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“Raising the specter of labor fights picked by Republican governors with public workers unions across the country, Vice President Joe Biden lambasted what he called an increasingly union-hostile ‘new’ Republican Party in remarks delivered to National Education Association representatives today in Chicago,” the Chicago Tribune writes. And this was after Biden’s trip to Las Vegas, where he warned union members against voting Republican.
The Washington Post looked at the mixed feelings for President Obama among the National Education Association, the largest teacher’s union in the country. The NEA voted to endorse Obama, but unhappiness was evident. “Biden drew applause when he briefly acknowledged there's widespread unhappiness among teachers for the Obama administration's education policies,” AP writes.
The White House will pay $37 million in salaries, Reuters reports: “Three policy advisors have a salary of zero, while more than 20 make the highest pay grade: $172,200. More than 30 percent earn between $100,000 and $200,000 a year while 154 take home less than $50,000, according to the 2011 annual report on White House staff.”
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Fired up? More like fizzled out.
Fired up is correct but no thanks to Obama himself. Thanks all goes to Republicans like Walker and Snyder and Kasich, etc. etc. etc. Republicans have now lost ALL the unions including police and fire thanks to their very union mean agenda. Obama is about to blow everyone out of the water in campaign cash and contributors and, even more important, volunteers.
The moonbats' "recall" of GOP Governors is gaining steam.....NOT !
How many signatures is the latest effort to recall Bobby Jindal falling short? So far only 907,945:
Who cares about Bobby Jindal? He has no influence and is irrelevant.
Then how about Scott Walker?
His union reform bill passed, and the results are in: it has helped education. The union shill Left's intimidation and lies about his bill have been unmasked.
Bob,
You think something that went into affect last month has affected education, either negatively or positively, today? What a joke your source must be. Keep drinking the Kool aid my friend.
Oh Bob, you keep grappling for something relevant to your cause. Keep trying you'll get lucky eventually.
Hey, leave 'Lucky' out of this....
Fizzled out is a pipe dream on the part of the right. After your attacks on grandma, working people, women, and on an on with some seriously flawed logic I think you'll find Obama's war chest well funded and his base coalescing. No one on the left is totally happy with what has been accomplished but the left understands a concept very foreign to the right, it's called compromise.
Yes, its call "sycophancy."
"sycophancy" that sounds more like the GOP/TP Reality Check. Self serving and self flattering. The do nothing Congress, all they know how to do is thump their chest for doing nothing, and tell everyone how great they are.
Disagree....buy there is no agruing with a sycophant, is there?
As is said, a liberal doesn't mind if you have an opinion, as long as it is the sames as theirs..
As opposed to a conservative, who will not allow ANY opinion UNLESS it is theirs.
I simply can not afford to vote republican, I am in the 98% that takes all the hits but is expected to pay all the bills.
Forrest, I think your math is off a bit. Half of that 98% doesn't pay any taxes or any of the bills, while the 2% you left out pay a very large part of the bills. Why do you hate wealthy people so much?
Why do you love wealthy people so much White Collar Auto? There you go again, nothing viable to say, so you go back to the GOP/TP talking points.
You know MO, you have been spouting this "GOP talking points " line for some time. You need to try something new, it's gotten pretty stale.
And the top 2% argument isn't just a left talking point? How about who really pays their "Fair Share" MO. The top 10% of wage earners in this country account for a majority of the taxes paid to support the half or the wage earners that don't pay a dime.
Please without your "Lib Talking Points" explain how that is fair?
I don't hate wealthy people I just think they should pay the same tax rate as you and I. I don't see why Warren Buffet's secretary should pay a larger percentage of her income than he does. Why are you so interested in cutting your chidrens pay and benefits to give more to people who could not spend what they have in 100 lifetimes, why do you hate your kids so much.
Wow Forrest, going after my love for my children. Unbelievable.
