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Obama is a disaster

  • CMXI said...

    What government services aren't worth having, in your opinion?

    IMO, it's the government's inefficiency and bureaucratic red tape which leads to paying 2-3 times as much for goods and services. That's what makes spending so ridiculously high. Have you ever had direct dealings with the govt as a supplier? Sheesh. Any company in the world that operated with their business model would be out of business in less than a year.

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  • How about some props for Smitty. Told you guys the Obama supporters wouldn't wake up and chime in until this afternoon.

    VTSmitty ●

  • VTSmitty said...

    How about some props for Smitty. Told you guys the Obama supporters wouldn't wake up and chime in until this afternoon.

    Lol. Yeah I noticed that since you posted it.

    TroyTide

  • TroyTide said...

    I would accept paying new teachers more but I don't see how paying the current ones more would do anything but reward a bad job. Until we can weed out the bad ones no current teachers need a pay raise.

    BTW the US spends more money on education not only in real dollars but as a percentage of expenditures AND per-capita than any country on earth. So clearly lack of funds is not the problem, it's mismanagement of funds and terrible policies of dealing with bad students, and stupidity like tenure that is the problem. Not money, the money is there it just needs to be spent correctly.

    I agree with your thought on tenure and old teachers that don't give a rat's ass about their job but those education numbers are skewed by how expensive colleges and universities have become. It's just insane to me that people like my fiancé, who put herself through school, is now making less than $40,000 a year, while she has $60,000 in school loans. It's issues like this, that I have with our education system.

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  • TAMUWolverine said...

    I agree with your thought on tenure and old teachers that don't give a rat's ass about their job but those education numbers are skewed by how expensive colleges and universities have become. It's just insane to me that people like my fiancé, who put herself through school, is now making less than $40,000 a year, while she has $60,000 in school loans. It's issues like this, that I have with our education system.

    I was just reffering to k-12 since that is mostly what we hear about when it comes to education spending and what most of our education tax dollars go toward. My numbers only included k-12 as well.

    Higher education is a different animal. The quality is fine it's the price that's the problem. The price is largely because universities are extremely top heavy, and spend millions on frills to attract new students only to charge the ridiculous tuition to pay for the crap they built to attract them. It's also true government money has been diverted from universities, but by and large universities themselves are the ones who make tuition cost so much. And again the quality is fine.

    TroyTide

  • VTSmitty said...

    How about some props for Smitty. Told you guys the Obama supporters wouldn't wake up and chime in until this afternoon.

    Some people have jobs and can't be surfing the internet all day long. biggrin

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  • I cant even believe I am about to say this, but, gulp..... Mr. Woodson.... I agree with you on this.

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  • Ego Trip said...

    He keeps talking about lowering taxes for the middle class, who cares! I am glad the Republicans keep blocking this nonsense. There are already tons of IT, financial, medical, and engineering jobs that are not being filled now, and raising taxes on the middle class to create some jobs for those people living on the government's dime, would not bother me one bit. Power to the Big Red Elephant.

    Like the rich care about the middle class.
    From 1917 to 1981, the bottom 90% of wage earners in this country (blue) captured 69% of the total wage growth. The richest 10%, meanwhile, got 31% of the wage gains.
    Between 1981 and 2008, however, things changed. The richest 10% grabbed 96% of the income gains in those years, leaving only 4% for the bottom 90%.

    DEAR AMERICA: You Should Be Mad As Hell About This [CHARTS]

    This country just isn't America anymore.

    www.businessinsider.com
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  • Ego Trip said...

    Well, how do we create more minimum wage jobs, get the cost of gas down, and lower health care costs? These are the three main causes of our current economic conundrum. I thought Romeny had a fix.

    Obamas fix is to keep rising gas prices and raise MPG standards for cars by 2020. That sounds like a good leveling plan until you realize all the research and development the car companies have to do to acheive that goal outprices the majority of americans can afford. It is so stupid.

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  • TroyTide said...

    Schools don't need more money they need restructuring.

    And we are going to have to pay more for less soon anyway, because we have to pay our debt and eventually balance our budget. Besides many government "services" aren't worth having anyway.

    Schools need help, but the people in the districts are culpable. The housing market is culpable. Cheap housing occurs in areas that are less then desirable. That draws folks that aren't likely to stick. You can't help the schools until you make the cities and burbs safe. You can't make those things safe w/o enough officers. You can't pay officers with tax money that you arent' collecting from impoverished arenas. It is really that simple.

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  • Black Shipley said...

    Don't speak sense to the political pawns on the right. George W. Bush is a Saint! His actions for eight years have NOTHING to do with where we are now as a country! It all happened in a vacuum and we're a better country today for having that Angel in the White House!

    lol

    Yeah and don't let the left believe that the majority of clintons success was based upon the internet boom. The guy was obviously a genius and is the most respected adulterer in the known world...

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    fishdiddy

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