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Thursday, July 28 2011 - 01:04 AM
Life in these United States
Too Poor To Be A Republican, and Too Conservative Too Be A Democrat So where we stand, In the minds of the free thinkers that where. We need a good Third Party and it isn’t the tea party.
roxi says...
Oh yeah, that sounds like a great choice – as long as you’re a NeoCon, anti-abortionist, and thinks homosexuality is “selfish hedonism”.
Btw, it’s Alan Keyes. Might help on the ballot.
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roxi says...
I think the Tea’s have about 12 candidates for these ‘platforms’….any more ideas?
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avbornbred says...
I’ll take the Tea Party. You will never admit it, but the Tea Party did pretty good in the November 2010 elections.
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avbornbred says...
There are several sleepers in the GOP that would cream the Romney’s and some of the others. Marco Rubio, Allen West, and some of the other Tea Party winners. Maybe the two of them could jump in and become a ticket.
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mattkeltner says...
The Tea Party would have been better if it had stuck to low taxes and left the social issues alone. It can still reform itself to an extent, but it will be hard because it has been co-opted by the fanatics in the Religious Right like Michelle Bachman.
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Cagy Wolf says...
Well Matt there are always those that will co-opt because its popular and Bachman was smart enough to join the bandwagon for the ride. The Tea Party I witnessed is nothing like the Tea Party today, it was a grass roots organization that wanted change, that is change for the better. Not the change for the worse Obama has left us with.
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Cagy Wolf says...
I do have to agree on one issue with the democrats say about the GOP. Namely that it is the party that caters to the rich, well isn’t it time to have common sense and compromise? The raising the debt limit, giving a tax rise on the richest (those making over a million) and cutting off all foreign aid and social services to illegal aliens if you have to cut spending. Makes sense and it gives both parties what they want.But the spending is out of control and has been for years, its just now we are paying the price of bad and crooked decisions by our nation’s leaders.
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avbornbred says...
What the left does not understand about the rich is this. The rich make the world go around! The rich own corporations who employ people. Corporations operate and allow unions to form, again employing people and allowing union members to receive their benefits.
The left likes to demonize the rich. If Ford suddenly decided to close down, say goodbye to union jobs and union benefits.
Giving the rich tax breaks and incentives to spend and grow, will increase jobs and strengthen the economy.
Lefties like Roxi say, Oh those evil rich, we should tax them all. We should run them into the ground. No one has the right to become successful and to make that type of money. That money is for the working people.
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Cagy Wolf says...
avbornbred I agree up to a point with your comment, but there have been loop holes and tax breaks for the rich far too long at the expense of the average american. We bailed out the bankers, real estate companies and the auto industry. And at the same time these “poor” rich bastards outsources jobs to other countries and build factories in other countries. We need to start cleaning up america now, its almost too late. But electing the right people to office, closing loop holes and tax shelters etc etc and enforcing our laws would go a long way to making america strong and productive. We don’t produce like we once did, jobs are limited and with competition from legal and illegal immigrants americans are sinking deeper in debt and becoming homeless.
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Cagy Wolf says...
Tutor a liberal’s kids in the ways of conservative righteousness —Lesson 2.
Make them watch The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Liberals disapprove of this film because the Christian allegory is so overt. So that’s one good reason to show it to their kids. Explain that the White Witch is probably modeled on Obama’s enviro czar Carol Browner and that the world where it’s “always winter but never Christmas” is a realistic projection of how the United States will look once global cooling kicks in and no one will be able to afford to heat their homes because of carbon taxes introduced to prevent “global warming.”
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roxi says...
What avbb does not understand, is exactly where his financial masters are telling him.
Some persons here, being recently rich from investments, and not souls of OLD MONEY; or to put it another way – those who recently came into mucho buckos are being diseuaded by the best, are being influenced to invest in personal acclaim without public responsibility.
