Teachers are one of our most valuable resources.
Teachers are under attack around the country with the assaults at a state level on their collective bargaining rights. Understood within the discussion around the anti-union bills is the misguided idea that teachers are overpaid, coddled incompetents who are largely responsible for the fiscal and social problems found around the country.…
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26 - Cannonshop
What's funny, is that for the most part, actual on-the-ground conservatives oppose those same tax-breaks and corporate welfare schemes, drbruce.
Which is one of the main reasons that they're kept largely shut out of the halls of power, often the only bipartisan effort you see, is the establishment Dems and Republicans (*the, for want of a better term, "Republicrats") joining together to demonize and attack (with extensive corporate monies) any movement that might threaten the incestuous relationship between Big Government and Big Business (a relationship that, ironically, includes Big Labor as a major tool.)
Hence the lack of any REAL differences between the economic policies-in-practice of the OBama and Bush administrations-both featured large bailouts of corrupt business-the only difference being that Bush actually spent LESS doing it than Barack did, and both highlight new and extensive expansions of Government (PATRIOT ACT for Bush, Obamacare for Barack), expansions with many provisions of questionable constitutionality, that service...
Big Business and Big Government at the expense of the Citizen, the Citizen's Rights, and the Taxpayer for dubious gain and at ignorance of the long and short term costs generated.
Notably, both sides are funding these expansions with foreign wars that are rooted in murky (at best) pronouncements of ideals, rather than cold strategy and metrics for determination of success-a strategy best shown with LBJ's "Guns and Butter Economics" of the 1960s (used to fund "The Great Society".)
Alas, it's not some 'great conspiracy', no Bilderbergers, Masons, Zurich-Lawn-Gnomes or other secret societies can claim ownership of this-it's a natural outgrowth of the fact that, with a largely ignorant (by choice) population, it is easy to centralize more and more power, and with that power, comes both corruption, and the drawing to it of the individually corrupt.
We have the National Leadership our parents worked so hard to give us.
27 - zingzing
cannonshop, if you could translate that into sane, you might have a point. the thing goes from maybe probable to MEGAFUCKINGCRAZY real quick.
put your thoughts down without going nuts.
28 - Christopher Rose
zing, apart from the paragraph about how the funding is being generated through foreign wars, which I don't understand, I thought most of Cannonshop's comment was pretty accurate, albeit nothing new or even controversial...