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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: bryand71 on November 26, 2008, 12:38:50 AM
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http://americancivicliteracy.org/resources/quiz.aspx
Additional Finding
Elected Officials Score Lower than the General Public
Officeholders typically have less civic knowledge than the general public. On average, they score 44%, five percentage points lower than non-officeholders.
* Thirty percent of elected officials do not know that “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” are the inalienable rights referred to in the Declaration of Independence.
So how did you do?
I got: 27 out of 33 correctly — 81.82 %
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My score was 84.85. Not really happy with the ones I missed though. :-[
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31 of 33 ;D
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My score was 84.85. Not really happy with the ones I missed though. :-[
Shoot, I'm not happy that I missed any to tell the truth.! >:(
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The ones I missed were about Government building projects, (29) and Free trade (31) not my strong subjects any way.
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100%
A couple I had to actually think about.( the new deal one and the one about flood control, that was a very poorly worded question)
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32 of 33! ;D
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30 out of 33 but I think #33 has two correct answers;
33) If taxes equal government spending, then:
A. government debt is zero
B. printing money no longer causes inflation
C. government is not helping anybody
D. tax per person equals government spending per person
E. tax loopholes and special-interest spending are absent
Correct answer is D but I think A is equally true.
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30 out of 33 but I think #33 has two correct answers;
33) If taxes equal government spending, then:
A. government debt is zero
B. printing money no longer causes inflation
C. government is not helping anybody
D. tax per person equals government spending per person
E. tax loopholes and special-interest spending are absent
Correct answer is D but I think A is equally true.
No because it does not take into account any debt previously existing
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Where does it say that there is pre-existing debt?
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Where does it say that there is pre-existing debt?
Same place it says there ISN'T. ;D
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Yeah, well I still think either answer is correct! :P ;D
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84.85%
I can see now that our elected officials really are a bunch of retards.
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Good test.
Lower taxes and increase spending to get out of a recession. I'm guessing Obama got that half right.
Haz - debt is independent of taxes collected and government spending. All government spending isn't applied to eliminate debt, else the welfare recipients would riot. ;D
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Where does it say that there is pre-existing debt?
It does not say there is pre-existing debt.
But it does not say there is no pre-existing debt, so that is a possibility.
A. will only be true as long as there is no pre-existing debt, where as the correct answer will be true regardless.
Also, debt might be incurred without spending. Liability in a law suit could be counted as debt without spending
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It does not say there is pre-existing debt.
But it does not say there is no pre-existing debt, so that is a possibility.
A. will only be true as long as there is no pre-existing debt, where as the correct answer will be true regardless.
Also, debt might be incurred without spending. Liability in a law suit could be counted as debt without spending
Picky, picky, picky!
;D
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30 out of 33 but I think #33 has two correct answers;
33) If taxes equal government spending, then:
A. government debt is zero
B. printing money no longer causes inflation
C. government is not helping anybody
D. tax per person equals government spending per person
E. tax loopholes and special-interest spending are absent
Correct answer is D but I think A is equally true.
31 out of 33 and I agree with Haz - answer what the question asks, not what you assume is included in background material ;)
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31 out of 33 and I agree with Haz - answer what the question asks, not what you assume is included in background material ;)
I did, and I got number 33 RIGHT ;D
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Could of had a 32, but since I'm not comprehending tonight I ended with a 30 :-[
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84.85%. That makes me a B student. College educators get a C, and the average American fails.