New hope for liberals

[hmkpoker]

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Stem cells could open a whole new world of cures if you can get over the minor moral issues.

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PAH!

There's no money in cures! Who the hell wants some sissy-ass cure?

We Americans like our beer cold, our women hot, and our doctors prescribing us poorly researched, overpriced, side-effect-loaded chemicals that we need to renew for the rest of our lives to treat symptoms.

If we start curing things, how the hell are the pharmaceutical and insurance companies going to make any money?

[Nepa]

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Stem cells could open a whole new world of cures if you can get over the minor moral issues.

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PAH!

There's no money in cures! Who the hell wants some sissy-ass cure?

We Americans like our beer cold, our women hot, and our doctors prescribing us poorly researched, overpriced, side-effect-loaded chemicals that we need to renew for the rest of our lives to treat symptoms.

If we start curing things, how the hell are the pharmaceutical and insurance companies going to make any money?

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You got me there! So you are saying that pharmaceutical and insurance companies pray that stem cell research ends or never begins?

[TaintedRogue]

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What, objectively, would you like to accomplish with an improved education system? (i.e., what skills do you think are important and necessary for all children to spend their childhood assimilating?)

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You give kids HOPE, by instituted a system that has a light at the end of the tunnel that they can actually see.
There are many intelligent people born into poverty.

If we had assaulted the education problem in the inner cities in the 60's, we would not have near the level of crime & poverty we have today.

There have been a few teachers who have proven that kids can be turned around.

I believe that if the education system was assaulted in the 60's and that the government didn't give up, that we would be seeing kids from the ghetto become scientists in many different arts; math, science, medicine; to the point where the competition for jobs would make those born into upper class families uncomfortable.

[hmkpoker]

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You got me there! So you are saying that pharmaceutical and insurance companies pray that stem cell research ends or never begins?

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Put yourself in the shoes of the drug companies. You create remedies that alleviate the symptoms of disease. A lot of people have the disease, and give you a lot of money to renew their prescriptions.

Along comes some [censored] scientist who wants to cure the disease. That is, make it disappear. Vanish. No more. It will DESTROY the demand for your business.

You have a panel of experts, insatiable greed, political ties, a fuckload of money, and a nation full of idiots. What do you think is going to happen next?

Pray? Hah! Pharmaceutical companies don't need to pray.

[hmkpoker]

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What, objectively, would you like to accomplish with an improved education system? (i.e., what skills do you think are important and necessary for all children to spend their childhood assimilating?)

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You give kids HOPE, by instituted a system that has a light at the end of the tunnel that they can actually see.
There are many intelligent people born into poverty.

If we had assaulted the education problem in the inner cities in the 60's, we would not have near the level of crime & poverty we have today.

There have been a few teachers who have proven that kids can be turned around.

I believe that if the education system was assaulted in the 60's and that the government didn't give up, that we would be seeing kids from the ghetto become scientists in many different arts; math, science, medicine; to the point where the competition for jobs would make those born into upper class families uncomfortable.

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Again: what mental skills are necessary to force our children to learn, and why?

Why is it necessary to force a child who has excellent spatial reasoning, an interest in tinkering and gadgetry, and a demonstrable affinity for a vocation like engineering...to learn a bunch of crap that he doesn't care about, like government-rehashed history, espanol, and shakespeare?