1000 Govt Expenditures We Can Cut Before Police n Teachers..

[john9blue]

So you think companies ought to be able to sell, as "pure" water that would not even meet basic tapwater standards for purity? Because that is what is at stake. Right now, bottled water is less highly regulated than your drinking water. AND remember, we are talking about profit-making companies, so by rights they ought to be taxes to pay for this supervision.

That's kind of my point Player. Tap water meets rigorous health standards and bottled water doesn't. IMO bottled water also tastes worse. The only reason companies can sell it is because they will claim it's "fresh from the source" or whatnot and people will assume that it's a good thing compared with the presumably "dirty" tap water. Public awareness is all that's needed.

[bedub1]

freeway sound barriers
public art projects
dea

[Baron Von PWN]

chairity status for religious institutions. Tax their revenue!

[spurgistan]

freeway sound barriers
public art projects
dea

That should fix the budget. Well done, bedub.

[Timminz]

chairity status for religious institutions. Tax their revenue!

Damn! Good one. It's about time those hustlers paid their share.

[Phatscotty]

freeway sound barriers
public art projects
dea

That should fix the budget. Well done, bedub.

something is still better than nothing. not to mention they are cuts number 31, 32, and 33, although cutting the DEA might overlap with legalizing marijuana as another pothead poster had suggested....

[Baron Von PWN]

cut corprate wellfare.

http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/201 ... x-in-2009/

[Phatscotty]

cut corprate wellfare.

http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/201 ... x-in-2009/

GOOD ONE!

[karel]

less funding for schools...i really dont think kids need new pc's in schools...

now thats a waste of money

[Phatscotty]

less funding for schools...i really dont think kids need new pc's in schools...

now thats a waste of money

USA was #1 in education before federal funding. Lets just cut the board of education completely.

The bigger the BOE, the worse America's education is. total fact. anyone have a problem with my statement? bring a BOE track record with you. (no Canadians)

[Woodruff]

less funding for schools...i really dont think kids need new pc's in schools...

now thats a waste of money

USA was #1 in education before federal funding. Lets just cut the board of education completely.
The bigger the BOE, the worse America's education is. total fact. anyone have a problem with my statement? bring a BOE track record with you. (no Canadians)

This is a wonderful example of looking at only part of the situation. Yes, the USA used to be #1 in education, and that the USA has gone downhill in that regard since. However, this has far more to do with other countries pouring money INTO education than it does with the the education in the USA going down. Other nations have simply stepped up their efforts, and they've done so in more effective ways than we have, exponentially improving their systems largely because they had so much more room to grow.

I strongly recommend the movie Two Million Minutes, which follows the high school educations of two pretty average American students, two pretty average Indian students and two pretty average Chinese students. A fascinating video.

[Snorri1234]

freeway sound barriers

Why?

[Timminz]

freeway sound barriers

Why?

Because fuck the poor people who have to live near a freeway. That's why.

[thegreekdog]

freeway sound barriers

Why?

Because fuck the poor people who have to live near a freeway. That's why.

That's kind of interesting that you assume poor people live near highways. In and around Philadelphia and the South Jersey area, the rich people live near the highways and have the sound barriers. So, maybe you wanted to say f*ck the rich people who live near a freeway.

[BigBallinStalin]

less funding for schools...i really dont think kids need new pc's in schools...

now thats a waste of money

USA was #1 in education before federal funding. Lets just cut the board of education completely.
The bigger the BOE, the worse America's education is. total fact. anyone have a problem with my statement? bring a BOE track record with you. (no Canadians)

This is a wonderful example of looking at only part of the situation. Yes, the USA used to be #1 in education, and that the USA has gone downhill in that regard since. However, this has far more to do with other countries pouring money INTO education than it does with the the education in the USA going down. Other nations have simply stepped up their efforts, and they've done so in more effective ways than we have, exponentially improving their systems largely because they had so much more room to grow.

