The above is a review by a woman-writer. The 50 Shades thing has been a mystery to me. Maybe I would have been more interested when I was a teenager and Fanny Hill was the height of clandestine literature for me…
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True in September 2011. True Today. Blacking out football games on TV is the dumbest thing a sports team can do.
An Australian Point of View of the U.S. Elections.
Paying for the Wars
The Iraq and Afghanistan wars had an extremely negative effect on the U.S. economy.
Before the Iraq war, White House economic adviser Lawrence Lindsay estimated the cost at $100 to $200 billion. When Bush didn’t like that number, he got rid of him and re-estimated the cost at $50 to $60 billion in 2003. The direct cost of the Iraq war is now over $850 billion and counting.
Indirect costs of veterans’ healthcare and disability will run between $422 and $717 billion.
Some estimates total the cost of both wars at $4 trillion.
The cost of the wars was paid for entirely by debt at the same time that Bush cut taxes. The Center for Budget and Policy Priorities has estimated that the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, together with the Bush tax cuts, will account for almost half of the projected $20 trillion debt by 2019.
This math works. If Bush hadn’t added $2 trillion to the debt during his term, the economy would not have crashed before he walked out of the Oval Office and Obama would not have had to spend another $4 trillion we didn’t have during his first term.
While this doesn’t mean that Bush and Obama would not have found other ways to spend the money, the moral is still this:
Stop invading other countries!
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Sen. Bernie Sanders on Wealth of the Walton Family
“Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders … tweeted a startling statistic to his followers on July 22, 2012:
Today the Walton family of Wal-Mart own more wealth than the bottom 40 percent of America …
Could that be true? PolitiFact asked. The fact checkers went to work and concluded: “Sanders’ claim is solid. We rate it True.”
Read the full article here.
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I just watched Man from Plains again, I re-read my review here and I need to say: Amen.
A great article about what results are produced by a free market economy versus a socialist state.
Slashing Early Education
Since 2008, California’s Child Care and Development system has endured multiple years of devastating cuts, a loss of over $883 million dollars and the elimination of over 107,262 child care slots.
Research has proven that for every $1 spent on child care, $3 goes back into the local economy. This says that California has lost $2.6 billion in the last five years in local economy spending, due to childcare cuts alone.
In California, we are now in the final days of the decision-making process. The state is considering eliminating another 29,000 child care slots on top of the 107,262 already lost over the last five years.
After decades of empirical evidence and observance, we know that the key to employment success of the poorest people in our society is stable access to quality child care. Eliminating this possibility puts all those working parents back onto welfare. They need to stay home to watch their children. Some of the child care providers losing this business will be shutting down, creating more unemployment.
California will still be spending the welfare money. Only it will be spent to support the poor while parents sit at home watching children watch TV. Before, it was spent on quality education at child care providers.
Moralizing that the parents should not have had the children in the first place does not solve the problem; it simply points out the obvious downward spiral. The less educated a society is, the less able it is to take care of itself. Not educating the children of our poor grooms them for the welfare rolls and, worse, prisons, later.
California’s and America’s way out of debt and unemployment starts with education.
Letting Mark Zuckerberg keep more of his money does not create a single additional job for California’s working poor. I believe his tax rate should be just as high as mine.
What Can You Do?
- Call the Governor and voice your opinion!
- Call your State Assemblyman and Senator!
- VOTE – research shows that the poorest of the poor in our society, who are drastically and dramatically affected by our political decisions, do not vote. Here I go again: Education!
Romney Says Class Size Doesn’t Matter
Mitt Romney stated that class size does not matter.
Has Romney ever set foot in a classroom besides dropping off his own children when they were little? It boggles my mind how out of touch a politician can be with the realities of real people’s lives. It reminds me of George H.W. Bush being amazed about a supermarket laser scanner. Do these guys know how to pump gas?
Stating that class size does not matter just drove away the two or three educators that were still hanging on in ideological desperation to the Republican candidate. It’s over now. Not a teacher in the country will vote for Romney.