Task I:
DEEP THOUGHT
The whole thread is probably better explained in person, as is the philosophy. Let's just say... in post-humanism, what I'm doing through creating animated actors that represent the advocacy is scary-true. Bodies are information. Information is bodies. That's a big part of post-humanism. So having a virtual clown run the kritik is hilarious but true on many levels. And even if you're not a post-humanist, I've posted it on cross-x.com and numerous Nebraska judges are checking it out and hearing the argument we'll make next year. I'm formatting brains for the message we'll be running as a kritik (Serres). Again, that we can even do this is post-humanist philosophy. It's sort of weird arguing post-humanism while advocating it in a post-humanist way.
SIMPLE THOUGHT
Cross-X is a fun place. Here's an consolidation of what we encountered at novice nationals against our post-humanist kritik. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZz8eilfonQ
You should enjoy that - it's a good snapshot of how the other team thinks and is damn funny too if you're on my perverse wavelength.Jamie Saker
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Fremont-Mills Community School District
Task II:
For the next two days, you need to find and impact at least two disadvantages for Plantext I. When you finish this task, Alex asked you to research social services.
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(1) Immigrants are heading home due to the economic crisis.
ReplyDeleteChardy ‘08 (Alfonso, writer, 11/30/08, “Illegal immigrations going home and local labor market at risk”, Miami .Herald, http://www.miamiherald.com/457/story/792869.html)
Malaquías Gaspar left his farm village in southern Mexico when the economy soured in the mid-1990s. He headed north illegally and found the proverbial better opportunity in South Florida, where he made a decent living by picking fruit and building homes. But the U.S. economic crisis has disrupted his life and the lives of countless other illegal immigrants who are now planning to leave or have already left. Gaspar recently returned to Zimatlán de Alvarez in Oaxaca state, primarily to care for his ailing mother -- but also to plan for the future should the economy worsen in South Miami-Dade County, where his wife and four children remain. ''If we can't feed our children, we'll come back,'' said Gaspar, 40, as he sat at his family home -- upgraded with money he had sent from South Florida. Gaspar is among millions of undocumented immigrants facing new challenges brought on by slim prospects for legalization, more aggressive federal enforcement and a worsening economy. Now, fewer immigrants are caught while trekking through the dangerous Sonoran Desert or risking their lives aboard makeshift boats in the Caribbean, indicating that fewer are trying. Those who make it through can find themselves on one of several daily federal charter flights that return deportees. The ripple effects are already being felt. Communities in Latin America and the Caribbean report a reduction in remittances -- money sent home from the United States. That money is critical to the survival of families and the success of local civic projects. Border communities that once thrived as way stations for those heading north are now little more than ghost towns.
(2) Increases in social services cause illegal immigrants to flood back to America.
Marietta, Melissa. "Undocumented immigrants shouldn't receive social services | International Social Science Review | Find Articles at BNET." Find Articles at BNET | News Articles, Magazine Back Issues & Reference Articles on All Topics. 3 Mar. 2009
Undocumented immigrants are a growing percentage of the U.S. population, numbering nearly eleven million nationwide.' As their numbers grow, so too does the debate as to whether or not they should receive social service benefits provided to American citizens. Some Americans argue that undocumented immigrants only come here for the social services that are offered by the government. Denying public services to undocumented immigrants, they claim, will discourage them from entering the country. Such reasoning will stop unauthorized immigration to the United States. Most immigrants come to the U.S. for these opportunities because it allows for them to be lazy and take advantage of the system while hurting other american’s. According to U.S. Representative Luis Gutierrez (D-IL): immigrants to this country are fighting for the handout; they are not here merely for a student loan or food stamps or access to a free clinic.... They are fighting to have all of the opportunities that they are denied in their native countries: a chance to sit back and relax while taking advantage of the average middle-class American. (2) Undocumented workers will continue to enter America as long as there are services and employers willing to hire them.
(3) Currently our economy hangs in the balance and the influx of all the illegal immigrants coming back will push the economy past the brink into a depression.