Who do you think will bear the brunt of these policies? Do you think the next generation will have the same standard of living as we have had. I made more in 1979 as a grocery clerk for Kroger ($26,000+) than the median income in Texas today ($23,000). Do you think that working but still being below the poverty line is why some people work but do not pay taxes. Do you think employers should pay a fair wage and some benefits or should your tax dollars subsidize everyting business prefers not to pay for. Minium wage is about $7.15 an hour that is about 2 gallons of gas, in 1974 minium wage was $2.50 but that could buy 5 gallons of gas. Young people today pay more for everything but in most cases make far less than we did, do you think we should do better by them. Just a few questions
Wow White Collar Auto, going after my love for wealthy people. Unbelievable.
Yeah Forrest my kids and generic wealthy people are pretty much the same thing.
BTW my kids will be just fine, I have led a personnaly responsible life, my children are being brought up to be self reliant and to not count on the Government to bail them out.
Now to your "points":
Why don't you tell me what a fair wage is? $10/hr, $20/hr how about $50/hr? We do better for our children by teaching them to take care of themselves. To educate themselves and to learn that life can be tough. Do you think that the folks in Japan, India and China are coddling their children? Or maybe they are pushing them to excel. Children in this country have more opportunities than anywhere else in the world.
Poverty begets poverty and Democratic policies have created a welfare state. Generations of familes, now expecting the government to take care of them.
My children are not among them.
Sycophancy.. Hmm, would that be the noun form? From American Heritage - noun obsequiousness, grovelling, servility, cringing, fawning, adulation, flattery, kowtowing, truckling, bootlicking (informal), toadyism, slavishness snobbery, sycophancy and nepotism
This would describe how you Republicans kneel to the Koch's and other plutocrats who are destroying our country. You just do not see what is wrong with excess at the expense of those around you. There is nothing wrong with success. There is nothing wrong with being wealthy. It IS wrong when it becomes at the expense of the well being of those around you because you become addicted to the game of money. So addicted that you cannot see when your fun becomes harmful to the society around you. This is the problem with people like Dave and Bill Koch. They have lost their morality in the pursuit of money. One of them spent 2.5 million dollars last week to but an old picture of Billy The Kid. Now tell me, how many people could have been helped had he decided to do that with his money instead of flaunt it as he did?
Likewise, I have issues with people not having to contribute at all. This means the bottom percentage who pay no taxes at all. They live here, they participate, they use the benefits of taxation a lot more than others do. Should they have to contribute something? Absolutely they should. Should it be on the same scale of someone making 200k or more a year. Not on your life. It just isn't fair, which is what is wrong with the so called "Fair Tax" that Libertarians like to push. Progressive tax systems seem to work better and are more fair in the long run. I'm all for giving up the earned income credit, especially for those who did not earn anything. The EIC is just welfare through the tax code. No other way to view it that I can see. The tax code is not the place for welfare, corporate or individual. I'm not going to get into corporate welfare in the form of loopholes and breaks in the tax code. The accomplishments of the right are there for all to see. GE, payed nothing, BP, nothing, Exxon, nada....
So back to "Sycophancy".. Not much to say there. Someone decided to use a big word they came across but failed to look in a mirror before hitting the ole keyboard. On that one, both left and right have their guilty parties. There are sure a lot of right wing politicians who are guilty of sycophancy in their thrist for re-election. most of them are sucking the tit of someone named Rove or Koch to get their message out about how we should all just grovel to the rich and not worry about making sure the rest of our society is able to survive.
So to the wealthy or the wealthy lovers out there who just don't get why we don't like what they do, It's the lack of ability to know when enough is enough, stupid.
So Amused, now I'm "stupid"? Just how much is enough? Why don't you lay it out for me? Who are you to tell someone what they should or should not spend their money on? Are there no rich Democrats who blow their cash on things that we think are crazy? I don't know, why don't you take a drive to SoCal and see what the movie stars see fit to spend their money on? How about Professional atheletes or Rock Stars?
Every time one of you Libs throws out Koch, I think Soros. What's the difference. People with a lot of money trying to use it to fit their agenda. You just happen to agree with one of them. It's not that you don't agree with what wealthy people do, you don't agree with what wealthy conservatives do.
