I can't agrue with the last part of your comment. I believe one reason the middle class is losing is because of the decline of unions. Now before you jump on the anti union bandwagon listen first. When unions were at their strongest the middle class was making their biggest gains. Competition is what brings wages and benifits up. To get a better class of worker you needed better wages and better benifits. Unions no matter what you or I think of them got everyone those things, better wages and benifits, both union workers and non union workers alike. But as unions decline with the help of republicans and ill informed people so did the middle class. Noow I don't believe unions are needed in all jobs especally not in small business with 10 or 15 employees but they are still needed and in greater numbers then we have today because without them goes the commpotition and we both know an employer is not going to give you anything they don't have to give so over time little by little benifits will go as you now see with healtcare benifits, some employers are offering 401K plans with not employer contributions. One by one unions are going and one by one the benifits are starting to go. The ironic part is, is that the people are calling for the end of unions and that means the possinle end of their own benifits and good wage increases. All I ask is that you just think about it.
Actually I'm not anti-union. I am against union and government working together since I am against government in general. I'm uncertain whether or not it was unions or the times that caused the great improvement of working conditions, but as someone who supports limited government I can not deny the existence of unions. People working together is always better than government.
I would also suggest an old--yet new again--alternative to unions: guilds. Now guilds may seem similar to unions, and they are, but there are a fair number of differences as well. http://politicoid.blogspot.co...
Oh, as a side note, if at all possible, use paragraphs when talking to me. I have poor visual tracking and while long paragraphs are fine as a writing style, it starts to give me a head ache after a while; this is especially true with the smaller fonts often used. It also makes it a little less confusing as to when the main topic changes. ^^
I'll try and remember about the smaller paragraphs if I can but since I respond to so many different people it may be a losing cause asking me to remember.
It's not that I don't want to respect your request it's just a fact I most likely won't remember.
Take it from me unions had alot not all but alot to do with the increases in wages, safer working conditions and benifit increases. Without unions we'd have alot less today.
I would content that the cause of the issues during the period of economic expansion was that we had a young unstable nation going through a fast period of growth which produced those problems; as the nation grew up a bit the problems went away. We'll need to look at other developing nations to see if that's the case or not.
The idea of voting with a mindset like that is dangerous, that is how crazy people get voted in out of a knee jerk reaction to avoid voting for someone else. It's happened in the past, and I'm not sure I want the United States under a crazy Mormon.
A TEACHER FROM THE GREAT STATE OF MISSOURI WILL LOSE HER JOB FOR STANDING UP FOR ALL OF US.
Give this teacher and true American a standing ovation.
This 4th grade teacher has said it all, and she was brave enough to attach her name to it.
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington, DC 20500
Mr. Obama:
I have had it with you and your administration, sir. Your conduct on your recent trip overseas has convinced me that you are not an adequate representative of the United States of America collectively or of me personally.
You are so obsessed with appeasing the Europeans and the Muslim world that you have abdicated the responsibilities of the President of the United States of America . You are responsible to the citizens of the United States . You are not responsible to the peoples of any other country on earth.
I personally resent that you go around the world apologizing for the United States telling Europeans that we are arrogant and do not care about their status in the world. Sir, what do you think the First World War and the Second World War were all about if not the consideration of the peoples of Europe ? Are you brain dead? What do you think the Marshall Plan was all about? Do you not understand or know the his...
A TEACHER FROM THE GREAT STATE OF MISSOURI WILL LOSE HER JOB FOR STANDING UP FOR ALL OF US.
Give this teacher and true American a standing ovation.
This 4th grade teacher has said it all, and she was brave enough to attach her name to it.
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington, DC 20500
Mr. Obama:
I have had it with you and your administration, sir. Your conduct on your recent trip overseas has convinced me that you are not an adequate representative of the United States of America collectively or of me personally.
You are so obsessed with appeasing the Europeans and the Muslim world that you have abdicated the responsibilities of the President of the United States of America . You are responsible to the citizens of the United States . You are not responsible to the peoples of any other country on earth.
