tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7806136543904112143.post2032660520786108354..comments2023-10-30T09:23:42.803-05:00Comments on Some Assembly Required: SAR #16036Charles Kingsley Michaelson, IIIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04364694465614330540noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7806136543904112143.post-49831444056926479802016-02-05T10:49:02.236-06:002016-02-05T10:49:02.236-06:00re Hilary's support among Latinos and African-...re Hilary's support among Latinos and African-Americans. Indeed, she is willing to stick her neck out on racial social issues, so long as it doesn't require talking about class or economic inequality. Kinda like abortion, in the end, as far as the elite are concerned, it's a side-show.<br /><br />re: cost of Oregon secession effort. I'd like to know how they count this stuff. Sometimes, it seems wildly high, other times surprisingly low. I wonder if they just pull out a dart board, or spitball for numbers that sound about right. FWIW, $3.4 million is $100,000 per day. It all comes down to the per-hour assignments and indirect cost allocations.<br /><br />This website says we spend $8.4 million per hour on war. I did not check out their methodology. https://www.nationalpriorities.org/cost-of/<br />McMikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7806136543904112143.post-2916696510409479022016-02-05T10:44:46.325-06:002016-02-05T10:44:46.325-06:00The two previous comments are worthy of considerat...The two previous comments are worthy of consideration.<br /><br />But who put the oral in Oral Roberts University?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7806136543904112143.post-23549741638847703192016-02-05T09:31:37.780-06:002016-02-05T09:31:37.780-06:00I'd counter that it's more so one of the m...I'd counter that it's more so one of the most heinious manifestations of 'profits before people' along with being a blatant example of false advertising...by people that should know better! [All education is government supervised and much of it is publicly funded...and the customer definitely isn't getting what they pay for.<br /><br />And in that respect McMike is correct, the 'deception' is flagrant/obvious but like most Merikans, we take our BS seriously and, sadly NOBODY is protecting these consumers, least of all those in charge of the halls of academia because the 'profit motive' comes first.<br /><br />It's crap like this that make many observers opine/wonder what we're going to run out of first, rope or light poles?<br /><br />Those who shamelessly prey upon their own people don't deserve the benefits of civil society, an association that relies [heavily] upon trust.<br /><br />Makes you question what's more valuable, Free Speech or Truth? because so far the liars are 'winning'...Gegnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01918737715343158105noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7806136543904112143.post-74312759349310332492016-02-05T08:46:46.734-06:002016-02-05T08:46:46.734-06:00re school loans. It's not stupid; it's a ...re school loans. It's not stupid; it's a plan. College is supposed to prepare young adults for modern life. So, what better practice for modern economic life than getting used to carrying crushing loads of debt, at levels that bear no relationship to the earnings potential it supposedly leverages, and held by a creditor that has no limits or scruples as to what it will do to collect from you.<br /><br />With debtors prisons and indentured servitude making a comeback, we are in fact nearing perfection for this model. The only thing missing is to issue the unlimited credit cards directly to the teenagers towards whom so much psychologically-manipulating product marketing is now directed.<br />McMikenoreply@blogger.com