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Your claim is based on the old data, so its therefor not valid in 2009, but i fucking give up

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I claim that any country that would be close to surpassing us in productivity (thus, proving my original claim to be false) is hurting just as bad, if not worse, than we currently are - and as a result of that, will NOT be overtaking our productivity levels during the time since that data has been acquired.

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justin_thyme said:

okay article was faked i give up too. 1 and a half hours in prime time i should work for the kremlin or something.

i thought someone would catch on with the 420 reference, the removing state leaders from power, or at least the conspiracy theory "superhighway" reference in the end. oh well.

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Not everyone is happy about the bill though. Representative Peter Strausberg (R-OH) again criticized the Democrats excessive use of "pork" in the bill. "I know that building roads created a lot of jobs in the great depression," he said, "but I just don't see why we need a road from Canada to Mexico."

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Ferris said:

What a fucking moron.  Obviously never been on I-5 before

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justin_thyme said:

okay article was faked i give up too. 1 and a half hours in prime time i should work for the kremlin or something.

i thought someone would catch on with the 420 reference, the removing state leaders from power, or at least the conspiracy theory "superhighway" reference in the end. oh well.

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wolf fish said:

my argument is that it would cost so much money to make that happen

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How?

It's been predicted that legalization could save us roughly 7 billion a year in law enforcement costs and could generate 3-6 billion in taxes.

It surely wouldn't fix everything, but I don't see how the hell it could hurt.

meams said:

hehe.  I graduated Cum Laude w/ a double major in Economics & Business Management from a university in virginia.  Econ GPA: 3.90.

The age of this data, while seemingly important, does not come into play regarding our debate.  My reasoning is as follows:


1.  I said the US was the most productive workforce in the world (I now change that to "one of the top two", based on that article I found that said we're #2). 

2.  You claim the old data brings the validity of my claims into question.

3.  I claim that any country that would be close to surpassing us in productivity (thus, proving my original claim to be false) is hurting just as bad, if not worse, than we currently are - and as a result of that, will NOT be overtaking our productivity levels during the time since that data has been acquired.

Those three bullets are solid, I don't see how you can argue against them.

Now, regarding your claim that the studies may not have been made in a manner that has the level of validity that I would think it does... 'meh.  Find a better way, and you can disprove my original claim, until then - I'm right

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Crasher said:

Cognitive_Shift said:

meams said:

Right now Americans are the most productive workers on the planet.

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You pulled that directly out of your ass hole.

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Agreed. I think we're probably the laziest and most medicated workers on Earth. Sitting in a cubicle stoned is hardly different from sitting in a cubicle on prozac. (in terms of productivity.)

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meams said:

Crasher said:

Cognitive_Shift said:

meams said:

Right now Americans are the most productive workers on the planet.

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You pulled that directly out of your ass hole.

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Agreed. I think we're probably the laziest and most medicated workers on Earth. Sitting in a cubicle stoned is hardly different from sitting in a cubicle on prozac. (in terms of productivity.)

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GO educate yourselves.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/09/03/business/main3228735.shtml

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