I strongly recommend the movie Two Million Minutes, which follows the high school educations of two pretty average American students, two pretty average Indian students and two pretty average Chinese students. A fascinating video.

Sounds enlightening.

[Timminz]

freeway sound barriers

Why?

Because fuck the poor people who have to live near a freeway. That's why.

That's kind of interesting that you assume poor people live near highways. In and around Philadelphia and the South Jersey area, the rich people live near the highways and have the sound barriers. So, maybe you wanted to say f*ck the rich people who live near a freeway.

Sorry. I didn't mean "poor", as in financially. More like, "those poor people. having to deal with the noise of a freeway 24 hours a day must suck donkey balls."

I'd bet that if the noise barriers weren't there, you would see more of the poor (financially) people living near the freeway, though.

[thegreekdog]

freeway sound barriers

Why?

Because fuck the poor people who have to live near a freeway. That's why.

That's kind of interesting that you assume poor people live near highways. In and around Philadelphia and the South Jersey area, the rich people live near the highways and have the sound barriers. So, maybe you wanted to say f*ck the rich people who live near a freeway.

Sorry. I didn't mean "poor", as in financially. More like, "those poor people. having to deal with the noise of a freeway 24 hours a day must suck donkey balls."

I'd bet that if the noise barriers weren't there, you would see more of the poor (financially) people living near the freeway, though.

Agreed.

[karel]

less funding for schools...i really dont think kids need new pc's in schools...

now thats a waste of money

USA was #1 in education before federal funding. Lets just cut the board of education completely.

The bigger the BOE, the worse America's education is. total fact. anyone have a problem with my statement? bring a BOE track record with you. (no Canadians)

Once again you are always right.....keep throwing your republican bullshit out there,first thing the only one you can blame for the fucked up kids is bush..

ummmm remember no kid left behind,or have you already forgot that,as you can see it worked so well

[thegreekdog]

less funding for schools...i really dont think kids need new pc's in schools...

now thats a waste of money

USA was #1 in education before federal funding. Lets just cut the board of education completely.

The bigger the BOE, the worse America's education is. total fact. anyone have a problem with my statement? bring a BOE track record with you. (no Canadians)

Once again you are always right.....keep throwing your republican bullshit out there,first thing the only one you can blame for the fucked up kids is bush..

ummmm remember no kid left behind,or have you already forgot that,as you can see it worked so well

Yeah, the kids were doing fine until No Child Left Behind. Oh wait...

I'm starting a separate thread on this; it's an interesting question.

[karel]

i mean for real,do kids really have to have a 10 mil$ gym to play in,or 10 band new computers think not......schools are more focused on sports,just look at the collages,what a joke,no wonder other countrys laugh at us,and can yu blame them.Maybe obama will give them some hope since the last party forgot about them.

Or even better blame texas also since they pretty much control what the kids learn these days

[thegreekdog]

:lol: i mean for real,do kids really have to have a 10 mil$ gym to play in,or 10 band new computers think not......schools are more focused on sports,just look at the collages,what a joke,no wonder other countrys laugh at us,and can yu blame them.Maybe obama will give them some hope since the last party forgot about them

Dude, seriously, how partisan are you? I guess education was stellar under President Clinton? Care to comment on that or are you just going to complain about how GW Bush ruined public education in the US? Jeez man.

That being said, I do agree on the emphasis of sports over education (a cultural thing more than anything else I think). Don't want to get in a "what's wrong with US education debate" here though.

[Skittles!]

Legalise prostitution and tax that bitch.

[thegreekdog]

Legalise prostitution and tax that pimp.

Fixed it for you.

[karel]

Legalise prostitution and tax that bitch.

why not tax the rich more,they pay so little of their fare share

[Skittles!]

Legalise prostitution and tax that pimp.

Fixed it for you.

Kthx

Legalise prostitution and tax that bitch.

why not tax the rich more,they pay so little of their fare share

Why not tax children? Slave labour ftw.