I’m thinking the world has changed slightly in the last 68 years.

I’m not sure what you mean by that?? So if unions didn’t exist a business would just raise salaries 5 percent every year??

What would happen to the world if we cut our military/defense spending by 75 percent??

The hatred of unions in this country is one of its saddest developments.

Here’s what you are seemingly failing to comprehend….basing teacher performance on standardized testing is inherently just wrong. It means nothing. It’s simply often times dependent on your class from year to year. You may have a year with 3 exceptionally bright children then the next year you don’t and those 3 stellar students are replaced by average or sub average students. In a public school especially this variation can simply occur. Private schools have an advantage where they can simply pick and choose their students and even more importantly their parents. but in my example the teacher’s average scores on the standardized tests may drop from the one year to the next and so they should get fired?? It is simply circumstance and nothing else that causes the test score drop…it has no bearing or even any meaning overall. It’s a ludicrous manner to judge teaching that way.

And as always, the unions also protect the good teachers as well as the bad ones from being fired too in case of a possible administrators bias against perhaps a stellar teacher with whom they may have personal differences. It works both ways that union stuff Mr founding father.

Will the compromise be setting it at 500 million for letting the tax cuts expire?? or is that figure even way too low for the GOP!!

what about capital gains? has anyone dare suggest increasing tax rates on long term capital gains?

No one cares about the deficit in Washington DC shooter, never has never will. don’t tell me you are following this passion play seriously are you? I know, as long as those guys who make 15k per year pay more income tax all will be well in shooter land.

In essence the opposite is true Jim. If everyone is on board that a nuclear Iran is bad, you can be absolutely sure that is what the world needs. Everyone in charge is on board with austerity world wide with few exception, you can be darn sure that the exact opposite is what is needed. If everyone is on board with the USA being the moral arbiter of who can and can’t have nukes, you can be sure the exact opposite is true Jim. USA should absolutely not be the moral arbiter of who has them.

Isn’t our dream for all middle eastern countries to be like USA? What is a more responsible action for any middle eastern country than to build and stockpile nuclear weapons like USA and Israel. For the life of me I can’t understand why we wouldn’t support and cheer this action by Iran on if that is what they are doing. They are simply trying to become more like USA and Israel by building nukes. What on earth is the problem with this anyway? My God we invaded and destroyed Iraq who had no nukes. It is imperative for their absolute survival to develop them. Not having nukes simply ensures Iran’s invasion and bombing. Look deeper Jim. You make no sense.

What do you add to anything? You proved my point with your response.

tax rates are meaningless if no one buys anything. It’s really a fairly simple point. People having the ability to buy is much more important than an arbitrary tax rate. With the amount of tax cuts the last 30 years we should have zero percent unemployment. It’s a fallacy beyond comprehension tying tax rates to employment. Is that clear enough??

a quiz for shooter. As a business owner do you make more money selling 1 item with a 99.9 percent tax rate or selling 0 items with a 0 percent tax rate??

I know the answer to that question, do you??

A+ This is all it is. Romney will simply say it and do it. Obama will simply say something else and yet still do it. We are in full vote for evil instead of voting for evil mode.

what it says about democrats is that they are certainly not the “lesser” of two evils. Equal partners.

The fact that this is a presidential election year the ugliness is going to get out of control this summer. This Peterson Fiscal Summit is simply the opening volley on just how things are going to play out. Obama and Boehner are laughing their heads off as they down some beer together this evening.