Beginning with hitler…

[briansd1]

[quote=Allan from Fallbrook]
The point, you ask? Simply this: The more things change, the more they stay the same.

The League of Nations was a wonderfully aspirant idea, but ultimately doomed to failure. The Great War (WWI) sowed the seeds of WWII
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[quote=Allan from Fallbrook]
The UN is a joke. We’ve seen its repeated failures in the Balkans, and Rwanda and Somalia. The notion of “multilateralism” is as pointless today as it was in the 1930s
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In this case, the USofA dismissed the notion of multilateralism first.

If your point is that we are bound to repeat the mistakes of the past, then why bother trying to avoid repeating them? If we are already predestined by God then men can’t make a difference. I believe that men can make a difference.

Yes, similar things to past failures recur but they are never the same. Part of human progress is to take a few steps forward but a few lesser steps back, before moving forward again.

Today, America is militarily vastly superior to any nation (until China eventually catches up decades from now). The other “bad guys” are of little import and they can easily be contained.

The mistake we are committing today is to let insignificant players blackmail into chasing our own tail to defeat them.

In the mean time, we are neglecting the economy, education and technology. China is rising and we are losing ground.

China is who we should worry about, not as a military adversary but as a technology, business, and marketing competitor.

And what did Bush do in Washington? He was pushing for home-schooling, creationism and limits on biological research. As “wholesome” as those values are, they don’t teach science and technology to our kids.

[Allan from Fallbrook]

Brian: I’m more than happy to discuss Bush’s stupidity, if you’ll let me know your plan to break the death grip that the Democrat-controlled CTA (California Teacher’s Assn) has on California’s educational system.

Any thoughts? More particularly, any thoughts on how they managed to take an educational system that was the envy of the world in the 1960s and so colossally fuck it up?

You want to make the US competitive again? Your guy, Obama, has been given an excellent, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to actually fashion a US Industrial Policy (not seen since WWII).

Can he do it? Can he say “no” to the various union and labor interests? Can he back away from kow-towing to the bankers and focus on rebuilding industry and infrastructure and our broken education system (like stop giving Goldman Sachs more money than the entire US Department of Education budget).

Castigate Bush all you want, but its your guy in office now. What is he doing to restore American greatness in manufacturing, R&D, education and technology? Not some bullshit about “green” jobs, but honest-to-God industrial policy.

Your thoughts?

[Allan from Fallbrook]

Brian: I’m more than happy to discuss Bush’s stupidity, if you’ll let me know your plan to break the death grip that the Democrat-controlled CTA (California Teacher’s Assn) has on California’s educational system.

Any thoughts? More particularly, any thoughts on how they managed to take an educational system that was the envy of the world in the 1960s and so colossally fuck it up?

You want to make the US competitive again? Your guy, Obama, has been given an excellent, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to actually fashion a US Industrial Policy (not seen since WWII).

Can he do it? Can he say “no” to the various union and labor interests? Can he back away from kow-towing to the bankers and focus on rebuilding industry and infrastructure and our broken education system (like stop giving Goldman Sachs more money than the entire US Department of Education budget).

Castigate Bush all you want, but its your guy in office now. What is he doing to restore American greatness in manufacturing, R&D, education and technology? Not some bullshit about “green” jobs, but honest-to-God industrial policy.

Your thoughts?

[Allan from Fallbrook]

Brian: I’m more than happy to discuss Bush’s stupidity, if you’ll let me know your plan to break the death grip that the Democrat-controlled CTA (California Teacher’s Assn) has on California’s educational system.

Any thoughts? More particularly, any thoughts on how they managed to take an educational system that was the envy of the world in the 1960s and so colossally fuck it up?

You want to make the US competitive again? Your guy, Obama, has been given an excellent, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to actually fashion a US Industrial Policy (not seen since WWII).

Can he do it? Can he say “no” to the various union and labor interests? Can he back away from kow-towing to the bankers and focus on rebuilding industry and infrastructure and our broken education system (like stop giving Goldman Sachs more money than the entire US Department of Education budget).

Castigate Bush all you want, but its your guy in office now. What is he doing to restore American greatness in manufacturing, R&D, education and technology? Not some bullshit about “green” jobs, but honest-to-God industrial policy.

Your thoughts?

[Allan from Fallbrook]

Brian: I’m more than happy to discuss Bush’s stupidity, if you’ll let me know your plan to break the death grip that the Democrat-controlled CTA (California Teacher’s Assn) has on California’s educational system.

Any thoughts? More particularly, any thoughts on how they managed to take an educational system that was the envy of the world in the 1960s and so colossally fuck it up?

