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Centennial Debate : Debate Ponderings

Mon, 31 Aug 2009 23:12:23 +0000

EXCELLENT POINT, Cross! I'm so glad you are thinking critically- the definition doesn't matter in the concrete sense. What matters is the VIEW of the definition and how that will either move/ not move people. You know, I am surprised no one has brought up the impact of NGOs yet.

Centennial Debate : Debate Ponderings

Mon, 31 Aug 2009 23:10:49 +0000

Yeah... you are stretching it BUT I think it could be argued that reactionary stances like the one you cited in the last couple of sentences could polarize the US (as it is doing now) and cause a stalemate in the White House, stopping considerable action to take place. Think impacts, Clay. There is a given moral obligation to help the poor (unless you go Malthus on this one--I wouldnt suggest it). BUT at what cost? Linking social services to communism is a LOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG stretch and you'd get hammered on links and internal links. Only if you went with the polarizing argument would you be able to launch this type of debate.

Centennial Debate : Debate Ponderings

Mon, 31 Aug 2009 23:08:01 +0000

<sigh> Hmm...stoic, policy-minded, and without opinion.... </sigh>

Centennial Debate : Debate Ponderings

Mon, 31 Aug 2009 23:07:16 +0000

Ha! It censored you word CLASS because it has *$$ in it. Too funny! Silly blog. So here is a question for you Ladrum-- how low does the US lower the poverty line to make it actual poverty? should we let them starve to death in the street before we take action?

Centennial Debate : Debate Ponderings

Mon, 31 Aug 2009 23:05:28 +0000

Blanton--- THIS IS DIRECTLY FROM YOUR CARD>> what is your opinion? don't post card evidence for this one- we are all familiar with it. What is your actual response?

Centennial Debate : Debate Ponderings

Mon, 31 Aug 2009 23:04:16 +0000

Regan--- Aff has no burden to define poverty other than the OPR-- if they were to use some other abstract figure, they could open themselves up to some nasty T arguments. I doubt anyone would do that. Still, even if you attack their def. you need to also attack the actual IMPACT of action. You know?

Centennial Debate : Debate Ponderings

Mon, 31 Aug 2009 23:02:28 +0000

Again-- I think you are simplifying a very complex, dehumanizing issue. Poverty isn't just a flat number. It is a social issue as well. It isn't about inherency anymore. We know poverty has existed since man learned to trade. The question, how do we as a society solveand if we dnt what are the moral implications?

Centennial Debate : Debate Ponderings

Mon, 31 Aug 2009 22:59:57 +0000

Ok-- LOTS and LOTS of loaded statements here: "when the entire economy is being dragged down by people who come to America for handouts." Be careful...this is definitely debateable!

Centennial Debate : Debate Ponderings

Mon, 31 Aug 2009 22:58:35 +0000

Hmmm...how ideological of you. I think this relates back to that Impact takeout from the packet. the US's version of poverty may be slightly skewed BUT you can't blatantly dismiss poverty as an issue that doesn't affect indivdual rights, especially when so many of those in povety are children.

Centennial Debate : Debate Ponderings

Mon, 31 Aug 2009 22:56:40 +0000

Jeff- this sounds like the beginning of a good Kritik argument. Ask Bishop about how/why

Centennial Debate : Debate Ponderings

Sat, 1 Aug 2009 15:04:47 +0000

made a few changes to the search engine to enable you to use a drop down menu to narrow the results. And, while the search engine generally works, sites that have marked their homepage to update daily will still be included within the 24 hour search option, even if their articles aren't necessarily that recent, it should still weed out the 1970's and 80's articles unless they have been updated recently (depending on your search). There are two ways to access this new feature: The first is to go to the original link: http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=005297658902504... and make a search like you would before. Once you see the results, you will need to edit the URL at the top and add the following everytime you want to narrow the results: "&as_qdr=d" (without quotes). Or i have set up a website that is rather plain which gives you that feature before you search and ensures you never have to remember the code to make it work properly. You can access the hosted search engine here: http://lowpointwin.com/poverty.html (I'll see about adding some html coding to it later to make it look better than it does). Either way you should recieve the same results no matter which method you use, i figured having two options would help some of you out. Hopefully one of those two solutions will help you out. If not let me know and I'll see what I can do. Keep the suggestions coming so that i can continue to make this more useable.

Centennial Debate : Debate Ponderings

Sat, 1 Aug 2009 15:03:11 +0000

Useful poverty search engine http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=005297658902504...

Centennial Debate : Current Resolved

Thu, 9 Jul 2009 15:14:16 +0000

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