I've been getting angrier and angrier at my southern neighbors, especially the right,the latest was New Jersey's governor decision to not only cut services by a cool $5 billion and cut taxes by $4 billion. NJ is in trouble, as are Texas and California. But it seems to me that America's right is missing the point.
A few weeks ago the same Governor proposed that to trim school budgets that class size should rise from 32 to 65! I don't have children, but I can bet that little learning will occur in classes of 65 students. America has a fundamental problem, it has to be one of the few countries that manages to outspend almost everyone else on education, and have ranking in math and reading that puts it firmly in 39th place in the world. Moreover, it's politicians see or care for no solution, they seem not to care that jobs are being shipped abroad, not because it is cheaper, but because foreign workforces are better educated.
America's right seem not to care that medical expenses are twice as high as a percentage of GDP than any other country, in fact the right specifically and the political class in general seem more preoccupied with preserving the status quo.
America's right seem interested only in helping corporation to increase profits at the expense of every thing and anyone else, politicians have sold out! The only one a that had some shred of credibility were the tea party's ideal to cut the size of government and stop the bailout out banks, but it turns out that too were too stupid to understand that cutting 50 or even 100 billion (not really) is a drop in the bucket, you see, the last thing that the Tea Party wants is for their entitlement programs to be cut, they just wanted poor people to have less! America's government is out of contrôle, the Federal Reserve are running the place down by printing money.
There is a lack of sense of resonponsbility in the political class, and the right in particular, so instead of focusing on solving the massive financial and political problems, the right has decided tha it should instead focus on redefining rape! As one blogger one commented, the right's view the importance of life begins at conception and ends at birth! A very twisted way of looking at life.
Ok end of rant
A few weeks ago the same Governor proposed that to trim school budgets that class size should rise from 32 to 65! I don't have children, but I can bet that little learning will occur in classes of 65 students. America has a fundamental problem, it has to be one of the few countries that manages to outspend almost everyone else on education, and have ranking in math and reading that puts it firmly in 39th place in the world. Moreover, it's politicians see or care for no solution, they seem not to care that jobs are being shipped abroad, not because it is cheaper, but because foreign workforces are better educated.
America's right seem not to care that medical expenses are twice as high as a percentage of GDP than any other country, in fact the right specifically and the political class in general seem more preoccupied with preserving the status quo.
America's right seem interested only in helping corporation to increase profits at the expense of every thing and anyone else, politicians have sold out! The only one a that had some shred of credibility were the tea party's ideal to cut the size of government and stop the bailout out banks, but it turns out that too were too stupid to understand that cutting 50 or even 100 billion (not really) is a drop in the bucket, you see, the last thing that the Tea Party wants is for their entitlement programs to be cut, they just wanted poor people to have less! America's government is out of contrôle, the Federal Reserve are running the place down by printing money.
There is a lack of sense of resonponsbility in the political class, and the right in particular, so instead of focusing on solving the massive financial and political problems, the right has decided tha it should instead focus on redefining rape! As one blogger one commented, the right's view the importance of life begins at conception and ends at birth! A very twisted way of looking at life.
Ok end of rant