The unions would much rather sink the company that employs them, than attempt to find $20 million in savings.

Reference GM, Chrysler.

When this doesn’t work, because there are not enough monied leftists around willing to finance such inefficiency, the battle will move to Congress, where the attempt to force taxpayers to finance their enemies’ operations will commence. John Kerry has already announced his intentions in this regard and many other Democrats are making similar noises. I think it will be amusing to watch the left as they come bowing and scraping, trying to sweet-talk conservatives into going along with their scheme to bail out the very organs that have been unremittingly hostile and unfair to them for decades.

On the other hand, now that I think about it, this could get really, really ugly instead, with the left going nuclear and charging that the right, if it refuses to cooperate, is trying to shut down debate in the country and thereby increase the power of talk radio. This would provide rhetorical cover for renewed demands that the Fairness Doctrine be reinstituted.

Agreed, on both points.

OK…remember, you heard it from me, first. At some point, before Election Day 2010, a previously-open to the public portion or portions of Washington DC will be declared NoGo zones (not open to the public) and will be protected by the U.S. military, or “Brown Shirts”.

This will be to keep out angry mobs.

All I can say happily is, BYE!

As the generations have moved along over the last 30-40 years, fewer-and-fewer younger people regularly engage in “reading” of any kind (and stats show reading ability among American students has been in steady decline for decades) – - and, simultaneously, more and more advertising venues (other than in printed media) have been created – - so, we have newspapers (and magazines) in decline.  Chalk it up to MTV, video games, and small-screen text-ese limitations – - as well as an apparent pandemic of “ADHD”.

(And – personally – I’m sick and tired of hearing that American workers (of ANY kind) have to take “pay cuts” to appease the master of “globalized competition”!  Since 1979, the AVERAGE American worker’s pay has increased 21%; at the same time, those white-collar workers in the TOP 1% of wage earners have seen their annual incomes increase more than 250%!  It’s way-overpaid management and the perennial white-collar fat cats who need to take the pay-cuts!)

The first argument could easily be blamed on a deficient, liberal-run public education system.

The second argument, the 21% reference, could be blamed on the results of paragraph #1. Why pay more for less educated workers?

Oh fairwell…I am (sob, sob) sooooo sorry to see these institutions go away…could it be because people are fed up with reading garbage…we want the news, no opinion and commentary…certainly not assaults.  Boring, boring guys.  Like I said, “Goodbye”.

ucm,
You forgot the boo-hoo-hoos! 

Re: Post 6;

You know, from 1952 through 2008, 56 years, GOP presidential administrations have run the country for 36 of those years – DEM administrations, only 20 years.  Nearly a 2-to-1 margin for the GOPs – and GOP presidential administrations have been running the show for 20 of the last 28 particularly-critical years.

So – THAT’S the “deficiency” I prefer to blame both conditions (declining public education and poor working-class pay) on!

By the way: neither of the problems I described are “arguments”; they are real-world observations substantiated by the real-world facts.  Neither problem is “arguable”.  Both are, however, “correctable”.

AND – “poor parenting” and “poor parental involvement” are F-A-R greater contributors to a public education system in decline than is your assertion that the blame is because public education is a “liberal-run” system.  In fact, in my “Red” state, every one of the 67 freely-elected county boards of education has a GOP majority – and that has been the statewide case for at least the last 50 years!  And – my state’s public education system is ranked somewhere in the bottom 10 or 15 of the 50 states!

So – so much for your “liberal-run” theory!

WOW! You’re one angry elf!

Of the last 50 years, how many have included a democratically-controlled Congress? Nice try, but the Administration doesn’t make the laws.

Re: Post 10;

(I have no clue what the concept of an “angry elf” is supposed to convey.  Do you believe in elves? Leprechauns? The Tooth Fairy? The Easter Bunny?)

Anyway …

Angry?  Not.

Disappointed?  Yes.

Political leadership (or lack thereof) in this country over the last 25 years has sold out the America I grew up in – ESPECIALLY economically – and somewhat less so socially and culturally.

For me, the Reagan, Bush I, Clinton and Bush II administrations are the WORST things that ever happened to this country – and given the state of the country today – I seriously doubt if the damage they brought about can be reversed.

And – I believe – in the future, extreme ideological partisanship at home, if it continues to increase as it has for the last 25 years (and especially the last 15), is a much more significant threat to the future well-being of the U.S. than is foreign-based terrorism.