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Good evening, Conservative. :2wave:
Excellent post! :thumbs:
Good evening, and thank you
Good evening, Conservative. :2wave:
Excellent post! :thumbs:
The responsibility for your schools is your state and local community, not the taxpayers of another state or local community.
The responsibility for your schools is your state and local community, not the taxpayers of another state or local community.
Noone is asking for another state. Illinois is a "donor" state like most Blue states.
In neighboring and more sensible Iowa, all the money comes in from the entire state. It is then redistributed in a more fair way. They also have open enrollment between neighboring public schools as do other states. All 5 public pensuions are in one pool. I was there for 3 years and still wonder.
That is the way it is supposed to work however Obama used some of the Stimulus money to bail out union contracts in some states.
Federal tax dollars do not fund school districts, property, sales, and other state taxes do. When a state is called a donor state it relates to Federal taxes not state and local taxes.
Are you referring to the $9 Billion that your Gov. Perry used from the Stimulus to balance his budget, helping to cover some of his right-wing social engineering? You do hate Obama with a passion donchu?
Are you saying that there are no federal dollars coming to school districts?
And how about that public funding of charter schools based on fraudulent grades given to the schools under pressure from above? A pay-off to a donor who owns the charter school.
You never heard of an unfunded mandate? You just named one.That isn't what I said, I said that your teachers aren't funded by Federal Tax dollars and it isn't the taxpayers of TX's responsibility to pay for your school district expenses. The Federal Govt. is required to pay for anything they mandate such as No Child Left Behind.
That isn't what I said, I said that your teachers aren't funded by Federal Tax dollars and it isn't the taxpayers of TX's responsibility to pay for your school district expenses. The Federal Govt. is required to pay for anything they mandate such as No Child Left Behind.
You never heard of an unfunded mandate? You just named one.
The Peace Corps, the most cost effective arm of the USG abroad.
Yep, the camels died only to be replaced by other camels. My bet is you would be the first one calling for an increase in defense spending if one of your own was killed by one of those camels. You don't seem to grasp the reality that radical Islam wants you dead therefore whose responsibility is it to prevent that from happening?
Amen to this one too. Along with a farm bill, the electical grid, continuing resolution, debt-ceiling, the end to the repub drama queens in congress and something with immigration.
I did not say TX's respnsibility. School monies from different sources go into one pot, get muddled and moved around. They overlap. Different states do different things with their funding causing different levels of equality. It will always be that way. I had 33 years + 4 retired but still active.
When someone sitting in DC can decide how much a doctor may charge, how much time is your doctor going to have to spend with you when they need to see X amount of people per day just to make their overhead?
What gets me is that these paranoids will spend literally Trillions on imagined "threats", but they are totally blind to the obvious, the crumbling of the nation all around them. They seem to think building bombs will save them while ignoring the decay of everything from Interstate bridges to the electrical grid, from the inner cities to the middle class, from the health and welfare of our youth to their education. Freaking idiots.
Hi polgara.
This is an interesting statement here...If we are to consider Doctors in this country a business, and their daily practice in seeing patients, production. Then we are told constantly that Obamacare is not a socialist take over, because they are not taking over any means of production in this country, therefore we conservatives don't understand socialism, that meme turns to utter BS.
Health care is 1/6th of this nations economy, and by controlling doctors, and micro managing their practices in every aspect from how many patients they see, to how much they can charge, it is totally socialist is it not?
Good morning, j-Mac. :2wave:
Sure seems like it to me! :thumbdown: And what is the explanation given by this administration when they are asked why millions of people will still not be covered by insurance? I thought that was the reason our whole health care system was upended in the first place, and replaced with Obamacare! Something doesn't add up here!
Further, if our health system is so bad, why do leaders of other countries across our planet choose to come to the US for their surgeries and other health care? Europe is much closer to them, and with the "superior" system they have in place in Europe, which BHO is trying to emulate here, you'd expect them to avail themselves of that fine system, wouldn't you? :bs: sarcasm definitely intended here!
Good points as usual Polgara. The answer to one of them I think at present, is Cloward and Piven strategy. I don't think that Obamacare was ever meant to succeed, rather only to break the current system. In the process they could demonize the repubs for its collapse...A highly cynical move, and one that should draw the ire of the country as a whole for exposing just how little liberal/progressives really care about their well being..All that matters to them is the ends.
How many politicians do you believe would ever be elected in this country admitting that they were socialists? Most other than Bernie Sanders realize that would be the kiss of death and thus will implement socialism in incremental steps but the end result is the same. These politicians will appeal to those who solely think with their hearts and believe in all that spending IN THE NAME of compassion. These people are being used to promote a leftwing socialist agenda and the leftwing is winning.
What people don't understand is that access does not assure either service or quality and although it appeals to those who think with their hearts it is totally unattainable to have a universal healthcare program for 312 million Americans in 50 independent states. What this will do is give the govt. more money to waste, I mean spend, on programs that keep and make people dependent just like they have done with SS and Medicare. Although most who support UHC seem to be people with good hearts they seem to lack the brain power to see this is nothing more than a scheme to provide for more spending and more control since quality healthcare and service aren't even being considered.
Good points as usual Polgara. The answer to one of them I think at present, is Cloward and Piven strategy. I don't think that Obamacare was ever meant to succeed, rather only to break the current system. In the process they could demonize the repubs for its collapse...A highly cynical move, and one that should draw the ire of the country as a whole for exposing just how little liberal/progressives really care about their well being..All that matters to them is the ends.
Or "invest." Whenever Obama says "invest" I think of a ten year old kid hitting me up for $10 to "invest" in a candy bar. In practice, "access" to UHC seems to mean access to a waiting line.