Rising number of overdoses amid dim job prospects for Millenials

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  1. Moonglow

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    He probably has wet dreams about school teachers.
     
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    Only because there is an absence of anything resembling conservatives being in existence.
     
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    Except to the widening participation agenda...
     
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    says a clown with his pants down? Most intellectuals would agree Freedom Caucus is conservative
     
  5. JakeStarkey

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    james M will respond with "with about the Freedom Caucus, man?" That they are not allowed to set policy is jimmy M's problem.
     
  6. LafayetteBis

    LafayetteBis Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    HODGE-PODGE

    And so what?

    America has been inviting in plenty of foreigners, starting with the Brits and French in the 17th century. We are a hodge-podge of peoples - always have been, always will be.

    Moreover, let's have a Fact Check (from here): Do Undocumented Immigrants Overuse Government Benefits?
    Excerpt:
    Being an illegal immigrant is no cheery situation in the US. Some on this forum are making a mountain out of a mole-hill - without the slightest bit of factual evidence to support their accusations.

    M
    igrants, illegal or not, are what made this country since the get go ...
     
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    Silly proposition. The US and Canada are both immigrant countries.

    The EU - even with the present massive migration from the Middle-east and Middle Africa - will not have the mix of migrants that have populated North America.

    And of course Black Africa will have higher mortality rates. Such rates exist wherever extreme poverty exists as well.

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    The higher child mortality rates are not in either North America or Europe and that is due to better economies there ...
     
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  8. LafayetteBis

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    And following the above link given: Do Immigrants Cost Native-Born Taxpayers Money? - excerpt:
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    Most will not have the courage to read the above full-length explanation of how "Immigrants are NOT a burden on other Americans" over time. Their net-benefit is seen clearly when one considers the complicated set of questions asked and their answers.

    But, hating immigrants "who take OUR jobs" is the sort of yapping that happens amongst ignorant masses around the world - and especially on the Rabid Right that collects such angst and exploits it. We humans can be very selfish people. But the statistical analyses in no way support that expressed angst ...
     
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    It only takes 1 bad apple in the barrel to completely negate the meager contributions of 10 others. For example, it's often claimed a single homeless person can end up costing a city like LA $80,000 annually.
    Do you know how much thefts and having to hire security guards cost businesses? Or more police, or the costs to the court system.

    Here's something I've never seen any study take into account: the amount of money it costs to put their children in school.
    And there's a very good reason those studies wouldn't want to touch this with a 10-foot poll. In California for example it costs $14,000 to put one child in school per year. When you're talking about a family with 4 or 5 children...

    You have a lot of college grads in California working in Starbucks, or still stuck in temporary work years after they graduate, to say nothing of the fact that the majority of students will not go on to get a college degree. One questions then how all this education money is going to be repaid.

    Also, when one takes into account services provided by government, the bottom 40% of income earners don't make any effective net contribution:
    https://www.mercatus.org/publications/federal-tax-system-more-progressive-you-think

    That means adding more lower income people is not likely to increase government disposable income.
     
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    Interesting that Bernie Sanders wants to spend money to create more jobs for young people:

    https://mic.com/articles/183121/bernie-sanders-youth-jobs-bill-unemployment#.NdeGUmO5w


    Please explain how that belief is compatible with the belief that government needs to spend billions to create jobs for young people.

    Unless you disagree with Bernie (which I suspect you don't).

    I don't know, it seems there is a vast degree of intellectual dissonance going on.
     
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  11. LafayetteBis

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    In fact, they do.

    Just go on any employment internet-site and the serious jobs will be there nowadays.

    What likely wont be there is work at the Minimum Wage of $7.25/hour. Those are in local newspapers because they are more-or-less either seasonal or non-permanent. They are also jobs clearly below the poverty-threshold that the Census Bureau estimates at $12/hour* ...

    *At twelve-bucks an hour, your BigMac will cost you 30-cents more. BFD.
     
  12. LafayetteBis

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    What is "often claimed" is for twerps. It's most often "propaganda" serving as particular Rightist or Leftist purpose. What's important is in the numbers, and there is plenty of research out there that gets at the truth.

    Try reading some of it ...

    Why aren't you bitchin'-'n-moaning about the US Discretionary Budget that gives away just less than half to only one agency - The DoD (Department of Death 'n Destruction)?
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    Where have we hidden the justifying fundamental logic of that colossal budget imbalance? As I was taught a long, long time ago as an student of economics. The trade-off policy decisions in America regarding the National Budget always come down to these three questions:
    *Guns or Butter?
    *Guns or Butter?
    *Guns or Butter?

