CNDI - Topicality - Polin Weiner

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Eligibility Requirements T 1NC

INTERPRETATION

1. Increase means to grow in number.

Merriam-Webster, July 2, 2009 (Increase, http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/increase, Date ofAccess: July 2, 2009)

1 : to become progressively greater (as in size, amount, number, or intensity)

2. Social services are programs.

Helen Ross McNabb Center, Inc., 2008 (For 60 years, the Helen Ross McNabb Center has been providing out-patient mental health care services, Social Services, http://www.mcnabbcenter.org/services-programs/social-

services.html)

Social services are programs designed to help strengthen families and protect the most vulnerable ofsociety including children, the mentally ill, the disabled and the elderly.

B VIOLATION

The aff just removes eligibility requirements to give expanded access to social services that already

exist, instead of increasing the number of social service programs.

C STANDARDS

1. Limits. There are thousands of ways to modify eligibility requirements for social services. Our

interp limits the amount of cases to those that increase the number of programs, which limits affs

to a predictable set of cases in the literature base.

2. Ground. The aff doesnt increase social services, but changes them. Harder to get DA links all

non unique when youre just expanding programs and we cant offer a CP to change eligibility

requirements that would test the word increase.

3. Education. Their interpretation is bad for learning about increasing social services. We focus on

pre-existing social services that are changed to accommodate different people, rather than new

social services.

D VOTING ISSUE fairness and education

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Socialism T 1NC

A INTERPRETATION

1. Social Services are specific benefits or opportunities to raise people out of poverty.

Vijay Luthra, 2009 (the head writer of the Business Dictionary, Social Services Definition,http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/social-services.html, Date of Access: July 1, 2009)

Benefits and facilities such as education, food subsidies, health care, and subsidized housing provided by agovernment to improve the life and living conditions of the children, disabled, the elderly, and the poorin thenational community.

B VIOLATION

The aff team doesnt limit its social needs to the benefits provided the social services. Instead

they provide services for all possible social needs.

C STANDARDS

1. Limits. All possible social needs explodes the topic to an infinite number of needs- neg cant

get links to all of them

2. Ground. The aff provides more than social services by meeting all social needs. We lose CP

ground since we cant test social services as a mechanism for reducing poverty and lose K

ground against social services.

3. Brightline. No way to tell what cases are topical and which are not if the plan directs toward

all possible social needs.

4. Education. Their interpretation is bad for learning about social services. We focus on all social

needs that may plague impoverished needs, rather than those that can be possibly satisfied by

governmental social services.

D VOTING ISSUE fairness and education

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Socialism T 2NC Extension

Extend our limits standard- the aff explodes the number of potential affirmatives

Social needs include a need for friends and love

Maslows Hierarchy of Needs, 2007 (Internet Center for Management and Business Administration, Inc., 2007,Maslows Hierarchy of Needs, http://www.netmba.com/mgmt/ob/motivation/maslow/)

Once a person has met the lower level physiological and safety needs, higher level needs become important, the first of which

are social needs. Social needs are those related to interaction with other people and may include:

* Need for friends* Need for belonging* Need to give and receive love

Love, friendship, and belonging interact to form millions of possibilities through which the aff

exploits the neg team. Our interpretation limits social needs to those that can be satisfied by the

benefits provided by social services. We dont learn anything about social services and raising

people out of poverty; instead, we focus on the emotional needs of the impoverished.

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Marriage T 1NC

A INTERPRETATION

1. Social services

The Milwaukie Center, 2004 (facility devoted to providing programs and services, North Clackamas Parks &Recreation District 2004 Master Plan, https://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/xmlui/handle/1794/4056)

Social services include programs such as financial planning, health clinics, outreach services, andsupport groups.

2. Increase means to grow in number.



B VIOLATION

1. Marriage promotion services are not a social service

2. Incentivizing marriage through welfare is extra-topical and doesnt increase any social services.

C STANDARDS

1. Limits. The aff explodes to an infinite number of services they can give funding for anything

such as soloist tuba players who also play the piano. Our interpretation limits the aff to a set of

predictable cases involving an increase in social services, not marriage promotion.

