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Milton Freeman thought up all

trkingmomoe — Tue, 02 Dec 2014 20:15:48 +0000

Milton Freeman thought up all the idea that privatizing everything was the better way to go. His radical ideas was a knee jerk reaction of communism and his dislike of Keynes. I think Freeman had a form of PTS because of the work he did during the war and just didn't like government after that. We know that charter schools are sub par to public education. Just a few of them do a good job and that is because of the wealthy clientele. I see charter schools as bad at propaganda as was the Soviet education system. They are no different, just different propaganda and rewriting history. Maybe I will live long enough to see all of Freeman's ideas about economics and society get swept into the dust bin of history.

Your grandsons are very

Ramona — Tue, 25 Nov 2014 13:00:55 +0000

In reply to Tonight I was in Walmart with

Your grandsons are very special young men and you can take a bow for that, Momoe. Collecting gifts for prisoners to give to their families is an inspired idea. I hadn't heard of that before.

The young will have to be the standard-bearers and I have faith in them. Education is the key and we old folks have to make sure the opportunities for learning are there. We're not doing a good job of it, but the solution is to fix what's wrong with public education, not throw it out or turn it over to the privateers who would like nothing better than to keep our kids dumb and uninformed.

Tonight I was in Walmart with

trkingmomoe — Tue, 25 Nov 2014 04:55:18 +0000

In reply to OUCH !!!!

Tonight I was in Walmart with my oldest grandson when the twitter feed lit up with the Ferguson verdict. Then he got phone calls right after that about it. He was baffled as to why there was no indictment,

We were there because we were waiting for the stockers to empty large boxes. He needed them to set up collection points at USF for children toys. The English honors society is doing this to give the toys to Prisons so the prisoners have something to give to their kids when they come and visit for Christmas. He told me the idea was to strengthen their family relationship when a parent is in jail for drugs. Taking on a project like that doesn't endear them to their families.

The behavior of the GOP since Obama has been in office has made a life time impression on the youth. Almost half the kids are growing up in poverty. Corporations will have a hard time convincing them that this was good for the country.

They're not toys, they're not

Resistance — Tue, 25 Nov 2014 04:42:52 +0000

In reply to Yes, I should have included

They're not toys, they're not symbols, they're lethal weapons.

McConnell Warns Obama on Amnesty: 'Like Waving a Red Flag in Front of a Bull ..

1776 deja vu?

Yes, I should have included

Ramona — Tue, 25 Nov 2014 00:22:28 +0000

In reply to Thank you for reminding me.

Yes, I should have included the McCarthy era. That was huge. We were on edge often before Dallas but nothing could have prepared us for what happened that day. The truth is, the Kennedy shine was beginning to tarnish before he went to Dallas. He couldn't please everyone, and liberals were beginning to see that all that they had hoped for was either not going to happen or was going to take much longer than expected. There was grousing from both sides, just as there is with President Obama today. I often wonder what Kennedy might have accomplished if he hadn't been cut down before his time?

But in my lifetime I've never seen such open, raw hatred as we see today. The gun culture doesn't help; insisting on open-carrying guns into public places is just the beginning. There are reasons why we work to keep guns in their proper place. They're not toys, they're not symbols, they're lethal weapons.

OUCH !!!!

Beetlejuice — Mon, 24 Nov 2014 16:51:26 +0000

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OUCH !!!!

I see your point !!!

We baby-boomers are the front and center stage while those behind us are left with sucking hind-tit.

But Congress is really the one to blame, but it's full of baby-boomers too, so chances are the younger generation's needs will not be heard, like jobs, salaries and benefits so they can at the very least have the same things their parents and grandparents had.

In other words, we have a lost generation of young adults right in front of us and can't see them because our children are getting in the way.

Thank you for reminding me.

Beetlejuice — Mon, 24 Nov 2014 16:43:22 +0000

In reply to John Kennedy's Death And How It Changed Us

Thank you for reminding me. Just like Pearl Harbor, as time goes by people tend to forget the impact of events, especially those who were not around when the events occurred.

But think too about that era ... McCartheyism, the big Red Scare in the US, and Communist encroaching everywhere in small isolated pockets of humanity around the globe ... all during the Eisenhower Administration with Republicans in Congress cozying up to the MIC while making the former Soviet Union their personal mascot of hatred to kick around as they pleased.

Kennedy won by a slight majority with enough doubt that Nixon could have challenged ... Kennedy received 112,827 (0.17%) more votes than Nixon nationwide and although Nixon won the popular vote contest in more individual states (26 to 22).

So I would wonder if Kennedy's assassination was the first infant step towards the adversarial political process we currently enjoy today? While Republicans were not in any way shape or form responsible for the assassination, their vitriol towards Kennedy was on equal par.

In other words, the vitriol then is equal to the vitriol now, and guns are more plentiful and acceptable today than they were in the 60's.

One need not be a rocket scientist to see where the two meld into a singularity.

Wisconsin wanted Scott Walker

rmrd0000 — Mon, 24 Nov 2014 16:33:58 +0000

In reply to It took me a while to get it

Wisconsin wanted Scott Walker

Florida wanted Rick Scott

Kansas wanted Brownbeck

Iowa wanted Ernst

The people spoke

It took me a while to get it

Beetlejuice — Mon, 24 Nov 2014 16:27:34 +0000

In reply to If you think that Obama could

It took me a while to get it thru my thick head, but Obama believes in bipartisanism no matter what he has to sacrifice in order to move his agenda forward. That said, no one should expect him to take a political side be it in the halls of Congress or at the State levels. Once you accept it, it becomes easier to understand the WHY in how he moves the political process forward.

Of course, one would think he would have had second thoughts or developed an alternative approach in dealing with a hostile political Party determined to defeat him every step of the way. Thus we have the current political and financial quagmire that neither Democrats or republicans give a rat's ass about fixing leaving We The People hung out to dry.

But he and all members of Congress were elected by the public to serve their interests, so if there's a question about any of their actions, We The People need not look any further than the mirror to see who is to blame.

You said the abolitionist

rmrd0000 — Mon, 24 Nov 2014 12:04:22 +0000

In reply to I really don't want Obama

You said the abolitionist movement and Civil Rights movement was wrong