>>247588
No, I'm actually suggesting that private prisons won't work.
Your reading comprehension seems to be lacking.

>do you think I take your negativity to heart, or do you just genuinely enjoy doing things which are psychologically unhealthy?

I could ask you the same thing.

>hopefully you can overlook the misunderstanding.

No worries boss, as long as everyone gets that it's politics/business and not personal then we can all get along fine.

>>247500

5 star post

>how could a for-profit prison not have an incentive to lock as many people up as possible?
>Well no shit Sherlock, did you just finish your first year of economics? Wanna tell us all how monopoly is bad next?

it is indeed an obvious query, and it's not one that has been adequately answered at all in this thread. if you wish to answer it, i would find that more helpful than simply being condescending, i only asked it because >>247424 made it seem as though for-profit prisons could somehow not have an incentive to do so

my opinion is that the for-profit motive simply may not be appropriate for every construct of society

They are bad and I hate them.

Modern day slavery...

I live close to a prison complex, the area around it is poor and run down.

NO sSHAARRinngGG COnnntTTACT INFOooOOOOOOOOO

>>247366

gold is a terrible investment. Kooks hawk it, under the illusion that it is co-equivalent to money and the naive belief that if ever we were to go back to a gold standard that the governments would suddenly buy up gold at market prices. Or, conversely, if things go truly mad max, ammo would prove to have been a safer investment. Same holds for all precious metals to greater of lesser extent. In fact if you are counting on the global economy contracting, you'd want to stay clear of all commodities in general.

Fuck gold, buy oil.

The smart money is in ambergris....

Nobody's suggested that OP buys bitcoins yet? Lol...

>>247611
typical atheistfag thinking that religion is the problem.

>>247635

If religion were abolished there would be pragmatically less suffering occurring in our species. Not all suffering or most of it, since capitalism cannibalized religion, but a good quantity, sure.

I thought everyone here accepted that gods are simply primitive rationalizations, that only materialism holds any truth and metaphysical/cosmological philosophy is bullshit, that existence is meaningless and creatorless, that religion was once a useful mass-scale tool of social coordination/domination but now we can move on from it and keep the aesthetics if we like them, and that accusations of science being reductionist because all evidence doesn't point to a sky man existing and atheism is a neoliberal Western Imperialist ideology because Westerners don't like the idea of vagina-having people being obliged to wear tents when they go outside, are full-retard.

>>247635
Go back to teens4christ faggot

>>247639
What makes you automatically assume I'm a Christian, faggot?

People don't need religion to tell them that black people cause problems, since everyone in the world seems to agree with that. Look at almost every predominantly jolly african-american-populated place, and you'll find a bad place to live.

>>247660
Oh, so you are just a racist.

DICKS EVERYWHERE

>>247646

>Do you want me to, like, cite a study?

If it is an actual study and not some Libertarian crap, yes.

>Basically, income tax is bad if you want people to get jobs and work.

Ron Paul, is that you?

>>247659

mhmm

http://www.kc.frb.org/publicat/econrev/PDF/3q07raffo.pdf

This article finds a strong negative relationship between hours of
work and taxes. Countries that experienced steep declines in hours of
work also display steep increases in labor tax rates. The statistical analysis
in this article did not uncover a large role for any of the other policy
and institutional variables that are often cited as potentially important.

The article also emphasized the economic mechanism through
which high taxes affect labor supply. According to standard economic
theory, high taxes should induce a substitution from hours of work in

Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>247661
the two graphs quite obviously show that changes in the workday precede changes in the tax rate

>>247661
You just quoted something from the Fed.
Yeah, they know what they are doing...

>>247608

What could it do, though, other than just become rolled into the PA?

It's unable to act without any guarantee of security. It can't teach about the Holocaust in schools or ban militants on its premises if it doesn't have any policing ability. It also isn't in a position to broker a peace deal unless its image among Palestinians improves.

>>247612

being rolled into the PA is probably the only thing that would give it more of a foothold. but then again, it still would have to compete with hamas, much like the the PA does anyway. it's a horrible mess really, and it's unfortunate that the most widely publicized 'moderate' voices on the i-p situation are coming from people like jeffrey goldberg and hussein ibish, who are otherwise, both completely insane. true moderates, who are committed to peace (and they definitely do exist on both sides) need to be given a real voice, but until hamas is somehow ousted and the hardline right-wing in israel is more actively challenged, i don't see any real progress happening on the ground :/

>>247620

>until hamas is somehow ousted and the hardline right-wing in israel is more actively challenged, i don't see any real progress happening on the ground :/

That is an utterly 100% true statement.
Sadly....
:(

>>247564

>i can't accept diverging opinions because they're mean and bad ;_;

>>247604
nice nonsense hippy babble. /b/ is that way ^

as for this thread?
fuck the israel lobby, fuck the zionists.
people on the left and right who actually know what the hell is going on are pretty universal in condemning israel and it's powerful american lobby.

>>247663

self'd

>i can't accept diverging opinions because they're mean and bad ;_;

^that's you right there.

you're perception is so inaccurate it's just laughable.

>people on the left and right who actually know what the hell is going on are pretty universal in condemning israel and it's powerful american lobby.

the right (and not just in america) pretty much roundly supports israel. the left is pretty divided. if you look through the past 15 or so posts, you can open your eyes to the truth (which almost always rests between two extremes). or you can continue on with your ill-informed view.

Democratic socialist here.

Jobs are a conspiracy to fool us into getting up and going to the work in the morning rather than staying home and wanking. I have never done a decent days work in my life.

