Submit a plan
The federal government is ridiculously, shamelessly wasteful, inefficient and incompetent in just about every endeavor. Raising taxes on anyone is simply pouring someone’s resources into a bucket with no bottom — a bucket President Obama and the Democrats are determined not to do anything to fix.
If Obama wants to raise taxes, let him submit his bill to the Congress. Let's see the president's plan to reduce the deficit by raising taxes — from the same man who has added $6 trillion to our national debt and not had a budget passed by his Democratic Senate in three years. Let's see his plan in full view. Let the Congressional Budget Office score it, and let Congress vote on it, up or down.
If it passes, fine.
The president should put up his plan or take us over the cliff his policies have arranged for us, and the American people apparently have voted for.
ANTHONY FLETCHER
Lexington
An embarrassment
Someone needs to put a muzzle on Rep. Virginia Foxx and send her to the home for the bewildered.
As long as the 5th District keeps sending her to Washington, she will continue to be an embarrassment to us. She is either criticizing our president, mouthing off about gay people or, now, turning her attention to berating staffers in Congress for riding an elevator she thinks is reserved all the time just for her and her colleagues “Staffer, Foxx in elevator kerfuffle” (Dec. 7).
She needs an attitude adjustment in the worst way.
DIANA WARD
Boone
Adopting an experiment
In response to the Dec. 9 letter “Fluid socialism”:
In fact the sky is not falling, and neither is Winston-Salem/Forsyth County school-board member Jeannie Metcalf a McCarthyisitic icon vying for attention.
Having attended the school-board event (“Board members question curriculum,” Dec. 5), I can assure you that Systems Thinking proponent and developer Peter Senge handled himself quite well in the face of questions from Metcalf and others. His answers were confident, well-delivered and provided nothing in the way of solid evidence that would support Systems Thinking as a viable education model for our schools.
Socialism and sustainability are merely two of the lightning rod words that are associated with Systems Thinking, and at the least are merely distractions. Our concerns should be that some school-board members and teachers have been led up the garden path and convinced to adopt a program that has neither substance nor proof of its performance.
Not once were we provided with statistical evidence that showed successful improvements in schools adopting Systems Thinking. Not once did we hear the words “reading,” “writing,” “math” or “science” from Senge. What we did hear was a program, an experiment, that has been adopted with the hopes of positive results. Unfortunately, our students, teachers and schools are the testing subjects.
Systems Thinking is unproven and unacceptable as an education model, and that's without looking into its questionable roots. Our students deserve more.
DAVID SINGLETARY
Germanton
Shame
Shame on the people of North Carolina for electing an abusive, bullying elitist snob, Rep. Virginia Foxx, to represent our state in the exclusive congressional elevators of our nation’s capitol (“Staffer, Foxx in elevator kerfuffle,” Dec. 7).
ROGER A. BELL
Mocksville
Sum It Up
The Sum It Up question from Sunday was: Are you satisfied with Gov.-elect Pat McCrory’s preparations to lead the state?
Don't you mean Gov.-elect Art Pope's preparations to lead the state?
Hope you guys who voted for Pope (er, McCrory, wink-wink) enjoy your charter schools, dual-diploma system and further gutting and privatization of our public schools and the once proud UNC system of colleges and universities. And do check out the coming view off the once-magnificent Outer Banks of hundreds of off-shore drilling platforms — the perfect accent next to the Wright Brothers' Memorial.
Also good to know McCrory has already listed many new jobs openings through his transition team, such as executive chef and something called chief deputy III. Republicans cut 2,000 teachers and 1,000 teaching assistants, but the new Republican governor has the nerve to hire an executive chef?
KAM BENFIELD
It's difficult to gauge how McCrory will govern from the makeup of his team thus far. He has unfortunately included some people who are rather extreme in their views. Plus, he will have little sway with some of the more rabid people in the General Assembly, even though they, too, are Republicans. He may do a better job than I would expect, but time will tell.
DAVID M. McMAHON
LTE #1 - There's only so much of ignorance and stupidity that anyone can take:
ReplyDeleteSpend and Don't Tax is the Answer
We've got to get some of your idiot friends off the government tit, Rush. That would help a lot.
DeleteSubmit a plan. You missed the plan. It was presented early on in this current administration: never let a perfectly good crisis go to waste. Agitprop, bait and switch, and collusion with the like minded whores with by lines formerly known as "journalists" to spread the Statist brew.
ReplyDeleteSum it up. Am I satisfied with McCrory's prep to lead the state? I guess so, since I haven't been contacted to contribute. If he is including some new blood to replace some status quo hold overs from out of date mid 20th century systems, then he is on the right track.
ReplyDeleteJudge Greg Weeks, an African American, commuted the sentences of two cop killers to life without parole under the 'Racial (In)Justice Act'.
ReplyDeleteGolphin, one of the defendants, shot Ed Lowry and Cumberland County Sheriff's Deputy David Hathcock during a traffic stop in 1997. Golphin is black; the lawmen were white.
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2012/12/13/3724230/judge-finds-racial-bias-played.html
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Don't you just love 'liberal' fairness?
The dictatorship continues:
ReplyDeleteObama refuses to enforce federal marijuana laws.
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/12/14/obama-enforcing-pot-laws-in-states-that-have-legalized-it-not-a-top-priority/?hpt=hp_t4
"She (Susan Rice) did nothing wrong except to do what an administration spokesperson is supposed to do, present the unclassified facts of the case as they were known and as her colleagues in the White House, intelligence and diplomatic communities concluded they ought to be presented."