    My point: Why not try less guns and more butter? With the savings, buy more bread for more hungry bellies! (Meaning free Tertiary Education! Duhhhhh ...)


    By the same manner that the US Budget was financed during one of the worst economic periods since the Great Depression, which was called the Great Recession. And what was that? It was by expanding the National Debt, as shown here:
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    We've been both EXPANDING THE NATIONAL DEBT and EXPANDING THE DOD BUDGET DURING THOSE 40 YEARS SINCE 1976!

    No other country on earth deems itself necessary to mount a global effort to protect itself from both real and imaginary "enemies of the state". And, at the other end, Switzerland gets along just fine with a "stay at home" National Guard and no "standing army" to speak of.

    I am saying, our solution is somewhere in between. Because we should not be funding "Defense of the World Order" consuming half the National Discretionary Budget, but educating our children for this Information Age that is upon us.

    And I am telling you that those deaths and crimes are a result of "lack of education". Just look at the Ignorance-Level that populates our prisons today!

    Educate people to obtain a decent jobs, and they wont enter your house to "make a living"!

    To wit, from here: Inmate Education Levels
    Why aren't you bitchin'-'n-moaning about the US Discretionary Budget that gives away just less than half to only one agency - The DoD (Department of Death)?
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    Where have we hidden the fundamental justifying-logic of that colossal imbalance?

    Ask yourself why they don't contribute? Ever bother to look at the education-level of the nation's imprisoned population? Nope!

    See it for yourself here, Prison Education Levels.

    And you think we are spending too much money educating our youth. Typical Replicant rant given the blatant facts of the matter ...
     
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  13. LafayetteBis

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    You've forgot the best part: To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

    The meaning is there, we're just too lazy to look for it.

    And any one who thinks the meaning is not worth the search is an idiot in the dark, bumping into walls and tripping over the furniture of life ...
     
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    Ignorance informs an idiot in the dark, encouraging him to bump into walls and trip over the furniture of life.
     
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    Ignorance puts an idiot into the darkness ...
     
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    yes obviously!! the govt is involved so the efficiency is positively soviet. We spend the most in the world to produce the dumbest kids in the world. Its much like health care. When liberal govt is involved the results are soviet!
    prison/education issue is simple. You don't get out till you get an good free online education.
     
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    Yep, they awaken one day, after high-school is over, to a job-market that doesn't need them. And they are too poor to go into post-secondary schooling to get the necessary credentials. And if even they do, most do not finish the course.

    Nothing strange at all in the US, the only place left amongst modern market-economies where an education costs an arm-and-a-leg.

    National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) quote:
    The good news is the increase from 38 to 46% that have finally understood a post-secondary degree is a necessary first-step beyond high-school to get the credentials that permit them to find a good-job.

    And the rest of America needs to understand that just like high-school graduates at 92% of total, the post-secondary schooling achievement should be at the exactly the same level or more. (Even out of high-school without a degree, kids wake up to the ugliness of the world around them if they have no qualifications - and then turn to seeking them.)

    My Point: A high-school degree just aint enough to get a decent job nowadays. (Moreover, those jobs that don't need even secondary-schooling are going to get automated and run by robots anyway.) Moreover, post-secondary education must be made
    free, gratis and for nothing in order to encompass all students seeking job-necessary credentials ...
     
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    You do realize the barrier isn't just poverty or whether they can afford it. The plain cold hard fact is that the majority of kids are not college material.

    Some of them might attempt college, but then they don't pass some courses and it takes them a lot longer to finish it, if they ever finish at all. For someone with say, a learning disability, they could just give up altogether.

    I find it rather condescending to tell them all that they have to go to college.
    With all this pressure on them (it's enough pressure even for those who do have a college degree trying to enter the workforce) it's no wonder many are suffering from stress-related disorders and depression.
    And then to top it all off the burden of student loans, which many of them will be unable to repay.
     
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    Post-secondary education includes vocational skills the training for which takes only a few-months to half a year.

    Whatever the age-context, our people need skills - and more and more are finding it very hard to shift from no-skills jobs to other no-skills jobs because such jobs are being automated wherever they can be. (The cost of robotics has come down drastically since automated car-painting robots started in the mid-1990s ...

    History lesson from here: The History of Robotics in the Automotive Industry
    Robotics in manufacturing is nothing new. Going upscale with enhanced sophistication is, however, the new rule; which is bringing such mechanisms to other fields of application in other industries.

    And services: Ask a simple question on a Web-site and often enough it will be an automated program that responds in proper English ...
     
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