I don't know a single person who expects the government to take care of them, just people who want to work and make a fair slice of the pie their labor produces. Children in this country have less opportunity than they had 40 years ago, children in this country now go to college to stock retail shelves, There is not a week that goes by I don't get a young person with an Electrical Engineering degree that wants to go to work as a laborer in construction, because they can't find a job, 30% of the people who want to get in a construction trade have a degree, but they will bust concrete because it pays better than the nothing their education is getting them. Call tech support, see if you get a young talented American on the line. The future is not as bright as you seem to think for many college educated young people. Without auto manufacturing plants in the US you don't need very many white collar auto workers, as the plant goes so goes most of the office staff. You asked about what I thought wages should be, well when the minimum wage was $2.50 an hour you could buy 5 gallons of gas for that, if you want to be on par, then I guess the minimum wage would have to be about $16- 20 an hour. When I went to college it was $125.00 a credit hour, that same school is now $625.00 a credit hour, 5 times as much, 5 times $2.50 would be $12.50 an hour, any way you cut it, young people today are getting hosed. I provided a better living for my family on one income than many will be able to have with both the husband and wife earning an income and babysitters raising their children.
White collar what part of that slipped by you? It says "wealthy" not Republican, not Democrat, not Independent, not White, not Black, it says those who do not have the ability to know when enough is enough. And when is it enough? When your accumulation becomes destructive to the larger society around you as is happening now. When 2% of the people control 90% of the wealth. That sir, is when Enough Is Enough.
I think that overall America is tired of our elected officials at all levels
I believe we will see a much different Pres. Obama in the next term if he wins the White House this next election. I really think he will be more aggressive in his actions to get things accomplished. Then he will not have to think about the next election and pleasing all the Republicans in the mix. He can then start rebuilding our infrastructure and start creating sound jobs and get this country on sound footing again.
JoAnn,
And who's going to pay for this surge of rebuilding + Obamascam?
Why you are Krell, we've already got you name on the donor list for Obamascam.
"The NEA voted to endorse Obama."
And why not? Obama's campaign promises of real education reform, were but a sham. The Democratic Party is a tool of public teachers unions, whose goal is to loot the public treasury, not educate the children.
Yeah right Bob that is the first course they take when getting their Masters Degree, it is actualy called "Looting the Public Treasury 101", it is a required course for all idealogical young people who want to become teachers. You are way way out there Bob, I think you are just jealous that you don't live in Beverly Hills like most school teachers, you should have went for the big bucks Bob, you should have been a public school teacher.
You can compliment the Republicans on their negotiating skills and on their ability to play hard ball ... but that is like approving the tactics of terrorists when they gain what they want. Yes, the President likely should have been tougher and put his "nice guy" style aside but blaming him and ignoring the Republicans' irresponsibility and their stubborn and arrogant concentration on their political ambitions and on having total benefit for the very wealthy, the powerful and influential few who strongly support them is completely ludicrous. If the majority of Americans fail to recognize that the Republican Party, Tea or regular, has literally and totally become "puppets" for the very few who "pull their strings", and are giving the majority, including the total middle class, only subterfuge to con and manipulate them, then the majority will just continue to loose as the Republicans and their supporters just become more and more emboldened in their aggressive self-serving tactics. This isn't politics as usual, this is out and out stealing for the benefit of the few and being done boldly without any trace of a conscience. That should now be obvious to everyone.
Just remember Reality Check, you said it not me. But you are right. You must have been looking in the mirror when you typed that.
Libs...
Stop trying to blame the republican party with Obama policy. He had TWO years with full control of everything. He didnt have to negotiate back then because Pelosi and Reid were with him. What has that done for our country? Big debt and high unemployment and a healthcare plan that we CANT afford.
