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IndianTig: Legislation 30: Affirmative
Currently many school districts are depriving and
punishing their children of a proper educatoin. Norm
Thurman once stated, "fixing the Great depression with
the new deal is like trying to solve t.b. with a cough
drop." Similarly, our states are trying to solve our
educational crossroads by mandating tests without any
backbone. At a time when such programs such as
athletics are being overfunded compared to basic
educational program requirements, WE MUST
AFFIRM legislation 30, a bill requiring states to provide
for educational programs mandated by the stae FOR 2
MAIN REASONS:
Allows for the state to view the socio economic
class
THIS BILL WILL FORCE STATES TO BE
FISCIALLY REFORMED
1. Allows for the state to view the socio-economic
classes present w/in all of the states
Case Study: San Diego, Helen Gao
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER February 3,
2004
"$31 million spent on social services required by the state
for mental service"
"The state has put our back to the wall. They are forcing
us to reorder our priorities based on the state's negligent
behavior," said Jacob
Many counties can't affor this similar to San Diego
County and they are forced to cut other important
Some counties are richer than others, so they start to
inherently have a larger advantage created by the state.
CNN Septemb. 2004 states mandates lower the poorer
counties
2. This bill will force states to be more fiscially reformed
Case Study: California, Helen Gao
According to a report by the state Legislative Analyst's
Office, there are 59 state mandates that cost about $300
million a year.
As its fiscal crisis deepened, the state in the past two
years has deferred payments to counties indefinitely for
about two dozen mandated services, forcing counties to spend more than $1 billion,
Szalay said.
"Szalay said he hopes that San Diego County's lawsuits will pressure the state to
undertake serious fiscal reform. "It's either cut the programs in some kind of priority way
or raise revenue or a combination," he said. "
States forcing counties into debt w/ mandates
States constituional duty to fund mandates, currently lawsuit occuring in San Diego
State
IndianTig: ][0Item 32: Affirming TORT REFORM
The cautious seldom err.
A famous philosher once stated, "the cautious seldom err." This man was Confusious.
However, even Confusious would agree that our current doctors have to take too many
cautions 'n the s.quo in order to help the common fellow human. Why is this? Simple, its
due to frivilous law suits and career trail lawyer. Fellow (Senators), we must pass
legislation 32, capping tort reform for 2 main reasons:
Keeps Doctors Practicing
It costs "48,000 worth of insurance just to practice delivering babies" Jan 27, 2005
TERRY WARD
"Hester said $48,000 per year is the average amount family physicians pay for
malpractice insurance."
UNAFFORDABLE"As insurance becomes unaffordable or unavailable, doctors are
being forced to leave their practices, to stop performing high-risk procedures and to
drop vital services – and, ultimately, patients suffer. Some of the hardest hit include
residents of Florida, Texas, West Virginia, Mississippi, Pennsylvania, Washington and
Nevada."
Case Study:
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Current System Will hurt the patients even more!!!
Delivery of care is being disrupted across the country as physicians in high-risk
specialties that have been favorite targets for malpractice suits are being forced to drop
services, postpone purchase of new equipment, relocate their practices … or just retire
• A recent survey of Pennsylvania doctors found that 72 percent have postponed
purchases of advanced medical equipment and deferred the hiring of new staff because
of soaring malpractice premiums. (Karen Ignani, Knight Ridder/Tribune, 1/21/02)
WOMEN SUFFER MOST
In many areas, women are finding it harder to get access to vital services like
mammograms and obstetric care …because more and more doctors performing these
services are deciding the risk of a medical liability lawsuit is simply too high.
Doctors Stop Delivering Babies
platinumj54: and i was not lauhghing at karthik today, james. you can ask karina
platinumj54: dan was, but i was not
IndianTig: ITEM 48 NEG
Introduction: Now that it is clear the United States faces a lengthy military occupation of
Iraq, requiring perhaps 150,000 troops for the foreseeable future, it is possible to begin
calculating how the war may damage the U.S. armed forces. Since the United States
cannot expect much additional help from other countries or from the fledgling Iraqi
security forces, the burdens of occupation will start to strain severely the army's capacity
to deploy trained and rested combat forces worldwide in a matter of months. Truly, we
cannot pass item 48 because we are overstretched and further overstretching would
cause severe problems including the loss of United States volunteer army, loss of foreign
policy, and less preparedness.
I. Loss of Volunteer Army
a. Draft Reinstated
b. Draft favors poor and minorities American Disproportionately Sent to War
. Source: Heritage Foundation May 3, 2004
II. Diminish reach of global foreign policy
a. Stretched army=weak army
b. w/o strong army United States loses its soft power
c. American trade will be brought to its feet
d. Hurting future humanitarian mission if we continue to stretch army
e. w/o these missions increase aids and other diseases
Source: Guardian May 13, 2004
III. U.S. Would have less preparedness
a. More vulnerable to attacks from North Korea or China w/ a stretched military
b. Our own nation is made more vulnerable to attacks
Source: CNN.com Jan. 1, 2005
Conclusion: Due to the facts that the United States would incur the loss of United States
volunteer army, loss of foreign policy, and less preparedness, we must deny Bill 48.
