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#15 - tastycrisps

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(02/02/2013)[-]

Wait a minute, I've been subscribed to this guy called Hank Green for almost a year

so confused

#18 to #15 - enkmaster

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(02/02/2013)[-]

They're brothers.

#27 to #15 - allamericandude

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(02/02/2013)[-]

You're missing out on like half the stuff you could be watching.

#28 to #15 - ocampo

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(02/02/2013)[-]

tis John's brother, my good chap.

#60 to #15 - jthwdragon

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(02/02/2013)[-]

they are brothers, which of hanks channel's have you been watching because they together have a ton, i personally watch scishow, hankschannel, Vlogbrothers, crash course...

#36 to #15 - mrsexmuffins

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(02/02/2013)[-]

Hasn't he ever mentioned John in one of his videos?

#25 - allamericandude

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(02/02/2013)[-]

I'm an low-tax kinda guy, but even I agree that we should have public education. Heck, if this was the United States of Allamericandude, that would be pretty much the only thing the government would do.

With a well-educated population, you can solve
1) Poverty
2) Crime/violence
3) Health care
4) The economy
5) Foreign relations
6) Everything else

I mean, our education system isn't that bad--7 of the 10 best universities in the world are American--but there is a lot of room for improvement, especially in the elementary school system. And the clumsy, bureaucratic way we spend money on our education has actually made it worse. A government that spends nearly $1 trillion on education should not be 14th (or 17th, for all I know) on the rankings for math and science test scores. So while I think we should spend more money on our education system, I don't think that simply dumping more money on it is going to fix it (which is how our government tries to solve most of its problems).

Oh, and NASA. That'd be the other thing I'd do. I'd fund the **** out of NASA.

Also, DFTBA.

#26 to #25 - allamericandude

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(02/02/2013)[-]

*I'm a low-tax kinda guy

****, of course I'd make a grammatical error in a rant about education.

#312 to #25 - anon id: b063a3cb

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(02/02/2013)[-]

You sir, are going places.

#145 to #25 - hawaiianhappysauce

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(02/02/2013)[-]

The US federal government spends only 4% of the budget on Education, but 24% on defense and 23% on PENSIONS and 24% on Medicare / Medicaid. The real problem is the state pensions these hacks get in the government system. These hacks are the kind of people who shuffle papers and sit around and do nothing. I'm dead serious there are jobs like this, the only thing is to get them you need to be friends with someone with political power. These jobs usually come with a really nice 100k / year pension. You have any idea how expensive that can be... also you have these easy labor jobs that get paid a lot more than any easy labor job in the private sector. Working as a cashier is minimum wage, whereas working as a bus driver for the state could be $20 and hour with paid vacation time. I've heard that some toll collectors make 100k a year. It's sad because my mother is a teacher and she has a masters degree and she only makes about 44k a year. But some people who have jobs that a monkey can do get paid more than double that.

#79 to #25 - anon id: 8377c741

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(02/02/2013)[-]

What's it good for that US has top 7 universities when there are more foreign students than residents? You don't profit from them studying and then going back to whichever country they came from (the schools obviously do).

#81 to #79 - allamericandude

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(02/02/2013)[-]

Well, foreign students don't make up the majority. MIT--the #1 ranked school in the world--has only 40% foreign students. I mean, that's a lot, but there's still 60% who are residents.

But the fact that there are so many foreign students is a good thing. It means that people are willing to traverse thousands of miles of spend thousands of monies to go to school in the US. It's called "voting with your feet", and it's a great sign of success for our universities.

#96 to #81 - Fgner

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(02/02/2013)[-]

No, we are two stories deep in ****. Now is not a time to have foreign students fill 40% of our universities. Now is not a time to outsource. This is a time to say "Wow, we have nothing left! And everyone in the world hates us! Maybe now is the time to stop giving handouts that we're borrowing from other people (billions to Egypt for instance - a country that wants us dead) and stop letting the world take our jobs and education! Let's ******* fix this country before we try and fix others!"

No offense, I hate political ********. If the government spent less time taking bribes, kissing other countries assholes, and worrying about this stupid freaking "political correctness" we'd be fine by now.