2. Ground. Neg cant be expected to have links to extra-topical actions. We lose CP ground to test

alt causes to poverty

D VOTER ISSUES education and fairness

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Transportation T 1NC

A - INTERPRETATION

1. Increase means to grow in number.Merriam-Webster, July 2, 2009 (Increase, http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/increase, Date ofAccess: July 2, 2009)


2. Social services are programs.



B VIOLATION

1. The plan only makes more people eligible for tax credits, which is monetary assistance, not new

programs

2. Eliminating the vehicle asset test in federally funded support program is extra-topical and

doesnt increase any social services.

C STANDARDS

1. Limits. There are thousands of ways to modify eligibility requirements for social services. Our

interpretation limits the amount of cases to those that increase the number of programs, whichlimits affs to a predictable set of cases in the literature base.

2. Ground. Neg loses all DA ground cant expect us to have links to things other than social

services. Extra-topicality makes us lose all CP ground because anything outside the resolution is

neg ground.

3. Education. We dont learn anything about social services and raising people out of poverty as

the resolution requires.

D VOTING ISSUES fairness and education

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Military T 1NC

A INTERPRETATION

The aff must only increase social services for persons in poverty.

B VIOLATION

1. The plan provides citizenship, not access to social services.

2. The plan makes access to social services contingent on a military service.

3. The plan proves social services to persons not in poverty.

Thousands of illegal immigrants are well above the poverty line

John Buchanan, Reuters, Feb 6 2008, Illegal immigrants grown rich fret over US deportation laws,http://www.livemint.com/2008/02/06233340/Illegal-immigrants-grown-rich.html

Many illegal immigrants in the US are manual labourers on low wages. But theres another group that attracts much lessattention: entrepreneurs who have set up businesses, created jobs and grown affluent .There are up to 20,000 illegal immigrants earning upward of $100,000 (Rs39.6 lakh) a year asentrepreneurs, and their existence challenges the stereotype that illegal immigrants are a drain on the USeconomy, according to immigration lawyers and academics.

C STANDARDS

1. Limits Making social services available through an extra-topical mechanism and

contingent on an extra-topical action explodes the number of potential affs.

2. Ground- The different permutations of mechanisms and contingencies are impossible to

predict- the aff gets advantages off of unpredictable actions and steals neg CP ground

testing the increase of social services.

D VOTER ISSUES

For fairness and education- severing the advantages is too late.

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The United States

The United States is a country in the Americas.

The American Heritage Dictionary, 2000, (United States, http://www.thefreedictionary.com/United+States,Date of Access: July 1, 2009)

A country of central and northwest North America with coastlines on the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Itincludes the noncontiguous states ofAlaska and Hawaii and various island territories in the Caribbean Sea andPacific Ocean. The area now occupied by the contiguous 48 states was originally inhabited by numerous NativeAmerican peoples and was colonized beginning in the 16th century by Spain, France, the Netherlands, and England. GreatBritain eventually controlled most of the Atlantic coast and, after the French and Indian Wars (1754-1763), the NorthwestTerritory and Canada. The original Thirteen Colonies declared their independence from Great Britain in 1776 and formed agovernment under the Articles of Confederation in 1781, adopting (1787) a new constitution that went into effect after 1789.The nation soon began to expand westward. Growing tensions over the issue of Black slavery divided the country alonggeographic lines, sparking the secession of the South and the Civil War (1861-1865). The remainder of the 19th century wasmarked by increased westward expansion, industrialization, and the influx of millions of immigrants. The United Statesentered World War II after the Japanese attack (1941) on Pearl Harbor and emerged after the war as a world power.Washington, D.C., is the capital and New York the largest city. Population: 302,000,000.

The United States is the area where the US government has overall jurisdiction in.

Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms, US Department of Defense, 2005 (United States,http://www.thefreedictionary.com/United+States, Date of Access: July 1, 2009)

Includes the land area, internal waters , territorial sea, and airspace of the United States, including thefollowing: a. US territories, possessions, and commonwealths ; and b. Other areas over which the US

Government has complete jurisdiction and control or has exclusive authority or defense responsibility.