The Libs in here talking about how the GOP promised jobs are just idiots! Obama promised jobs from the get go and has not delivered. The gop have control of the house and any legislation that gets passed from there would be stopped quickly in the senate. Again, Libs where are the Obama jobs? Dont give me the SPECULATION of Obama stopped the recession and it would of been much worse. You cant prove that and you know you cant prove that.
Our country is going down the toilet and I beleive the independants know this. They will determine the next election and know Obama policies do not work. Even if you are a democrat or uber liberal you have to admit Obama is not your choice. You may not want a republican in office but Obama has got to go. Amatuer hour at the white house will come to an end.
Sorry to inform you James, but Amateur hour ended when Cheney/Bush left.
I'm guessing you've never heard of the filibuster James, you know the one the Republicans used on every piece of legislation in the Senate for that 2 years. Tell us James, just how many pieces of legislation are still waiting for a senate vote from 2007 to 2010?
Mo - apparently you are quite lacking in reasoning and reading comphensive powers if you consider any filibuster the republicans could muster was effective. How foolish of you to not ask the question on why the left couldn'r muster the 1 or two votes to overide the filibuster with 60 votes. Perhaps the left didn't have a unified base to get that 60 vote majority.
Seems that james specifically referenced obamas years in office, and now you want to use a strawman argument to refute it?
thanks for playing.
am...##'s,
Perhaps the left didn't have a unified base to get that 60 vote majority
no, you are right, the dems don't demand total allegiance to the party line. They actually allow others freedom to think for themselves. But, when your caucus consists of a range of political leanings from Ben Nelson to Bernie Sanders, you won't have the 'unified base' ot override the obstructionism of the right.
Strawman argument? geez
try again, buddy
our country is going down because people believe everything they hear and never do any research.
The NEA supports obama because every right wing nut wants to destroy public education not improve it. if they had their way they would rmove all child labor laws and take the children out of school and put them in a factory.
where do some of you people come up with your ideas on education? did you educate yourselves? i think not. you are the same ones who do no research and take your cues from fox news.
i will tell you, this would be a much better country had not regan removed the fairness doctrine
kr, if your supposition were true about the right, then where will all the 'evil' corporations, and business owners get their skilled labor from?
It seems that the governments (L or R) agenda has always been to throw money at a problem rather than to actually fix what is wrong. Education is no exception. Perhaps you can tell us more accurately the number of students not graduating high school, last I recall it was around 30%. Then there is the number of students entering university that actually do graduate with a bachelors degree.
Let's not forget those students that take out student loans for degrees that will never enable the students to pay back the loans or who chose career paths with little future demand for the skill sets aquired.
Why does an incumbent potus spend so much time fund-raising and campaigning? I would have thought the economy would be more important. If the economy was starting to grow at 3+% any incumbent would be a shoo-in for re-election. Perhaps our 'on the job training' potus lacks the focus that "hope and change" entails.
"Why does an incumbent potus spend so much time fund-raising and campaigning?"
Uh......because he's trying to compete with Chamber of Comerce and Koch Bros and "Citizens Untied' companies' ca$h?? It is kind of funny, though, to watch the righties complain because Obama's pulling in the scratch in huge numbers. Tough noogies, ladies.
In the past 10 years the share of total income of the top 1% has grown to the point that it is now twice what the bottom 50% of all workers make. In the past 25 years The top 1% total income has gone from 11% to over 20% of total income. (1.4 million people in the top 1%) The bottom 50% share of income in the past 25 years has gone from 17% to less than 12% ( 70 million income earners ) 1.4 million people making about twice what 70 million people are making. This has got to change whether the republicans are for it or not. That is why Obama needs a bunch of money and congress needs a bunch of Democrats. Democrats can be pretty stupid at times, their worst moments are not as disastrous as having republican in charge.
"If the economy was starting to grow at 3+% any incumbent would be a shoo-in for re-election"
I'll put my conspiracy hat on...and if coporate america weren't sitting on almost a trillion dollars in profits waiting for an administration that is willing to play the game by their rules, maybe it would be growing at 3-4% if not more.
I agree 100%