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Wal-Mart is Not An Evil Capitalist Empire

Posted by | Jan 25, 2009 | |

I had the unfortunate pleasure of being alone in a room with a good friend when a Barack Obama commemorative coin commercial came on. First let me say that his parents and he are pro-union, hard working Irish-Catholics from New York. They’re good people. It’s no wonder he and I disagreed so virulently in the ensuing argument sparked by the coin commercial. Our discussion of “who did you vote for?” led eventually to Wal-Mart (don’t ask me how). My friend didn’t support Wal-Mart’s supposedly unethical business practices of unfair treatment and payment of its employees and their cut throat style of business in which they callously outsell “mom and pop” stores in their local areas causing them to go out of business. My response, I believe, was an intelligent argument backed up by facts and reason. It was met with scorn, screaming, anger, yelling and even half-backed conspiracy theories. The first allegation against Wal-Mart is they do not pay their employees a living wage, or a decent wage in which they are able to afford to live their lives. According to the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) a union of super market employees and other commercial chain stores, two thirds of Wal-Mart’s 2,100,000 workers make between $7.92 (cashiers) and $8.23 (sales associates) per hour. Currently, the federal minimum wage will be $7.25 per hour (it will take effect...

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Oprah

Posted by | Jan 25, 2009 | |

Oprah’s career would die a quick and painless death if everyone simply woke up and stopped WATCHING her!!!!

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You stop touching the stove when you realize it’s hot

Posted by | Jan 24, 2009 | |

They won’t ever get it, not until it’s too late. We can’t argue with them. Every time I try to explain how the world actually works they start screaming at me because they don’t have anything intelligent to actually say. It will take something so catastrophically huge to make them see the light. Forcing them to do things our way isn’t the answer, they need to see that their ways don’t work. Maybe in 20 years when our entitlement system collapses and we have a public debt of 400% of GDP both the democrats and the republicans will get a rude awakening as they start to lose their jobs because people finally realized that socialism and central economic planning don’t work. It took the Soviet Union around 70 years to collapse and die, and that was a truly planned economy. Our politician’s social engineering projects are getting to that...

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Agree

Posted by | Jan 24, 2009 | |

I agree, as a current student I remember the teachers who made and are making a difference in my education. One of my favorite professors at Villanova University is a African-American from the Roxbury area of Boston. He is very liberal, pro-obama and pro pretty much everything else I disagree with intellectually. We argue in class about everything. I haven’t gotten anything below an A- in all the classes I have taken with him and it’s because he encourages us to be ourselves. He walks the line, but that’s what it takes to get students involved and...

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Nurture or Tenure – The Value of a Teacher

Posted by | Jan 19, 2009 | |

Why is it that our country spends more money on education than any other country in the world, yet our students continually lag behind those of other countries? We have conducted standardized tests, we have strongly adhered to a 25:1 or less student-teacher ratio, we’ve implemented the “No Child Left Behind” policy. Many of our schools have teacher aids and advanced technology in the classroom. We are left dumbstruck because no matter how much funding, aid, smart boards and laptops we have, strides are not being made. Why is this so? It could be possible that money simply cannot buy certain basic philosophical needs that are necessary for education to flourish. Research has found that a teacher is the most important factor in the classroom and the quality of the teacher is twenty times more important with regard to successful student learning than any other factor, including class size, funding, student population, academic specialty or anything else. It has been proven that the consequences of both effective and ineffective teachers remain with the student for at least 2 years and that a student will remember how a teacher made them feel more than any other lesson given in the classroom. What is an effective teacher and how do we produce them? Over the last 50 years studies have found that human beings need to learn in a loving, secure,...

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