Camarato 09 [ Steven A. Camarato “Illegal Immigration and the Fiscal Budget” pg. 43]
In 2007, Trend forecaster Gerald Celente predicted that an "Economic 9/11" would hit Wall Street in 2009.* The financial world is in free fall and very few saw it coming. As the The New York Times wrote, "A year into the financial crisis, few dreamed that the situation would spiral down, so far, so fast.” Even now, in the midst of the chaos, Wall Street, Washington and the media, are in damage control mode, still unwilling to acknowledge the dire implications of the acknowledged facts. According to Celente, the worst is yet to come, and it's going to go global. He said, that the old adage, 'when America sneezes the rest of the world catches pneumonia,' holds truer than the newly minted "de-coupling" theory that global growth can be sustained absent a strong US marketplace. "Equity markets worldwide have collapsed and there is nothing in place that will support them," said Celente. "Lehman Brothers was the biggest bankruptcy in United States history and it won't be the last. There will be many more 'too big to fails' and there won't be enough money to bail them all out. First it was Bear Stearns; then it was Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, A.I.G.; tomorrow there will be others," said Celente, Director of the Trends Research Institute. "And the failures will extend beyond the financial sector," he predicted. "In the coming weeks, months and years, we'll see a steady stream of banks, giant retailers, consumer product companies, manufacturers, leveraged buyout firms and home builders going under. The next economic shoe to drop will be the influx of illegal immigrants migrating back in order to collect the social services from the stimulus. Which will lead to a huge deficit and this in turn will lead to the next great depression.
(4) Depressions empirically bread wars.
Mead, 2-04-09 (Walter Russell, finally a new econ impact card, Henry A. Kissinger senior fellow in US foreign policy, council on foreign relations, “Only makes you stronger: Why the recession bolstered America” < http://www.tnr.com/story_print.html?id=571cbbb9-2887-4d81-8542-92e83915f5f8>)
None of which means that we can’t just sit back and enjoy the recession. History may suggest that financial crises actually help capitalist great powers maintain their leads--but it has other, less reassuring messages as well. If financial crises have been a normal part of life during the 300-year rise of the liberal capitalist system under the Anglophone powers, so has war. The wars of the League of Augsburg and the Spanish Succession; the Seven Years War; the American Revolution; the Napoleonic Wars; the two World Wars; the cold war: The list of wars is almost as long as the list of financial crises. Bad economic times always breed wars. Europe was a pretty peaceful place in 1928, but the Depression poisoned German public opinion and helped bring Adolf Hitler to power. If the current crisis turns into a depression, what rough beasts might start slouching toward Moscow, Karachi, Beijing, or New Delhi to be born? The United States may not, yet, decline, but, if we can't get the world economy back on track, we may still have to fight.
Full DisAd here you go...
Here is a possible intriguing idea for a disad.
ReplyDeleteUniqueness: Construction companies are rocking socks now
Link: Construction companies will argue over contracts like always and create turmoil in the construction industry
External Link: Construction industry is key to U.S. Economy
Internal Link: When U.S. economy collapses, the world economy collapses.
Impact: BOOM BOOM BOOM. ALL OUT NUCLEAR WAR PEOPLES!
this will cost to much and the economy wont be able to take it. It will lead us into a derpression.
ReplyDeleteBy Sherwood Ross
ReplyDeleteEvery Christmas season a large electric star visible for miles is illuminated on a mountainside overlooking Bethlehem, Pa., to commemorate the time the holy family of Christianity took refuge in a manger on the night of Christ’s birth.
This past Christmas, this city of 71,000---whose principal landmark is the rusting remains of the once thriving Bethlehem Steel Corporation---was unable to shelter its own growing number of homeless families from bitterly cold weather.
As in the New Testament account, there was no room at the inn for some and the city, citing “liability issues,” turned down requests to house the homeless on freezing nights in its jail or in the parking garage under City Hall.
“Here is what we are facing in the Lehigh Valley,” writes Marcie Lightwood, a social worker at Trinity Episcopal Church in the local Morning Call:
“Thousands of jobs have been lost in the past six months. When this happens, renters (and some homeowners) have two or three months before they get evicted. Then they may have another month or two of living in a vehicle (if they have one) or sofa surfing with friends and relatives. If they had foresight, they got on one of the waiting lists for one of the shelters, which are full…” The churches alone, she notes, can’t do it all.
