World Politics

[lxtaoyi]

sportswear , swimwear and riding suit

sportswear , swimwear and riding suit
With the continuous development and progress of the society,fast-paced city life make people feel much pressure.Sports become their one of the best ways to relax themselves. As a kind of sport’s essential goods,a variety of sports apparel make people dazzling.

As a city girl who love sports very much, of course,there are many beautiful sport clothing in my closet.I love jogging, swimming and cycling,so I have sportswear, swimwear and riding suit.I would choose the general sportswear with loose styles,the cotton suits are the best.And the swimwears have so much different styles and colors that I pocket the two-piece, three-piece and bikini altogether.However, I prefer The moving off superior products swimsuit with their good quality and low price.I think two riding clothes are enough,one is spring and summer’s and the other is autumn and winter’s.JAGGAD is my favorite!
Jogging in the park,or swimming in the pool,or riding around the city on a sunny morning is a good choice,isn’t it!

 

[scribe]

And why should people be productive?

As opposed to lazily feeding off the system when there us no incentive to work.

 

[Race Radio]

I just do not agree that there is "ample" evidence - also, I believe that capitalism is greedy (the reason that monopolies are not helpful to the public), but it is that greed that keeps people productive.

I am a firm capitalist but even I realize the natural trend in an unregulated market is toward monopolies/duopolies.

 

[fatandfast]

Lots of funny throwback traditions in American culture. School summer vacation is still a leftover from our early times when the children were needed during the summer months to provide labor if the fields. Now all this capitalist talk would dictate that our children should go to school more not less than other industrialized nations. Obama's call for a longer school day was met with lots of resistance because it could be a "bad" thing. Hawaii shortening it's school year in order to save cash in a short budget is disgusting. People who evaluated the line items and decided that a kids educations was where we needed to save money are all complete idiots. Another Hawaii note is that health insurance (public option mandate) is the law. They have some of the lowest health care costs in the US.

 

[Oncearunner8]

The hurricane season this past year was one of the quietest in recent history.

When GWB left the white house he turned the hurricane switch off.
He did that to ease the transition of power to the Hussein administration.

You should have known that! The lack of Hurricanes had nothing to do with climate change.

 

[CentralCaliBike]

Lots of funny throwback traditions in American culture. School summer vacation is still a leftover from our early times when the children were needed during the summer months to provide labor if the fields. Now all this capitalist talk would dictate that our children should go to school more not less than other industrialized nations. Obama's call for a longer school day was met with lots of resistance because it could be a "bad" thing. Hawaii shortening it's school year in order to save cash in a short budget is disgusting. People who evaluated the line items and decided that a kids educations was where we needed to save money are all complete idiots. Another Hawaii note is that health insurance (public option mandate) is the law. They have some of the lowest health care costs in the US.

I would be ok with more school (or a jobs program to teach responsibility and the value of working).

If you leave a child alone, unsupervised and without responsibility, you are asking for trouble.

 

[BigBoat]

The private school system performs very well. Private school teachers are often paid peanuts compared to public. Overpaid teachers, who feel entitled, is something I have experienced in public high schools. Some will not attend graduations of their students unless paid X dollars per hour at the ceremony.

 

[Anonymous]

The private school system performs very well. Private school teachers are often paid peanuts compared to public. Overpaid teachers, who feel entitled, is something I have experienced in public high schools. Some will not attend graduations of their students unless paid X dollars per hour at the ceremony.

Quite possibly the dumbest statement you have ever made. I have an idea, go do it for awhile and see what your opinion is afterwards. Overpaid, that is just plain stupid. Moronically stupid. So fu*king dumb that I question whether you should consider a helmet.

Oh, and "Money doesn't talk, it swears" is a line from "It's alright Ma, I'm only bleeding" by Bob Dylan...Who ever this Paul Douchebag is, he isn't very original.

 

[BroDeal]

Quite possibly the dumbest statement you have ever made. I have an idea, go do it for awhile and see what your opinion is afterwards. Overpaid, that is just plain stupid. Moronically stupid. So fu*king dumb that I question whether you should consider a helmet.

There is a good argument to made for teachers being paid too much. Try to find a job in the private sector that has a similar amount of vacation time. Try to find one that offers a similar benefits and retirement package. Try to find one that has a similar level of job security. Try to find one that offers those three features and has a huge supply of workers relative to the demand. Finally, try to find such a job that also offers the opportunity to jack your pay by pleading "think of the children" to your ultimate employers.

Just because a job is hard or crappy does not entitle the job holder to high pay. There are any number of ditch diggers and fruit pickers who have it much harder than teachers and I don't see anyone clamoring for them to get paid more.

