What do you think? United States moving in the right or wrong direction?

[Spider-Dan]

Next subject for me to vent on is employers.

Nothing has been done to address this paradox.

Employers say, "We won't hire you without experience in their ads and on interviews"

But if nobody will hire you, how can you get experience?

Also, people say, "You have to have money to make money," but how can you make money if you don't have money?  And if you already have money, why would you need to make it?

PARADOX

[dolphins4life]

^^^^

Are you liberal or conservative?

[Sunstroke]

^^^ Is that irrelevant or inconsequential?

[dolphins4life]

^^^^

Both.  It's just a fun game I like to play, guessing somebody's political party by their posts.

[Sunstroke]

^^^ Based on that alone, I've concluded that the United States is moving in the wrong direction...

[dolphins4life]

^^^^

How does a harmless game I like to play to amuse myself during the boredom of the offseason mean the US is moving in the wrong direction?

[Sunstroke]

^^^ Your keen ability to recognize sarcasm is nothing short of staggering...

[dolphins4life]

I didn't win the assclown award for nothing.

[bsmooth]

I didn't win the assclown award for nothing.

Did you get a nice shiny pair of clown shoes as a reward?

[dolphins4life]

Anyway, I think I might adopt kids so I can live a life of ease luxury like that girl.

It's odd that it bothers me so much, but I get up to work every day and her so many people live the good life.

[mboss]

It is an interesting theory. Has abortion reduced what our crime rate would have been had all these pregnancies been forced to term?

There is literally a 40 page paper on this and has been talked about on Freakonomics for quite awhile. See the paper below.

http://pricetheory.uchicago.edu/levitt/Papers/DonohueLevittTheImpactOfLegalized2001.pdf

[BigDaddyFin]

It's moving in the wrong direction.  We as a nation appear to have a case of "have it both ways" disease and until that gets cured, we're going to continue to struggle.

[Dave Gray]

Not necessarily in this thread, but I see people complain a lot about "Honey Boo Boo" or "The Kardashians" and point to the downfall of society.  But what I don't get is that these things are easily avoidable and unless you seek them out, can have literally no impact on your life at all.  Yes, there is a ton of mindless, garbage to be consumed, but there is a lot of really good stuff as well.  The arts and sciences are giving us great things, should you choose them instead of psuedo-science and drivel -- the choice is yours.

[CF DolFan]

Not necessarily in this thread, but I see people complain a lot about "Honey Boo Boo" or "The Kardashians" and point to the downfall of society.  But what I don't get is that these things are easily avoidable and unless you seek them out, can have literally no impact on your life at all.  Yes, there is a ton of mindless, garbage to be consumed, but there is a lot of really good stuff as well.  The arts and sciences are giving us great things, should you choose them instead of psuedo-science and drivel -- the choice is yours.

Dave I think that's exactly the point. I couldn't care less that these things exist except that society in general looks to them as role models. Society does have a direct affect on both me and my family and I can't turn society off.

[MyGodWearsAHoodie]

Dave I think that's exactly the point. I couldn't care less that these things exist except that society in general looks to them as role models. Society does have a direct affect on both me and my family and I can't turn society off.

I don't think society see them as role models any more than the society in the 1920's saw the bearded lady at circus as role models.  They are watched cause we like freak shows.