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American Presidential Election
- Thread starter John Marwood
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God help us (or them as the case be!)
hop
Well-Known Forumite
Unfortunalty redevelopment and regeneration schemes mostly take the form of grants and tax incentives and fail to deliver. However nothing can be seen in isolation. We live in a developed nation with a high stand of living and comparatively high wages. Due to high wages many business ideas are simply not viable in this country, a man in china may work for $1 an hour but someone in the developed world requires a higher rate of pay for the same task due to living costs.
So how can this issue of living standards be addressed ? How can a developed nation compete on a level playing field with a developing nation ? So far we haven't been able to compete, at least not an a level playing field.
To compete we have instead introduced things such as regulations, quality standards and the like. Via the legal system and making the cost of entry to new entrants high, places like the EU have been able to maintain their industries and businesses which would otherwise have long gone.
However such barriers also make it difficult for entrants in developed nations, coupled with the high cost of production in the west and a general consumer mentality of wanting the lowest price.
The same issue with price is evident in the service and hospitality sector where many shops have been lost due to online offerings.
The brexiteer approach to such issues seems to be point towards a bonfire of regulations. Rather than increasing competiviness this would actually reduce the barriers of entry and allow our markets to be flooded with cheap poor quality imports and further decimate our businesses.
Perhaps a better approach would be to assist in collaboration and encourage companies to form joint ventures and engage in partnerships.
In addition much higher levels of education are required and more practical education.
Maybe we should be encouraging universities to form joint ventures with local companies.
Perhaps rather than judging the success of an educational establishment on academic attainment or the number of papers published by professors we should focus on how many companies they seed.
Maybe universities should allow the use of their facilities, laboratories, tools and machinery for a small monthly fee without requiring someone sign up for a course. Effectively every area would now have multiple hacker spaces with outstanding facilities to facilitate innovation.
We also need to public and media to stop resenting success and to encourage people to aspire towards success.
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proactive
Enjoying a drop of red.
Let's be honest though, the day would hardly have started with much of a rosey glow had Clinton been elected either.
1JKz
Well-Known Forumite
People would have pretended to understand what had happened that little bit more though imo, and the news would have died down a little quicker (1 week instead of the one month we'll be/we're having), i feel.
Not sure how or why, but i haven't been sure of either of those, since the end of June.
Agreed?
proactive
Enjoying a drop of red.
That's a fair point.
I was more alluding to the disaster that either of them would have been once in office from a 'world' point of view.
Having the Leader Of The Western World as either a psycho or an out and out crook cannot be a good thing for the planet.
Mind you, Obama appears to be neither and he has been a dismal failure as well.
John Marwood
I ♥ cryptic crosswords
Jonah
Spouting nonsense since the day I learned to talk
Isn't that percentage of non-voters similar to the UK?
I do wonder if it is about time to make voting compulsory.
1JKz
Well-Known Forumite
The seed is already being sown.
The/his four years hasn't even started yet!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-37929982
The/his four years hasn't even started yet!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-37929982
Gramaisc
Forum O. G.
I would be more interested in making it compulsory to count the votes properly.
But, people don't seem to want that.
1JKz
Well-Known Forumite
Yeah, because that would be GRrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrEAT!?
Jonah
Spouting nonsense since the day I learned to talk
And your reasons against?
Jonah
Spouting nonsense since the day I learned to talk
You would like to think they already are counted correctly.
Gramaisc
Forum O. G.
I just find it odd that you could win a head-to-head vote (discounting the no-hopers) by getting fewer votes than your opponent, but by getting those votes in the 'right place'.
Jonah
Spouting nonsense since the day I learned to talk
That's the American way! It's bizarre. FPTP may not be perfect but it usually means most votes wins but for America it doesn't.
1JKz
Well-Known Forumite
Amongst many reasons why i'd be against your making of voting being compulsory; Freedom of choice, high chance of yet more ill-informed voting, wasted man hours and money dishing out fines (if that's the route you'd take) to those that refused to vote and because i said so.
John Marwood
I ♥ cryptic crosswords
Alternatively
Pay people to vote
But
You need to get 2 out of 3 random general knowledge current affairs questions right first to do so
£20.18p