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Dylan Ewers I mean, Obama hasn't passed a budget in over 3 years. I feel like anyone is more likely to pass a budget than he is, Democrat or Republican. He wants Americans to swallow a big pill and we are finally starting to grimace. If Romney can red...

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Dylan Ewers To your first point, by making more loans to students, were are continuing to increase the price of education. The entire reason why costs rise is because education is being consumed more by students, therefore it is more scarce and more expensive. ...

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Dylan Ewers Because he will score massive amounts of political points. It will solidify his "businessman image" if he brokers that deal. The debt and inability of congress to pass anything is the one major objection to government right now.

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Dylan Ewers True the problem is very complicated and we certainly don't have all the answers. However, I'd like to think that we can see a few things that are right and wrong about the system. For instance, after witnessing the housing bubble, do yo...

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Dylan Ewers I think you have also over simplified the problem Joanna. Consider these points. 1) There is an over supply of teachers. Specifically for college graduates are the ones having a hard time finding a job teaching. So there is no shortage of acces...

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Dylan Ewers You don't think that Romney will pass a budget?

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Dylan Ewers I guess, do young voters want to suck it up and accept that they will not receive baby boomer benefits and that they have been lied to and promised things that are not true? Or do they want to kick the can down the road and ride helicopter Ben and fo...

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Dylan Ewers You bring up an interesting point. Politically, you may be right, based on Ryan's plan, interest rates will go up and less people will go to college. This will surely incite students to be enraged at Romney for not using tax payers money to ...

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Dylan Ewers If employer-sponsored health care is when your employer matches payments to make health care more affordable to you, then government-sponsored health care the when they give money directly to health care providers to make health care more affordable ...

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Dylan Ewers Plus, the government spends .50 cents on every dollars in the US health care industry. Even if there was not money provision in the ACA, the government is regulating a market that it already subsidizes 50% of.

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Dylan Ewers I think you are missing the whole picture. Here is a direct quote from Kaiser. "The ACA appropriates an estimated $100 billion over a ten-year period (federal fiscal years 2010-2019) in mandatory funding, and authorizes another $100 billion o...

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Dylan Ewers Agreed. CBO is definitely conservative. Nice profile picture btw. Way to own it!

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Dylan Ewers Yea minor league hockey is the epitomy of testosterone induced rage. They want to get to the pros so bad that they make up for it by focusing on the fighting rather than the playing.

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Dylan Ewers Great comments. It certainly would be problematic to introduce fighting in football, mainly because there is not an established culture or "code" imbedded in the sport since you are a peewee. I think hockey is more of a finesse game bec...

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Dylan Ewers Getting punched in the face is like falling and bumping your head on an air conditioning unit, except your pride also hurts because a bigger alpha male is implying that there is nothing you can do about it. There is an unofficial tally that keeps ...

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Dylan Ewers Yea. I understand how people think it is barbaric and whatnot. However, I have played it since I was 6 years old and it is not like normally like that. After you fight, most of the time you shake the guys hand afterwards or at least after the game. P...

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Dylan Ewers Yea, I mean this is certainly a bandwagon issue that the media is exploiting.

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Dylan Ewers I appreciate your comments. I am having trouble following your line of reasoning. Would you care to elaborate? Which part of the media debacle do you think is disgraceful?

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Dylan Ewers Good points. I think that it is not good to think about the economy and a finite pie, where jobs quite by Baby Boomers are then handed directly to younger generations. I think that Baby Boomers need to figure out, as the younger generations have, ...

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Dylan Ewers Great comments. Yes the CBO is what it is, for better or worse. I don't think we necessarily should change it but I think Romney should do a better job of getting out in front of the policy that will help his campaign if he is going to have a sh...

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Dylan Ewers I may not have made it clear in the article, but was repeating what I thought was an inappropriate comment. Wendy Williams used the term "black girls" to Mr. Ochocinco, not me. Watch the video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5doFm17A3A

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Dylan Ewers Thank you for your comments. I do not disagree with you but can you explain what you mean?

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Dylan Ewers Thank you for your comments. I do not disagree with you but can you explain what you mean?

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Dylan Ewers Nate, it has also been a pleasure talking with you. Thanks for having the patience to see my perspective in the article. I also really enjoyed hearing your critiques and I can also see where your perspective better. I know that it must floored...

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Dylan Ewers If what you are saying is true, then you would be for both sides expressing their anger and hurt. This is exactly what the article is about. Allowing both sides the ability to vet their frustrations and opinions with equal treatment. Righ...

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Dylan Ewers I respectfully disagree. Did you read the Harvard study I quoted in the article?

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Dylan Ewers Yea, I mean that is a difficult certainly a true statement. He did make some cutting remarks about black people that I would guilty even thinking about, let alone say. However, I think it is also offensive that black people are telling their kids...

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Dylan Ewers It is this kind of muzzling that encourages closet racism, finger pointing and generalizations (usually bad ones).

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Dylan Ewers I agree with 100% with you last statement that patience and assuming good intentions rather than assume because someone is back or white they have bad intentions. Even though both sides will take shots, not retaliating and keeping the emotional le...

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Dylan Ewers However, as any oppressed and then empowered group would, black people have taken the opportunity to speak out militantly against the social injustices they see and experience. I believe that they should take the same precautions and sensitivity ...

