MooseAg03
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How to use poor urban children as an excuse to enrich private interests with tax money, in 6 steps.
Step 1: implement standardized tests.
Step 2: make standardized tests the basis for deciding which schools get the most funding.
Step 3: Use poor test performance to deliberately sabotage inner city schools by diverting their funding to wealthy suburban districts.
Step 4: As performance in inner city schools is compounded by diminished budgets, decry the “failings” of public education, push for idea of “school choice.”
Step 5: create voucher system to put more kids in private schools using tax payer money.
Step 6: ???
[for] PROFIT!!
You have a reference for where #3 happened? I’m not sure how other states work, but in Texas the school districts set their local property tax rates. They had a law for a while where rich districts were actually required to give money to the poorer districts.
Standardized testing is a joke but I think this grand plan is a bit much. People already are picky about where they live in order to be in the “best” districts. This is one reason bad schools get worse, people up and move somewhere with better schools and the students left behind are those without the means to do so or whose parents really don’t care about their education. How would being able to choose a school not based on your address be a bad thing? As I mentioned earlier, it already happens with charter schools that are government funded.
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Have you heard of the 18X MOS?
Two of my AFSCs are 18X, I learned from the first BSA ride that the rifle call comes before splash.
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By opposing school choice, democrats are hurting inner city kids (whose parents overwhelmingly support democrats) by locking them in to under performing schools. If their parents had the option of using their tax dollars to help pay for private education, it benefits everyone (except public school teacher’s unions). Nevada passed an awesome school voucher program that would have eased overcrowding in the terrible Clark County schools. Guess what happened, the ACLU and others sued and had it halted.
Look at the rise of charter schools, Austin TX has seen enrollments drop as charter schools grow. People are fed up with mediocre results from government run schools and they are looking elsewhere. Why in the world would we do that to universities? They are already overpriced due to the ease of obtaining government backed student loans. Government intervention has made college too expensive. Government doesn’t make anything better.
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Would anyone with one of these fancy excel spreadsheets be willing to share it with those of us who may not be excel geniuses?
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Yeah, like saying “rifle, time of flight 20 seconds” post splash.
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You might be the “best” person in the world, but if you support murdering babies in the womb and allowing anyone and everyone to pour over our southern border and be welcomed with open arms, I could never vote for you. It says something about your morals.
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In my congressional district in central Texas we have a former USAF Helicopter pilot named MJ Hagar running against my Congressman, John Carter.
MJ had been shot down in combat, rides a motorcycle, and graduated from University of Texas AFROTC det 825, which was my det also.
I didn't meet her in AFROTC because I had been in the Air Force two years when she was born.
John Carter is kind of a douche, and I'd love to go out and knock on doors for MJ.
The problem is that MJ is running as Democrat and favors open borders, gun grabbing, impeachment and is very sympathetic to socialism.
This breaks my heart that such a good person is so misguided.
What’s funny is that on the ‘Issues’ section of her website, she avoids any controversial topics. She doesn’t mention her views on taxes, abortion, or immigration. She’s trying to use her Purple Heart and military background to sell herself in Texas without advertising democrat platforms that she supports. Shameful.
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I saw the T-46 articles posted by AvGeekery, but I had never really looked into the JPATS competition. Looks like we had the JPATS because the T-46 never went in to production. The Cessna jet looks like it would have made a great trainer. Leave it to the Navy to screw up a good thing.
https://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/cessnas-defunct-jet-trainer-was-a-rich-wannabe-fighter-1729767897
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I remember seeing the Republic trainer, but didn’t know about the Cessna.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairchild_T-46
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The more I read about the A-37, the more I wonder why there aren’t more airplanes like it. The Scorpion is a good try, but it’s empty weight is almost that of an A-37 fully loaded.
By not using a turboprop, you have a convenient place for an internal gun and with the KC-46 we could go back to probe&drogue to easily add air refueling capability. With small FADEC turbofans from manufacturers like Williams, efficiency has to be much improved over the jets used in the A-37.
It makes me wish the AF hadn’t settled for the T-6 in the first place and had developed a Tweet replacement.
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This all seems so eerily familiar.
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We had growth way over 2.9% over the last 8 years.
Q2 of 2014 saw 5.1% followed by Q3 of 2014 with 4.9%.
Q4 of '11 was 4.7%
There were multiple quarters in the 3%+ range.
Also note that for the years 2013-2017 the deficit was 1/3 to 1/2 of what it was in 2009-2012.
I was looking at annual numbers, I’m surprised we had quarters that good. You’re right, the deficit was headed in the right direction and the abortion of an omnibus that we just passed has reversed that trend. I am not a fan.
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15 hours ago, Seriously said:
Cool... I agree with that author and everything he said, but he didn't really say anything of substance. He said loving your country is good, you shouldn't burn the flag (but you have the right to), living in America is great, and that the American government was meant to be limited and self-governing. Then he lists a bunch of stuff that we get for free...
