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[mises]

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[Kimbop]

I'm well aware of what's happened in Wisconsin. I disagree that if teachers are overpaid lavishly compared to their private sector equivalents, then *abracadabra! *poof!* they suddenly become better teachers and our students learn more effectively. This historically has not been the case.

I also support an end to any minimum wage.

[Dev]

I believe that the wrong people are paying for the U.S. gov.'s financial mismanagement. Targeting school teachers?

No one ever talks about the military budget. I wonder how many people know that 53 cents of every U.S. tax dollar goes to the military?

And that military is not even around to help the American people when they're needed. When Katrina hit New Orleans, the U.S. gov. had to hire mercenaries from Blackwater at $350 per day per man to patrol the streets because the military was committed overseas.

Meanwhile, contractors like Halliburton are robbing the American people by charging $99 per load of G.I. laundry and billing for delivery trucks that are driven around empty some of the time. This is well-documented in the film Iraq for Sale. You can watch it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pQ7UB5MjnA

But the leaders turn a blind eye to these abuses and target school teachers.

And what about the white collar criminals who caused the Wall Street meltdown? No trial. No conviction. Not even an investigation. But the American public funded the bailout. Oh boy!

[Kimbop]

I guess you could always make a donation to the Pauls' campaigns.

[southernman]

Nothing at all new or even newsworthy about this. I thought it was a well known fact that Politcians the world over almost salivate during a crisis.

They pretty much always push through emergency bills under the guise of public safety or fiscal concerns. Doesn't matter what their politics are.

No one out there is actually surprised by that story are they, you'd have to be extremley naive if you were...

[Ya-ta Boy]

It's interesting that no one so far has actually contradicted what Ms Klein said: that right wing extremists are exploiting a situation, largely of their making, to push a radical political agenda.

Could that be because so many on this board agree with the extremists?

In the interview linked to in the OP, Ms Klein mentioned the bill in Michigan that I mentioned the other day. The bill has passed the House and is now in the Senate. It will allow the governor to declare a fiscal crisis and appoint an individual or corporation to take over a school district or municipality, abrogate contracts and dissolve local governments. She mentions, but does not discuss, that in Georgia there is already a town governed by a corportation. I'd like to know more about this.

From what I remember of the constitution, the federal government guarantees a republican government to all the states. It would seem that this does not extend to the cities and towns in the states. Very odd. Who needs democracy? I have to wonder if the people of that town have to pull their forelocks when the CEO rides past.

The hundred thousand or so people who marched in Madison on Saturday give hope that democracy will survive. Here is a link to the 7 minute barn-burner speech given by Tony Schultz, farmer (he obviously has a future in politics if he wants it): First sentence: "Has anyone seen Tom Joad?"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKOvqXoWB7s&feature=related

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[Ya-ta Boy]