Umm,no that would be Romney/Ryan-Nice try.

Brilliant, deeply-thought retort, Maria! Time for your pill.

Julie is an EMBARRASSMENT to Women, PERIOD

If we get rid of the teacher's unions, there is more than enough money to fix the problem. As long as there is tenure based only on length of service and not quality of results, we will continue to have undereducated, brainwashed children.

Clean out crappy teachers and give our kids a chance!

Maria,

We spend more on education than any other country both by money and per student. If you feel spending more money is the solution then vote for our current President, but if you feel the system has not gotten better and does not seem to be getting better under the current policies than it is time for a change.

If you think paying 208 teachers to sit around in New York City because they cannot be fired is the best the system can do then please stay with the status quo

Your immature ad-hominem post proves my point regarding the failure of our government-destroyed union-ruined public education system. No facts, just baseless anger.

billy: you had a typo in your comment....that is "about to be re-hired"......

To be honest, I don't care. Obama's record is dismal and even if he is re-elected, it will get worse.

He has already demonstrated that he is incapable of handling the economy, education, among other things.

You've got it right. Except you are attributing it to the wrong party.

why do you think evangelicals are republican?

Brilliant, deeply-thought retort, logico. Time for your pill.

It just seemed so right to give you back your own words, illogico.

And just when did he lie,not that the Repub's EVER lie-Too funny.

If MSNBC fact checked their cheer section for Obama then then would actually be news instead of a Left Lib commetary channel.

Maria-2595762

You have given up and dont demand more from those in office and have just given up that they all spin, lie or mis-spoke?

Obama is fired up and ready to go. Most Americans want him to go.

Go ahead kamo, fact check all you want to prove yourself WRONG.

whereRthe jobsBoehner

Ok you got me. The wealthiest in the US want to destroy the middle class so they in turn have to pay more in taxes and fees to support a larger group of people dependent on the government to survive.

Yup, they are so evil and greedy, but they want to destroy the midde class so they have to support a bigger portion of the goverment. Yup makes absoute sense...

Anyone that is buying the Obama flapping gums service on that really has not taken the time to think about what the logical outcome would be. And because if it dosnt make sense or ring of truth, then my forend it cant be true except for Obama to try and divide those that according to Step Cuttler, get there news from E Tv and People Magazine.

All Obama does is lie.

Here's the line you want:

it seems as if he thinks these are a bunch of nameless government bureaucrats that we need to cut back on. Those are his words,”

LIE! Romney never said he thought teachers were nameless government bureaucrats. NEVER! But the liar-in-chief wants the feeble minded to think he did.

ALL OBAMA DOES IS LIE. HIS ENTIRE ADULT LIFE IS BASED ON A LIE.

stop it fiesty loves to crack her self up. Im sure she does the lean forward lib head tilit as her eyes bug out when she types. Then hit's post and snickers to herself.

Bush TANKED the Economy so bad that EVERY State has to cut budgets. Ever think to look at it from that angle?

No one wants to actually interact with the kids.

whereRthe jobsBoehner

Um Bush was president for 8 years and LAUSD has been run by Libs and the state for 40 years. They must have known with a crystal ball Bush would be the president one day, decided to destroy the school system and econ knowing they could one day blame Bush. With that type of brilliance they would have bought stock in Walmart and Disney and watch it split over 100 times and bought Apple too.

Arnold the liberal....huh

Arnold was a perfect example on why falling for celebrity was not a good thing. Obama is a celeb portraying a president.

yeah, great plan! Imagine the BS that would be taught in places like TX. That is funny. How can we compete on a global scale with kids who are taught that the earth is 6000 years old, there was once talking snakes and pregnant virgins, and dinosaurs and men coexisted? ha ha

When I said our math and science scores have dropped, I wasn't making that up. Your "point" is stupid. haha

You are a perfect example of my point to end the dept of ed. Indoctrinated, not educated. Critical thinking skills non-existent.

You should bet the farm on it, I'll take the other side.

The model the University used have predicted the winner in every presidential election since 1980.

Shirley, if you believe in global warming models, you can believe this one.

polls don't mean @!$%# for either side. any competent person knows that. not to mention that congress approval rating is at an all time low. things are so messed up, i doubt theres any way to accurately poll any of this crap. red and blue suck. start thinking third party. because, as we all know, the definition of insanity is to keep doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. (hate cliches, but had to use it.)

Priceless. Thanks.

It was just a matter of time before someone put on paper what real Americans know instinctively. Obama is a Marxist whose policies are not worthy of America.

marxist....yep, no liberal education wasted on you! ha ha IDIOT

Google the definition of Marxist to prove yourself wrong AGAIN!!!

passenger,

This is not a poll. It is a study, analysis. It did not ask what people think or want. It must work because they have been right for the last 30 years.

As I recall they predicted a McCain/Palin LANDSLIDE. How did that work out for you? LOL

yeah those don't mean anything either. no one can predict the future. don't care how much "analysis" goes into it. and everything is way different now than they have been in the past 30 years. hell in the past 4-5 years.