You want to make the US competitive again? Your guy, Obama, has been given an excellent, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to actually fashion a US Industrial Policy (not seen since WWII).

Can he do it? Can he say “no” to the various union and labor interests? Can he back away from kow-towing to the bankers and focus on rebuilding industry and infrastructure and our broken education system (like stop giving Goldman Sachs more money than the entire US Department of Education budget).

Castigate Bush all you want, but its your guy in office now. What is he doing to restore American greatness in manufacturing, R&D, education and technology? Not some bullshit about “green” jobs, but honest-to-God industrial policy.

Your thoughts?

[Allan from Fallbrook]

Brian: I’m more than happy to discuss Bush’s stupidity, if you’ll let me know your plan to break the death grip that the Democrat-controlled CTA (California Teacher’s Assn) has on California’s educational system.

Any thoughts? More particularly, any thoughts on how they managed to take an educational system that was the envy of the world in the 1960s and so colossally fuck it up?

You want to make the US competitive again? Your guy, Obama, has been given an excellent, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to actually fashion a US Industrial Policy (not seen since WWII).

Can he do it? Can he say “no” to the various union and labor interests? Can he back away from kow-towing to the bankers and focus on rebuilding industry and infrastructure and our broken education system (like stop giving Goldman Sachs more money than the entire US Department of Education budget).

Castigate Bush all you want, but its your guy in office now. What is he doing to restore American greatness in manufacturing, R&D, education and technology? Not some bullshit about “green” jobs, but honest-to-God industrial policy.

Your thoughts?

[scaredyclassic]

tell you what, yeah im jewish, and there’s a lot of bad stuff ya can say about hitler, but that sunuvabitch wouldve got the manufacturing going again…

[scaredyclassic]

tell you what, yeah im jewish, and there’s a lot of bad stuff ya can say about hitler, but that sunuvabitch wouldve got the manufacturing going again…

[scaredyclassic]

tell you what, yeah im jewish, and there’s a lot of bad stuff ya can say about hitler, but that sunuvabitch wouldve got the manufacturing going again…

[scaredyclassic]

tell you what, yeah im jewish, and there’s a lot of bad stuff ya can say about hitler, but that sunuvabitch wouldve got the manufacturing going again…

[scaredyclassic]

tell you what, yeah im jewish, and there’s a lot of bad stuff ya can say about hitler, but that sunuvabitch wouldve got the manufacturing going again…

[sd_matt]

Allans assessment about the unions agrees with that of my mom who has been in education for some 20 years.

If one side gets too much power/influence then someone else suffers. A big business boss can acquire a monopoly and rape the workers and customers.

The same is true if labor pushes out the competition. That is the overwhelming factor in the CA system.

The CA teachers are suffering too with large classes and, among other things, integrating special needs kids with the rest of class. And you have new teachers being told to sink or swim while dealing with this. Someone somewhere in the teachers union is a very big fat cat.

Vouchers… and the money for them should come from the public system. It needs competition.

[sd_matt]

Allans assessment about the unions agrees with that of my mom who has been in education for some 20 years.

If one side gets too much power/influence then someone else suffers. A big business boss can acquire a monopoly and rape the workers and customers.

The same is true if labor pushes out the competition. That is the overwhelming factor in the CA system.

The CA teachers are suffering too with large classes and, among other things, integrating special needs kids with the rest of class. And you have new teachers being told to sink or swim while dealing with this. Someone somewhere in the teachers union is a very big fat cat.

Vouchers… and the money for them should come from the public system. It needs competition.

[sd_matt]

Allans assessment about the unions agrees with that of my mom who has been in education for some 20 years.

If one side gets too much power/influence then someone else suffers. A big business boss can acquire a monopoly and rape the workers and customers.

The same is true if labor pushes out the competition. That is the overwhelming factor in the CA system.

The CA teachers are suffering too with large classes and, among other things, integrating special needs kids with the rest of class. And you have new teachers being told to sink or swim while dealing with this. Someone somewhere in the teachers union is a very big fat cat.

Vouchers… and the money for them should come from the public system. It needs competition.

[sd_matt]

Allans assessment about the unions agrees with that of my mom who has been in education for some 20 years.

If one side gets too much power/influence then someone else suffers. A big business boss can acquire a monopoly and rape the workers and customers.

The same is true if labor pushes out the competition. That is the overwhelming factor in the CA system.

The CA teachers are suffering too with large classes and, among other things, integrating special needs kids with the rest of class. And you have new teachers being told to sink or swim while dealing with this. Someone somewhere in the teachers union is a very big fat cat.

Vouchers… and the money for them should come from the public system. It needs competition.

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