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The United States Federal Government

The United States Federal Government forms a governing, legislative, and judicial body that

governs the United States.

Babylon Dictionary, 2009 (United States Federal Government, http://dictionary.babylon.com/United%20States%20Federal%20Government)

The federal government of the United States is the United States governmental body that carries out theroles assigned to the federation of individual states established by the Constitution . The federalgovernment has three branches: the executive, legislative, and judicial . Through a system of separation ofpowers or "checks and balances," each of these branches has some authority to act on its own, some authority to regulate theother two branches, and has some of its own authority, in turn, regulated by the other branches. In addition, the powers of thefederal government as a whole are limited by the Constitution, which leaves a great deal of authority to the individual states.

The United States Federal Government is a three-pronged governing body.

USA Government, April 2, 2009(U.S. Federal Government, http://www.usa.gov/Agencies/federal.shtml)

The three branches of U.S. governmentlegislative, judicial, and executive carry out governmentalpower and functions.

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Should

SHOULD

Merriam-Webster, July 2, 2009 (Should, http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/should, Date ofAccess: July 2, 2009)

Past of SHALL

1-used in auxiliary function to express condition

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Substantially

Princeton Wordnet, 2003 (Substantially, http://www.wordreference.com/definition/substantially, Date ofAccess: July 2, 2009

1. well, considerably, to a great extent or degree.

Websters New World College Dictionary, 2005(Wiley Publishing Inc., Substantially,http://www.yourdictionary.com/substantially, Date of Access: July 2, 2009)

1. of considerable worth or value; important

The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition, 2009 (Houghton MifflinCompany, 2000, Substantially, http://www.thefreedictionary.com/substantially, Date of Access: July 2, 2009)

4. Ample; sustaining

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Substantially- W/O Mat Quals

Princeton Wordnet, 2003(Definitions substantially, http://www.allwords.com/word-substantially.html, Dateof Access: July 2, 2009)

3. Without material qualifications.

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Substantially- Aff Defs

Substantial must be defined contextuallyWords and Phrases 1971

The term substantial is relative and its meaning is to be gauged by the circumstances.

Substantially is a term that must be used in context.CJS 83 (Corpus Juris Secundum, Vol. 83)

Substantially: A relative and elastic term which should be interpreted in accordance with the context inwhich it is used. While it must be employed with care and discrimination, it must, nevertheless, be given effect.

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Increase



Judicial And Statutory Definitions of Words And Phrases, 1914, (West Publishing Company,http://books.google.com/books?id=IJMNAAAAYAAJ&printsec=titlepage&source=gbs_v2_summary_r&cad=0)

That which is added to the original stock by augmentation or growth; produce; profit; interest.

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Social Services- Generic Defs

Social Services are specific benefits or opportunities to raise people out of poverty.

Vijay Luthra, 2009 (the head writer of the Business Dictionary, Social Services Definition,http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/social-services.html, Date of Access: July 1, 2009)

Benefits and facilities such as education , food subsidies, health care , and subsidized housing provided by agovernment to improve the life and living conditions of the children, disabled, the elderly, and the poorin thenational community.

Social services are for vulnerable groups

Helen Ross McNabb Center, Inc., 2008 (For 60 years, the Helen Ross McNabb Center has been providing out-patient mental health care services, Social Services, http://www.mcnabbcenter.org/services-programs/social-

services.html)

Social services are programs designed to help strengthen families and protect the most vulnerable of

society including children, the mentally ill, the disabled and the elderly.

Social services are provided to children and families

Department of Health and Human Services, January 31, 2003 (DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH ANDHUMAN SERVICES DIVISION OF MEDICAL ASSISTANCE INTERNAL CONTROL OVER MEDICAIDPAYMENTS, http://www.legaudit.state.ak.us/pages/audits/2003/pdf/30018rpt.pdf)

Social services include programs for children and families, including temporary cash assistance,food stamps, child protection services, foster care, child residential care, preventative services,and youth corrections.

