I HEREBY STEP DOWN FOR NOW

[Doctor Steuss]

The public schools are a disaster. Here in CA we are like 48th is learning and 1st or 2nd on money spent a student, and we are he poster child, and beta for the liberal agenda.

Az sum1 educated in the state that iz actually 48th for K-12, I want two demand that u try not to steel our place of onner.

[Res Ipsa]

The public schools are a disaster. Here in CA we are like 48th is learning and 1st or 2nd on money spent a student, and we are he poster child, and beta for the liberal agenda.

Az sum1 educated in the state that iz actually 48th for K-12, I want two demand that u try not to steel our place of onner.

[Some Schmo]

Az sum1 educated in the state that iz actually 48th for K-12, I want two demand that u try not to steel our place of onner.

Yeah, that made me laugh too. Pretty funny, Steuss (especially "place of onner" for some reason).

[Markk]

LOL…come on, what about The Al Sharpton’s on the left….or the talk shows, or SNL…all left wing driving forces that label the right 24/7. The media, entertainment and education (the largest anchor) is as a whole is left, while AM talks radio, and Fox news is right. Th e left owns the narrative these entities, just as you folks own the narrative here.

I don't watch SNL or listen to AM radio and I don't know anything about Al Sharpton. However, I do know that my liberal friends don't inundate me with liberal talking points and conspiracy theories.

They like yourself don’t give a rip about those they use (the poor), a do as Isay not as I do attitude. You are a great example when you said you don’t care about 600 gas. You can probably afford it, and don’t have to daily commute…so screw the single moms commuting or a construction worker that has to drive 150 miles a day, or the independent trucker.

The problem isn't caring about 6$ gas. The problem is not knowing anything about economics and making 6$ gas a talking point for politicians who have no power to change 6$ gas and mainly just want to ride the wave of public outrage for their own personal gain. I can't put a number on what the price of oil should be, but I can tell you that you can't demand both a) that the US become a net energy exporter as Donald Trump championed and b) have the perpetually falling oil prices during the Trump administration that Ajax bragged about. And while we're on that basic point, you can't both A) claim to be heartbroken about the poor who can't afford inflation and B) get outraged over poor people not paying federal taxes. You can't A) brag that Trump predicted 6$ gas and B) failed to have gone all-in on oil futures. Anybody can be a prophet in retrospect. 50% of anybody who two years ago predicted either oil would go up or down are right. You might want to stop pretending you know more about the world than you do and what it will take for the average American to prosper. Or not, you can keep popping in screaming about Joe Bidden personally causing world-wide inflation and I'll keep making fun of you.

Yeah we are in great shape as a country and Biden is sharp as a tack and Harris is on top of the border here, and did a great job in her recent trip to Europe. Our streets are safe and clean. The border is tight and we are letting the border patrol do there job. The crime in th e big cities is under control and things like mass shop lifting and utter disrespect for the laws are just a myth.

For the record do you trust Biden and actually believe he is personally leading and setting his policy forward on his own. Do you believe Harris is presidential and can take over if need be? Do you think our enemies respect and fear the Biden administration?

But please do tell me why we have “6 dollar gas?”

[Markk]

The public schools are a disaster. Here in CA we are like 48th is learning and 1st or 2nd on money spent a student, and we are he poster child, and beta for the liberal agenda.

Az sum1 educated in the state that iz actually 48th for K-12, I want two demand that u try not to steel our place of onner.

Okay, I deserve it…but you can address my point if you want.

[Marcus]

Az sum1 educated in the state that iz actually 48th for K-12, I want two demand that u try not to steel our place of onner.

Okay, I deserve it…but you can address my point if you want.

Making up facts isn't making a point.

[Markk]

I got sloppy but it does not change my point. The public school systems are a mess, the economy is a mess, foreign policy is a mess, supply is a mess, we are becoming a lawless society with no consequence, homelessness in many cities and areas is at crises status, the southern border is wide open with drugs coming over in abundance.

We have no real leadership and no plan beyond shutting down the down US dependency on oil and gas…not having a clue what that means.

