And so… each state is spending more than 50% of it’s budget on education (more than all other budget items combined…

And so… to me …each state’s budget could be cut by 15% without affecting the services given to the people. Maybe a few lawyers and administrative staff would feel the pain but more money could go to schools/books/teachers… not lawyers who don’t teach one child.

Here in CA teachers pay about $60 per month for their union. They could all get a $60 per month increase in salary if the union was abolished.

$500 a year is a start anyway. And there could be less administrative staff fighting union thugs and the teachers who don’t perform could be weeded out instead of protected by the union…

Tano, nice try but let’s go look at reality shall we?

Reality?? From a Bush hater?!?! Good luck.

What is the unemployment rate now? What about the stock market? How about jobs created?

We don’t have the Soviet Union on the march. We don’t hve the killing fields. We don’t have Cuba gaining control of central America.

Now, in fact, we are grappling with Carter’s worst failure-allowing the birth and encouraging the legitimization of Islamofacsism.

That’s how you become the most repudiated President in American history.

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From who else? The worst President in the history of America tries another desperate attempt to make himself look good by capitalizing on Bush’s problems.Former President Carter says President Bush’s administration is “the worst…

Who exactly did Carter liberate with his policies? Certainly it wasn’t the US hostages from the embassy takeover. Certainly it wasn’t the country of Afghanistan that suffered for years as a result of the Soviet invasion. He simply paid lip service to…

That is an opinion that isn’t based on facts, nor based on an analysis of each of the president’s solutions towards problems. Carter continues to this day to NOT understand how the economy works and puts forward solutions that grow the government spending and taxation which would cause MORE harm, MORE pain, MORE unemployment, MORE death, etc (would you argue that worse economies don’t cause more death?)

If you want to argue that the high inflation/prices were there long before he got there that is a fair argument. But it DOES NOT change the fact that Carter puts forth policies that would exacerbate inflation, costs, growth of government and unemployment.

The beginning to your third question has quite the bunch of premises that we’d have to agree to to answer your question.

The facts are that presidents do very little. They propose and sign legislation that the Congress prepared. They make executive orders. But it does show that the sources of information that you read are far to the negative.

I disagree with Bush probably more than I agree with him because Bush governs and executes to the left of center on many issues.
For instance the Bush administration has spent more per year on climate change than any other president and more than any other nation. Yet he gets bashed by the negative people who don’t report yet state opinions not based on truth.

For instance the Bush administration has proposed and pushed for a gigantic improvement in the way Social Security is implemented. The negative folks do not report and instead make MISSTATEMENT after misstatement causing people to be against something based on misinformation.

For instance the Bush administration did push through a Prescription Drug program – a new program of spending which can contribute to his governing to the left of center – YET the program does have some market forces still and does have higher contributions by beneficiaries of the program based on income/wealth etc. The Democrat program would’ve cost much more and had LITTLE incentive for cost containment other than rationing which would NEVER happen because votes are power.

I could go on with a bunch of leftist leaning policies that were implemented under Bush or proposed by him. What you don’t read because of your negative sources is only a contributor to you being negligent. You can continue to be negligent – and I know you probably will as it is a pattern that is only broken by very few leftists – or you can continue on with your negativism. Your choice. Keeping in mind I myself disagree with Bush’s proposed policies more than 1/2 the time.

You would HATE to see a true conservative running – as this government has grown every year for over 6 decades in EVERY category of spending. The spigot would be turned off, the government would live with the pot of money it has – there would be no more growth in government for 10 years and a reprioritization of spending would go on for those 10 years if I were president.

Over the last 30 years spending on the military has gone from 50% of the budget to 20%. Over those same 30 years the big 3 entitlements have gone from 20% of the budget to 51% of government spending.

On the local side of things, almost every state has increased education spending to be more than 50% of their state’s budget yet people are screaming for more spending on education and putting bumper stickers on their cars that say, “if you think education is expensive try ignorance”. People here in CA just voted yes on bonds that EQUAL an entire budget year of spending last November. Think about that. We leftists here in CA just DOUBLED our spending. with one election. And Arnold was for the bond measures….

There is no satiating leftists. We can only try to reason with them and convert them before the country is destroyed by them.

The constitutions calls for the federal government to provide national security. That should be the priority. All other spending can be left to the states. The entitlements (I work for one in IT) go to illegal immigrants and are a huge magnet and cost us more than illegal immigrants provide for us. If we take that entire amount and apply it towards lettuce costs we’ll find that we can handle the distorted market prices of lettuce ourselves easily. Health costs, prison costs, educations costs, entitlement costs are all much higher because of “illegal” immigrants. The federal government is FAILING in this national security roll.

I disagree with Bush’s approach to illegal immigration but it isn’t far from any other recent president’s position including Carter.

What we need as president is a true conservative. Would be funny to see leftists really scream then.

On the economy, the major problem was driven by oil prices, and the inflationary pressures that were present long before he got there (most of you I imagine are too young to remember the WIN program, under Ford). Carter was the one who made the decisive decision that solved the economic malaise – by appointing Paul Volker to the Fed with a mandate to bleed the inflation out of the economy thru monetary policy.

What has Bush accomplished besides the enormous blunder of Iraq – with its subsequent decimation of the Army, and destruction of our global power and reputation? The federalization of education thru NCLB? Is that an accomplishment? Or the Medicare drug program? Or the SocSec reform that wasnt? OR the addition of a few trillion dollars of debt for our kids and grandkids to pay off, with interest? The politicization of the Justice department? The turning over of regualtion-writing to lobbyists for the industries being regulated?

Carter was a terrible political leader, in all the atompsherics that define real leadership – the ability to inspire confidence and trust amongst the people. But his policies were a mixed bag, with some that were very good. I predict a serious re-evaluation of his presidency, as has been happening recently with Ike. I don’t think Carter will be seen as being as good as Ike, but a lot better than his present rep, and immensly better than Bush.

Proof ? Facts ? You are just a partisan hack !! Tano just speaks his feelings…. He knows that Bush is worse than the terrorists….

And we all just need to get on board and make it 100% dissaproval rating dispite the facts… ALL because Tano disagrees with the 4 year old decision to go to war in Iraq. Way to be stuck in the past Tano…

Moving forward to the present… If we remove troops before the job is done the country has a very likely chance of having a humanitarian crisis. There are over 50 times where that kind of thing has happened in history. We should not repeat it. We should be responsible and finish the job.

The former president Carter continues his march toward proving not only that he was unworthy of the office, but that he is incapable of observing the protocols which even former President Clinton abides by. The alumni of the Office of the President comprise a very small group. Carter continues to prove his lack of worth.

And worse than any of that, he is simply dead wrong in his assessment … unless of course correct is defined as furthering what is wrong with the partisan divide AND the fact that his words run counter to the goal of military success in a foreign foray.

But surely I gest. Mr. Carter support out troops and America? How silly of me to assume ….

Carter makes a fool of himself every few months or so and is in the bottom five of all US presidents—maybe Buchanan & Pierce below—make that the bottom three!!

It will be interesting to see what historians 50 years from now say about both the Carter administration and the Bush administration.