The 2009-10 Topic:

Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially increase social services for persons living in poverty in the United States.

AFFIRMATIVE RESEARCH LIST 1.0 July 2, 2009

Detailed Aff Research List (is not updated for 2009)

LAB LEADERS	AFFS	ADVANTAGES
Nate, Luke	Military Benefits	Heg, Econ, Poverty, Overstretch scenarios
Anjali, Allison	FEMA – Hurricane Katrina Victims	Disease, Modeling, Soft power, disaster response K
Paul, Nick	Abortion Funding	Poverty, women’s rights, biopower
Tony, Alex	Higher Education Grants	Heg, tech/econ, competitiveness
Daniel, Tom	Native American Support	Racism/reparations, a K adv (?)
NOVICE-JV LAB Mike, Brian	Social Services for homeless Social Services for Indians	Racism, Poverty
SCHOLARS LAB Matt, Ben, Eric	TBA	TBA

NEGATIVE RESEARCH LIST 1.2a July 2, 2009

LAB LEADERS	DISADS	COUNTERPLANS	KRITIKS
Nate, Luke	Politics DA Report Impact Scenarios to Jim and Eric	States CP 50 states do plan	Poverty-Development K K of word poverty and poverty/development rhetoric
Anjali, Allison	Defense Cuts DA Plan costs $ so it cuts defense spending; that is bad Report Impact Scenarios to Jim and Eric	Courts CP Court rules to give poor right to the aff service	Natives as Poor K Link: Representations of Native Americans as poor and providing social services is colonialist. Impact: Colonialism
Paul, Nick	Government Bad DA Plan’s use of government for social services is bad—the government is impersonal, calculating, bureaucratic, etc.	NGO CP Social justice groups do the plan or similar	Nietzche K Link: The aff tries to help people. Impact: The aff is an example of slave morality and pity resulting in moralizing and a hatred for life which steals all value to life and turns the aff.
Tony, Alex	Spending DA Plan crushes Obama’s plans for fiscal discipline, tanks the econ. Other impacts, report to Jim and Eric	Executive Order CP Do the Plan via XO instead of Congress.	Marxism K The aff neglects the crisis within capitalism and thus . . .
Daniel, Tom	Military Recruitment Tradeoff DA Plan undermines recruiting, undermines heg	Microfinance CP Give out small loans to reduce poverty	Security K Securitizing poverty causes all of the security impacts
NOVICE-JV LAB Mike, Brian	Federalism DA Fiscal Discipline DA Military Recruitment DA Revolution DA Rev DA is plan stops Marxist revolution	States CP 50 states do plan	Poverty Kritik K of word poverty and poverty/development rhetoric
SCHOLARS LAB Matt, Ben, Eric	TBA	TBA	TBA