I personally resent that you go around the world apologizing for the United States telling Europeans that we are arrogant and do not care about their status in the world. Sir, what do you think the First World War and the Second World War were all about if not the consideration of the peoples of Europe ? Are you brain dead? What do you think the Marshall Plan was all about? Do you not understand or know the history of the 20th century?
Where do you get off telling a Muslim country that the United States does not consider itself a Christian country? Have you not read the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution of the United States ? This country was founded on Judeo-Christian ethics and the principles governing this country, at least until you came along, come directly from this heritage. Do you not understand this?
Your bowing to the king of Saudi Arabia is an affront to all Americans. Our President does not bow down to anyone, let alone the king of Saudi Arabia .... You didn't show Great Britain , our best and one of our oldest allies, the respect they deserve yet you bow down to the king of Saudi Arabia .. How dare you, sir! How dare you!
You can't find the time to visit the graves of our greatest generation because you don't want to offend the Germans but make time to visit a mosque in Turkey ...... You offended our dead and every veteran when you give the Germans more respect than the people who saved the German people from themselves. What's the matter with you? I am convinced that you and the members of your administration have the historical and intellectual depth of a mud puddle and should be ashamed of yourselves, all of you.
You are so self-righteously offended by the big bankers and the American automobile manufacturers yet do nothing about the real thieves in this situation, Mr. Dodd, Mr. Frank, Franklin Raines, Jamie Gorelic, the Fannie Mae bonuses, and the Freddie Mac bonuses. What do you intend to do about them? Anything? I seriously doubt it.
What about the U.S. House members passing out $9.1 million in bonuses to their staff members on top of the $2.5 million in automatic pay raises that lawmakers gave themselves? I understand the average House aide got a 17% bonus. I took a 5% cut in my pay to save jobs with my employer. You haven't said anything about that. Who authorized that? I surely didn't!
Executives at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will be receiving $210 million in bonuses over an eighteen-month period, that's $45 million more than the AIG bonuses. In fact, Fannie and Freddie executives have already been awarded $51 million not a bad take. Who authorized that and why haven't you expressed your outrage at this group who are largely responsible for the economic mess we have right now?
I resent that you take me and my fellow citizens as brain-dead and not caring about what you idiots do. We are watching what you are doing and we are getting increasingly fed up with all of you.
I also want you to know that I personally find just about everything you do and say to be offensive to every one of my sensibilities. I promise you that I will work tirelessly to see that you do not get a chance to spend two terms destroying my beautiful country.
Sincerely,
Every real American
P.S. I rarely ask that emails be 'passed around'.................PLEASE SEND THIS TO YOUR EMAIL LIST......it's past time for all Americans to wake up!
Ms Kathleen Lyday
Fourth Grade Teacher
Grandview Elementary School
11470 Hwy . C
Hillsboro , MO 63050
Voting in America is like going to a restaurant, ordering and then finding out the guy at the other table is enjoing his meal better than you. No wonder you guys have so many divorces over there.
You are 400-billion in debt and your SOS jaunts around the world, poking her finger into everyone else's backside with non-workable solutions,, because she has nothing else to do and needs to spend the millions she has been allocated and carry around a troop of 5o or more, only to make her feel good. She doesn't get the plot right. Fight the Muslims, you idiot. You giving them asylum instead!
Anyway, whichever man you choose this time, Democrat or Republican, you still lose. You lost in Korea, you lost in Vietnam, you let loose in Cambodia and Laos and lost. Then you lost in Iran and Somalia; you never learnt. Now you are in Iraq and Afganistan.
The Japanese, Koreans, Vietnamese and Cambodians are with another mindset; peaceful through their religion and they colaborated with you and are now alive and energetic. Afganistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Somalia, Egypt and Syria are Muslims; they spit on you.
Then you force your President to give them asylum.
Get real America. Barak Obama is the greatest mind that ever walked this planet in our times!
I am sure that the millions of unemployed people and people angry with Obama spending taxpayer dollars on useless green energy scams, unions and voter fraud, would disagree with you. Obama is a bumbling fool!
Definitely, but a vote for a third party candidate will ultimately be a vote for Obama... Regretfully, I voted for Perot and doing so put Clinton in office :(
Not voting - it's hard to change a fundamentally flawed system when you adhere to it's rules and regulations - I'm registered to vote but will voice my opinion by not casting. I dislike both candidates.
