I think its the responsibility of the community / country, or whatever other label we want to give ourselves to fund our childrens education,,,,

Thats what I was talking about earlier, we are funding it but it's not working....I really think education is one of our deepest problems we face as a nation and one that we must figure out and correctif we are to maintain our rank ...There are so many things working against it right now....As a teacher, my daughter looked forward to earning tenure at her school, it meant job security which, as a single mom, she desperately needed...I wanted it for her too...But I must be honest, tenure is one of the problems that needs fixing...It breeds apathetic teachers ...In many ways it works like unions to protect the bad employee....

Well, I'm gonna get shot for this but here we go.

1) schools will become cyber schools
2) taxes will be flat taxes
3) fuel will not be fossil
4) health will be universal
5) businesses will be cyber/supply
6) housing will be balanced with rental/equity housing
7) the dollar will change
8) the US will belong to an economic league of nations

These are my predictions.

outside the box

One thing to keep in mind is that our youth is far different than we are. Their world is more universal than ours. They do not have the same prejudices we do. They have no need to have the Russia/America/China power wars that we grew up with in our minds so competing with other nations for them will be different. In the past countries were at odds with each other cause they did not have the means to communicate. Today things are totally the opposite and I believe in the future borders are going to be dramatically changed as understanding grows. Borders are built by fear of the unknown and many times ego. You put a computer in everyone's hand and watch how fast enemies become friends.

True thinking outside the box here for sure, BUT the biggest problem with human nature is if we don't have something to unify against we wind up fighting each other anyways.

I think America getting a bitter taste of Austerity might help get things to resolve better.

Another post I agree with Andy...I felt the stimulas package was wrong and I get tired of the arguement used to support it...America should have taken the hit and used the money to regroup, clean up, and refund the innocent ONLY if you get my drift...

I do. The sick thing is a lot of people refuse to see Obama has ties with big banks! And his TARP II was after G Bush Jr's TARP I. Why isn't it strange to more voters that Obama would do what Bush did only on a much larger scale? There are FAR too many Americans who feel "Entitled" to money they don't deserve in any way shape and form. I can't count the number of people i have met over the years who refuse to get retrained or find work, because they would loose their government subsidies.

Worst is Obama's insult to America with his Health Care plan which does nothing to reduce costs but FORCES it on EVERYONE! Instead of really fixing heath care he made it FAR worst and these "entitlement" democrats only think that since their boy Obama did it they are doing something good for America. Their ignorance is legendary!

Worst is Clinton's Deregulation of Lending. it is so convenient to blame the banks for an orchestrated move to strip people of homes, money, and assets. There were a lot of people talked into loans that were illegal in the first place but where was the government then? DEREGULATION! Government WASN'T THERE!


How do we get through to these entitled *** biters and make them realize they need to get off of their lazy backsides and earn their keep? And this goes for our elected leadership? What is it going to take for these people to realize their behavior is not acceptable?

You know the story about programs...once a program, always a program...The ONLY way to get through to them is to stop the money....It's called tough love and everyone has heard of it...Collecting free money is addicting..I am sure chit will hit the fan when some read this, but I don't care...Free money is addicting...Yeah, The Financial Services Modernization Act was signed in October of 1999. a decade later it's crash and burn....That bill lifted virtually ALL restraints in the financial sector and opened the door to back alley mergers (think Citibank) and big time campaign financing...Soft money flowed and lobbying balloned....and it lives on today....1929 wasn't the only experience that should have prevented the Clinton degregulations, we had Reagan lifting restrictions on savings and loan associations which resulted in a landslide of speculation and profiteering...That move ultimately cost the federal government (the taxpayers) $500 Billion!!...It's not just the Dems, it's the whole political system Andy....

More letters to editors throughout the US....these are from California

ANAHEIM, Dominic J. Bartolone: "Obama kicked off his summer campaign of class warfare and envy with the assertion that business owners don’t deserve credit for building their businesses because they may have used roads, telephones, Internet or other infrastructure that made it possible to be successful. This is a clarifying statement for anyone paying attention that Obama doesn’t understand how jobs are created in America, and really demonstrates his deep antipathy toward business owners in general.
This should be a wake-up call for the middle-class small business owners, who make up about 70 percent of all hiring companies, that this president does not understand you or even fully appreciate the risks and sacrifices required in order to start a business. This reminds me of similar inflammatory speech made many years ago by another gifted orator. It railed against a class of businesses owners of that time period and resulted in what later became known as Kristallnacht. With Obama’s speech is this his subtle way of saying “Hey, the Democrat Party doesn’t advocate venting your personal anger against businesses, but if you do, they probably deserve it and we won’t stand in your way?”



ANAHEIM, Dwight Yochem: "So, when the president made his remarks in Virginia, “Somebody invested in roads and bridges… if you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.” Are we then to conclude that the merchant exists to sell to the customer only because the government built the road?
Then the government is solely responsible for the highwaymen that steals the labors of the merchant or takes the money from the customer before he can support the merchant.
If businesses weren’t creating growth, why would we need government to expand infrastructure?"

we are left to conclude whatever we already decided to

the full text of the comment

There are a lot of wealthy, successful Americans who agree with me, because they want to give something back. They know they didn’t -look, if you’ve been successful, you didn’t get there on your own. You didn’t get there on your own. I’m always struck by people who think, well, it must be because I was just so smart. There are a lot of smart people out there. It must be because I worked harder than everybody else. Let me tell you something – there are a whole bunch of hardworking people out there.

If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business. you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen. The Internet didn’t get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet.

The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together. There are some things, just like fighting fires, we don’t do on our own. I mean, imagine if everybody had their own fire service. That would be a hard way to organize fighting fires.