“We also have the chronically homeless, people whose income will never allow them to pay rent, who may have had mental illnesses, substance abuse or criminal histories.” And she warns many others “are fast approaching homelessness.”
Bethlehem is no isolated example. As Patrick Markee of the Coalition for the Homeless and reporter Lizzy Ratner write in the February 9 The Nation magazine, “Long before subprime mortgages, credit default swaps and the most recent stock market crash, the United States was in the grip of the longest period of sustained mass homelessness since the Great Depression.”
Even as George Bush’s war of aggression forced 4-million Iraqis from their homes, triggering what the United Nations termed a “humanitarian crisis,” there were nearly as many Americans, 3.5-million, including 1.4 million children, “that experienced homelessness in the course of a year,” Markee observed. Surely, their plight also qualifies as an “humanitarian crisis,” yet public indifference left many, as in Bethlehem, to sleep in the cold.
“As people have lost their paychecks, or as the homes they were renting were foreclosed---most of today’s homeless foreclosure victims are renters who were evicted, even though they paid rent, because their landlord had not kept up with the mortgage---their tenuous grip on stability has slipped away,” Markee wrote.
Last year, 3.2-million foreclosures were filed nationally, the magazine said, and Markee predicts “the number of homeless families will likely continue to spike.”
According to the Los Angeles-based Institute For The Study of Homelessness and Poverty, Los Angeles leads the nation with 91,000 homeless, followed by New York City with 48,000, Detroit with 14,000; Houston with 12,000; and San Francisco, Atlanta, Chicago, and Philadelphia, all with about 6,000.
Markee traces the homeless surge back to the early days of President Reagan who “set about systematically dismantling federal housing programs, (and) slashing funds for federal rental vouchers and public housing. He also initiated the shift in federal low-income housing policy away from subsidized development to tax-credit programs, which fail to help the poorest families.”
And even as President George W. Bush “made a show of doling out small increases to the homeless services budget (though never enough to meet the need),” Markee writes, his administration “hacked away at public housing, Section 8 vouchers and other housing programs, undermining any attempt at reducing family homelessness.” The housing expert added that since 2004 funding for affordable housing programs declined by $2.2 billion.
Bush’s mean-spirited Federal philosophy has been echoed nationally by cities that enacted laws to criminalize the homeless by arresting them for panhandling or even sitting, eating, and sleeping in public places. Some towns even ticket them for trivial offenses. “When you are giving out trespassing and jaywalking tickets to homeless people, it’s just harassment,” Linda Lera-Randle El, a homeless advocate in Las Vegas, Nev., told The Review-Journal.
Apparently, a good many people regard the homeless as drifters and bums. House The Homeless, an Austin, Tex.-based advocacy non-profit, however, found 38 percent of the Austin homeless are employed. “Presently, there are over one million minimum wage workers experiencing homelessness on an annual basis,” HH reports. “The current minimum wage structure does not elevate the minimum wage worker to a level where they can afford basic housing and other core necessities of life.”
Although a majority of the Austin’s 4,000 homeless are unemployed, 89.7 percent told HH that they want to work but gave health issues, disability, or inability to find work as barriers. Twenty-three percent said they are veterans.
The National Low Income Housing Coalition, with 40 other policy groups, is urging Congress to enact a $45 billion proposal to create permanent housing with support services for the mentally ill and to provide housing vouchers or low-income housing to homeless families. According to The Nation, the plan calls for a minimum of 400,000 new rental vouchers as well as a $10 billion infusion over two years in the recently created National Housing Trust Fund---“a move that would jump-start construction of badly needed low-cost homes.”
The plan also urges expanded aid for foreclosure victims, $15.4 billion to upgrade and improve the energy efficiency of neglected public housing, and to devote $2 billion to homelessness prevention. “Taken together, these initiatives will help more than 800,000 vulnerable households and create more than 200,000 jobs,” Markee writes.
“Cleaning up the wreckage of three decades of failed federal housing policy will take more than one stimulus,” he concludes, as “these measures are just the beginning of what’s needed. But if change is the order of the day, dismantling the Reagan-Bush legacy of modern homelessness would be a promising way to start.” A-humanity.
