Corporate KINGS & Welfare QUEENS
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| Fri, 09-19-2008 - 6:13am |
They have a lot more in common than politicians imagine, those corporate kings & welfare queens:
1) They believe they can make foolish decisions, and the government will bail them out;
2) They believe they can focus on short term gratification, and the government will take care of the future;
3) They don't understand that those who consume without adding value will eventually kill the goose that laid the golden egg.
It has been fashionable to make fun of the middle class. . .those amusing "little people" who get up every day and go to work, real work that requires them to be present and productive. . .those quaint "little people" who believe in God and country. . .those old fashioned little people who actually believe in living within one's means and paying as you go and saving for the future.
It has been considered oh-so-clever to look down on the children of the middle class who don't attend an Ivy League school - but who value an education nevertheless: enough to work their way through to a degree even though it may take them more than four years and their classmates may not be trust fund babies.
The intelligentsia has gleefully looked down its nose at people who do an honest day's work (oh, say work in an oil field or on a fishing boat). . .rather than lounge in an ivory tower, engage in white collar fraud, or feed at the public trough.
The media has delighted in making fun of women who don't wear designer clothes or $400 hairstyles. . .after all, how quaint not to be a purveyor of all that Vanity Fair, Vogue, and Town & Country have to offer.
Most of all, the politicians have been disdainful of the everyday people who have asked - who is going to pay for the cradle to grave society and the golden parachutes you have promised to buy the votes that keep you in power???
Of all the candidates, Gov Sarah Palin is the one who understands those old fashioned values that made the US great - the values that will save us now. . .if corrupt politicians will stop pandering to their favorite vote selling constituency and do the right thing!
What is the right thing: revise the tax code to reward productivity; stop penalizing the elderly who work after retirement; drastically revise the education system - demanding accountability from public schools and the teachers who staff them - it is ridiculous that any child can attend school for twelve years and lack basic academic knowledge or a skill that enables them to support themselves/ridiculous that total incompetents have been guaranteed employment; stop the pandering with promises of a free lunch; require those holding mortgages to renegotiate with homeowners in default wherever possible and to eat the losses they fostered if not- people who are struggling to pay for their own homes should not be forced to pay more to bail out the irresponsible; force failing industries to pay a public value price for the low interest loans they desire: elect Boards who engage in REAL oversight, prosecute those corporate kings who have breached their fiduciary duties - seize their ill-gotten gains and send them to jail (the corporate king who defrauded millions from shareholders is as much of a thief as the drug addict who robbed a 7-11); drill here and drill now and do whatever is necessary to stop sending $700 billion a year to countries who hate us.

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Funny thing about accountability and teachers and such... that comes right back at us. If we expect better results, class size has to be cut to somewhere around 15.
Are you prepared to pay for this?
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What's funny is that something Ronald Reagan made up out of his detraining mind has become a permanent fixture in American minds.
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Sarah Palin is the countries biggest Affirmative Action plan. She wasn’t picked because of what she knows, or because she is a compete candidate.
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I just think the biggest trick was to get conservative poor to complain the taxes the rich pay are far too much.
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***You and John McCain really need a reality to check if you think someone going to an IVY League School (an average of 40,000 a year) is MIDDLE CLASS***
Actually, you're wrong, I work in higher education and there are many middle class students in ivy league schools. While they were not born with a golden shovel in their mouths, they are paying for it through loans, grants, and scholarships. The average tuition for the school I work for is 40K a year (freshmen & Sophomores, it goes up as they have more choices for "better" housing); that includes room & board as well as all fees and tuition.
We did an internal retention survey in preparation for an accreditation evaluation and we found that most of our students come from middle class families whose parents are not considered wealthy; sadly many come from one parent homes.
Yes, I definitely would support smaller class size IF combined with teacher/administrator accountability.
I would also support afternoon tutoring programs for children who are struggling and summer school for children who failed to meet grade level standards. . .in other words, every possible effort directed towards helping children actually achieve their highest possible potential.
If teachers' unions would work for solutions such as this - that would benefit our children - instead of focusing all their political clout on higher pay (with no relation to merit) and job security (for all but child molesters), they would certainly get my support.
The tax code has been custom designed to pay off special interest groups for their political support - see Rangel.
I don't want to pay more taxes (more than 50% of our family income goes to income, property, sales, gasoline taxes).
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