Springsteen singing, "Don't tell me a lie/And sell it as a fact/I've been down that road before/And I ain't goin' back," as well as "Don't you brag to me/That you never read a book/I never put my faith/In a con man and his crooks."
The musician and Democratic Party donor has been open about his disapproval of the current president.
Today, experts say, students and faculty stifle speech themselves, especially if it involves conservative causes.
Meet the conservative student activist who wants to 'make campus great again'
Harvey Klehr, who helped bring controversial speakers to Emory during his 40 years as a politics and history professor, said the issues college students rally around today come "embarrassingly from the left."
UC Berkeley's Citrin said that was the point. Yiannopoulos' speech was staged to challenge the school's commitment to free speech, he said.
"There were a variety of calls for it not to be permitted to occur by a group of faculty who, frankly, didn't seem to understand the First Amendment very well," the professor said. "Free speech at Berkeley took a hit when it was all said and done."
though I have removed the 2 posts I do not agree with your assertion of them having anything to do with 'race theory' whatever it is.ramana wrote:GD, How is all that contributing to Understanding US thread. Its borderline race theory please delete your posts and those of others in 24 hours.
to that. Now these ppl are trying very hard to twist history. he means exactly that. The idiots focus on the words and desperately try to pick out bias from it, and ignore the idea.Wow! Some judge sitting on a pacific island can undo a whole national policy set out legally by the President!
So The Donald has defeated ISIS much like W won in Iraq!!!!! All hail the GOP!!!!!!chetak wrote:
Now ? when did they ever fail in doing that ?Gus wrote:Well, pakis have assured pipeline now...they just need to provide a scare and then milk it by throwing some bones and low level commanders now and then for trump to tweet as victories
In a new book, The Vanishing Middle Class: Prejudice and Power in a Dual Economy, Peter Temin, Professor Emeritus of Economics at MIT, draws a portrait of the new reality in a way that is frighteningly, indelibly clear: America is not one country anymore. It is becoming two, each with vastly different resources, expectations, and fates.
In one of these countries live members of what Temin calls the “FTE sector” (named for finance, technology, and electronics, the industries which largely support its growth). These are the 20 percent of Americans who enjoy college educations, have good jobs, and sleep soundly knowing that they have not only enough money to meet life’s challenges, but also social networks to bolster their success. They grow up with parents who read books to them, tutors to help with homework, and plenty of stimulating things to do and places to go. They travel in planes and drive new cars. The citizens of this country see economic growth all around them and exciting possibilities for the future. They make plans, influence policies, and count themselves as lucky to be Americans.
The FTE citizens rarely visit the country where the other 80 percent of Americans live: the low-wage sector. Here, the world of possibility is shrinking, often dramatically. People are burdened with debt and anxious about their insecure jobs if they have a job at all. Many of them are getting sicker and dying younger than they used to. They get around by crumbling public transport and cars they have trouble paying for. Family life is uncertain here; people often don’t partner for the long-term even when they have children. If they go to college, they finance it by going heavily into debt. They are not thinking about the future; they are focused on surviving the present. The world in which they reside is very different from the one they were taught to believe in. While members of the first country act, these people are acted upon.
ha ha..I recommend to ignore that one person then. Pakis always play well in these matters - they milked even 911 attacks - and converted the threat from bombing to stone age to billions of dollars for direct govt to govt aid. Coming to USA - Trump is behaving exactly as you expect a republican president to be in these matters - frrendly to pakis, sunni arabs, and chinese.Gus wrote:aid was declining. trump has increased it, reversing the trend.
it is apparently "following the lead of EU countries" as explained by one person here.
I am still trying to understand wtf that means.
The only way this is going to stop is when the wages are the same across the world. Until then outsourcing will keep killing the industry in high wage countries. Wait till third world countries acquire the skills and technologies that are now the exclusive preserve of advanced countries like aircrafts, jet engines, chip manufacturing, material sci, soft ware, computer science, computer engineering. When intels, boeings, googles, face books, GEs start popping up in India and China, the west will start working for Indian and Chinese wages. Once the current high paying jobs in the west are rationalized to third world levels, the rest of the jobs will be too and then local manufacturing will be cost effective.
The barrier for entry into fte, at lest te, is not fee. The fee is the same for all majors in a university. So, if one can afford to pay for history, post modern studies, literature, music, journalism or what ever they can pay for te. And also the returns on fte are far greater than others, so logically more and more people should take up fte given how hot the job market is for them just like in India every body takes up engineering even if they have to pay a 10x more fee. But the reality is fte does not get any greater preference from american students than other majors. In fact, it is shunned by the girls to a great extent.Singha wrote:
I have a single point fix...if the usa makes university education free for those with family income below 60k and highly subsidized for those 60k to 120k and puts a cap on fees for those above 120k ie govt subsidizes for all rather than penalizing the well off. This is probably the european approach....result is the barrier for entry into fte is broken..many more will break through. Pay the poor a living allowance also in university.
Will need some cutbacks in defence budgets though