There is a reason why in airplanes they say put on your oxygen mask before you can
help another person. Right now our military needs the oxygen but regardless of the
current crisis when the time is right we will be their to help our fellow man.
IndianTig: Item 61: A Resolution to Legalize the Import of Prescription Drugs from
Foreign Countries to the United States of America
"Free Market" A word that resonated in millions of Americans when the United States
was founded. However, "The phrase "free market" does not exist in the vocabulary of
the FDA and U.S. drug companies." as qouted by Pharmawatch.info on Jan. 18, 2005.
It is time to once again establish this bright line of a free market and pass legislation 61:
A Resolution to legalize the Import of Prescription Drugs from Foreign Countries to the
U.S. of A. for 3 main reasons.
1 Promotes free market
Founding fathers
2. Better Competition, w/ same quality drugs
Drugs have same quality
3. Supported by Majority of citizens, and benefical to many including elderly
"Such a bill would represent a major victory for American consumers while spelling a
major defeat for the FDA and the monopolistic U.S. pharmaceutical industry which has
done everything in its power to control the drug market and block imports from
anywhere." AARP in pharmawatchinfo.com Jan. 18, 2005
In Conclusion, it is to restore this free market system to the U.S and legalize importation.
Do wat is right and help our elderly
IndianTig: Item 45: A Resolution to Abandon Economic Sanctions as a Foreign Policy
Whereas, economic and trade sanctions are currently employed by the United
States as a non-military means of exerting pressure on other nations, and
Whereas, the economically devastating effects of such sanctions fail in
distinguishing between the government of a nation and its citizens, and
Whereas, the humanitarian effects resulting from such a failure take a heavy toll
on the civilian population, and
Whereas, the resulting atmosphere of desolation and despair in countries under
sanctions only gives strength to the false promises of dictators, and
Whereas, sanctions have failed to topple dictators or improve conditions in
Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Cuba, and many other countries, therefore
Be It Resolved by the Texas Forensic Association Student Congress here
assembled that the United States shall, with the exception of controlling and regulating
the sale of arms and armor to foreign nations, abandon the use of trade embargoes,
economic sanctions, and all other such forms of “ economic warfare,” and
Be It Further Resolved by the Texas Forensic Association Student Congress here
assembled that the United States shall discourage the imposition of sanctions on any
nation by the United Nations Security Council.
Respectfully submitted,
Southern Wisconsin NFL District
ITEM 45- A RESOLUTION TO ABANDON ECONOMIC SANCTIONS AS A
FORIEGN POLICY
In the late 1990's, Sec. of State Madeline Albright stated "I think this is a very hard
choice, but the price--we think the price is worth it" when asked by Leslie Stall of 60
Minutes, "We have heard that a half million children have died. I mean, that's more
children than died in Hiroshima. And, you know, is the price worth it?" Leslie Stall was
referring to the sanctions that had caused thousands of Iraqis to go without medicine and
evetually death. My fellow representatives, it is time to revoke this savage mindset, we
the United States have used through the employment of sanctions. We MUST REJECT
ECONOMIC SANCTIONS AS A FORIGN POLICY DUE TO 3 MAIN
REASONS:
1) It exentuates a bad perception of the U.S. worldwide
2) It punishes the wrong people for the atrocities of a dictator or leader
3) It is simply ineffective , even increasing a dictator's power
1) 1) It exentuates a bad perception of the U.S. worldwide
A Sanction's purpose is to destablize the regime in charge yet they do the exact opposite
because of it hurting the local population
Sanctions are used in home country to villify the U.S.
Example: Cuba and Fidel Castro
Osama Bin Laden uses this against the U.S.
"Osama bin Laden['s][..]recruitment video features pictures of Iraqi babies
wasting away from malnutrition and lack of medicine (New York Daily News,
9/28/01)."
2) It punishes the wrong people for the atrocities of a dictator or leader
Iraq pre- Operation Iraqi Freedom
Sanctions were to punish Sadaam, not children; Sanctions didn't remove Sadaam;
"567,000 Iraqi children under the age of five had died as a result of the sanctions"
Thousands of Adults also (Mahajan 2001 and UN.org statistic not argued by U.S.)
Cuba- Many adults malnurshied
Even Libya Sanctions not effective- what should be the price "The sanctions were
described as a form of collective punishment against the Libyan people that had failed to
secure justice for any of the parties concerned" Only created an almost rogue nation 'till
the colonel's sudden change of mind
3) It is simply ineffective, even increasing a dictator's power
Cuba- Fidel Castro
George Stalaba stated,"A debate should be launched, to explore alternative measures
for the application of sanctions and on measures that offered built-in incentives that
encouraged changes in the behaviour of targeted countries"
Mindset needs to be changed, not injuring their people
Fellow senators, 2 wrongs never have made a right. We must take down the horrendous
moral degredation taking place through placing sanctions. It is not our place to pass
policies that kill more children than the Hiroshima bomb. Why are we keeping this
policy? To increase the dictator's power, or is it just to kill the innoncent and create
hostility? Boris Marshalov stated "Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and
says nothing. Nobody listens -- and then everybody disagrees."Its time to prove this
wrong and vote in affirmation.