...we can all take from that what we choose,,,

I left off the last paragraph

So we say to ourselves, ever since the founding of this country, you know what, there are some things we do better together. That’s how we funded the GI Bill. That’s how we created the middle class. That’s how we built the Golden Gate Bridge or the Hoover Dam. That’s how we invented the Internet. That’s how we sent a man to the moon. We rise or fall together as one nation and as one people, and that’s the reason I’m running for president – because I still believe in that idea. You’re not on your own, we’re in this together.”




and that last sentence is also my philosophy and why I vote OBAMA,,,

One of my favorite letters to the editor and from Las Vegas no less...



To the editor:
The recent comment by President Obama that business owners did not create their businesses without someone else's help is only the latest slap in the face to America's job creators. We are not talking about a small slap either - this was a full windup, leave a mark for a week and have spit fly out of your mouth slap.
Mr. President, with all due respect, and I mean all due respect, you have no idea what you are talking about. Unlike yourself, I have opened and currently run a business. Government is the single largest obstacle that exists for every business in America. Everyone except you already knew that. It's like being in a rowboat and having someone throw in a 500-pound anchor and calling it "help."
I cannot remember any U.S. president having such low regard for people who are struggling night and day to salvage what little profit and equity that may possibly remain in something that they have devoted their entire lives to building. Has that occurred to this man? That something a person built over the past 40 or 50 years has been destroyed by this recession? That this same person, after working 10 to 12 hours every day during that period, has lost their retirement and may now have to file bankruptcy when they are 65 or 70 years old? How does a person start over at that age?
Make no mistake about it, this president is a reckless man with a reckless mouth. For a man who has never signed the front of an employee's paycheck and never tried to navigate the bowels of the IRS employer taxation system, he has a lot to say about people he knows nothing about. Each and every business owner in America knows more about hard work and courage than this man, who has never risked everything he owns, all for the chance to operate his own business and, yes, keep some of the profits if he is successful.
Each time I hear the key phrases like "wealth," "fair share," or "pay a little more," I want to puke. Who is this man to economically divide and then vilify every person in America who has a higher income than his arbitrarily determined threshold? The power to tax does not rest with this man, and yet he jabbers on every single day about who he would favor by continuing their same tax rate, and who he would punish by raising theirs.
The fact that higher taxes would not be needed if he could somehow control his compulsive desire to buy each and every vote in this nation through deficit spending is never mentioned by a fawning press that, even now, is picking through Mitt Romney's garbage looking for the next headline, but would never dream of asking the president anything more hard-hitting than what is his favorite color or his favorite song, or maybe who he thinks will win the NCAA basketball tournament.
I never thought I would voluntarily close my company, but I am warming up to the idea, I don't think I can stand much more help.
James Thomson
Las Vegas

Really? I mean, even if you buy the twisted, mendacious version of the Obama quote that the Romney campaign is retailing, are Americans really so protective of the tender sensibilities of business owners that they are shocked anyone would suggest that each and every one of them built their businesses strictly on their own? (Aside from from roads and bridges and inheritances, how’s about employees as a significant factor in business success?).

The “magic word gaffe” is sort of the inverse of the “dog whistle” whereby pols use banal language that has a special meaning to ideologues (“constitutional conservative” being one notable example; “respect for life” being another). For our right-wing brothers and sisters, progressive (itself a magic word—maybe even a secret handshake—connoting Marxist convictions) discourse is full of these signifiers. “Equality.” “Fairness.” “Giving something back.” “Shared sacrifice.” Constant vigilance for these magic words is how conservatives have convinced themselves that the blandly pragmatic center-left politician Barack Obama pursuing leftover moderate Republican policies is a villain-figure straight out of Atlas Shrugged or (for the godly) Left Behind, hating success and righteousness.

The problem with this stuff, of course, is that the low-information swing voters who will decide the present election will require an awful lot of education to understand the magic word gaffes. They haven’t marinated their brains with Beckian revisionist history and don’t run around pasting “Breitbart Is Here!” posters on telephone poles. Many of them, in fact, probably don’t own businesses and don’t much think of their own bosses—much less the Mitt Romneys of the world—as heroic figures. So the nastiness aimed at Obama will inevitably get a lot coarser than what we hearing today. So what if a few facts get bent or invented along the way? America must be protected!


http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/1035339/deluded%3A_conservatives_think_distorting_obama's_'you_didn't_build_that'_quote_will_help_romney/

perhaps this is a reflection of why employment is so awful

apparently employees really do mean squat to business owners who are offended they should be given any aknowledgement in their success but want them to work their behinds off to ensure it when they are there,,,,

Hussein can get away with it cuz he's "special".


Damn. I keep forgetting he plays with drones. I better shuck and, er, I mean, duck and dive.

he is a pretty awesome man,,,,

actually, its a pretty awesome FAMILY

Maybe you should be telling this to the newspapers across the country who think these "letters to their editors" depicting how Americans really feel are newsworthy....Important.....There are lots of them and I am going to post each and every one because I think it's good to share how others feel about what Obama said......

Employment is awful because we have a president who refuses to address the problem....Well, in his defense, it could be because he doesn't know how to address the problem...

who said they are unimportant? there are millions of opinions being posted across media , and even still they cant ALL be highlighted by newspapers

everyone has an opinion,, all just as 'valid' as the next

how americans 'really' feel isnt isolated or one sided, americans have FEELINGS on all sides of the spectrum

perspective I guess
it started going down hill before he entered,,jobs have been saved and lost in the cycle that followed, but just not FAST enough for somes personal taste,,,

This is a beautiful picture, they are all beautiful looking people, unfortunately for America beauty does not a GOOD president make....