What the left gets is this: The rich make the world go around, as AVBB has said. The rich own corporations who employ people. Corporations operate, but lately refuse to acknowledge certain labor laws, just becuz they can.
AVBB:
“…The left likes to demonize the rich. If Ford suddenly decided to close down, say goodbye to union jobs and union benefits.”
So be it.
Hope U’r pension will finance your kids.
Will we see a downturn on investments percentages with your beloved Teas?
Somehow, I see Trust Fund Babies, betting on the cum – Teahadist’s all.
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avbornbred says...
Tax breaks for the rich are important. Tax breaks for small companies, big companies, and huge corporations, are all needed. I do agreee, companies like GE have taken advantage and should pay their share. Politics played a roll in GE being able to take full advantage of loop holes.
The rich spend and invest which inturns creates jobs.
Look at California, look at Texas. Two states on the opposite end of a path to economic success and failure. California continues to tax the crap out of companies of all sizes, and forces them to leave to places like Arizona and Texas, where companies are welcome because those states see jobs creation and an increase in tax revenue.
The Tea Party understands that small businesses and large businesses need room to operate and to grow. That is the path to success. Tax a company more, it has less money to hire and pay benefits.
There was a recent news story about a mine owner who was being sued by the EPA and given impossible regulations to follow with the threat of fines. The owner wanted to increase the size of his operation and was sued by the EPA. Instead of fighting the EPA, the mine owner decided to shut down all operations. 150 people now out of work. Who is to blame?
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Cagy Wolf says...
Q: What’s the difference between Obama’s cabinet and a penitentiary?
A: One is filled with blackmailers, tax-evaders, and threats to society. The other’s for housing prisoners.
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Cagy Wolf says...
Philadelphia English teacher explains why she helped students cheat
By Liz Goodwin
National Affairs Reporter
PostsEmailRSSBy Liz Goodwin | The Lookout – Fri, Jul 29, 2011tweet153ShareEmailPrint
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The revelation that more than 80 Atlanta teachers admitted to cheating on state standardized tests—with one group of elementary teachers even holding a “party” after school to change their pupils’ answers by hand—has rocked the education reform movement.
But one question has been left unanswered: Why would a teacher resort to cheating in the first place?
The Notebook blog has found a Philadelphia teacher willing to explain why she helped her 11th-grade English students cheat on the state’s standardized tests. (The blog earlier broke the story that Pennsylvania officials suspected cheating may have occurred in 60 state schools.)
The teacher, who remains anonymous in the story, says she began to help her students cheat because she worried their self-esteem was crushed by taking tests they were in no way academically prepared for. If a student asked a question during one of the eight yearly testing periods, she would help him or her find the right answer, or occasionally just point to it on the exam.
“I never went to any student who didn’t call me to help them cheat,” said the teacher. “But if somebody asked me a question, I wasn’t willing to say, ‘Just do your best.’ They were my students, and I wanted to be there for them.”
The teacher said administrators bullied teachers about boosting test scores so that the school would make Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP), creating a constant state of performance anxiety in the classroom. Schools with low scores must improve by a certain amount each year to avoid federal sanctions set forth by the No Child Left Behind law. In some cases, the federal government shuts down schools that fail to boost scores year after year.
“The prevailing message was, ‘We have to make AYP this year, or they’re going to shut our school down and you’re all going to lose your jobs.’ At every professional development [session], that’s what we discussed,” the teacher said. She added that many teachers at her school engaged in cheating.
Read her whole story here.
The Atlanta scandal and a USA Today report of potential teacher-sanctioned cheating in 1,600 classrooms across six states has put pressure on the Obama administration for its focus on standardized testing. Teachers in some districts are being paid bonuses for their students’ performance on state tests, and many others have their performance evaluation tied to those scores.
Secretary of Education Arne Duncan says that the emphasis on tests does not encourage cheating. In fact, he sees it as the only way to ensure schools are adequately teaching their students.
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ritcsilv says...
Where is Allen Keys when you need him. He was the right choice the last time for a good third party
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