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(...) I am generally not a big fan of throwing out unsubstanciated numbers to back up a point, but I believe the last numbers I saw showed that the top 10% of wage earners in the US started at $75,000 a year. I also saw a survey that showed that 90% (...) (21 years ago, 5-May-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Yes. Australians appear to be similar. (...) Absolutely. A good average standard of living is not necessarily an indicator that the average person has a good standard of living. I always wonder why people who would never favour dividing the (...) (21 years ago, 5-May-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I wish I could locate a cite right now, but the average american believes wrongly that they are within the top 1-5% of the wealthy in the U.S. Costello believes wrongly that the average american is doing well economically, but is probably (...) (21 years ago, 5-May-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Scott Costello writes: <snip> (...) Who is the average person? How do you know his or her standard of living is still really good compared to other nations? Cheers Richie (21 years ago, 4-May-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Please note before I start that these are not necessarily my views, but arguments against these two things not based on morality. As for pornography and prostitution, every time a strip club, adult bookstore, or house of prostitution opens up, (...) (21 years ago, 4-May-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) The reason you won't hear a debate about porn and prostitution without morals cropping up is that that is the ONLY argument against these issues. The worst thing the US Supreme Court ever did to free speech was to define obscenity as community (...) (21 years ago, 4-May-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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"Wall Street to ship research jobs to India" (URL) Street research analysts have suffered rounds of layoffs, big pay cuts, and accusations that they routinely lied to the investing public. Now there's a new worry -- that their jobs are being shipped (...) (21 years ago, 3-May-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) By all accounts, Atlanta doesn't really suffer from that kind of thinking, but I suppose it answers the question when people ask why there are still "black colleges" (Morehouse is in Atlanta). -->Bruce<-- (21 years ago, 3-May-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Apparently these are private functions, rather than publicly funded ones, so the school can't put its foot down and insist on just one prom, regrettably... Freedom to associate includes freedom not to associate, remember. Remind me not to move (...) (21 years ago, 3-May-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I have read (and will search for the cite) more annual revenue than professional baseball, football, and basketball combined, but somehow it's still viewed as a perverted fringe product/service/industry. (URL) Dave! (21 years ago, 2-May-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Seriously, why isn't this stuff legal? Forget the moral issues--what is the downside to legalizing pot? And isn't porn already legal? Can't I walk into AOV and buy por nmovies/magazines? I would love to hear a debate on legalizing prostitution (...) (21 years ago, 2-May-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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More proof that what is really needed, but will never happen, is an economic Jubilee akin to what is described in the Old Testament. -- Hop-Frog (21 years ago, 2-May-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(URL) baccalaureate will be held by the light of a burning cross. Dave! (21 years ago, 2-May-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) The true irony here is the fact that labor laws have not improved working conditions, just relocated them. The same conditions that were so horrible in this country, now exist in under developed countries, and those manafacturing jobs that (...) (21 years ago, 2-May-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Moral issues aside, this makes interesting reading: With pot and porn outstripping corn, America's black economy is flying high (URL) pornography and illegal labour have created a hidden market in the United States which now accounts for as much as (...) (21 years ago, 2-May-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Employment laws are one of the greatest achievements of most developed countries. Do you want to return to what your grandparents had to endure, or are you not grateful that things have moved on? Our children belong in school not sweatshops. (...) (21 years ago, 2-May-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Everybody knows the Dice are loaded, Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed. Everybody knows the war is over, Everybody knows the good guys lost. Leonard Cohen right back at you, and it's a little more relevant than I am comfortable with (...) (21 years ago, 2-May-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I think you'd have a hard time demonstrating that's actually true. After all, the best "brainwashing" is one in which the victim thinks there was no undue influence whatever. (...) I suspect there are no such people anywhere on the earth, (...) (21 years ago, 2-May-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) "There's a crack in everything -- that's how the light gets in !" -- Leonard Cohen -- Hop-Frog (21 years ago, 1-May-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) theories. This so-called "coverup" is nothing compared to a non-actionable 30-year-old mom&pop land deal or a sexual affair between two consenting adults. THOSE are the issues that the Liberal Media should be tackling. In all seriousness, I'm (...) (21 years ago, 1-May-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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