@mmetti, the government will not regulate our eating habits but Monsanto and their pesticides will kill us off and help complete the goal of a Project for a New American Century and its belief that our planet can only sustain 500 million people. That means 6.5 billion people must be exterminated. Who says Hitler and Stalin were murderers? They killed a paltry sum of 11 to 29 million people. Our Anti-Christ government is going to kill off 6.5 billion people through pesticides, polluting the environment, biological and chemical warfare, and endless immoral and wrong wars. Americans are treated like cannon fodder and mushrooms.

NY-26 Referendum

The GOP/right-wing have been saying that the NY 26th District election means nothing because it was a special election, that it is not a referendum on Medicare. On the other hand when Scott Brown won in a special election, the GOP/right-wing said it was a referendum on Obamacare. Oh the hypocrisy.

Unions, political parties, bureaucrats and religious minded indoctrinations have fouled our system and it shows. Eating food should be a right too but I am glad that we do not have the government running that, otherwise we would be starving.

Here is a good way of going right back at those who make the claim it was the D's Tea Party guy that caused the R's to lose the NY 26th.

The Tea Party is supposed to be non-partisan and the D TP proves they really are all stripes in the movement. If the TP is non-partisan and it is filled with all politial parties how can the idea that those 8% votes would of went to the R's?

We all know the nonpartisan thing is BS but use their own talking points against them. It forces them to wrestle with the reality of the TP is an extention of the republican party.

This is one thing I want the Repulicans to NOT back off on!

Kill Medicare! This is the Gift thats keeps on Giving.

I for one will not crticize the Republicans on this one - End Medicare as we know it!

Not only will Obama win a second term - probably most Republicans will be replaced By Democrats.

I kinda figured out that the repugs were a bit dumb - but this takes the Cake!!

The right started this during that time when they were promoting the lie that private business can do anything better than government. It also came from some libertarian pipe dream (yes they like pot and it wouldn't surprise me if they took opiates too) that education is not a right, and that it could or should be something that you contract with a business for.... in short selling your son or daughter to a company so that they pay for their education and then work for that company when they finish... Yep, libertarians are fun people.

Anyway, the appeal is mostly to those people who send their kids to private schools, thinking that they are being unfairly taxed for something they are providing themselves. They don't understand, that they are not paying to educate just their children with their taxes, but all the children. The idea of a common school, which predates this country as a nation, is one of those socialistic things that is correct and the right thing to do for us as a society and community.

They also need to remember there are large numbers of us who do not have children who pay for schools with our taxes. Our taxes go to pay for the education of the children of this country because we believe in the future and know that an educated society is better than an ignorant one.

So back to vouchers. Basically there are two plans floating around. One allows vouchers to spend in any school, private, or public, with that choice being left up to the parents. Paying for religious education is not something I want my tax dollars going to, so why should I allow parents to pay part of their private parochial school fees with public moneys? Second, the whole competition creates quality line the Right seems to have tattooed on their chests is a lie. There is no level playing field in education, schools are not factories turning out widgets from the same materials. Communities differ and so do schools. The best thing ever done for improving local education was giving back a lot of the governance of the local schools to the communities where those school are. We took a step backward with some of the NCLB testing crap, but schools where the parents, teachers and community drive the educational program work! QED. Making school 1 compete against school 2 for students will only mean that the school with the better marketing department wins. Competition can never be fair between private schools and public schools, because public schools have to accept any student that walks through their door and lives in their community. Private schools can pick and choose which students they accept.

The second plan is the one that gives you a voucher to take to any public school you want within a district or in some plans a county. It almost sounds reasonable but there are some buts. One is that transportation for students going outside of the normal attendance area is not provided. If you're poor and don't have a way to get your child to that "Good" school across town, well, you are just SOL. The second part of this is, do the schools have to take students from their attendance areas first before they take voucher students? What happens if your "Good" school is all full up and new local students arrive? Do they then have to attend school outside of their local area? Who transports them if they do. Do they have priority over voucher students the next year? And what about that voucher student? Do they have to find another "Good" school if they get bumped?

The real solutions to our problems with education are not simplistic and stupid ideological things like vouchers. Vouchers will kill public education. Fully fund all schools, give the training to the teacher, parents, administrators and communities they need in order to build those programs. All schools should have superior programs. It's up to all of us to help achieve that. Education is a right for everyone in our society.

Its about time that Law worked in favor of the poor!

People can be good and moral and not follow any Church Doctrine or religeon . Many of us lead lives of helping people, giving, and following the Golden Rule . GOD knows who is good . Some believe in a higher power .. but do not call it God. Many who say they are God fearing are not good people.

Public ed is a right No doubt about it.

Charter schools and for-profit schools are a huge part of the problem, because they are not accountable to the public whose funds they are after. Public money must stay in the public schools.

Thom,

I know you need advertizers to carry on your good works, and I realize there is limited influence you can exercise over a station or network. In this case, Left channel on XM.

It does grate on me though, when you make so much sense railing against the banksters and how their greed led us into ruin, but during your show I am hearing ads from a 'Hot Props', telling renters that if they are paying over $215 / month rent, they could own (a 2-3 br house) for the same money. Their pitch is for forclosed properties, aimed at people who should have no illusion of being able to afford a house, even after someone else has lost it to forclosure.. seems like a self-repeating system..

My point is, these ads verge on the predatory, even dangling $1000. 'rebates' as incentives. If someone needs that $1000. that badly, how long before they are forclosed on themselves, of course that's if they can come up with whatever fees this outfit charges.

Are there limits or any checks done on advertizers?

Another one that I have read disturbing things about is Heritage for the Blind. I know that you know the criteria for a well run charity with your own; is it right that others might scam from listeners to your broadcast?

http://cardonationsonline.info/car-donation/heritage-for-the-blind-chari...

None of this is questioning your integrity at all. I am just curious what the limitations are.

Thanks,

Rick

Here is what is needed to change our planet for the better!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUjUvoynGMM&feature=related