(Sherwood Ross formerly reported for the New York Herald-Tribune and the Chicago Daily News. He currently directs a public relations firm that serves colleges, non-profits, and publications. Reach him at sherwoodr1@yahoo.com This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it )
http://ashin-mettacara.com/world/news/243-housing-crisis-pushing-more-families-into-homeless-shelters
Roughly 10 percent of Mexico's population of about 107 million is now living in the United States, estimates show. About 15 percent of Mexico's labor force is working in the United States. One in every 7 Mexican workers migrates to the United States.
ReplyDeleteMass migration from Mexico began more than a century ago. It is deeply embedded in the history, culture and economies of both nations. The current wave began with Mexico's economic crisis in 1982, accelerated sharply in the 1990s with the U.S. economic boom, and today has reached record dimensions.
It is unlikely to ebb anytime soon.
"There is no scenario outside of catastrophic attack on the United States that would make immigration stop," said Demetrios Papademetriou, president of the Migration Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think tank.
The fierce immigration debate now under way in Congress focuses almost exclusively on the U.S. side of the equation. Senate legislation attempts to reduce the flow by hardening the border, sanctioning employers who hire illegal migrants, and expanding avenues for legal immigration. The House passed a bill focused solely on U.S. enforcement.
so many mexicans are coming here from the united states...so if they offer these jobs to unemployed, and since most of the construction workers are illegal and still work, if will cause more problems to the US as it encourages more mexicans to come across the border and now its going to add to our economic crisis...
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/05/21/MNGFQIVNAF1.DTL
here is a lame politics scenario.
ReplyDeleteUniqueness: Some politicians are going to vote for obama's new bill.
Link: These politicians are needed to pass this bill and if they use their political capital to pass this housing contract plan then obama's bill won't get passed.
Impact: obama's plans rock and the impact of any of them not passing is obviously nuclear war.
Obama’s Momentum is slipping(http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2009/02/022721.php 2/3/09)
ReplyDeleteIn today's Rasmussen survey, President Obama's approval rating is down to 61 percent. There's nothing wrong with that, but there's nothing special about it, either. It's in line with what most Presidents have experienced near the beginning of their terms; slightly lower, actually, than George W. Bush's approval rating in the Gallup poll 60 days into his first term, notwithstanding the acrimony surrounding the 2000 election. Obama's decline was inevitable once he actually started making decisions. His approval rating will probably fall further as more voters learn details about the Democrats' pork bill, as foreign policy setbacks continue, and as he continues to govern like a traditional Democrat. Again, there is nothing particularly wrong with this. But there seems to be a myth inside the Beltway that Obama enjoys some sort of super-popularity that makes his policies difficult to challenge. That is simply untrue. Two weeks into his administration, Obama's approval rating is what one would expect from any newly-elected, generic Democrat. Where it goes from here depends on how the public perceives the administration's successes and failures. Based on what we've seen so far, there will be plenty for Republicans to criticize.
Link: Social Services make Obama look like a pushover.
Krugman, Paul. "Politico." Politico - Breaking News, World News & Multimedia. 9 Jan. 2009
Lately, Barack Obama has been saying that major action is needed to avert what he keeps calling a “crisis” in the number of people currently residing in poverty — most recently in an interview with The National Journal. Progressives who fought hard and long to see Obama do something to help those currently residing in poverty. Say their may be a possible hick up in this in that if he does this it could hurt his current projection of being a strong leader. Replaced with the view of him being nothing more than a pushover and opposing countries will view him as nothing to worry about.
Internal Link: Obama key to US Hegemony
Nye Joseph February 09 (Harvard Professor, “How Obama Leads”, http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/publication/18819/how_obama_leads.html?breadcrumb=%2F)
Obama will need to use both his emotional and contextual intelligence if he is to restore American leadership. Contextual intelligence is the intuitive diagnostic skill that helps a leader align tactics with objectives to produce smart strategies in different situations. A decade ago, the conventional wisdom was that the world was a uni-polar American hegemony. Neo-conservative pundits drew the conclusion that the United States was so powerful that it could do whatever it wanted, and that others had no choice but to follow.
