Spack should toss his spleen on the grill for that post alone…
In other news… I’m guessing that gif is from 2015 or 2016? The amount Trump has aged in the last three years is… fucking yikes.
Really? I’m sure he’s aged some. Just didn’t think it was too bad yet. Bush and Clinton sure aged a ton in their time in office. Obama got quite a bit grayer too.
Maybe because they gave a shit and didn’t go golfing every weekend - on the government’s till.
The point people are trying to make is that the approximately $1,500 or so in tuition paid when you were in school did not cover the costs of all your professors. If you total the tuition and students in all your classes and divided between your professors did not cover the cost of that education. In the cost of the professors is not just salary, there are benefits, research labs, buildings (and other infrastructure), and any other number of academic costs. Public schools are and have always been subsidized by government money.
I know I benefit from that as i get a salary but I pay my taxes (at an amount I’d like to be lower - but as a state employee try not to bitch about) and earn my paycheck. I also pay property taxes which pay for HISD. Guess what, I have no kids so someone is sucking off my tit. But I think to myself, hey Leslie, if kids receive an education, maybe they will become productive members of society and the world will be a better place.
And I won’t get into the historical shittiness of this country and race.
I also think college is not for everyone. I have no problem with kids going the vocational route. After all, I cannot do electrical or plumbing - so I’m willing to pay for it. There’s money in those wires and pipes.
I get that you want people to pay their fair share and work. I do not believe anyone is arguing that. The counter-argument is saying you paid for it all and there was no government aid. There was, it was an indirect costs to you that society paid. Times are different. Schools aren’t given the funds previously received.
Also, why should I pay the %age of taxes of my income but that 1% not pay the same %age? That’s what I’d like you to answer. Why is my tax revenue more valuable than theirs?
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The overt classism in his posts is not to be overlooked either. If you can’t support yourself then it must be because you don’t work hard, and that’s your own fault - a classic conservative take on the world. My wife works in a special ed classroom and in nearly every aspect (certainly physically and emotionally) she works much harder than I do, yet she makes less than half my salary. A conservative like D.WARD looks at her and says that she’s less worthy of healthcare or an affordable way to get her master’s degree simply because of her paycheck. The same person would say the same thing about me if I were to get laid off today and lose the health insurance for my entire family.
The cruelty of the ideology is a feature, not a bug.
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DWard (no relation) clearly has bought into the false Randian dichotomy of “makers and takers”. In Rand’s world, the latter is bad, so he has to be one of the former. So he has to build this fictional reality in which everything he has, or has ever had, he paid full price for.
Of course, if he lives anywhere but the northeast, he’s in a state that takes more in federal funding than it makes for the federal government.
Green states here are the takers.
But them damn Yankees are all cheaters.
Back to COVID-19: Trump has added Mneuchin and Kudlow to the task force. Why would he put finance guys on the team?
Completely coincidentally, the CDC, NIH or anyone else in government is not allowed to say a single word about the threat without first clearing it through the task force brain trust.
ETA: DJIA opened down over 2% on the day, heading for it’s biggest one-week drop since 2008. With the stock market cratering, Trump is losing his one electability argument (not that it stood up to much scrutiny before).
I don’t care that Bernie calls himself a Democratic Socialist, but I care that he is stupid enough to call himself one. I also don’t care about his comments on Castro, but I care that he is stupid enough to double down on them.
All along, he could of just called himself a progressive or just a New Deal Democrat, but by god, he’s got to be a Democratic Socialist. Americans can’t handle the subtleties needed to understand that’s this is not an important fact. However, I suspect that Bernie considers it a badge of honor, or is just so pig headed that he’s going to stick with it and the Castro comments because in some sense, they are true and he wants to be honest. But being true or honest about these things gains him nothing, and the fact that he doesn’t realize this is what worries me the most.
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I get that colleges are funded by the government. I pay my taxes, always have and always will. It still doesn’t change the fact that I earned the money to pay what it required to get in to college. I did not sit at home, do nothing and wish someone would pay for me to get into college. (Not saying that anyone here did that, just that some millennials do feel that way). The same goes for a student trying to earn a scholarship. Work hard and make good grades if you want a scholarship. Is everyone on board for considerably higher taxes to make college free for everyone? How are we going to pay not only for this but also forgive student debt all while trying to decrease the deficit?
I do agree with you that the rich should pay the most taxes. You’re exactly right. That was a great, well thought out and written post.
Trump isn’t going to fight Bernie on policy and nuance. He’s going to scream “socialism”, conflate it to communism, and froth about a whole bunch of fake shit to scare white people into voting for him again.
Of course, this is the election campaign strategy for every other potential Democratic candidate too, save Bloomberg.
I don’t want Bernie (or Bloomberg) to be the nominee, but we can’t be making the choice based on how we think Trump is going to campaign against them. Trump is going to scorch the earth with lies around whoever is his opponent. We just need to pick one who can connect with voters in the face of that onslaught.
Dude, you really need to let go of your anger of millennials. They aren’t all that bad.
Totally agree.
Right now the biggest saving things for Democrats are horrible disasters - economy crash and corona.
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And it doesn’t change the fact that you could not have done it without government entitlements and significant contributions from others. You know…socialism.
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I have zero doubt that your wife works much harder than I do. She does a great service for people. I have always thought that teachers should be paid more and I’m not opposed to the government spending more money on our teachers. I would love to see some of the government official’s salaries get cut in about half or actually pay them what they are worth and the rest given to our teachers. I’m sure there are plenty of things that the government could cut that they waste on themselves.
That is what we pay taxes for.
Agreed. I have a few employees who are millinials and good workers. Some are pretty bad though.
Just not for frivolous things like health care?
Then take constructive discipline with them. If they aren’t doing the job they agreed to do at the rate agreed upon, then you aren’t doing your job as their supervisor.
If my employees aren’t performing their duties, that is my fault if I take no action to correct that situation.
Believe me, I do and I have. You can’t force someone to show up to work and be dependable.