States like California are buckling under the strain of the gold plated compensation packages paid to their public employees.

 

[fatandfast]

Foods do you teach ? I very infrequently agree with BB but after living in NY for awhile you see some funny things...at schools...that are not supposed to be funny. My friend teaches HS English and drama in the NYC system,one of her co-workers got into it with a kid and hit her with a walkie talkie,instead of the teacher being fired for having no coping skills she was reassigned to a desk job (ala union rules) The Varsity football teams has 18 players not for lack of talent because lots of players are not able to meet the academic requirements! Yes the pay is not good and teachers don't get the respect they deserve but there must be a way to flush out these crappy teachers. Kids getting through HS without being able to read is one problem, not going back to find out who taught them in English class and firing them on the spot is another. We should cane teachers that socially promote these kids. It would be a great reality show. Have a student past or present get up and read a newspaper,if they can give them 500,if they can't smack the teacher with a club, allow the 18 year old student to select another piece of reading material from Jr High,if they can't read that, again cane the teacher. My show would be carried on the Taliban Network

 

[Anonymous]

There is a good argument to made for teachers being paid too much. Try to find a job in the private sector that has a similar amount of vacation time. Try to find one that offers a similar benefits and retirement package. Try to find one that has a similar level of job security. Try to find one that offers those three features and has a huge supply of workers relative to the demand. Finally, try to find such a job that also offers the opportunity to jack your pay by pleading "think of the children" to your ultimate employers.

Just because a job is hard or crappy does not entitle the job holder to high pay. There are any number of ditch diggers and fruit pickers who have it much harder than teachers and I don't see anyone clamoring for them to get paid more.

States like California are buckling under the strain of the gold plated compensation packages paid to their public employees.

Uh, no. Try doing the job before piping in about it. You just think you know what it is like. There is a reason that people flee the profession before they reach 4 years (I have seem them go in 1 week on more than one occasion), and if you think it is because they are whiny lightweights who are looking for something easier to do, you are sadly mistaken. And it isn't the crappy job that warrants the higher pay, it is the fact that they are teaching children. If you equate digging a ditch to teaching, we have little to discuss.

In fact, historically, it is underpaid (like nurses) because it was considered a "woman's" profession for most of the 20th century. If it had always been dominated by males, that would have been different.

 

[Anonymous]

Foods do you teach ? I very infrequently agree with BB but after living in NY for awhile you see some funny things...at schools...that are not supposed to be funny. My friend teaches HS English and drama in the NYC system,one of her co-workers got into it with a kid and hit her with a walkie talkie,instead of the teacher being fired for having no coping skills she was reassigned to a desk job (ala union rules) The Varsity football teams has 18 players not for lack of talent because lots of players are not able to meet the academic requirements! Yes the pay is not good and teachers don't get the respect they deserve but there must be a way to flush out these crappy teachers. Kids getting through HS without being able to read is one problem, not going back to find out who taught them in English class and firing them on the spot is another. We should cane teachers that socially promote these kids. It would be a great reality show. Have a student past or present get up and read a newspaper,if they can give them 500,if they can't smack the teacher with a club, allow the 18 year old student to select another piece of reading material from Jr High,if they can't read that, again cane the teacher. My show would be carried on the Taliban Network

Yea, well I know a teacher here who got fired because there was a suggestion that he and a student had a heated argument in his office. The student didn't complain, but the rumor got around and he has no more job. Maybe it is geography, but here in NC, things like that don't happen. I taught for my 3 years, and then I had to leave. I once got written up when a student called me a "stupid fagg0t" because I told her that there was a significant difference between prejudice and racism. After her insult, I told her that her statement was ignorant (being very careful to use that word because of its precise meaning) Nothing happened to the student, it went in my permanent record.

I have found that people who hold a grudge against teachers because of their HS experiences usually hold a grudge against all teachers, and use that bias throughout their lives.

All I can say to anyone who thinks it is an easy job compared to what you have now, try it. You are wrong in so many ways.

 

[fatandfast]

Teachers are underpaid. Private,public,period.It's a very difficult and important job.

 

[CentralCaliBike]

. . . Try to find one that has a similar level of job security. Try to find one that offers those three features and has a huge supply of workers relative to the demand.

I am not completely familiar with the pay but I know teachers that have been laid off work on multiple occasions. As with most union type jobs there is security with seniority (rather than performance) but if you do not have it in California, as a teacher, you are probably very concerned about what you will be doing next year.

 

[Anonymous]

Teachers are underpaid. Private,public,period.It's a very difficult and important job.