#109 to #96 - iaminfactawizard

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(02/02/2013)[-]

They hate us for being bastard imperialists so we use the profits from our bastard imperialism to bribe our allies.

It's simple, really.

#48 to #25 - nightstar

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(02/02/2013)[-]

Go read John Taylor Gatto.

He changed my mind about the need for government run schools.

#34 to #25 - anon id: 4b03f19b

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(02/02/2013)[-]

A lot of those top 10 universities are private universities. Our public education system sucks and the Department of Education is what's bringing it down.

#38 to #34 - allamericandude

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(02/02/2013)[-]

Well yeah, the Department of Education is problematic, but public education itself isn't.

#4 - actinglead

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(02/01/2013)[-]

The comments below are only by crazy nerfighters...

He is an excellent writer and person. But don't be obsessive please.

#17 to #4 - cirquededc

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(02/02/2013)[-]

*Shrugs* It's what we do.

#19 to #17 - actinglead

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(02/02/2013)[-]

Dont get me wrong.. I am a nerdfighter myself. I called them the crazy kind. The annoying ones who claim that if you dont watch/read everything vlogbrothers, you are not a true nerdfighter. Not all of them are like this though.

#20 to #19 - cirquededc

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(02/02/2013)[-]

OOHHH, Okay then. I thought you were just being a giant squid of anger or something.

<- That thing right there, that is what you are not.

#21 to #20 - actinglead

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(02/02/2013)[-]

french the lama -.-

#104 - trowlernotparas

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(02/02/2013)[-]

This only works if your country knows how to spend their taxes. Teachers in Chicago make around $70,000 a year but their kids are still dumb as ****.

#114 to #104 - solinvictus

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(02/02/2013)[-]

And then they went on strike a couple months ago demanding a 30% pay increase.

#118 to #114 - trowlernotparas

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(02/02/2013)[-]

Yeah that's complete ********. I go to a private school where the teachers only make around $25,000, yet we score substantially higher on our act's every year than the public schools nearby.

#127 to #118 - solinvictus

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(02/02/2013)[-]

Teachers at private schools tend to be much more devoted to actually teaching than at public schools. I went to both at one time or another, and the private school teachers were really good, though the upper management was more concerned with sports than education, driving people like myself away from the school. That was unfortunate.

#162 to #104 - djbagboy

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(02/02/2013)[-]

My mom's a CPS teacher. She says its the idiot students who don't want to learn, its not the teachers fault.

#169 to #104 - metrozak

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(02/02/2013)[-]

As a former CPS student, I can definitely agree with this.

#265 - dingbox

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(02/02/2013)[-]

I came for the content but I stayed for the **********.

#156 - bannak

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(02/02/2013)[-]

THE TAXES! THE FINGER THING MEANS THE TAXES!

#5 - paelaer

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(02/01/2013)[-]

**** you, John Green.
I mean, seriously.
The Fault in Our Stars.
Dude, really.
The Fault in Our ******* Stars.

#280 to #5 - organicglory

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(02/02/2013)[-]

#92 to #5 - condormcninja

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(02/02/2013)[-]

OH THAT'S WHY THE NAME SOUNDS FAMILIAR

He's the author of all those books that the girls in my school cry about.

#93 to #92 - anon id: 45457fe9

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(02/02/2013)[-]

Consider yourself lucky, because it was required reading for my English class.

#62 to #5 - jthwdragon

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(02/02/2013)[-]

have you read looking for Alaska? **** was sad

#247 - skumbaner

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(02/02/2013)[-]

#75 - zurk

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(02/02/2013)[-]

I have enjoyed the VlogBrothers for quite a long time. Both of the Green brothers offer wonderful insights, but FJ is the last place where I'd expect to see them.

Dear lord, they're like a virus spreading across the internet.

And the scary thing is, I kind of like it.

#87 to #75 - anon id: 5972f950

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(02/02/2013)[-]

My Global Studies teacher shows their videos in our class on occasion, we watch the imperialism video today.

#55 - spazzycat

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(02/02/2013)[-]

Too Late.