Today's task is to prepare for a mini round debate during tomorrow's class. Novice policy debaters need to cut their case by selecting inherency, solvency, and advantage cards to support plantext I. You will also need a copy of the plantext and answers for attacks on your evidence, answeers for T, and answers for disads the negative will run against you.
Negative (varsity) needs to prepare to defeat the affirmative with on case arguments, T, and disads.
Both positions are limited to cards posted by 1:00 today. Additional defense cards may be added to today's post until the D lunch block begins. Affirmative speeches will NOT be timed. Negative speeches are limited--see coach.
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ReplyDeleteUniqueness: Obama is perceived as tough Anne Davies 2009 (http://stgeorge.yourguide.com.au/news/world/world/general/no-more-mr-nice-guy-obama-plays-it-tough/1427371.aspx)
ReplyDeletePRESIDENT Barack Obama's experiment in reaching across the aisle came to an abrupt end as he vented his frustration with Republicans over their opposition to the $US900 billion ($1.38 trillion) stimulus package, in turn ridiculing them and warning they risked great harm to the nation.
In one of his most passionate addresses since the campaign ended, Mr Obama reminded his opponents he had won the election and that the American people had backed his approach to economic management, not the Republicans'. If they did not come on board on the stimulus plan, he said, he would take the fight directly to the people.
The Senate, which was due to vote on the bill on Thursday, was abruptly adjourned by the leader, Harry Reid, about 9pm, after it became clear the Administration still did not have sufficient votes.
Negotiations are continuing with a vote now possible early today. Mr Obama's speech, delivered to the Democratic Caucus in Williamsburg, was originally planned to be closed to the press. But a day ago the President decided the media could attend. It was a reminder of his formidable communication skills that have been less evident since the election.
"This is not a game, this is not a contest of who's in power, who's up or who's down," he said. "I would like to be more leisurely about it … but this is not a lark."
Mr Obama again repeated that without swift action the crisis in the US economy "would become a catastrophe", causing millions more to lose their jobs. There are also concerns about the stability of US banks. The Administration is expected to expedite a plan early next week to overhaul the Troubled Asset Relief Program, buy up toxic assets and implement measures that would stem foreclosures.
But for now, Mr Obama was focused on trying to win over both Democrats and Republicans to the stimulus bill.
He said he was tired of critics saying "This is not a stimulus bill, this is a spending bill".
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ReplyDeleteif anyone needs any help on policy at all just ask The Varsity will help. I'll help. Everyone will just please make this easier for yourselves and do what you can. If at all possible give the novices jsut a bit more time.
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ReplyDelete(A) Immigrants are heading home due to the economic crisis.
Chardy ‘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.
(B) 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.
(C) 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.
(D) 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.
A: Interpretation
Random House Dictionary 2009.
To make greater, as in number, size, strength, or quality; augment; add to: to increase taxes.
B: Violation. The plan is creating not increasing
C: Standards
1. Explodes Aff ground. Being able to create a social service allows the aff to make up any kind of social service they want.
2. Limits- Being able to make up any kind of social service limits the neg because it forces an unfair research burden on us, thus giving the aff an unfair advantage.
3. Education- By giving the aff an unfair advantage, it makes for bad debate and destroys education which is the most important thing in debate.
D: Voters-
Topicality is a voter for education, fairness, and jurisdiction.
Solvency Turn: Helping the impoverished through social welfare causes homelessness to increase
Reader'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.
Here is my strategy for tomorrow, good luck guys.
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ReplyDeleteNsteele- My comment to you sir is to specify your violation and standards more. This is a common T violation but you need to be more specific. Topciality is an argument about specificity, ethics, and technicalities. And of course to ensure that debates stay within the rules or expectations of "the way debate should be". B. Violation- 1. Affirmative is not increasing in an existing program. 2. Affirmative is creating an entirely new program, service, or group.
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1. Ground- Our interpretation creates the best division of ground by guaranteeing literature about the plan and giving the Negative clear link stories from which to derive positions. Our research ground is destroyed due to the lack of exposure new policies would have.
2. Limits & Predictability- Only by allowing the Affirmative to make greater protections that already exist can the Negative be expected to be prepared to clash on specific Affirmative plans. There are a finite number of cases that exist in the SQ and an infinite number of creatable cases.
3. Extra Topicality- The resoultion calls for an increase in already existing programs; the Affirmative is going above and beyond the resolution by establishing a new program, service, or group.
If you add in X-T or FX-T then you can expand on why that is bad when the 1nr goes for T in the block.
Alex & I will be setting up a thread about topicality and other basic issues just to show you what to do and what not to do. Also, we will use this to show you guys how we would like to format and organize things. Plus, (no offense), I have seen most of you debate or attempt to debate topicallity and you ALL need a lot of work. So bare with me and I will try to help you improve.