That stuff doesn't just happen. It happens because we have a well-funded government that is generally not corrupt. You get safe to drink water and a sewage system because of the government's regulations. You get a well built house because we have building codes and inspectors to ensure construction companies are complying with those codes. You get generally safe to eat food in the grocery store because our government has rules in place to safeguard them and the means to enforce those rules.
The free market didn't magically give us all of those things. Why is Nogales, Mexico a complete shithole, and Nogales, Arizona is only partially a shithole? Because good laws and the means to enforce them make a difference.
So then what exactly is limited government? Because I feel like we're having a pointless debate right now.
You say you agree with limited government but just a few posts ago you were advocating for universal income and free college tuition for everyone. Those ideas are mutually exclusive to limited government.
Social security is the prime example. A temporary safety net has grown into a permanent “entitlement” that people think will take care of them after they retire. Wasteful government blew the nest egg that was supposed to fund it, and it is in danger of going insolvent. I’d rather keep the 6.2% of my paycheck and do with it as I damn well please, that’s what it means to be American. That’s what limited government and liberty are about.
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Federal spending goes into GDP. Thanks to huge deficit spending we get a high GDP and the national debt goes into overdrive.
So then explain to me how the record deficits under Obama (most of which were approved by a Republican Congress) didn’t result in better GDP growth. We had 8 years where for the highest growth was 2.9% with very high deficits. Somehow now the 4% growth is because of deficit spending? I don’t follow the logic.
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Actually, I’m quite happy. I’m raising my kids to be self sufficient, to work hard, and to give back and be charitable to their fellow man. We don’t need government to make people do that with the threat of prison.
I hope you understand what our nation was founded to be. A place for liberty and opportunity, not a nanny state to care for people from cradle to grave.
http://thefederalist.com/2018/07/04/dont-believe-limited-self-government-youre-not-american-patriot/
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One thing at a time so we don't digress on tangents.
Estate tax: How fair is it to pay taxes twice isn't a concern. Yes it's fair to tax money twice. The estate tax doesn't tax the income twice, it taxes the fact that you decided to hoard your money instead of putting it back into the economy. You pay taxes twice on a lot of things. You pay income tax (maybe even twice if your state also taxes that income, you pay sales tax, you pay property tax, you pay for the increase in prices caused by tarriffs, etc. So do you think that all of those taxes are unfair as well?
For the farm example, I honestly don't feel that bad about a son having to sell some of the land. The current exemption is $11.18 million, so I'm not sad if he only gets $6 million. He can easily make up the difference in less than a decade, and that money would go back towards repairing the infrastructure that keeps our country running.
Again, I don't endorse a 100% estate tax, and I do agree that you should be able to pass on a certain amount of money to your children if you wish, but there needs to be a limit. I don't want a future in which anyone with the last name of MooseAg03 automatically gets the best education.
You say hoard, I say being smart. Would I rather have $20 million in the bank or blow it all like some stupid NFL Star and be broke?
As for taxes, anyone that chooses to live in a state with an income tax is just giving away money. Thankfully Texas doesn’t have one. How is sales tax paying twice? How is property tax paying twice? How is a tariff paying twice? Two of those are based on consumption, the other is based on the value of real estate I choose to own. I’ve already explained how I think local governments can be wasteful with property taxes, but luckily that is the level of government that we can mostly impact because the elections are decided by a relatively small number of votes.
We’ll see how you feel about family farms when 1 or 2 corporations are producing 90% of our food supply. Oh wait, you would then nationalize them “for the good of society.” I, for one do not think it’s ok to take a portion of someone’s inheritance to pay for the mistakes of our politicians in managing their tax revenue. Infrastructure? Where did the $900 billion in stimulus for those ‘shovel ready jobs’ under Obama go? Oh yeah, to Solyndra and a bunch of other waste and slush funds.
As for the schools, I bite the bullet and pay for private schools so my kids don’t end up like you. Without a f*cking clue.
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So now you’re just re-quoting anonymous people on an internet answer site to support socialist ideas?
What do you think happens to money in a rich person’s portfolio? Does it just get locked away in a vault somewhere to gather dust? No, it is invested in companies through stock purchases or maybe as venture capital, hell even if it is just sitting in a bank account it is loaned out to support other economic activities. Just because someone has a large portfolio doesn’t mean that wealth is not utilized somewhere else in the economy. The general state of the economy and financial institutions’ outlook has a lot more to do with the availability of capital than rich people ‘hoarding wealth.’
Wealth is not finite either. If it was, we would all be trading beads still. So your argument of the $20 is moot, because the poor six who have nothing would go work somewhere there is money and they would be paid for it. Geeeez man, where did you go to school?