IndianTig: Negative to 54:
Is a fight on crime going to end when we place DNA samples in blood banks of
everyone? Our previous representative seems to have the idea crime will be easily
solved through this simple procedure. However what they fail to realize is the
impracticality. Fellow senators reject this notion for 3 reasons
1. Impractal
2. Expensive
3. Provides for a false sense of securtiy
1. Impractial
Costs range in millions
FBI coordination is already lackluster 9/11 proves
2. Expensive
Federal govt. can't make this feasible
No allocation possible at this current time
3. Provides for a false sense of security
establishes DNA as "gold standard" of guilt
many undetectable mistakes in DNA sampling
Vote in negation my fellow senators and vote for the status quo, which is much more
practical
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IndianTig: 20-22, 25-35
#20 Affirming the Resolution (1 minute and 40 seconds)
Currently, in the NBA, Latrell Sprewell is wanting a contract extension. The AP 2004
continues to state that He is asking for a three year extension worth over 30 million
dollars. The team has offered him 3 years and 21 million dollars, so as to stay
competitive, even though it may hurt the Minnesota Timberwolves in the long run. When
the team offered him this, Mr. Sprewell was quoted as saying "no" and then later, "Man,
I gotta feed my family." This type of negotiation by athletes that force the city and team
to overpay are far to often and common place in the current sports realm. Many teams
such as the formerly Montreal Expos could not compensate through ticket and revenue
sales due to increasing salaries coupled with decreasing interest due to today’s
greed-filled athlete. Not only do these athletes make millions of dollars through salary,
they derive massive amounts of income form commercial endorsements to increase
already large salaries. In order to stop this cycle of the greedy athlete stiffiling the public
and a sports teams ability to be competitive, we must affirm the resolution regarding
athlete’s salaries. We should create a salary cap not to exceed a million per year and all
income earned from commercial endorsements shall be exempt so as to change the face
of sports that is currently happening.
Neg. (55 seconds)
America was based on a system of Liaise Faire economics. Economics teaches the
market is run through a supply and demand network where the supplier and the laborer
are paid proportionally to industry standards. Yet, Item 20, wants to discount the
athlete’s right to make a proportional amount of money delegated towards him. In no
other industry is the amount of money a person makes accounted against him or her on
the basis that it is unfair for the employee. Thus, sports teams should abide by these
basic rules and practice fiscal responsabity just like its prototypical industries throughout
this great nation that is America. Vote no to Item 20 on the grounds that we have no
right to limit a person’s potential, for America is the land of opportunities.
#22
Aff: Sanctions against Syria
The United States has been a progressive leader on the issue of spreading democracy
for all nations. Above all, the U.S. has been a stanch supporter in a nation’s right for
sovereignty. Unfortunately, Lebanese freedom is being taken away due to the actions of
Syria. Not only is Syria encroaching on Lebanon with their military force, they have
occupied the region and even question Lebanon’s political independence. This act is a
direct violation of UN Security Council Resolution 520. Also, Syria’s loose
governmental policies have became a spawning ground to recruit new terrorists into
groups such as Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
These terrorists have the capability to attack neighboring Lebanon and Israel. Syria is
also actively pursing the development and production of biological and chemical
weapons. The UN Security Council Resolution 1313 mandates that no nation can
participate in terrorist activity or support in any shape or form, but unfortunately Syria
fails on this resolution also. In order to send a strong message to Syria that sovereignty
of Lebanon is important, terror is unacceptable, and pursuit of these weapons should be
stopped we must affirm item 22 that economic sanctions be put on Syria. These
sanctions would pressure on the Syrian Economics as well as allow our allies in the EU
to follow suit and pressure Syria on their current stances we oppose.
Negative:
The action resolution 22 presents are sanctions against Syria in order to stop these
injustices. What we as senators should ask ourselves are the following questions: Will
putting Economic sanctions hurt the Syrian Economy or the American economy. Will the
Current Syrian course against Lebanon be stopped by this legislation? and finally, will
the number of terrorists increase or decrease with this proposed legislation?
The answer to question 1 regarding the sufferer of the sanctions are clear. As the Daily
Star 2004 states These proposed sanctions would only further weaken the American
economy. Syria and America do not have strong trade, but America does have many
companies that have invested over $750 million in Syria. Also, imposing these sanctions
would create resentment whereas American companies would not be able to win
contracts in this oil rich land
Also, this legislation will do nothing to stop Syria’s course of action against Lebanon
because it only imposes sanctions. Furthermore, this legislation states further action
would be taken within findings, but never clarifies if "further action" means military
intervention, the only way to rid Syria from encroaching Lebanon.
Finally, the number of terrorists would only increase due to this legislation. The Daily
Star 2004 reports that the Syrian regime of BAshar Assad would use this U.S. policy in
the region to create and reinforce
Ant-American feeling. This feeling would make it easier for terror groups to attracts
subjects to their group in order to attack America and her allies.
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