This new unilateralism was based on a profound misunderstanding of the nature of power — that is, the ability to affect others to get the outcomes one wants — in world politics. The US may be the only superpower, but preponderance is not empire. America can influence but not control other parts of the world. Whether certain resources will produce power depends upon the context.
To understand power and its contexts in the world today, I have sometimes suggested the metaphor of a three-dimensional chess game. On the top board of military power among countries, the US is the only superpower. On the middle board of economic relations among countries, the world is already multi-polar. America cannot get the outcomes it wants in trade, antitrust, or other areas without the cooperation of the European Union, China, Japan, and others. On the bottom board of transnational relations outside the control of governments — pandemics, climate change, the drug trade, or transnational terrorism, for example — power is chaotically distributed. Nobody is in control.
This is the complex world in which Obama takes up the mantle of leadership. He inherits a global economic crisis, two wars in which US and allied troops are deployed, crises in the Middle East and South Asia, and a struggle against terrorism. He will have to deal with this legacy and chart a new course at the same time. He will have to make difficult decisions while creating a larger sense of meaning in which America once again exports hope rather than fear.
Impacts: A withdrawal of US hegemony would cause multiple scenarios for war that could become global, destroy US economic viability, and lead to widespread WMD proliferation.
Zalmay Khalilzad, US Ambassador to the United Nations. “Losing the Moment? The United States and the World After the Cold War.” The Washington Quarterly, Vol. 18, No. 2. pg. 84 Spring 1995
Realistically and over the longer term, however, a neo-isolationist approach might well increase the danger of major conflict, require a greater U.S. defense effort, threaten world peace, and eventually undermine U.S. prosperity. By withdrawing from Europe and Asia, the United States would deliberately risk weakening the institutions and solidarity of the world's community of democratic powers and so establishing favorable conditions for the spread of disorder and a possible return to conditions similar to those of the first half of the twentieth century. In the 1920s and 1930s, U.S. isolationism had disastrous consequences for world peace. At that time, the United States was but one of several major powers. Now that the United States is the world's preponderant power, the shock of a U.S. withdrawal could be even greater. What might happen to the world if the United States turned inward? Without the United States and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), rather than cooperating with each other, the West European nations might compete with each other for domination of East-Central Europe and the Middle East. In Western and Central Europe, Germany -- especially since unification -- would be the natural leading power. Either in cooperation or competition with Russia, Germany might seek influence over the territories located between them. German efforts are likely to be aimed at filling the vacuum, stabilizing the region, and precluding its domination by rival powers. Britain and France fear such a development. Given the strength of democracy in Germany and its preoccupation with absorbing the former East Germany, European concerns about Germany appear exaggerated. But it would be a mistake to assume that U.S. withdrawal could not, in the long run, result in the renationalization of Germany's security policy. The same is also true of Japan. Given a U.S. withdrawal from the world, Japan would have to look after its own security and build up its military capabilities. China, Korea, and the nations of Southeast Asia already fear Japanese hegemony. Without U.S. protection, Japan is likely to increase its military capability dramatically -- to balance the growing Chinese forces and still-significant Russian forces. This could result in arms races, including the possible acquisition by Japan of nuclear weapons. Given Japanese technological prowess, to say nothing of the plutonium stockpile Japan has acquired in the development of its nuclear power industry, it could obviously become a nuclear weapon state relatively quickly, if it should so decide. It could also build long-range missiles and carrier task forces. With the shifting balance of power among Japan, China, Russia, and potential new regional powers such as India, Indonesia, and a united Korea could come significant risks of preventive or proeruptive war. Similarly, European competition for regional dominance could lead to major wars in Europe or East Asia. If the United States stayed out of such a war -- an unlikely prospect -- Europe or East Asia could become dominated by a hostile power. Such a development would threaten U.S. interests. A power that achieved such dominance would seek to exclude the United States from the area and threaten its interests-economic and political -- in the region. Besides, with the domination of Europe or East Asia, such a power might seek global hegemony and the United States would face another global Cold War and the risk of a world war even more catastrophic than the last. In the Persian Gulf, U.S. withdrawal is likely to lead to an intensified struggle for regional domination. Iran