I've become accustomed to your completely pointless off topic posts. At least other dems are arguing what they consider valid points. You might as well goto chuckie cheese with your mentality. You'd fit in better.
Off topic?
To me, the most important group in the entire United States is the "middle class". These people are the backbone of the country. During his recent speech, when John Boehner said, "We need to lower taxes and broaden the tax base to bring in more revenue", what do you think he was talking about? How do you "lower the taxes" but "broaden" the base.
Clearly, he was talking about moving even more taxes to the middle class. It's not enough that Republicans want to slash education. And they do, that can't be denied. The Ryan plan, now the Republican Plan wants to cut Medicare. That can't be denied. Republicans have always hated Social Security. That can't be denied.
The Republican part of the Middle Class votes against their own self interests until they get so severely dick slapped, self preservation causes them to rebel. Ask yourself the question, "All the cuts to education, school lunches, destroying unions, and so on. Is the money being used to balance the budget of the different states? Or is it being used for even more tax cuts?"
Some schools will open in the fall with one teacher and over 50 students. Good luck on getting an education.
I love this post from Rickshriener:
Please Do The Math:
Reagan inherited $908 bil. in debt growing to $2.6 tril. Up:+186%.
Bush I inherited $2.6 tril. in debt growing to $4.2 tril. Up:+62%.
Clinton inherited $4.2 tril. in debt growing to $5.7 tril. Up:+36%.
Bush II inherited $5.7 tril. in debt growing to $10.6 tril. Up:+86%
.Obama inherited $10.6 tril. in debt that is now up to $13 tril. Up: +23%."
Nice to see your able to contribute. Now we have something to discuss.
First of all the gop wants to turn the entitlements over to the states who can better distribute them without all the fraud and waste. Ryans plan doesn't impact current seniors or those close to retiring.
Secondly everyone cries about balancing the budget on the backs of the middle class and poor. Well the wealthy pay the lions share of our govts revenue while the poor put the biggest drain on revenue. This isn't a robin hood movie where you can continually rape the rich at the expence of the poor and lazy. Our country will fail if we continue on this path. The bottom rungs of this ladder need to contribute. They get free benefits costing us billions while offering nothing in return. And by the way I've employed many of these societial leeches. I've earned my way, its time fore everyone else to do the same. And this economy is hurting me possibly more than a lot of you cause I own a remodeling company. Yet I'm not demanding more, I'm demanding uncle Sam get the hell out of my way. I was born a free American not a ward of the govt.
Public unions are the cause of our educational decline. They take more and more every year while offering less and less in results. It's about time our governors stood up to these bullies and said no more.
many states do not have public unions.