What's one of the worst ideas you've heard from a politican?
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katielass · F
@Carver Hon, I already know you can't prove anyone ever suggested teachers be forced to carry a gun to school. People have suggested willing teachers, those who hunt or those who were in the military certainly are qualified, but no one has ever suggested any teacher be forced to carry a gun. But if you want to pretend you're not forthcoming with any evidence because you think I won't listen, be my guest but you aren't fooling anyone.
katielass · F
stay in school, dearie. And don't procreate.
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@Graylight Exactly!
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the president has the power to pardon anyone. The only exception to that power is his own impeachment he can't pardon himself from that. So he's not being impeached, he has the power to pardon himself per the Constitution of the crime he's being investigated for at this time. Although if he does pardon himself Congress will probably impeach him.
the president has the power to pardon anyone. The only exception to that power is his own impeachment he can't pardon himself from that. So he's not being impeached, he has the power to pardon himself per the Constitution of the crime he's being investigated for at this time. Although if he does pardon himself Congress will probably impeach him.
Graylight · 51-55, F
@SW-User This has not been ďecided. The language using "grant" means 'to give' which isn't used when applying something to oneself, or so goes one legal argument. As no one has pardoned himself, this issue will definitely come up for legal review.
Indulge · 36-40, F
Most would consider Australia as a lucky country...and in many aspects it is , it's safe and peaceful country, it has an impressive and comprehensive welfare system, schools and hospitals available to everyone. The system of things that become a down fall is that the federal government has missed the mark in where they should spend the money most, like numeracy and literature for schools, mental health, trade and skills ,working for the dole. The funding is there and the structure is there but a lot of people are lacking the right information to direct or navigate them to the resources.The Australian government has good intentions to help out its citizens but they are themselves struggling to get accurate information and static data. For example the baby Bonus that was given to mothers for having a baby, the governments intentions was to give an incentive to have children to create the next generation of of working people and ultimately tax payers. Australia is an ageing population, there are more older people than there is younger. The intensions was good ideally but the way they did it was off the mark, they should have spread out the payments over 12 months rather than one lump sum. People took advantage of that but the wrong way. As far as I know Australia is the only country that offers 10-20,000 dollars for people to buy their first homes tax free, Australia has the highest award wages in the world,Australians can study in university and pay for it later. Australia by far is not perfect in its system and they are still a young country that has to learn a lot.
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@Indulge yeah but those wages don’t match up tho the ridiculous cost of living in Australia, we have an unspoken statistic hidden from outlet government and that is the alarming growth of working class Australians living in or below the poverty line.
Indulge · 36-40, F
@SW-User It mostly depends also in where you live in Australia, the states that have higher cost of living like Sydney, Melbourne and Queensland.... But in general Australia's cost of living has always been a mismatch to the wages. Due to one of the reasons that Australia import a lot of things and there are only 24 million people in the whole of Australia, equals to not enough consumers in general. The wages is steadily going up, there is other countries where there wages haven't gone up in so long. For example in the UK wages went up by 70 pence and it took 30 years.I agree with you there is a growing amount of working class Australians living below the poverty lines, and those are areas that need attention in the future.The government is willing to listen to its citizens and people who are advocating for them.
CallmeHopelessNotRomantic · 46-50, F
BlueRain · F
@SW-User Thank you for the info. I know nothing about Australia. This helped my knowledge a lot.
beckyromero · 36-40, F
Graylight · 51-55, F
@eli1601 20 million people were able the afford coverage when before they couldn't. More than that it included elements that, a la carte, were unavailable or unaffordable before.
But I know anything Obama did was bad and evil. Forget that the ACA copied a plan by Republican Mitt Romney.
But I know anything Obama did was bad and evil. Forget that the ACA copied a plan by Republican Mitt Romney.
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@FreeSpirit1 not really, Australia has an unknown statistic of the “working class poverty line” where we work full time but our wage doesn’t cover the cost of living here.
In Australia, dying is a lot cheaper than living lol.
In Australia, dying is a lot cheaper than living lol.
FreeSpirit1 · 51-55, F
@SW-User an unemployed couple would get 6k for having a baby or you have to be employed?
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@FreeSpirit1 either way, it was the governments idea to boost population growth as many AU millennials turned away from having children because the cost of living just made parenting feel like an extra financial burden.
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royalblue1193 · 31-35, M
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@mljenkins so many right