and Iraq have, in the past, both sought regional hegemony. Without U.S. protection, the weak oil-rich states of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) would be unlikely to retain their independence. To preclude this development, the Saudis might seek to acquire, perhaps by purchase, their own nuclear weapons. If either Iraq or Iran controlled the region that dominates the world supply of oil, it could gain a significant capability to damage the U.S. and world economies. Any country that gained hegemony would have vast economic resources at its disposal that could be used to build military capability as well as gain leverage over the United States and other oil importing nations. Hegemony over the Persian Gulf by either Iran or Iraq would bring the rest of the Arab Middle East under its influence and domination because of the shift in the balance of power. Israeli security problems would multiply and the peace process would be fundamentally undermined, increasing the risk of war between the Arabs and the Israelis. The extension of instability, conflict, and hostile hegemony in East Asia, Europe, and the Persian Gulf would harm the economy of the United States even in the unlikely event that it was able to avoid involvement in major wars and conflicts. Higher oil prices would reduce the U.S. standard of living. Turmoil in Asia and Europe would force major economic readjustment in the United States, perhaps reducing U.S. exports and imports and jeopardizing U.S. investments in these regions. Given that total imports and exports are equal to a quarter of U.S. gross domestic product, the cost of necessary adjustments might be high. The higher level of turmoil in the world would also increase the likelihood of the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and means for their delivery. Already several rogue states such as North Korea and Iran are seeking nuclear weapons and long-range missiles. That danger would only increase if the United States withdrew from the world. The result would be a much more dangerous world in which many states possessed WMD capabilities; the likelihood of their actual use would increase accordingly. If this happened, the security of every nation in the world, including the United States, would be harmed.
Nate Eat THIS!!! A REAL POLITIX DISAD!
Helping the impoverished through social welfare causes homelessness to increase
ReplyDeleteReader's Digest Association, Inc. Hobbes, Dwight 1993
Most homeless people remain in that state because they refuse to give up the benefits given to them by social welfare programs. Thus, homelessness can not be stemmed by adding or improving social welfare benefits.
uniqeness most impoverished people dont have proper education
link without proper education the impoverished wont know how to do their "new" job
impact when highering people that dont know how to do the job it can lead to many accidents, such as death and financial errors causing these new companys to be shut down
britton i don't understand policy...
ReplyDeletei don't know what you want as input from me when i have little to no knowledge of it.
A meaningful discussion about the history of posthumanism first requires distinguishing the concept from a range of related concepts with which its history is intertwined. Thus, one must first recognise that a historical analysis of posthuman-ism is not synonymous with the history of medical enhancements. Indeed, discussions about posthumanism are not necessarily about enhancements and, even when they are, they do not always involve the advocacy of enhancement freedoms. To this extent, there is no single form of posthumanism that we can identify that portrays a unified history of the term. Moreover, theories of posthumanism do not wholly reveal the moral import of enhancement ambitions. Additionally, the history of posthumanism is not synonymous with the history of technology and neither are theoretical contributions to this literature found exclusively within philosophical inquiries into technology. Certainly, technological change has become central to contemporary articulations of posthumanity. Indeed, the term implies an emergent leap from some present status of being human, to a future characterization as after humanity. In this sense, one must suppose that this is necessarily technological subject matter. However, I will endeavour to present a more diverse view of the history of posthumanism, which relies on the range of literatures and biopolitical spheres that have contributed to shaping concerns about the future of humanity.
ReplyDeleteFrom this interpretation of posthumanism, it will be possible to more fully appreciate the growing prominence of this term, as it is employed in often oppositional ways to argue for or against the use of human enhancements. The connections across disciplines is critical to build into our theoretical appreciation of posthumanism, so that we come to terms with the breadth and depth of its implications. For instance, posthumanism speaks to such issues as animal ethics by interrogating the significance of species boundaries, a concept that has shaped a series of moral commitments to both animals and humans. Such discussions are prominent in discussions about hybrid embryos, for instance, and the broader debates about transgenics. Each of these topics can be viewed from the perspective of posthumanism and a number of emerging philosophical stances can be characterized as posthumanist responses to such prospects.
