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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostYou left out the most important point......it's not just about money.
"A generation ago, working-class parents spent slightly more time with their kids than college-educated parents. Now college-educated parents spend an hour more every day. This attention gap is largest in the first three years of life when it is most important."
This problem is less about kids, less about money, than it is about the time invested in the lives of children.
Taxes won't fix this problem.
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostThe thinly veiled racism that assumes that minorities are the primary recipients of assistance is nauseating. Nearly half of all benefits go to the eldery and whites comprise the majority of welfare recipients.
What the politics gets away from, what this OP highlighted, is that this is about standard of living. And for more people, not fewer, it's headed in the wrong direction (and it hasn't been a blip).
And to the IKEA poster, yes, it is entirely a function of liberalism. Not what you confuse with party politics (because there are few conservatives in Washington, there are Neo-Cons - social conservatives and fiscal liberals). Milton Friedman was a conservative. Play any video of MF speaking on these topics 30-40 years ago (welfare state) and all you'll hear is prescient foreboding doom.
More government, in this context, is bad government. It hurts rather than helps. But sure, defend liberalism. Despite all the traffic jams, we sure do have the nicest roads in my lifetime, that's for sure. They weren't cheap though...
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So why does every elite college and university in the country, with the most brilliant minds in the country, lean to the left? Don't trip over your white sheet trying to figure that out.
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Let's be honest. Conservatism doesn't have a chance until it breaks from its roots in racism, sexual oppression and bigotry, fundamentalist Christianity, deep-seated misogyny, hatred of difference and anything it can't understand, and embrace of semi-automatic weapons.
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostLet's be honest. Conservatism doesn't have a chance until it breaks from its roots in racism, sexual oppression and bigotry, fundamentalist Christianity, deep-seated misogyny, hatred of difference and anything it can't understand, and embrace of semi-automatic weapons.
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostSo why does every elite college and university in the country, with the most brilliant minds in the country, lean to the left? Don't trip over your white sheet trying to figure that out.
The pathetic irony is calling conservatives "oppressors" of race and class, when the very policies liberals embrace towards the poor and disenfranchised perpetuate the problem. But they've never had an issue with that...it perpetuates votes too.
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If you mean Obama the community organizer poverty pimp than yes I do think I have a better understanding and I would have to say Mitch does as well. This country was a far better place in the 1950s than it is now and all your liberal whining can’t change that. If I am not mistaken in the 1950s a tax payer payed $1 out of every $20 in taxes and now it is 1 in 5. No wonder why kids were better behaved – mom was home to watch them. As far as “brilliant minds” running colleges, how else can the electorate be dumbed down to the point where it is today other than by “education”. Thank God I went to college as an adult and was already the victim of government extortion before I heard the crap being slung around in the mandatory classes. People today that are under 40 are sufferers of Stockholm syndrome and have been completely brainwashed by their captors – the K-22 education system. The young kids today that go to government schools are really screwed. FYI for your clouded vision take a look at the best and worst run states for 2012. I believe the top 5 are red states and the bottom 5 are blue except for 1.
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostIf you mean Obama the community organizer poverty pimp than yes I do think I have a better understanding and I would have to say Mitch does as well. This country was a far better place in the 1950s than it is now and all your liberal whining can’t change that. If I am not mistaken in the 1950s a tax payer payed $1 out of every $20 in taxes and now it is 1 in 5. No wonder why kids were better behaved – mom was home to watch them. As far as “brilliant minds” running colleges, how else can the electorate be dumbed down to the point where it is today other than by “education”. Thank God I went to college as an adult and was already the victim of government extortion before I heard the crap being slung around in the mandatory classes. People today that are under 40 are sufferers of Stockholm syndrome and have been completely brainwashed by their captors – the K-22 education system. The young kids today that go to government schools are really screwed. FYI for your clouded vision take a look at the best and worst run states for 2012. I believe the top 5 are red states and the bottom 5 are blue except for 1.
Hang out with Jay Z lately Obama ? Let's put up some of the lyrics to his songs, where the problems of the comminity at large are glorified and worshipped. Guns, n word, disrepect for women, the thug life...it's all cool, because the Prez is cool. Bring along Beyonce , 'casue Obama has said about her" I can't think of a better role model for my daughters" With all the great women in Amercian History, that's all you could come up with ?
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostIf you mean Obama the community organizer poverty pimp than yes I do think I have a better understanding and I would have to say Mitch does as well. This country was a far better place in the 1950s than it is now and all your liberal whining can’t change that. If I am not mistaken in the 1950s a tax payer payed $1 out of every $20 in taxes and now it is 1 in 5. No wonder why kids were better behaved – mom was home to watch them. As far as “brilliant minds” running colleges, how else can the electorate be dumbed down to the point where it is today other than by “education”. Thank God I went to college as an adult and was already the victim of government extortion before I heard the crap being slung around in the mandatory classes. People today that are under 40 are sufferers of Stockholm syndrome and have been completely brainwashed by their captors – the K-22 education system. The young kids today that go to government schools are really screwed. FYI for your clouded vision take a look at the best and worst run states for 2012. I believe the top 5 are red states and the bottom 5 are blue except for 1.
And thank you for beating me to the punch that Obama NOT being so enlightened is precisely the problem.
What's next, someone is going to suggest he has some advanced knowledge on economics as well? The guy could have a balanced budget within a decade by limiting spending to a pace below that of inflation (never mind some sizable cuts into spending). But no, that's not the path chosen, instead it's about the politics of taxes, and this myopic obsession with raising income tax rates to "pay down the deficit" (a household would have the options of cutting what they spend, or taking on another job - Obama is focused on the latter not the former I guess). Too bad all of Obaam's wrangling is a dime on the dollar when it comes to a $1.1+ trillion dollar budget deficit. He could raise those rates to 50% and it wouldn't make a dent. Makes for great class warfare politics though...
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostSo why does every elite college and university in the country, with the most brilliant minds in the country, lean to the left? Don't trip over your white sheet trying to figure that out.
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostBecause not all Republicans are stupid but all stupid people are Republicans.
But as I previously posted, let's actually dig into the demographics of constituencies. Dropouts, GEDs, HS diplomas, college degrees, advanced degrees, etc.
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostAnd most important, does color even matter when stacked up against (1) more people than ever and (2) more spent than ever ($1 trillion over the past year).
What the politics gets away from, what this OP highlighted, is that this is about standard of living. And for more people, not fewer, it's headed in the wrong direction (and it hasn't been a blip).
And to the IKEA poster, yes, it is entirely a function of liberalism. Not what you confuse with party politics (because there are few conservatives in Washington, there are Neo-Cons - social conservatives and fiscal liberals). Milton Friedman was a conservative. Play any video of MF speaking on these topics 30-40 years ago (welfare state) and all you'll hear is prescient foreboding doom.
More government, in this context, is bad government. It hurts rather than helps. But sure, defend liberalism. Despite all the traffic jams, we sure do have the nicest roads in my lifetime, that's for sure. They weren't cheap though...
As long as we are devising new and more efficient ways to kill people and spending billions on it you are happy but to make sure that a kid doesn't go to bed hungry or that they have a classroom with less than 40 students.
You have done your best to make liberal a four letter word but I am proud to be a liberal, I know why I pay taxes, don't complain about it, and understand that a society exists to support everyone's needs, not just the priviliged few.
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