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+====Counterplan: The United States Federal Government will abolish the military academies.==== |
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+====It's competitive – ==== |
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+====They function within the academies while we completely abolish them.==== |
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+====We use an alternative actor.==== |
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+====Competes through net-benefits. ==== |
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+====It solves the aff – we abolish the site from which militaristic scholarship, academics, and otherwise are produced. ==== |
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+====Military academies are useless bastions of privilege, cost tons of money, and aren't effective. ==== |
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+Scott **Beauchamp,** 20**15** |
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+https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-we-dont-need-west-point/2015/01/23/fa1e1488-a1ef-11e4-9f89-561284a573f8_story.html?utm_term=.01c6ea90a43b |
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+Most Americans are familiar with the prestige that surrounds the United States military service academies |
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+Colin Powell, is a product of the ROTC, not West Point. |
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+====The government is on the brink of shutdown – Trump just signed an extension – money is the issue at stake which the counterplan resolves. The impact is massive structural violence, governmental dysfunction, and more. ==== |
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+Tara **Golshan and** Dylan **Matthews, 04/27/**17 |
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+"What a federal government shutdown actually means" http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/4/25/15407326/government-shutdown-explained |
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+Congress is barreling toward a government shutdown deadline. The House and Senate have until |
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+their families, and grind a lot of government agencies to a halt. |