional or use some sort of free tax software

2) Provide tax professional/tax software with all the information they ask for

3) Your return will be calculated as follows: X-Y=Z, where X is how much you owe the govt, Y is how much you paid the govt already, and Z is how much you now owe the govt (negative values for Z represent the govt owing you money).

I still to this day cannot figure out how this was stretched into a two day lesson. Took less than 10 minutes for me to type and should definitely take you less time to read than I spent typing.
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@Discipulus_Didicit
Now, now DD. Humor looks better on you than math snobbery.