I think Kinky Friedman said it best; he says, "Everyone should be forced to serve two terms: one in office and one in prison."
....my question is always - well, which one first?
Haha. Obama took over the Presidency after the worst president of all time gave it to him. Do you think one president can fix the country in 4 years? No. Also, why are you so upset with Obama? Were you in favor of keeping our troops overseas? Obama is bringing them home. So next time you see a veteran, look at him and tell him "I think you should still be in Iraq or Afghanistan". I didn't think so..
We're still in Iraq and Afghanistan! What needs to happen before the blind cheer leading supporters say the truth. Obama is a puppet of wall street and out to destroy the United States. 1.7 trillion to the FED first month in office. Got torture LEGALIZED while lying, saying he was closing Guantanamo Bay. Lost America's AAA rating, botched the Gulf spill disaster, being crowned head of the UN (unconstitutional). His health care bill with 14 provisions for new taxes that removed free care for children under 12 and pulls 500 billion from Medicare. 5 that's right, 5 new conflicts! Only a democrat can get away with drone bombing? He signed the NDAA when he promised he wouldn't ! Or what about the martial law acts? He has increased the national debt more than any other president in history, and that's in just three years! All to give to the richest institutions in the world. On and on and on, like his signing statements and pocket vetoes. Or Fast and Furious, and Solyndra, didn't he promise the most transparent presidency? ALL LIES !!
Look at the economy! You cant even get a bag of chips for a dollar any more, whats the price of a can of coke? He is stealing right out of our pockets thru inflationary spending. TWO bailouts, to the richest institutions in the world. Look at GAS! This comes from an Obama voter in 2008, boy did he make a fool out of me.
In 100 years the truly educated will see this president as one of the worst in history.
I'm so sorry KG, I can tell by the length of your message that you put a lot of thought into but after the first sentence I fell asleep. I lost interest in your point. I"m sorry. It's not your fault, it's my ADD. But i'm sure you made some good points. Gingrich 2012! Woo!
I would also suggest an old--yet new again--alternative to unions: guilds. Now guilds may seem similar to unions, and they are, but there are a fair number of differences as well. http://politicoid.blogspot.co...
Oh, as a side note, if at all possible, use paragraphs when talking to me. I have poor visual tracking and while long paragraphs are fine as a writing style, it starts to give me a head ache after a while; this is especially true with the smaller fonts often used. It also makes it a little less confusing as to when the main topic changes. ^^
It's not that I don't want to respect your request it's just a fact I most likely won't remember.
Take it from me unions had alot not all but alot to do with the increases in wages, safer working conditions and benifit increases. Without unions we'd have alot less today.
Give this teacher and true American a standing ovation.
This 4th grade teacher has said it all, and she was brave enough to attach her name to it.
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington, DC 20500
Mr. Obama:
I have had it with you and your administration, sir. Your conduct on your recent trip overseas has convinced me that you are not an adequate representative of the United States of America collectively or of me personally.
You are so obsessed with appeasing the Europeans and the Muslim world that you have abdicated the responsibilities of the President of the United States of America . You are responsible to the citizens of the United States . You are not responsible to the peoples of any other country on earth.
I personally resent that you go around the world apologizing for the United States telling Europeans that we are arrogant and do not care about their status in the world. Sir, what do you think the First World War and the Second World War were all about if not the consideration of the peoples of Europe ? Are you brain dead? What do you think the Marshall Plan was all about? Do you not understand or know the his...
Give this teacher and true American a standing ovation.
This 4th grade teacher has said it all, and she was brave enough to attach her name to it.
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington, DC 20500
Mr. Obama:
I have had it with you and your administration, sir. Your conduct on your recent trip overseas has convinced me that you are not an adequate representative of the United States of America collectively or of me personally.
You are so obsessed with appeasing the Europeans and the Muslim world that you have abdicated the responsibilities of the President of the United States of America . You are responsible to the citizens of the United States . You are not responsible to the peoples of any other country on earth.
