In California Rob Reinier is trying to put universal preschool on the ballot to be paid for by the rich?
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Minnesota: why are rich people obligated to pay to train your rug rat?
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The voucher program is a LIBERAL plan- not a CONSERVATIVE plan.  If it were up to us conservatives, the entire government school systems would be wiped out and started over from scratch.  I feel that all schools should be private and a school should have to EARN government dollars by enrollment numbers.  For each child you "recruit" you get a certain dollar amount... the more students you recruit, the more money you get to that school.  This would MAKE schools compete to be the BEST school... more children and parents would want to enroll there child there, and therefore more money to that school.  So anyone who thinks public schools are conservative's idea has it ALLLL wrong.  LESS GOVERNMENT THE BETTER!
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YES IT IS! VERY STUPID!!!\n\nIt is a ploy created by the wealthy to exploit the poor.
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They need illegal aliens in Utah. Or so they think. Californians have taken advantage of the high price of houses in CA compared to the low price of houses in Utah. Many have sold their California homes and bought homes in Utah (paying cash), and Utah is desperate to get low wage workers to build, dig, pave and serve french fries to the new residents of Utah. Wait 'til they start reproducing and flooding the schools 'til they are overcrowded and failing, the abusive free use Emergency Rooms are shutting down the hospitals and they start marching through their shiny Mormon streets on El Día de los Muertos with skeletons and caskets. They'll be singing a different tune...I give them 3-5 years to start whining.
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On social issues, Republicans are like introverts, they put themselves and their families above everyone else and don't think about how we have to work together as a society without it falling apart at some point... Democrats are like extroverts, caring about their own families, but also caring about other people, that might be why you always hear Republicans say things like "you feel too much for criminals" etc... There is probably some place in the middle that would work the best, you can't help everyone because not everyone wants to work, but you also can't force people to work for low wages like this administration does, just so some families can get richer... I might have voted for the old Ronald Reagan type of Republican, but this Nation has been way too far right for a lot of years... My opinion is that we need to let people see they can actually make something out of their lives if they work for it, and stop breaking apart our families, because the next thing to go is our nation... 8 million people in our prison justice system proves that we are out of time (it was 6.6 million about 5 years ago, I extrapolated)
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Yes.  Just let people give straight to candidates without the red tape.  If you look at the PACS, you will see they are paying out to half the legislature to buy support.  This is the opposite of reform.
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You do understand that we are an DEMOCRACY? Everyone gets an equal vote.  That's the point.  And furthermore, people who were born wealthy or middle class have a much better chance of getting into college and getting wealthy.  People who were born poor, no matter how hard working and intelligent they are, often never have a chance. And that is the flaw in your argument!!!\n\nYou are endorsing a class based system.  One of the fundamental principles of this country is that every one is equal in the eyes of the law.  Everyone gets an equal vote no matter if he or she has 3 million dollars or 3 cents.  No matter if he or she has a Ph.D or a job as a garbage collector.\n\nIf you don't like it, you're welcome to find yourself a class based society outside of the US.\n\nOH, I GET IT.  You are a dishonest neocon attempting to further the stereotype of limousine liberals, by posting this rediculous anti-american post.  Shame on you.   You will find that liberals as a whole get onto this thread and give a massive thumbs down to the suggestion that the wealthy deserve more.  That is what we are fighting!  \n\nThough I guess you probably have multiple nics, and you will have them come on and agree with you to further your pitiful attempt to bash and stereotype liberal attitudes and beliefs.
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This is yet another cynical move by a twisted "leader" hell-bent on aiding the powerful corporations that put him in office. OF COURSE corporations will benefit from this bogus guest worker initiative, irrespective of what devout capitalist fundamentalists like turboweegie say. And I just love that fallacious argument big business-loving fiscal conservatives use about how cheap labour for corporations better helps the little people to be able to afford their products. What a joke...\n\nBe in no doubt, planksheer. You've already correctly answered your own question: A guest worker program will legally permit US corporations to pay lower wages, thus creating a cheap labour pool of foreign workers who will not even get citizenship. It is immoral and  counter to the best interests of the American labour force. Any fool can see what is going on here. The one thing about the ANP that is most predictable is that they will ALWAYS be on the side of big money. ALWAYS.
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I wouldn't say that is 'Corporate America', but the republicans/Conservatives  who use that propaganda, even though both corporate and Conservatives want an unchecked, uneducated cheap labor pool.\n\n Not poor but middle class.
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Rob from the poor to give to the rich, and people still vote for them. It is called supply side economics. What a shame for the richest country in the world that they cannot take care of their poor.