ReplyDeleteDavid Rothkopf, CNN
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What about her moral obligation to tell the truth to the American people? I guess that don't matter, huh?
Good afternoon folks!
ReplyDeleteLTE 1: "The federal government is ridiculously, shamelessly wasteful, inefficient and incompetent in just about every endeavor." - Gosh, if I felt that way about the govt, I'd be getting the heck out of Dodge. If Mr. Fletcher really feels that way about the govt, why is he still here? I don't know how long it's been since Mr. Fletcher sat in a civics class or American history class (if ever), but it's the US Congress that submits bills, not the POTUS. The POTUS just signs or vetoes bills. A bit of sour grapes over Obama's reelection perhaps?
LTE 2,4: As long as the 5th is gerrymandered to elect an R, Foxx has the job as its rep for as long as she wants it.
LTE 3: "Systems Thinking is unproven and unacceptable as an education model, and that's without looking into its questionable roots." - LOL!! So, Mr. Singletary is admitting that he has not done any investigating into Systems Thinking, but he is already declaring it "unproven and unacceptable". Lordy, have mercy! It's no wonder SE Asia is kicking our behinds in education. A simple search revealed all kinds of links on the subject. All the dreaded Systems Thinking entails is examing individual subjects in conjunction with all of its extended parts (i.e. a holistic approach) rather than as an singular, isolated subject. As for the program's lack of credentials, the Waters Foundation would beg to differ.
Sum it up: Looks like the Journal staff was short on SIU ideas again. Without intimate knowledge of how these preparations should go and the current status of each step, how is anyone supposed to answer this question? We won't really know until after McCory takes office.
Re #3 - Those who oppose "systems thinking" dare not state their real reason for opposing it, so they natter on about religion, communism , socialism, to cover their real "thoughts", just as they try to use the same things to cover their racism directed at the President.
DeleteThe real reason that they oppose "systems thinking" is that they are afraid that their children will escape the pride in ignorance that they have been programming into them since birth.
See the three pitiful posts directly above dotnet's for examples of the latter.
Now that that champion of ignorance, Jane Goins, is the chair of the school board, we will be seeing even more of this sort of thing.
Most thinking people have known for a long time that racism exists within all races. However, some are content to ignore the facts, and yell 'racism' at every opportunity when an event deals with African Americans.
DeletePeter Wolf is alive and well.
"Peter Wolf [sic} is alive and well."
DeleteIndeed. The former lead singer of the J. Geils Band is still with us.
DeleteIn re my above post:
ReplyDeleteTrivial, adj
1. Of little significance or value
2. Ordinary, commonplace
3. Petty or frivolous
4. Valueless, superficial
5. In mathematics - the solution of an equation in which every variable is equal to zero
ignorant, adj
1. Lacking education or knowledge
2. Unaware, uniformed, oblivious to
3. Lacking sophistication
4. Crude, crass, rude, shallow, superficial
Triviality and ignorance go hand in hand: He was a trivial little man, his commonplace mind awash in pettiness and ignorance.
A Story That Will Touch Some Part of You
ReplyDeleteA New York City police officer retired and moved to Morehead City. Not long after he settled into his new home overlooking the Intracoastal Waterway, he read an article in the newspaper about the death of an unknown homeless man with no known family or friends. One of the local funeral homes agreed, at no expense, to bury the man in a pauper’s cemetery way out in the country.
The man was touched by the article and called the funeral director and explained that he was a retired NYC police officer and accomplished bagpiper. He further explained that he had played the bagpipes at numerous funerals and marched in many St. Patrick’s Day parades.
He asked if he could play the bagpipes at the graveside, thus giving this unknown homeless man with no known family or friends an honorable burial. The funeral director agreed and gave the man directions to the cemetery and the burial time.
Unfortunately the man got lost but eventually spotted the gravesite. He didn’t see a hearse and figured the funeral director had already left. He noticed that their were no gravestones, but figured that that was the way of paupers' cemeteries. The only people there were the diggers, and they were sitting on a pile of dirt eating their lunch.
The man got out of his car, walked over to the grave and observed that the vault had already been closed. He went back to his car, assembled the bagpipes and returned to the grave and started playing.
The diggers were so moved that they put down their lunches and gathered around. As the man started playing “Amazing Grace” he began to weep. Then the diggers began to weep and soon all of them were weeping uncontrollably for this poor unknown homeless man with no known family or friends.
When the man finished playing, he packed up his bagpipes and headed back to the car. As he was leaving, he heard one of the diggers say to the others, “Dang, I ain’t never seen nothing like this in my whole life and I’ve been putting in septic tanks for 25 years.”
Desperate To Pay Off Campaign Debts, Romney Robs Bank
ReplyDeleteMitt Romney was randomly spotted again on Thursday—though this time it wasn't the real Mitt Romney.
In only the second strangest Romney sighting this week, a man wearing a mask depicting the former Republican presidential candidate was caught on camera robbing a Wells Fargo bank in Sterling, Va.
Local officials haven't said how much money the fake Romney had stolen.
Strangely, it's not the first time this bank branch has been held up by a famous face. As the local NBC affiliate notes, a robber wearing a Hillary Clinton mask held up the same bank two years ago.
They've got to work fast, because according to Phargo's Countdown, we only have eight days left until GAME OVER
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