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To: Broken_Clock who wrote (783971)	5/9/2014 1:20:35 AM
From: koan	1 Recommendation Recommended By bentway Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576660

You are so consumed in your hate, you are looking past the fact the Republican's have literally stopped governing. Look at the unanimous vote on Benghazi today? All they do is go from one crazy action to another. 50 votes to repeal the affordable care act, Benghazi and on and on. When one party totally stops governing it puts our society in big trouble. All the Republican's want to do is fight and they are using every dirty trick in the book. The entire party has gone nuts. God help us if they get total control and turn their hate on the world. If you want to obsess on something, obsess on the fact the Republican party is taking us down the road to perdition.

To: Broken_Clock who wrote (783971)

5/9/2014 1:43:43 AM

From: koan

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Here is reality. Read it carefully.

America Is Declining at the Same Warp Speed That's Minting Billionaires and Destroying the Middle Class

Not a single U.S. city ranks among the world’s most livable cities.
alternet.org

“The game is rigged,” writes Senator Elizabeth Warren in her new book A Fighting Chance. It’s rigged because the rich and their lobbyists have rigged the rules of the game to their favor. The rules are reflected in a tax code and bankruptcy laws that have seen the greatest transfer of wealth from the middle class to the rich in U.S. history.

The result?

America has the most billionaires in the world, but not a single U.S. city ranks among the world’s most livable cities. Not a single U.S. airport is among the top 100 airports in the world. Our bridges, roads and rails are falling apart, and our middle class is being gutted out thanks to three decades of stagnant wages, while the top 1 percent enjoys 95 percent of all economic gains.

A rigged tax code and a bloated military budget are starving the federal and state governments of the revenue it needs to invest in infrastructure, which means today America looks increasingly like a Third World nation, and now new data shows America’s intellectual resources are also in decline.

For the past three decades, the Republican Party has waged a dangerous assault on the very idea of public education. Tax cuts for the rich have been balanced with spending cuts to education. During the New Deal era of the 1940s to 1970s, public schools were the great leveler of America. They were our great achievement. It was universal education for all, but today it’s education for those fortunate enough to be born into wealthy families or live in wealthy school districts. The right’s strategy of defunding public education leaves parents with the option of sending their kids to a for-profit school or a theological school that teaches kids our ancestors kept dinosaurs as pets.....