Amusing.......someone heard that the union issue was to bust? Just goes to show, no one is LISTENING! They wanted to give the unions more power to bargain, this time.
Republicans were elected with the promise to focus on JOBS! Yet to union bust they were willing to let 74,000 works sit IDLE while congress still collect their paychecks. I wrote and called my senators and congressman asking them to submit a JOBS BILL. Republicans WANT this economy to stay sick so they can beat President Obama in 2012. That is NOT patriotic!
If they hadn't been such jerks, they could have done that, before they took "recess". After all, working 6 mos. out of 12, is REALLY a soft job, now isn't it?
Well great, it looks like once again compromise is spelled Dems cave to what the Reps want. That's a very different defintion of compromise than I am failiar with.
ZFB, you posted "My concepts must be too complex for you".
ZFB, if you think these are real concepts, you're right! I don't understand them. It looks more like rambling (lengthy and confused or inconsequential). I thought you would like Coolidge? Under Coolidge, only the top 2% paid Federal Income Taxes, he supported Civil Rights, appointed African Americans to federal office, granted full citizenship to all American Indians, cut subsidies, tried to outlaw war, he reduced the national debt by over 60% and was hated by the southern racists (which at that time were Democrats). What more would you want?
If you could understand my reply to you, than you are capable of understanding my original message which was after all in clear English. Unfortunately, you are a false person, hence your nasty comments. As to the stuff on Coolidge, his non-business regulation led to the stock market crash and subsequent Great Depression. This is parallel to the conservative economic policies of the last 30 years since Ronald Reagan. Now we have a chance to fix things, but people like you want to propagandize against, and bully those those who are advocating repairing the most recent conservative-libertarian damage. Coolidge had few successes on Civil Rights, and racist anti-immigration laws due in part to Klan pressure were passed when he was in the White House. The Republican Party he was a part of was formed to oppose slavery, and many members were the first supporters of Civil Rights. Therefore, Coolidge may have been sympathetic to the cause. Still, not much was accomplished by him. FDR was the first to make major changes in the direction for Civil Rights, though the Southern Democrats did not like that. However, the GOP of today is has a big tent open for traditional anti-Black racists many of them ex-Southern Democrats who are conservatives, and not for rational conservatives, as well as moderates, and liberals.
The republicans are shutting down airports that mainly serve the middle class who might own a small aircraft and taking care of the airports that serve the wealthy and corporations.
Actually they targeted airports that were getting subsidies that were approaching $1000.00 per passenger. Doesn't that make sense or should we keep going down a road no matter how bad the tail wags the dog?
What the Democrats don't seem to understand is that this is only the beginning of cuts to the federal government. It has been spending $1.5 trillion more than we have each year, and we have reached a staggering $14.4 trillion national debt. How long do they think this can go on? It has to stop, and this will mean serious cuts. We simply don't have the money, and the over spending is pushing the nation toward an economic collapse. It's not that complicated.
Just wanted to interject... it's time to begin a program of massive government spending not just on airports, but roads, schools, bridges, communication, and energy infrastructure, as well as reimpose progressive income taxes, and 30% tariffs on foreign goods. There are obvious refinement to this such as making free trade agreements with countries with wage standards similar to our own instead of China's fixed wage market system. This will get things going again, and in the right direction for the majority of Americans, and others in the higher wage world. Anyone who knows real history knows the time of the greatest prosperity in modern America was during the time we did all of these things from the post World War II Era until the 1980's. Even during the 1980's President Reagan's administration spent huge amounts of money to boom the economy. However, he bloated the debt, and increased inequality by getting rid of the progressive income tax, increasing taxes through Social Security taxes, and deregulating monopoly formation, and lowering tariffs. It's time to start with what has historically worked, and scrap the failed 1920's, and modern version of Coolidge-Randist-Conservative-Liberatarian Economics.
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ZFB, if you think these are real concepts, you're right! I don't understand them. It looks more like rambling (lengthy and confused or inconsequential). I thought you would like Coolidge? Under Coolidge, only the top 2% paid Federal Income Taxes, he supported Civil Rights, appointed African Americans to federal office, granted full citizenship to all American Indians, cut subsidies, tried to outlaw war, he reduced the national debt by over 60% and was hated by the southern racists (which at that time were Democrats). What more would you want?
As to the stuff on Coolidge, his non-business regulation led to the stock market crash and subsequent Great Depression. This is parallel to the conservative economic policies of the last 30 years since Ronald Reagan. Now we have a chance to fix things, but people like you want to propagandize against, and bully those those who are advocating repairing the most recent conservative-libertarian damage.
Coolidge had few successes on Civil Rights, and racist anti-immigration laws due in part to Klan pressure were passed when he was in the White House. The Republican Party he was a part of was formed to oppose slavery, and many members were the first supporters of Civil Rights. Therefore, Coolidge may have been sympathetic to the cause. Still, not much was accomplished by him. FDR was the first to make major changes in the direction for Civil Rights, though the Southern Democrats did not like that. However, the GOP of today is has a big tent open for traditional anti-Black racists many of them ex-Southern Democrats who are conservatives, and not for rational conservatives, as well as moderates, and liberals.