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Good question.  The text of the proposition itself does not make any mention of the specific percentage of California state revenues that must go to education (the act provides for monies to go to school districts and community college districts).  Rather, there is a formula:\n\n"SECTION 8. School Funding Priority\n\n(a) From all state revenues there shall first be set apart the monies to be applied by the state for support of the public school system and public institutions of higher education.\n\n(b) Commencing with the 1988-89 fiscal year, the monies to be applied by the state for the support of school districts and community college districts shall be not less than the greater of:\n\n(1) The amount which, as a percentage of the State General Fund revenues which may be appropriated pursuant to Article XIIIB, equals the percentage of such State General Fund revenues appropriated for school districts and community college districts, respectively, in fiscal year 1986-87; or\n\n(2) The amount required to ensure that the total allocations to school districts and community college districts from the State General Fund proceeds of taxes appropriated pursuant to Article XIIIB and allocated local proceeds of taxes shall not be less than the total amount from these sources in the prior year, adjusted for increases in enrollment, and adjusted for changes in the cost of living pursuant to the provisions of Article XIIIB.\n\n(c) The provisions of subdivision (b) of this Section may be suspended for one year by the enactment of an urgency statute pursuant to Section 8 of Article IV, provided that no urgency statute enacted under this subdivision, may be made part of or included within any bill enacted pursuant to Section 12 of Article IV."\n\nA look at newspaper articles published since the passage of Proposition 98 indicate that the percentage fluctuates with state revenue (e.g. in 1997 then Governor Pete Wilson maintained that Proposition 98 mandated that 60% of all spending go to schools -- see San Jose Mercury, 1/13/97).  Also, in an editorial on 4/28/97 the L.A. Daily News highlights how school spending can decline precipitously during economic downturns.
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take out the corruption by giving politicians the same penalties that ordinary citizens get. If a guy can get 25 to life for stealing a piece of pizza (this really happened with California's three strike law) then what would be fair in the Enron case?
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Should they? No. Will they? Yes. \n\nPoliticians are a breed of short term thinkers. They care about today, ignore the past, and are oblivious to the future. \n\nIf someone is going to wave a huge bundle of cash to a cash strapped government, then you'll see many things be privatized without consideration of the long term impacts.\n\nI work for a government agency, and there was talk of privatizing it. Nobody but the governor was in favor of the idea. Republicans and Democrats, conservatives and liberals, and many others in the community agreed that making the public service private would be worse for the community at large. \n\nThe governor has recanted his desire to privatize the institution. \n\nConsider for a moment what our lives would be like if every public service were privatized? We'd live in a very marginalized society with distinct differences between rich and poor. The middle class would be small, and almost non-existent. \n\nTake education. The GOP has been deliberately underfunding public schools so that they'll fail. As schools get worse, they begin to promote the idea of privatized schools. They'll sell us the notion that businesses are more efficient than government, and that businesses are not going to be pushed about by "liberal" politics. \n\nBottom line: they wish to create an expensive, class-based, tiered educational structure that panders to consumer interest at the expense of the public at large. \n\nProfit is the bottom line of businesses and private interests. Public welfare is no concern to the monied interests. \n\nJust image what kind of education poor Americans would receive if education was privatized. They'd get the McDonald's variant of education. Many middle income families would find themselves even further cash-strapped by having to pay for their child's education personally. \n\nNot to be rude, but there are things children need to learn away from the home beyond a watchful parent's eye. In particular, sex education. \n\nAs such, a privatized system would create a tailorized and custom made education instead of giving a broad and general education. \n\nSchools could teach their "preferred" method of teaching subjects like history, religion, and other humanities. \n\nWe'd lose cohesiveness and unity as a people if the system was privatized. \n\nLook at Indiana and other states that have privatized their tollway systems. Nobody is happy with the arrangements except the politicians that engineered the deal and the businesses that are raking in profits from the deal.\n\nPrivatization is basically a lose-lose situation for the public at large in a long-term context. It's a win-win for businesses and politicians of cash strapped governments. \n\nLastly, how do you hold a private business/group accountable. If they have millions of dollars and armies of lawyers and lobbyists, how do you compete with them if they do you or your community wrong? \n\nMoney corrupts. \n\nIt's our duty as citizens to safeguard our liberties. We need to stay informed, stay active, and keep our friends and family in the know. \n\nWe have to work against privatization if we wish to keep living in a free society.\n\nKeep in mind the purpose of having a government: to protect the public from each other, from private and secretive interests that have ambitions of power and control. \n\nGovernment is a tool that should provide protection of our civil liberties, our property, and our rights to pursue our own happiness. \n\nAs a tool, it's only as effective as the people running it. We need to put people in office that understand what government is, and how to use it. We need to stop putting people in government that use it for enhancing their business dealings and that have contempt for the government and its purpose. \n\nWe wouldn't hire a carpenter who hated tools. Why elect someone who hates government?
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Yes, but it's expensive so you would have to find some way to "convince" the rich to pay for it.\n\nThroughout history, this condition has been alleviated (for a short period) through a process called revolution, which is nothing more than the "have nots" convincing the "haves" that it would be in their best interest to paticipate in the redistribution of wealth.
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diamond dave is wrong. studies do show a tendency of college educatoin level-or higher-to vote liberally; however, there are other studies that show the more wealthy an individual becomes, the higher the tendency is to vote republican. The republican party seems to help out the elites while running on moral platforms supported by uneducated bible belters who think-for some reason liberals can't figure out-that those issues are important matters for congress to discuss: these people usually vote against their self-interests. Diamond D was right about the part on asking the government for assistance, though. Democrats are more likely to ask for some kid of aid.
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Because the"Govnator" is just a mere actor playing the role of a politician, he has no true knowledge of how to govern. Sure he's made tons of money with his business ventures, but managing a state of CA's size with all it's revenue; he's way over his head. This is what happens when you allow fake people, full of silicone and barbie parts to vote in one of their own.
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Prop 13 tried to slow down spending, in Nevada we are trying to do better restrict more. Darn right I signed to get on ballot. Geive your representives a chance they will spend and spend they don't care. Give me eraser I would cut more