Yawn....The model did predict an Obama win. That's not 30 years ago. It predicted Clinton over HW Bush even though Bush had a 91% approval rating nine months before the election. Choose to ignore it if you like. University of Colorado in Boulder is known to be a very liberal college.

gpothead

You don't believe Obama has Marxist leanings? He demonstrated that right off the bat. He quoted One of the main tenets of Marxism to "Joe the Plumber" in one of his unguarded, unscripted moments.

" I don't want to punish you for your success, but we need to spread the wealth so those below you can have your same success"

Not to mention his most famous and more recent Marxist ankle showing:

"If you built a business, you didn’t do that, somebody else made that happen"

Yep, that's the one he's going to look back on and say,"That was the moment I lost"

His mentor (I believe his real father) Frank Davis was a card carrying communist. His father of record was a communist. His mother was a communist. His grandparents were communists. He was on record as belonging to the Democratic Socialist Party of America and has their endorsement. His friend and domestic terrorist is an America hating Marxist. His cabinet is full of people who lean Marxist who sing the virtues of Mao. He has the endorsement of the Communist Party of America. He has the endorsement of Raul Castro and Hugo Chavez. If you bothered to read his "memoirs" you would know that he sought out the radicals. Those off the top of my head.

You indoctrinated, uninformed, brain dead Obamanoid. Go light a candle at the crotch of Obama and get your worshipping over with. But don't pretend like people believe your lies and Obama's lies. We leave that for the minority of the country who have no idea what America is all about. It's not about some loser thug poltician from Chicago.

“For the last eight presidential elections, this model has correctly predicted the winner,” said Berry.

The moron, whereRthe jobsBoehner, who doesn't know what a Marxist is said:

As I recall they predicted a McCain/Palin LANDSLIDE. How did that work out for you? LOL

A liar as well as an idiot. You make a great Obama supporter.

you'realoser,

I wish you would talk to my office mate. He is 25, just out of school. He tells all the senior engineers how wrong they are in a very undiplomatic fashion. One senior guy told him "You don't talk to me like that" and stormed out. When there is nobody around, he and his wife (yes, his wife is the same and equally cocky), they talk about people behind their backs and say how stupid they are, using words like idiot, moron, not the sharpest knife, etc. Yesterday, he was telling someone how dumb another guy was. The gentleman shut him up by saying "Hey, I'm not that smart either". That was his way of showing some humility and hinting to the jerk to show a little respect for others. BTW, the guy and his wife are very liberal and Obama supporters.

elvis payne

Utah is a predominate Mormon state. Has the highest rate of high school and college grad rate. JFK called it the model for America, he was a Catholic. Hey Ryan is a catholic. Roms and Ryan must be following the guidance of JFK. Obama followed then passed Carter.

kamo...retard!!!! Carter was a nuclear engineer that helped design nuclear submarines.....

He was also the worst President in modern history until Obama came along

gpotts-1106111

Yes Im a retard. Carter was a great president....

And such a great ex-president.....

He was viewed and one of the greatest president in the modern era. You happy now, I just pandered to you and as a Lib you should be really happy instead of the truth that is was a disaster...

For those us that went through the Carter years, nobody expect a hardcore partisan would ever claim Carter to have had a good term in office.

The GOP kicked the Veterans to the curb and OUR President signed the "NEW G.I. BILL. Want to try again?

vets are heroes....doesn't mean they are smart!

whereR

The Post 9/11 GI Bill was passed by a Dem congress and signed by President George W Bush. There were changes made in 2010, but you sir are simply LYING.

I couldn't imagine having thoughts in my head like the ones in yours. You're the CLOWN of ALL CLOWNS.

whereR, exactly why do you think the evil rich want to take more out of your pockets? Please be specific.

respectfully whereRthe jobsBoehner

Take a second to read what I wrote. If you bleieve what Obama states about destroying the middle class why would some party supposedley greedy and dosnt really want to up lift ALL Americans want to destroy that same income class knowing the only way to then support that class is them paying even more in taxes.

Obama is playing his hard base for fools...

They want to bring OUR County back to the days of the "KINGS and Serfs". Will you enjoy 3 dollars an hour with No benefits, NO RIGHTS and NO FREEDOM?

<the sound of crickets> LOL

Really, so the "evil," rich want to bring the people to the days of "serfs," and make sure people get paid nothing is that correct?

Then if so, how exactly does the evil rich have a base of consumers to buy the products and services or goods and services they make, provide, sell, import and export. How to you make money on stocks and investments when there is no margin profit because there is no income circulating.

So the evil rich is so greedy that they will collapse the very fiber they use to earn income and thus without that drive to provide, they are more than willing to pay more in taxes to support those that cant, and since they too will have to end because there is no longer a base of income to give to the government, only those in government will have money and control like the old USSR.

The GOP wants to destroy the middle class is so obsene and cant be true, because you cant be a greedy rich SOB but who then wants to loose that greedy income because you destroyed the very base of consumers needed to become even more "rich."

