this sums up the bullshit of the Neo-Cons rather nicely:
NeoCons, Leo Strauss and the Destruction of the Middle Class
NeoCons, Leo Strauss and the Destruction of the Middle Class
this sums up the bullshit of the Neo-Cons rather nicely:
NeoCons, Leo Strauss and the Destruction of the Middle Class
actually I do quite well thank you.
I hold a degree in Architecture from Columbia, I own various parcels of income property around the country and I'm an employed creative director for a firm I helped found and am an investor in.
But none of that has anything to do with the subject at hand which is the neo-con agenda which took hold in the Reagan administration and has brought this country to near ruin economically.
As a businessman I understand far too clearly the impact of rising unemployment, a weakened dollar and lack of credit on my bottom line.
I am a self-made man owing little to anyone for my success except the people who have worked for me over the years who have added to my fortunes. And I don't "blame those around me" for anything other than that which they are guilty of.
Seems as if those who call fowl and insist anyone who doesn't agree with them regarding the economy is simply an armchair drive-by sniper. Case in point, Wlydgusechaz who appears to base all his knowledge about economics on what he read in 7th grade regarding the middle to late industrialization of the USA in the 20th Century. The economics of a post-industrial society (which pretty much sums up where the USA is today) seem a bit beyond the scope of his understanding. He sort of fits the profile of the marginalized middle class outlined in Barker's blog post.
Maybe if he raised geese and sold them he wouldn't have to chase them.
Biting my tongue, biting my tongue... so easy to respond, but for now I'm content to let people who think they have all the answers speak for now.
It would help if you dolts had an inkling of econ knowledge.
Our country grew on value added manufacturing. Raw materials converted to finished products, cars, TVs washers. It did not require much more than a high school education to become middle class. The great migration of Southern blacks to work in the steel mills and auto plants of the North and mid west was also part of the growing middle class.
That stuff is gone. There is a vast segment of our population that does not value education. Those people are doomed to be lower class econ wise. Neo con has nothing to do with it. You idiots are hopeless.
Unless Barack Obama can transfer his core value of education to the large percentage of folks who don't try hard in school, he will fail.
The education cartel has ruined public education in AMERICA. We need an alternative education system, likely based on school vouchers.I am 49 years old, and this is the first time I've ever heard a conservative wax on about public education in general and in support of intellectualism in particular.
Fascinating.
White farm kids 125 years ago learned more in one room school houses on the Kansas prairie with no air conditioning than inner city black kids do with $27000 behind them.
Where is the problem?
Oh dear.....you have gone and turned this into an issue of race.
White Farm kids VS. Inner city Black kids?
You lose.
Lose? No I don't. Inner city black kids (and Hispanic/Latino) lose because you libs can't get it thru your skulls that it isn't money holding kids back. Education does not need more money, it needs new ideas and better parenting.
So tell me PYM why did kids on the prairie in Kansas get better educations than blacks in the inner city?
So tell me PYM why did kids on the prairie in Kansas get better educations than blacks in the inner city?
I'm not going to humor you beyond this......you can-not compare the educational system of rural Kansas of 125 years ago to modern inner city realities.
Those KIDS in Kansas never saw beyond there family farm in those days, for the most part.
Most "INNER CITY KIDS" {as you describe them} Of today....have an Alternate reality that has NOTHING in common with Norman Rockwells version of AMERICA of yesteryear. Wise-up.
A worthless total non answer. You won't humor me because you can't. Those Kansas kids learned Latin. The teacher had to teach 6 year olds and 13 year olds in the same room. No electricity, no video, no computers. woke up milking cows and walking 6 miles to school.