I personally resent that you go around the world apologizing for the United States telling Europeans that we are arrogant and do not care about their status in the world. Sir, what do you think the First World War and the Second World War were all about if not the consideration of the peoples of Europe ? Are you brain dead? What do you think the Marshall Plan was all about? Do you not understand or know the history of the 20th century?
Where do you get off telling a Muslim country that the United States does not consider itself a Christian country? Have you not read the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution of the United States ? This country was founded on Judeo-Christian ethics and the principles governing this country, at least until you came along, come directly from this heritage. Do you not understand this?
Your bowing to the king of Saudi Arabia is an affront to all Americans. Our President does not bow down to anyone, let alone the king of Saudi Arabia .... You didn't show Great Britain , our best and one of our oldest allies, the respect they deserve yet you bow down to the king of Saudi Arabia .. How dare you, sir! How dare you!
You can't find the time to visit the graves of our greatest generation because you don't want to offend the Germans but make time to visit a mosque in Turkey ...... You offended our dead and every veteran when you give the Germans more respect than the people who saved the German people from themselves. What's the matter with you? I am convinced that you and the members of your administration have the historical and intellectual depth of a mud puddle and should be ashamed of yourselves, all of you.
You are so self-righteously offended by the big bankers and the American automobile manufacturers yet do nothing about the real thieves in this situation, Mr. Dodd, Mr. Frank, Franklin Raines, Jamie Gorelic, the Fannie Mae bonuses, and the Freddie Mac bonuses. What do you intend to do about them? Anything? I seriously doubt it.
What about the U.S. House members passing out $9.1 million in bonuses to their staff members on top of the $2.5 million in automatic pay raises that lawmakers gave themselves? I understand the average House aide got a 17% bonus. I took a 5% cut in my pay to save jobs with my employer. You haven't said anything about that. Who authorized that? I surely didn't!
Executives at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will be receiving $210 million in bonuses over an eighteen-month period, that's $45 million more than the AIG bonuses. In fact, Fannie and Freddie executives have already been awarded $51 million not a bad take. Who authorized that and why haven't you expressed your outrage at this group who are largely responsible for the economic mess we have right now?
I resent that you take me and my fellow citizens as brain-dead and not caring about what you idiots do. We are watching what you are doing and we are getting increasingly fed up with all of you.
I also want you to know that I personally find just about everything you do and say to be offensive to every one of my sensibilities. I promise you that I will work tirelessly to see that you do not get a chance to spend two terms destroying my beautiful country.
Sincerely,
Every real American
P.S. I rarely ask that emails be 'passed around'.................PLEASE SEND THIS TO YOUR EMAIL LIST......it's past time for all Americans to wake up!
Ms Kathleen Lyday
Fourth Grade Teacher
Grandview Elementary School
11470 Hwy . C
Hillsboro , MO 63050
You are 400-billion in debt and your SOS jaunts around the world, poking her finger into everyone else's backside with non-workable solutions,, because she has nothing else to do and needs to spend the millions she has been allocated and carry around a troop of 5o or more, only to make her feel good. She doesn't get the plot right. Fight the Muslims, you idiot. You giving them asylum instead!
Anyway, whichever man you choose this time, Democrat or Republican, you still lose. You lost in Korea, you lost in Vietnam, you let loose in Cambodia and Laos and lost. Then you lost in Iran and Somalia; you never learnt. Now you are in Iraq and Afganistan.
The Japanese, Koreans, Vietnamese and Cambodians are with another mindset; peaceful through their religion and they colaborated with you and are now alive and energetic. Afganistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Somalia, Egypt and Syria are Muslims; they spit on you.
Then you force your President to give them asylum.
Get real America. Barak Obama is the greatest mind that ever walked this planet in our times!
Raymond Dias, Mumbai, India.
Obama is a bumbling fool!
I think Kinky Friedman said it best; he says, "Everyone should be forced to serve two terms: one in office and one in prison."
....my question is always - well, which one first?
Look at the economy! You cant even get a bag of chips for a dollar any more, whats the price of a can of coke? He is stealing right out of our pockets thru inflationary spending. TWO bailouts, to the richest institutions in the world. Look at GAS! This comes from an Obama voter in 2008, boy did he make a fool out of me.
In 100 years the truly educated will see this president as one of the worst in history.