Bro seems to think that digging ditches is as important...funny, he must not have children.

 

[CentralCaliBike]

Kids getting through HS without being able to read is one problem, not going back to find out who taught them in English class and firing them on the spot is another.

Unfortunately, a fairly significant number of students do not want to be in school, do not want to learn, and consider education to be a waste of their time (which should be used for hanging out and partying). I really do not think that the teachers should be responsible for teaching kids with this attitude (of course I also believe that welfare and child labor laws have encouraged this type of philosophy).

 

[Anonymous]

I am not completely familiar with the pay but I know teachers that have been laid off work on multiple occasions. As with most union type jobs there is security with seniority (rather than performance) but if you do not have it in California, as a teacher, you are probably very concerned about what you will be doing next year.

Teachers unions in some areas like NY do have a lot of power. However that is the exception rather than the rule for the most part. It is a much harder job than anyone can imagine, especially in an inner city school like the one in which I taught. If someone gave me the option to dig a ditch for $28K or teach for that (my pay for my 3rd year of teaching which was 2001), I would ask them how deep they wanted it. In fact, I would ask them how many most people dig, and try to dig twice as many for that pay.

 

[CentralCaliBike]

Bro seems to think that digging ditches is as important...funny, he must not have children.

Digging ditches is important (without ditch diggers who would still be going to the bathroom outside).

 

[Anonymous]

Unfortunately, a fairly significant number of students do not want to be in school, do not want to learn, and consider education to be a waste of their time (which should be used for hanging out and partying). I really do not think that the teachers should be responsible for teaching kids with this attitude (of course I also believe that welfare and child labor laws have encouraged this type of philosophy).

Which is why I believe we need vocational schools and college prep HS. We literally had a goal of having 75% of our students take the SAT when I was teaching, and barely 35% were going to college, and many of them would have benefited more from a nursing degree, or IT degree, or something along those lines.

And don't even get me started on the standardized tests. Possibly the worst idea for education in the last 100 years.

 

[CentralCaliBike]

Teachers unions in some areas like NY do have a lot of power. However that is the exception rather than the rule for the most part. It is a much harder job than anyone can imagine, especially in an inner city school like the one in which I taught. If someone gave me the option to dig a ditch for $28K or teach for that (my pay for my 3rd year of teaching which was 2001), I would ask them how deep they wanted it. In fact, I would ask them how many most people dig, and try to dig twice as many for that pay.

I agree that teaching is a very important job - however, I believe that there are some students that will not be forced, or bribed, to learn.

 

[Anonymous]

Digging ditches is important (without ditch diggers who would still be going to the bathroom outside).

Oh, I agree. However to equate it to the importance of teaching is more than insulting, and that was how he meant it.

 

[CentralCaliBike]

Which is why I believe we need vocational schools and college prep HS. We literally had a goal of having 75% of our students take the LSAT when I was teaching, and barely 35% were going to college, and many of them would have benefited more from a nursing degree, or IT degree, or something along those lines.

And don't even get me started on the standardized tests. Possibly the worst idea for education in the last 100 years.

I took the LSAT to get into law school -- I certainly agree that the one area we could do well to consider a different model would be to have tracks in middle and HS schools (some, perhaps most European countries have this system). Not everyone needs, wants or is able to do college work.

 

[CentralCaliBike]

Oh, I agree. However to equate it to the importance of teaching is more than insulting, and that was how he meant it.

You are probably right - I just have dug a few ditches in my life (can still feel the jack hammer vibration in my hands and arms).

 

[Anonymous]

I agree that teaching is a very important job - however, I believe that there are some students that will not be forced, or bribed, to learn.

Absolutely, and you still cannot kick them out into the cold cold world. Many of them need just that. Like I have said before, I believe in socialist programs in harder times, but programs like Johnson's "Great Sociaty" were horrific disasters, and an example of racist liberal paternalism. The interesting thing were the number of African American students who were very conservative in their views (though they considered themselves Democrats) when it came to not only religious views, but also their view of social programs and the effects they saw in their communities. They were also more openly racist than any group I have seen. They hated the Hispanics and said things that made my jaw drop on more than one occasion.

 

[Anonymous]

I took the LSAT to get into law school -- I certainly agree that the one area we could do well to consider a different model would be to have tracks in middle and HS schools (some, perhaps most European countries have this system). Not everyone needs, wants or is able to do college work.

Oops, SAT. I took the LSAT to get into law school too, and got my scores back last Thursday and did well enough that I should be attending next fall...as long as I can figure out a way to do it financially.