Universal income is not the solution, people don’t need to be disincentivized from working. Free college is not the answer either, as a large portion of college degrees don’t apply in the real world which is why you see psych majors working retail and people with liberal arts degrees working as baristas. Welfare with job training in a needed skilled labor area is what works. If we want to give any sort of schooling away for free/reduced cost then it needs to be in the area of the trades. Kids today are taught as long as you get a college degree you will be successful, however when everyone has a BS/BA because government guaranteed loans make them easy to get, it has now become the new high school diploma. People focus on 4 year degrees and ignore well paying trade jobs like electricians, plumbers, auto mechanics, etc.
I forgot to address estate and property taxes. Estate taxes are a bad idea because how fair is it to pay taxes on income twice? If I’m ‘rich’ I’ve already paid upwards of 30%+ on any income I’ve made or capital gains taxes if it is investment income. So because I’m smart with my money and I actually have a nest egg to give to my children or grand children, the government now wants to take another piece of my pie? No thanks. Also the other issue raised with that is large farms that are passed down to future generations but because of the value of the land they fall under the estate tax, now junior has to take out a loan or sell part of the property to cover the taxes after Paw dies. It’s un American.
Property taxes I have an issue with because many public school districts piss away the money and give a poor product in return. If we had vouchers where my money that I PAY in property taxes was portable to private education, guess what, it decreases class sizes in the public school and gives my kid the kind of education I choose (since it is my money after all), instead of being indoctrinated with left wing views like kindergarteners learning about a transgender teddy bear. F that noise.
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Thanks for informing me of the nature of the emergency, from reading their conversation I thought they had some sort of control left. So the T-38 has no mechanical backup? I guess with two drive shafts that are designed to shear, I can’t believe there would be no backup for control.
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I know it’s tragic, but it should be emphasized that these guys delayed ejection specifically to protect those innocents on the ground from having a flaming ball of wreckage dropped on their houses. Heroic. Just wish they both could have made it out...
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I'm not clear as to why there is a separate arming lever. The T-6 is the only ejection seat aircraft I've ever flown, and all we had was the pin in the handle and the ISS selector which I only used a few times being in the back seat for instrument rides. I thought the new Martin Baker system in the T-38 was similar to the T-6.
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Well when the average democrat senator isn’t yelling for the abolishment of ICE then I might believe you. And the darling of the party right now is a self avowed socialist that can’t even articulate what her views mean in an interview. Yep, that’s who I want running my country.
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We wonder why we are still losing the war. What happened to utilizing this program to expand our pilot base to help with growth when we are acquiring F-35s at full speed? You can’t bank a bunch of fighter pilots with only 20 planes.
Oh, and we used to have a program for countries that couldn’t afford expensive fighters. It was called the F-5.
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3 hours ago, Prozac said:
I just don’t get the sentiment that it’s somehow better to have elected a criminal than (gasp) a member of the opposing party. Is that really where we are in our society?
You can't for a second believe that if it hadn't been a democrat administration in power that she would have gotten off scot free as she did. Let's not even talk about all of the questionable deaths surrounding the Clintons in their years in politics, because I'm sure their machine is a lot more corrupt than a guy trying to cover up his affairs that he had while a private citizen.
Here's more proof that this is about Trump and not about "the law." https://edition.cnn.com/2017/11/16/politics/settlements-congress-sexual-harassment/index.html
Remember, these are the same people who think ILLEGAL immigrants should be allowed to continually and without punishment ignore the laws of our nation. They support mob rule in vandalising and destroying monuments they don't like. If they are so about the "me too" movement, why has there been no serious inquiry into who these Congressional settlements were paid out for? Hint, it's the target they're after not the moral victory.
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Not discounting your detective work, but $50k seems like a cheap price to rig an election in the most powerful nation in the world. I would think they would have asked for millions, especially from someone who is a billionaire.
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The Next President is...
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Having a spouse that has been a private school teacher for 3 years, I can assure you they do not pay more than public schools- at least in the two states we’ve lived in recently. Private schools that approach public school pay cost about $12k - $14k per year in tuition. Even a voucher program wouldn’t cover that, but if a parent wants to fork over the extra $6k to $8k to cover the difference, more power to them. And again, it would ease over crowding in public schools. Guess what happens when class sizes drop? Better education for everybody.
Vertigo, you are correct that private schools can be selective and for good reason. From experience, they do not have the resources that public schools do, so kids with special needs that require an IEP and documented intervention can not get the services they require. Many private schools also expect their kids to perform on or above grade level, and it isn’t fair to put an underperforming student in that environment where they will fall further behind. Unfortunately that happens in public schools now too because of an innovation called the “inclusive classroom.” When I was in elementary, kids were separated based on aptitude. This allows higher performers to excel with harder material and allows struggling students to receive the attention they need. Public schools feel that is ‘unfair’ so now the teacher has to modify lessons to fit various aptitude levels in the same classroom. Equality and fairness results in mediocrity for all.
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