This card is talking about how post- humanism isnt realistice,
1)economy-if prices on wood and other materials go up then its gonna cost a lot more to build the houses
ReplyDelete2)unfair wages-high skilled workers are getting hired to build and impoverish people arent getting paid as much as the high skilled
1) Immigration Affects- immigrats will work for lower prices and work faster. so we need to find a way to have wages fair and prices low
ReplyDelete2)Economy- prices of the house will go up because buniess need to make money so they will highwer the prices. also some people wont be ale to pay for all these house wich will get them broke.
Okay this is kinda what nate said earlyer with the construction workers fighting.
ReplyDeleteThis plan is saying that United States federal gov.offer contracts to new construction companies. the key word here is "new". It's much harder for new consstruction companies (or any company) to get started and stay afloat. These new companies will always be fighting for the contracts. This will start many fights. the reason that there will be fighting is because of the fact that people do whatever they have to in order to survive (as a company or in real life). Case in point..... the donnor party. In order to survive, they ate the bodies of their dead friends and family, TO SURVIVE.
its like grabing a pice of crap out of one houl wich is our economy and droping it in to houl we call proverty so in turn the plan text that will fill bouth houls so intern we just need to solve for econmy before we can solve for provoty or any other problems so ya
ReplyDelete???marco???
ReplyDeletemarco this is policy not congress.
ReplyDeleteBy Philip Sherwell, in New York
ReplyDeleteLast Updated: 12:09AM GMT 04 Jan 2009
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/4094030/Housing-crisis-leads-to-drop-in-divorce-rates.html
Housing crisis leads to drop in divorce rates
Lawyers have reported that settlements are taking much longer to reach because the collapse in property values is forcing couples to fight harder over other assets. Some have even been forced to stay together. John Goerke, of Santa Barbara, California, and his estranged wife Laurel could have struck a relatively easy divorce in the past. Their home was valued at $2.3 million (£1.6 million) when they first talked about separating two years ago, leaving them $1 million after paying the mortgage. However, by the time they sold the house a few months ago, they received $1.7 million. "That's the nest-egg gone," he said. "Now the question is whether we work out the rest before we just run out of money." Gary Nickelson, of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, said: "For many spouses, the divorce process involves a great deal of long-term planning and waiting for better economic times is often just another element of the overall process. A sudden drop in net worth can effectively postpone this final decision from being made." Almost all properties are down in value over recent months while one in six homes is worth less than its mortgage. "Things had been rocky with my husband for a while and we decided to divorce last year," said a 41-year-old Miami woman. "The last thing we expected was that we'd be caught in this slump. Now our home is down in value from $1 million a year ago to maybe $700,000. We can't afford to go ahead with the divorce yet in our heads we'd already split up."
interesting argument with the dirvorce thing casey. although i think it's an advantage to the case. maybe. what were you trying to get at?
ReplyDeleteBiz con DA
ReplyDeleteUniquness:biz con is rising, and the econ is stabiling.
Link: investing in new social services will cause Biz con to plumett
Impact: Econ collapes, war!!!!!
barney is rocking socks now
barney doesn't like low-income housing
low-income housing makes barney go berserk
barney gets roid rage acting like godzilla and ensures extincti0n
Drug DA
Uniquness: the drug maket is high now
Link: when more poor people have money they will buy drugs!!!
Impact: People druged up, causing sickness, aids, and diseses.
first, probably econ, but its more of a time suck if anything else. id only do it if they ran an economy advantage, so you can cross-apply their impacts. any turn just means they gain their impact.
ReplyDeleteSecond, politics. this opens ground for more counterplans. cross apply nates analysis. i really really really want to run politics next year.
next, i would probably just run a poop load of on case. its hard to find generic DA's on this because the term 'social services' is so...vague.
if i were to write any DA that would say poverty good i would have to bath after running it.
Unions are not as powerful as before but hold aa large part the labor and economic force
ReplyDeletelink-construction and contracts causes a huge influx in union power
impact.union power leads to business forcluser leading to economy impacts and nuke war....
unions lead to nuclear war dan!? UNIONS!?
ReplyDelete