Social services are programs



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Social Services- Local/State Authorities

Social services are provided by state or local governments

Collins Essential English Dictionary, Second Edition, 2006(HarperCollins Publishers 2004, 2006, SocialServices, http://www.thefreedictionary.com/social+services, Date of Access: July 2, 2009)

Welfare services provided by local authorities or a state agency for people with particular social needs.

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Social Services- Provided by Government

Social services are provided by the government

Princeton Wordnet, 2001(Social Service, http://www.answers.com/topic/social-service, Date of Access: July 2,2009)

2. Services, such as free school lunches,provided by a government for its disadvantaged citizens.

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Social Services- Organized Assistance

Merriam-Webster, 2009(Social Service, http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/social%20services, Dateof Access: July 2, 2009)

Organized philanthropic assistance.

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For

Random House Dictionary, 2009(Random House, Inc. for, http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/for, Dateof Access: July 2, 2009)

1. with the object or purpose of

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Persons

Merriam-Webster, July 2, 2009 (Person, http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/person, Date ofAccess: July 2, 2009)

1 : human, individual sometimes used in combination especially by those who prefer to avoid man incompounds applicable to both sexes

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Living

Random House Dictionary, 2009(Random House, Inc. living, http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/living,Date of Access: July 2, 2009)

1. having life; being alive; not dead

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In

In means withinWebsters New World College Dictionary, 2009(In definition, http://www.yourdictionary.com/in, Date ofAccess: July 2, 2009)

1. contained or enclosed by; inside; within

In means throughout

Words and Phrases, 1964

In throughout

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Poverty

Poverty is the deprivation of basic human needs.

A Dollar A Day, 2006(research project by Thinkquest veterans to explore poverty around the world, What isPoverty? http://library.thinkquest.org/05aug/00282/over_whatis.htm, Date of Access: July 1, 2009)Some people describe poverty as a lack of essential items such as food, clothing, water, and shelter needed for proper

living. At the UNs World Summit on Social Development, the Copenhagen Declaration described poverty as acondition characterised by severe deprivation of basic human needs, including food , safe drinking water ,sanitation facilities, health, shelter, education and information. When people are unable to eat, go to school, orhave any access to health care, then they can be considered to be in poverty, regardless of their income. To measure povertyin any statistical way, however, more rigid definitions must be used.

Poverty is a lack of basic human needs.

The World Bank,2009(family of five international organizations that aim to eradicate poverty worldwide, Understanding Poverty,http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/TOPICS/EXTPOVERTY/0,,contentMDK:20153855~menuPK:373757~pagePK:148956~piPK:216618~theSitePK:336992,00.html, Date of Access: July 1, 2009)

Poverty is hunger. Poverty islack of shelter. Poverty is being sick and not being able to see a doctor . Poverty is nothaving access to school and not knowing how to read. Poverty is not having ajob, isfear for the future, livingone day at a time. Poverty is losing a child to illness brought about by unclean water . Poverty is powerlessness ,lack of representation and freedom .Poverty has many faces, changing from place to place and across time, and has beendescribed in many ways (for a collection of readings, seePoems and Personal Accounts of Poverty). Most often, poverty is a situation people want to escape.So poverty is a call to action -- for the poor and the wealthy alike -- a call to change the world so that many more may have enough to eat, adequate shelter,access to education and health, protection from violence, and a voice in what happens in their communities.

Poverty is a condition.

Dictionary.com, "poverty," inDictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1). Source location: Random House, Inc.2009.http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/poverty. Available: http://dictionary.reference.com. Accessed: June 30, 2009.

The state or condition ofhaving little or no money, goods, or means of support; condition of being

poor; indigence.

Poverty is a deficiency of necessary things.

Dictionary.com, "poverty," in Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1). Source location: Random House, Inc. 2009.http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/poverty. Available: http://dictionary.reference.com. Accessed: June 30, 2009.

Deficiency of necessary or desirable ingredients, qualities

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Random House Dictionary, 2009(Random House, Inc. the, http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/the, Dateof Access: July 2, 2009)

1. used, esp. before a noun, with a specifying or particularizing effect, as opposed to the indefiniteor generalizing force of the indefinite article a oran

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