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A society that punishes self-sufficiency/success and reinforces dependency/laziness: where is it headed?

Guest — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 04:09:37 +0000

Question by Average Dude: A society that punishes self-sufficiency/success and reinforces dependency/laziness: where is it headed?
what is the “end game”?

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Answer by Love is love.
You’re wrong about punishing success and reinforcing laziness.

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Q&A: A study on the self-sufficiency of college students found that 7 out of every 10 students paid for their own c?

Guest — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 14:57:09 +0000

Question by Emoni: A study on the self-sufficiency of college students found that 7 out of every 10 students paid for their own c?

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Answer by Dwstds
I don’t know where you got that statistic from, but it’s total bull.

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What do you think of this idea I had to create a ‘self sufficiency category?”?

Guest — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 00:35:00 +0000

Question by Robot Model 790: What do you think of this idea I had to create a ‘self sufficiency category?”?
In this kind of category a person could give info to others about how to maybe rebuild a car engine so that it will run entirely on water instead of petroleum fossil fuel. This is just one example of self sufficiency. This would be a really cool category I think, but what do you think about it?

Go here: http://suggestions.yahoo.com/detail/?prop=answers&fid=235621
Yahzmin: So you don’t agree that this sort of topic should be here at Y!A. Well, we all have our opinions, but the reason why I think this would be a good idea is because those individuals who have a working knowledge of self sufficiency could give those of us who seek it in the right direction. Self sufficiency is ALMOST a science and should be placed into the science category I think.

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Answer by Laredo
It seems like a good idea to me, I have given it a thumbs up vote on the suggestion board. Although I like your idea, we would need to take care in that category that it does not become a ‘chat’ category.

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Q&A: A leading advocate of the need for southern self-sufficiency was?

Guest — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 18:32:42 +0000

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Question by Danelle Cheong: A leading advocate of the need for southern self-sufficiency was?
a.a. Stephen Douglas.
b.b. J. D. B. DeBow.
c.c. Robert Fogel.
d.d. William Gregg.
e.e. Daniel Webster.

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Answer by ammianus
d.
Gregg advocated industrialization in the South to escape from economic domination by the North.

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Does liberalism erode the American idea of self-sufficiency?

Guest — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 17:56:04 +0000

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Question by ellen: Does liberalism erode the American idea of self-sufficiency?

Immigrant used to dream of America as a place where they could eat their own bread in peace as a reward for hard work. Do immigrants now come to get the benefits of a luxuriant welfare state?

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Answer by Liberal Madness
Yes.

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Why might the argument of military self-sufficiency be a valid case for trade protection?

Guest — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 09:32:31 +0000

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Question by sarahw: Why might the argument of military self-sufficiency be a valid case for trade protection?

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Answer by Bored Goblin
b/c it would be hard to achieve military self-sufficiency if weapon-makers can buy cheap parts and materials from China.

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Use the law of comparative advantage to explain why self-sufficiency leads to a lower standard of living.?

Guest — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 01:08:17 +0000

Question by Andrew W: Use the law of comparative advantage to explain why self-sufficiency leads to a lower standard of living.?
Not sure how I would answer this question. Can anyone help me out here?

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Answer by Eric Suggs
This question is best answered by using an example.

Lets say you and I are the only people in an economy, and our economy only produces 2 goods: chairs and pizza.

I went to school to become a carpenter, although I made pizza all throughout school and you went to school to be a chef.

You can make we can both make 20 pizzas per hour, but I can make 4 chairs per hour while you can only make 2.

We will look at two possibilities, one is that I specialize and make only chairs for 10 hours, you make pizza for 10 hours. The other is that we both split our time between the two products.

So we specialize, 4 chairs x 10 hours = 40 chairs and 20 pizzas x 10 hours is 200 pizzas so a total of 40/200 of our products.

If we split our time, I make 4 chairs x 5 hours and 20 pizzas x 5 hours = 100 pizzas and 20 chairs

you make 2 chairs x 5 hours and 20 pizzas x 5 hours = 100 pizzas and 10 chairs

That totals to 30/200 so we have the same amount of pizzas but less chairs overall.

Even though I have an ABSOLUTE advantage in making chairs, you have no absolute advantages over me. But you do have a COMPARATIVE advantage in making pizzas because you can trade pizzas to get chairs and gain from the trade with me, and more is produced overall between us.

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Is payment from city section-8 housing Family Self Sufficiency escrow exempt from Fed. and State income tax?

Guest — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 18:00:05 +0000

Question by Kathy F: Is payment from city section-8 housing Family Self Sufficiency escrow exempt from Fed. and State income tax?

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Answer by SuperStar
If that’s the check you may receive for like a utility allowance it is yes tax exempt

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Is self sufficiency something that is rare of males beyond 70?

Guest — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 06:10:55 +0000

Question by Kindred: Is self sufficiency something that is rare of males beyond 70?
As a women who is half that age I like to know how to use power tools and am good at what was once “man jobs.”. My male peers know how to wash clothes, cook, even sew a bit. But some of these old men won’t lift a finger in domestic work and can’t work a toaster? Can you explain what the fear is? it’s generational for sure, but it seems helpless to me, at an age when self autonomy is really important.

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Answer by Frank
They don’t see cooking as a valuable example of self-sufficiency. They see it as a “woman’s work”, which for that generation is something that is not good for a man to be doing.

In my generation, a woman shows she is capable by wearing a jock strap with a protective cup. I don’t understand why some women see themselves as above doing such things.

I’m exaggerating, but the point is that your values of what a man and woman should do are different than theirs.

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Does public education need an overhaul to include self-sufficiency courses to better prepare students?

Guest — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 01:27:47 +0000

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Question by pamcarter: Does public education need an overhaul to include self-sufficiency courses to better prepare students?
for a future of living within their means? Economics, cooking, sewing, an agenda to teach students how to live well within simple means in the future where they don’t depend on the government or indebtedness to other countries, learning skills of daily life that are rewarding to avoid debt?

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Answer by scott b
Judging from you atrocious grammar, I’d say yes. Education does need an overhaul.

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