"Everything is a mess" is a nice talking point, but it doesn't say anything. Why do you say the public school systems are a mess? What are the specific problems you see? What do you propose to fix them? And how do you propose to pay for those solutions? Rinse, lather, repeat. It's absolutely false that the southern border is "wide open," so why not start with a realistic description of the problem? The war on drugs has been a dismal failure, and we should admit that. The more we try to interdict drugs that enter the United States, the more profitable getting drugs into the United States becomes, and the more effort and resources will be devoted to getting them in here. This is basic market economics that we've shown is accurate by our decades of failure to keep foreign made drugs out of the U.S. Not only that, we have plenty of home made and manufactured drugs right here in the U.S. Raise the price of foreign drugs imported in to the U.S. and we have plenty of domestic substitutes.

As long as it is profitable for foreign cartels to export drugs to the U.S., they will continue to do so. And we will never have the available resources to prevent drugs from physically entering the country. Secure one border, and the exporters will attack a weaker area. It's a huge waste of taxpayer dollars.

You want to decrease illegal drug imports? Take the profit out of it instead of making it more profitable by artificially created scarcity. Again, basic economics.

Markets can't solve every problem. But ignoring the effect of our actions on markets is just dumb.

You’re just giving up? The schools down here, unless one lives is a decent district…have lost control Res. That is why more and more parents, at least the ones that care are waiting on lists to get in charter schools. Th e unions have ruined the process in my opinion.

If I were king I would probably screw it up, but things I would start with is to try to get discipline back in the schools. Teach the kids if possible to say “yes sir and yes ma’am” so to speak. I would put a bigger focus on vocational programs that are disappearing. And may be try to make it a little simpler? I would maybe go with more of what the charter schools are doing and defiantly try to get parents more involved.

Again you are just giving up on things like the drugs and border…if we want to shut it down we could…and it is open, if a person wants to get it in it is not that hard. We throw many at other countries problems like it is candy…we have the resources what we don’t have is the will.

I work with illegal workers daily, many are friends, and they laugh at us at how stupid we are.


Look at Portland, Seattle, and LA…it is coming your way if something is not done.

[Moksha]

Az sum1 educated in the state that iz actually 48th for K-12, I want two demand that u try not to steel our place of onner.

Wat? You got 600 gas two?

[Markk]

Okay, I deserve it…but you can address my point if you want.

Making up facts isn't making a point.

How do you feel about Biden Marcus, or Harris..do you believe they are doing a great job! I have been back here for just the few weeks, and I don’t think you have said anything of substance? Are you a clone that just trolls along, which is okay, or do you have anything worthy to add? How do you feel about Joe’s handling of inflation, foreign policy…do you feel he is on top of it and sharp?

[Gadianton]

Yeah we are in great shape as a country and Biden is sharp as a tack and Harris is on top of the border here, and did a great job in her recent trip...

Much like my right-wing friend who rambles endlessly about "Democrats" and "libertards" and "Slow Joe Biden" and "Polesi!", you frame every life problem in direct political terms where liberals are the cause. When thwarted, you shift to the next problem. In any conversation, my right-wing friend has one agenda, for "his guy" to be right. He contradicts himself endlessly, doesn't have the education to even begin talking about half of the things he has hard and fast opinions on, and even when he admits his information is wrong, through his eyes, you can see the gears turning -- very slowly -- strategically conceding things not material to the case and working on the next thing to bring up that he's sure will "get me".

Why are you asking me about Biden and Harris? You're not looking in the mirror, Mark. I'm not somebody who believes all of life's problems and woes have political roots, and the guy I voted for is the answer to everything. I'm not the inverse of you. As a libertarian, I would vote for the right Republican candidates should they arise. As for the war, I think Biden is doing a decent job. Anybody with intelligence north of a Venus Flytrap is relieved Biden is president during this conflict and not Trump.

You've brought up a half dozen topics or more in just a few posts, and it doesn't appear you have any idea what you're talking about on any of them. Did you figure out yet that California isn't 48th in the nation in education and a top spender per student?

I'm interested in what a problem is and what the solution might be. Politics can factor in eventually. There are many problems out there that unfortunately, I don't see much of a hope of solving, and certainly not by politics. I think you should pick one issue you're worried about, and try to understand that issue with more depth instead of rapid-firing issues that you just assume you're right about.