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Dylan Ewers Thanks for taking the time to read the article. I appreciate your sincerity and opening up the debate in a personal way. I am by no means trying to make a leap and say that because reverse discrimination exists, that the problem of inequality sho...

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Dylan Ewers I could not agree more. How can one "group" talk to another "group". These tragic racism occurs on an individual basis. Individuals are not a slave to bad ideas group thinking produces.

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Dylan Ewers I hope you know that none of those comments were meant to be offensive. I am sorry for presenting those events one-sided. I know there are two sides, I just presented the side that I agreed with, even though I can empathize with both.

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Dylan Ewers I don't think saying whites are privileged does any good whatsoever. That is such a loaded statement since all races become more or less white after they have come into the country. It is a cultural thing not a skin color thing. Also, many bl...

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Dylan Ewers That is a really good point. Race is just a bad term to base propositions on.

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Dylan Ewers Thanks for the apology since I would really like to continue our discussion. I can certainly see that the comments are hurtful. I don't see where you can draw the line between racism and marketing since a businesses's only motive is ...

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Dylan Ewers Good point Nate. However, I think it only works on an individual level. I can only be the best person I can to the people I come into contact with. I don't know how I could go about being nice to a "race". It is an abstraction. I c...

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Dylan Ewers No they haven't, otherwise he would have been arrested. Everyone jumped to the conclusion before the facts were in. That is the point. Zimmerman following racial suspicions do not justify the public from also jumping to racial conclusions bef...

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Dylan Ewers Nate, now your tone is becoming pretty condescending. I have treated you with respect and now you are patronizing me. Let's shift gears away from the tit for tat arguments since we will just go back and forth. How do you feel about the st...

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Dylan Ewers While I understand that my argument is very one sided, since I had very limited space that was kind of a necessity, I still hold to my conclusion. Evidence supports my claim that white feel like they are now being discriminated against. I woul...

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Dylan Ewers I saw it a bit differently. I was appalled when I read the Trayvon story in the paper. However, everyone jumped to a conclusion before the facts were in. There was no evidence to show what happened between when Zimmerman followed Martin and when h...

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Dylan Ewers I appreciate the way this thread went. Honestly, it was really hard for me to write this article because, keeping it around 700 words you can't encompass the entire issue. I tried to write a concise, albeit narrow, point from the only perspectiv...

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Dylan Ewers While I appreciate your comments, you are proving my point. Every word a white guy says is under the microscope while other self proclaimed racists like the Rev. Jesse Jackson get a free pass. Why should the Rev. be allowed to keep their reputation a...

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Dylan Ewers I disagree. White people can't talk about racism all they want. Don Imas caught a media frenzy for saying "nappy hair" on the air. McDonalds was sued for targeting black neighborhoods. Mary J had to apologize for doing a chicken commer...

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Dylan Ewers Let me ask you this. Do you think that white people are held to the same standard in the press as black people?

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Dylan Ewers I appreciate your comments. I do agree that word choice is very important here and I certainly did not mean to carry a belligerent tone. I think this article is itself proof as to why the conversation has not taken place. It is next to impossible ...

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Dylan Ewers I am not trying to down play any of the tragic and horrible displays of racism that have occurred recently. Nor am I trying to shift blame to one side or the other. This article is about allowing both sides to speak to each other using the same ru...

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Dylan Ewers That is the main point I am making. Obviously racism still exists on both sides. The discipline it to take each tragic case as it comes and not jump to conclusions about an entire race. If both sides assumed GOOD INTENTIONS about each other, then ...

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Dylan Ewers Caritas, Thank you for your comments. I understand your point about the "Cowboys and Indians" analogy. However, since you know I meant no harm by it, why are you offended? Shouldn't intentions be considered more than connotation...

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Dylan Ewers Yea, that's why I think it is mostly a political statement to try and control the conversation before the election. He is hitting a target that can't fight back.

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Dylan Ewers Haha. The c is just a little too close to the x.

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Dylan Ewers I don't understand how any of this makes sense. Are you saying that because he is black he should be allowed to say whatever extreme things he wants because he has complex feelings?

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Dylan Ewers To the extent that people care about this association, it discredits Obama. Period.

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Dylan Ewers I don't understand what you are saying. You are right, no one cares about Bell. So why are you so enraged that Obama should have to defend himself against an attack that is not even happening!

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Dylan Ewers Every politician should stay away from extremists if he wants to be viewed as a centrist. This is common sense Paul, it has nothing to do with the fact that he is black.

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Dylan Ewers Did you read my article? I said the video was a sham!

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Dylan Ewers I never brought up the fact that any of these people are black. It is irrelevant. The words, extremist, Marxist and anti-American are all I see in common with Bell and Wright.

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Dylan Ewers If Ron Paul had introduced one of the radicals that printed in his newsletter and said "Open you hearts and minds to Murray Rothbard", it would have been just as bad if not worse.

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Dylan Ewers Sad but true. It's strange that Ron Paul got so much flack for his association with the radical newsletter and no one even cares about this. Just goes to show that some issues and groups of people are PC and others aren't.

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Dylan Ewers I agree with you about strictly moving policy along. However, do you think that OWS protests are signaling legislators towards the right policy moves? Are they a catalyst to get people involved and thinking about policy?

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