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On May 13 2016 07:02 Adreme wrote:
Those coaches are an investment. The coaches bring the players and having a good program makes the university money so they pay the coaches to keep them.

On May 13 2016 07:02 Adreme wrote:
Those coaches are an investment. The coaches bring the players and having a good program makes the university money so they pay the coaches to keep them.

On May 13 2016 07:30 Naracs_Duc wrote:


And congressmen aren't? Unlike the president, the house and senate are the actual people that makes things happen and the president just vetos or approves.

On May 13 2016 08:39 Adreme wrote:


A coaches benefit to a school can very easily be measured. You can look at the improved value of a team and the revenue it generates in TV deals and jersey sales and the good ones get paid very well for generating a lot of this for the school.

However a congressmen is harder to judge. How do you decide which congressmen are good and which are bad? You could say its based on who gets elected but some districts and states are free wins and you can hardly say that the US has an informed electorate so its not as easy to judge which congressmen deserve a big salary and which do not.

Even as Donald Trump careens toward the Republican Party's nomination and a likely clash with Hillary Clinton in the general election, President Barack Obama believes the GOP will eventually straighten itself out.

But he also thinks the Republicans have only themselves to blame for Trump.

In an interview published Thursday with The Daily Targum, Rutgers University's student newspaper, Obama mused about not only his record but also the historic contest to replace him.

"My sense is that there will be a corrective at some point, perhaps after this next presidential election," Obama told the Targum's Dan Corey, who participated in last month's event for college journalists at the White House, at which he asked the president whether he could score a one-on-one interview.

Obama accepted that invitation ahead of delivering the school's commencement address this Sunday, using it as an opportunity to tick through his administration's accomplishments and scold the Republican Party for what he says it has become: "increasingly ideological and extreme, and I think that’s reflected in the current presidential race."

"I’ve always shown myself willing to compromise — principled compromises that would still advance the interests of the American people," the president remarked in the interview, conducted Monday. "What we’ve seen within the Republican Party has been a refusal even to engage on a whole range of issues like climate change, for example, that are vitally important. The issue here has never been both sides stuck in a corner, unwilling to meet in the middle."

On May 13 2016 08:39 Adreme wrote:


A coaches benefit to a school can very easily be measured. You can look at the improved value of a team and the revenue it generates in TV deals and jersey sales and the good ones get paid very well for generating a lot of this for the school.

However a congressmen is harder to judge. How do you decide which congressmen are good and which are bad? You could say its based on who gets elected but some districts and states are free wins and you can hardly say that the US has an informed electorate so its not as easy to judge which congressmen deserve a big salary and which do not.

On May 13 2016 09:37 Naracs_Duc wrote:


Its easy to look at federal and state expenditures and to link them back to the members of congress that voted it into action. You then separate them into three buckets: Pure Expenditure (non-employee costs of programs), Pure Revenue (taxes), Employment Expenditure (Cost to Staff a Program)

We then know how much money that congressman brings in, how many people he employs, and how much that congressman's decisions costs the country.

We can then know how much the congressman is worth, and how many people the congressman gives worth.

On May 13 2016 09:50 oneofthem wrote:
election is over, trump won. sandernistas dancing on the streets. american people btfo

On May 13 2016 09:49 Adreme wrote:


At this point you are encouraging them to vote for as much pork as they can for there district and its suddenly in every congressmens interest to vote for the other guys pork as well so he will vote for yours and spending on pet projects will get even more out of control because there is suddenly a finanicial incentive to put those ahead of what is in the best interest of the country.

US immigration officials are planning a month-long series of raids in May and June to deport hundreds of Central American mothers and children found to have entered the country illegally, according to sources and an internal document seen by Reuters.

The operation would likely be the largest deportation sweep targeting immigrant families by the administration of Barack Obama this year after a similar drive over two days in January that focused on Georgia, Texas and North Carolina.

Those raids, which resulted in the detention of 121 people, mostly women and children, sparked an outcry from immigration advocates and criticism from some Democrats, including the party’s presidential election frontrunner Hillary Clinton.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has now told field offices nationwide to launch a 30-day “surge” of arrests focused on mothers and children who have already been told to leave the United States, the document seen by Reuters said. The operation would also cover minors who have entered the country without a guardian and since turned 18 years of age, the document said. Two sources confirmed the details of the plan.

The exact dates of the latest series of raids were not known and the details of the operation could change.

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is planning to issue a sweeping directive telling every public school district in the country to allow transgender students to use the bathrooms that match their gender identity.

A letter to school districts will go out Friday, fueling a highly charged debate over transgender rights in the middle of the administration’s legal fight with North Carolina over the issue. The declaration — signed by Justice and Education Department officials — will describe what schools should do to ensure that none of their students are discriminated against.

It does not have the force of law, but it contains an implicit threat: Schools that do not abide by the Obama administration’s interpretation of the law could face lawsuits or a loss of federal aid.

The move is certain to draw fresh criticism, particularly from Republicans, that the federal government is wading into local matters and imposing its own values on communities across the country that may not agree. It represents the latest example of the Obama administration using a combination of policies, lawsuits and public statements to change the civil rights landscape for gays, lesbians, bisexual and transgender people.

After supporting the rights of gay people to marry, allowing them to serve openly in the military and prohibiting federal contractors from discriminating against them, the administration has made bathrooms its latest battleground.