NO PASARAN!

I wonder how many people here are actual socialists rather than market syndicalists or just uninterested hippies.

>>247609

I am part of a social democratic party, which makes me right-wing,

>>247590
Heh heh, Freegans are a joke. No one calls themselves that. Its called dumpster diving, that's it. I think a better system of making use of the supermarket's soon-to-be expired food is for them to donate it to Food Banks.

>>247589
It'd be a real shame to spoil existence for all other life on the planet. The planet Earth will survive, but the vibrant ecosystem on it today could be broken. We cause enough damage to the earth to impede prosperity for other life. Isn't that a major consequence? /morals

>>246395
leak shit like no tomorrow

>>247629

>basic algebra

*basic statistics

>>247629
5 star post right here.
Also you mentioned the global integration in the where section, its worth saying that many banks that collapsed had a "final straw" so to speak in that once it was verified that they had large investments in mortgage companies that were failed/on the brink of failure, all of the foreign creditors made a run on those banks simultaneously.

>>247633

Thank you.

That wall of text was just a summary of all the things that happened. There should be a book on this stuff. I guess no one has yet written a comprehensive global history of the crisis. Someone should get on that. Too Big to Fail by Andrew Sorkin is supposed to be good.

>>247626

>Governments around the world do various stimulus measures to increase investment

Surely this should read gubment gives taxpayer money to bankers to pay for their gambling losses. A big fuck you to those at the bottom?

>>247629

Excellent work. You are massively improving the quality of this board.

>>247650

>Surely this should read gubment gives taxpayer money to bankers to pay for their gambling losses. A big fuck you to those at the bottom?

There was a lot of moral hazard issues involved in bailing out people for there mistakes, sure. But most of the banks still lost a lot of money, and the TARP funds have mostly been repaid. As for the stimulus spending itself, it consisted largely of public investment, welfare, healthcare, payroll tax cuts, and other transfers to the poor.

>Excellent work. You are massively improving the quality of this board.

Thank you. I'm the same guy.

>>247560

if ronpaul isnt elected the world will erupt in nuclear firestorm

>>247563
Wrong.
If Ron Paul isn't elected, the world will be destroyed by Galactus as he fucks us with his giant Super Cock.

>>247558
That picture >>247547 says otherwise.
Don't steal from my socialised medicine to fund socialised medicine.
Also misspelling both government and you're.

Definite strong contender for next months Image of the month award.

>>247575
its really just wording at this stage since so few of you seem to know what is actually being debated. most are fine with a "public option" yet most dont want a "government option" despite it being the exact same thing.

>its really just wording at this stage since so few of you seem to know what is actually being debated.

Does that upset you?

I really don't get the sniveling passive aggressive snipes at Americans in general.

>most are fine with a "public option" yet most dont want a "government option" despite it being the exact same thing.

You can look at the study yourself. I don't know how they could be much clearer.

http://www.cbsnews.com/htdocs/pdf/SunMo_poll_0209.pdf

>Americans are more likely today to embrace the idea of the government providing health insurance than they were 30 years ago. 59% say the government should provide national health insurance, including 49% who say such insurance should cover all medical problems.

>In January 1979, four in 10 thought the federal government should provide national insurance. Back then, more Americans thought health insurance should be left to private enterprise.

We are extremely pleased with the thoughts and ideas of obviously talented people getting involved in this. We suggest that a physical representation of the groups goals and ideas be put into play. This could be something like a large flag, banner, or balloon, ect... This could also serve to be an eye catcher on the evening news so the ideals should be clearly represented in this object. Its main function however is to be a source of moral for all the people involved.

>>247436 I know a large group of people who are interested in this plan and have the resources. They dont know when they can make it happen but they strongly urge all other interested groups to start doing the same, before shit hits the fan.

can someone tl;dr this thread for my lazy ass?

>>247533

OP wants to gather an army of renaissance faire neckbeards to march upon Washington and air their grievances to the king.

>>247538
They'll get 1/8th of a mile then before collapsing from heart attacks and diabetes.

>>247465
You really don't get snarky humor do you?
Barton serves as an adviser because he is a fucking Christard super-star.

By your accounting Texas would be justified in having Eric VonDaniken, that Ancient Aliens dude doing the astronomy curriculum. Alex Jones on PoliSci! Rick Santorum on Sex ed! Snooki is an author! She could do the Marine Biology texts! Paris Hilton on HomeEc!

You got jacked by Jesus. Come clean and realize that because half the country has to deal with your text books, that we get a bit pissy when you do this shit. And then you bitch when anyone bitches about it because, "Waaaaaaaaa!!! You messed with us!"
Shit, the Austin PD refused to even investigate the O'Hare murder because "Herp derp! She one of dem dar Ate-E-ists!"
Fuck Texas!

fuck you dirty homo canada is awesome

>>247484

This.

That man should not play a role in the design of a school curriculum in any capacity because he is neither an educator nor an academic.

He wouldn't be allowed anywhere near such a position if it were not for the fact that the South and Midwest is filled with ignorant, poor religious fucktards who hold the bible in greater esteem than facts and science.

>>247502
The problem is when they start bitching about their rights and representation, its much easier to give one of them a position sans authority. They get to think their view is adequately presented and considered without any demonstrable results.

>>247546
Too bad it doesn't work out that way.
Since the late 80s the evangelicals have been pushing for their members to get on school boards. That is why we see shit like Kansas saying "Evolution is just a theory," and Texas revising their texts to absolve McCarthy of any wrong doing, and to state the Christianity was the inspiration for the US government.