Obama is playing to the lowest denominator of those so afraid of not being able to make ends meet, caused by his failed polices, that he is counting on those worried how they will feed and clothes themselves and their loved ones to not look past the logical extension but to only think if only there was a bogyman to blame then the people will not see the Emperor has No Clothes. Or the Yeah buts, blame Bush, let me see your taxes etc. What has Obama put pen to paper, not his flapping gums, but pen to paper that has been successful for all Americans and not just his union buddies that he is pandering to so when he is out of office he will have a job.

Obama thinks he is king. But you are simply too uninformed to waste anymore energy on. I'm fairly certain you are a felon and with the crackdown on fraud this cycle you won't be voting. Ignored.

kano - consider the historical example of coal towns and the economics of the "company stores." The objective was to have a targeted, effectively captive group of people as your "serfs", then sell to others to maximize your profit. If the businesses can drive down the effective cost of labor to virtually nil by offsetting the cost of labor through control mechanisms, then the distribution (road, rail, air transport) systems already set up and paid for by the government will assist in the efficient delivery of goods to the markets.

We have and participate in a global economy, once the market is saturated in the US, the profit is there.

Matthew-2771918

I see so, everyone at Apple will buy from the Apple company store, everyone at Nordstroms will buy at the Nordstroms company store and all the GE folks will buy from the GE company store in the future.

I think you stand a better chance at winning power ball then a country allowing something like that to happen.

Lastly.....the company store, if it was successful, would it have not continued? Why did it disband? What......competition you dont say....who would have figured in a capital driven econ, where competition and innovation could actually make the life of everyone better is a bad thing.

If not for inovation and competion, then why is there such a large slection of products and services to choose from? I guess you only buy the same brand X cheese everyday from the same brnad x store where you drive the same brand x car as your neighor who resides n the same brand x home only read the NY Times since its the ONLY paper in the country . Heck MSNBC dosnt even have to try and bash Fox News anymore because they are the only company store for Obama........

kamo

You are not correctly interpreting the economic history and the situation. The (then) successful objective of the company store was to keep a group of people completely dependent upon the business that hired them for all things. The local mining company controlled the grocer, the schools, and owned the land where they rented out houses to their workers. The mining companies got every penny back they paid the workers and made a profit off of the food and rent. It was the ACCESS to goods and services that they controlled and the ability to limit the mobility of the workers.

It worked specifically because of lack of mass transportation and direct collusion between mining companies. They carved up their respective demesnes and worked with each other to keep the populace in check. It was actually unions that ended up busting up the scheme (in spite of the hired strike busters, the company paid for killings, and the use of the Pinkertons to assault the miners). However, even today, these areas in Appalachia are still some of the most isolated and impoverished areas in the US.

To implement this type of activity would be VERY difficult today due to improved infrastructure and communications, however, if there is a group of people completely dependent on a company for jobs and lacking the ability to move, this can still be successful.

So what keeps this group of people and/or someone from moving out of an area and away from such a situation? There are many reasons but this post would be WAY too long (even for me) if I went into everything so let's pick just one that is directly related to this article: education.

Based on the current economic trend in the US to be service and technology industry based, higher education is critical to personal job search and acquisition. Inability to perform the work necessary for getting hired relegates a "typical" person to providing services at a lower income level. This lower income level directly hinders the ability to move, the lower education level directly hinders the ability to find a decent job even IF they just got up and walked away.

Matthew-2771918

Company stores, who cares, that could not happen today so to bring it up is mean-less except a review of JR High history.

We have loads of higher eduction.

Would I advocate for tax payer early education for pre-k.....Yup.

Do kids in poor areas as a whole have less quality education...Yup

But the root cause of poor areas having less "quality," education has nothing to do with money, its because education is not pushed harder by their parent, notice I did not say parents...

Why is a Korean, Chinese or Japanese American child not considered a "minority," applicant when applying to college? Heck, Asians including Eskimo's are not even considered a minority when applying to become a LAPD cop. Why is that?

Education in our cities, counties and states will never improve if the parents dont push that value on the child. We need more job tech high schools to learn a valued trade. Not everyone needs to go to Stanford.

What can a president do to push education, nothing, the president is not the parent of the child, the parent needs to be the parent and not think someone else is responsible for that child's development. The parent is responsible at the end of the day.

improve education on the state level? have you seen what they're doing in texas? they are completely rewriting the textbooks because the board of education on the state level wants to make it easier for students to pass tests! sorry but state level won't work either. and unions should be cleaned up, not taken out completely. i've taught at the state level and trust me, teachers get no funding, benefits, and quite often have to teach in at least 2 different schools just to make the rent.

And let's not forget the Texas textbooks that are "teaching" creationism or intelligent design in place of evolution. Or the ones that are rewriting history to not talk about the negative impacts of slavery and dropping references to the slave trade. Or the removal of Thomas Jefferson from being considered one of our Forefathers (since he advocated for separation of church and state) combined with the insistence that America was built "upon Biblical ideals." Or the idea that McCartyism (and the subsequent investigations and hearings that resulted in blackballing, etc.)was right in that communists infiltrated the US Government during the Cold War.

Grasp at straws much? LOL