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Yeah OJ public ed works really well 50% + drop out rate in New York worst performance on test of any graduating highschool students in the developed world. It's doing wonderfully. No one is arguing we should end public schools just that it should be the property of the federal government under whose mismanagement it has gotten worse very nearly every year.
If you ever need help, you'll help yourself. LOL People like you amaze me. The arrogance and ignorance behind that statement. However, we just had eight years of the kind of government that you vote for, so now we are going to have a very differant government. You see, those eight years have been a total failure. A failure abroad, a failure at home.
Very well said!And there are millions of us who are against this practice. The rich pay more taxes to programs that they don't even need/use, so that the poor who pay few or no taxes can take advantage of them. This country is in the habit of penalizing the rich for being successful and crying for the poor who never tried to succeed. Instead, we should be encouraging the poor to do better and thanking the rich for not being burdens on society.
If everyone that didn't work didn't suck the system dry, those that do work would pay fewer taxes and be able to better afford the things you mentioned.
The very rich that actually created wealth, such as Gates and Buffet are for increased taxes on the wealthy. Most of the rest of the corperate parasites stole there wealth from the people on the factory floor that were actually creating the wealth. Stole the wealth and then tell the people who created the wealth what a bunch of losers they are. And suckups like you stand and cheer the whole process.
Corperations that somehow seem to have lost all the money while paying their 'oh so deserving' CEOs tens to hundreds of millions of dollars in salaries and bonuses.
Their super hero success is, and always has been, predicated on massive public taxpayer expenditures on education, science, infrastructure, technology, law enforcement, social spending, and courts.
its always hilarious to listen to the conservatives who are always claiming to be self-reliant, self made men who pulled themselves up by their own bootstraps, and became successful all due to their own initiative and resources. Supposedly they didn't get any help from the government, the taxpayer, or from the collective efforts of our society.
You know what would happen if you took one of these conservative "super heroes" at age 18, and dropped them into Bolivia to make their way in the world? They would starve to death.
Their super hero success is, and always has been, predicated on massive public taxpayer expenditures on education, science, infrastructure, technology, law enforcement, social spending, and courts.
How dare you question the veracity of those who were born on third base and then pat themselves on the back for making it home?
Most of these people have had so many advantages in their lives that they truly do not even know that most of us have never had them.
And since many of them truly did work hard to use those advantages to get where they are today, they just naturally assume that everybody else could have done the same thing.
They understand everything about their pluck, but they don't understand their luck since they've always had it, know what I mean?
Well put, OR.
Of course there are very wealthy people who actually can claim that because of their intelligence and ambition they have contributed mightily to the commonweal, and those people deserve our respect AND their superwealth, too.
That does not describe a whole lot of the superwealthy class or the obsequious and overpaid servants that do their bidding, but it definitely does decribe enough of the superwealthy cllss for me not to call for the extermination of that class as a public menace
Most of us are just doing the best we can to play the hands we are dealt.
Some of us got dealt better hands, and some of us can play the game better than others and that's okay, too.
Just so long as we don't go haywire (with rage) and think that a radical solution (like extreme libertarianism or communism) will correct that problem once and for all because it won't.
These corporations lost all of their money because they were lending money to people who couldn't pay it back. And trust me, I was completely against bailing those fucks out. I didn't care if the people with bad mortgages lived on the streets, and I didn't care if the big lenders went bankrupt. So, don't try that schtick with me. I have no sympathy for any of those involved in the bailouts. And remember: it was your party that voted for it first, they had to force Republicans into it. I'm disappointed that they caved, because I never would have supported it. I wrote my congressman a nice letter afterwards.
Really? I didn't realize that all the corperations that are currently filing bankruptcy, or very close to it, were businesses in the lending industry.
No, but the ones that are asking for bailouts are. That's the ones you were bitching about, and that's the ones I have no sympathy for.
Red Dawn, why do you assume that everyone who is successful was born successful? I was raised by a single mother who worked three jobs. Now I make more than she made from those three salaries combined. Did I do it on government programs? No. I earned it, on my own. I continue to earn it on my own. If I can do it, there's no excuse for anyone else. We are all responsible for the choices we make, but the government is willing to take responsibility for those that make mistakes. Those of us that play by the rules and fend for ourselves, we're the ones who pay for those peoples' mistakes. Rather that person be a corporate executive who took part in tax evasion or insider trading, or it's a punk kid who was arrested a dozen times for drug crimes, I shouldn't suffer for their ignorances, nor should you. But you're willing to, I'm not.
UM no willow Obama is not a Marxist. He gives however all the appearances of a socialist. You will of course ask the obvious questioin, "What's the difference?"
And the Difference is that Socialist aren't stupid enough to believe that any government big enough and intrusive to make a decent stab at "from each according to his means to each according to his needs" is ever going to just go away.
Do a Little Research. Start with his church, and it's mission. Study Black Liberation Theology.. follow the story.
My nephew is a great example of government doing good. All through his school years his great teachers helped him to succeed and with the help of college aid he got through school with flying colors, went into the army for four years as an officer and is now one of the most important people in an engineering firm. He is a prime example of government doing well.
My grandmother two years ago had her hip replaced and is doing real well, thanks to medicare which took care of her, thank God! What would we have done had the government not been there to care for her in that tragic moment of need?
I have at least six family members enjoying a comfortable retirement on social security
It's six degrees below zero here today and I know there are people across America staying warm right now as I write this because government is helping them with their heating bills. Think of the misery those people would be in right now if they didn't get that help. The evil people out there that would heartlessly cut off the funding should be dragged out in the snow, stripped bare and left to die. They are just scum.
Did everyone see those rescue crews yesrterday save those people on that plane in the Hudson? Government workers they were.
Government just works
The Fed and the SEC gave us a couple of trillion in prosperity and kept the markets running properly. Then Bush wrecked it all.
