Those of us on the left know the following:

1. Cutting revenues is no answer for reducing deficits....

2. 40 years ago US students were 1st in math and science... Today they aren't in the top 20...

3. Paying out 17% of our GNP for lousy health care makes our country less competitive...

4. Cutting the kind of federal spending that would make a dent in deficit without raising revenues would require cuts in one or all of the following: eduction, defense, Social Security and/or Medicare...

5. Making fun of educated people probably has had a role in why we are seein' the highest high school drop out rates since the early 50s...

6. Allowing unlimited secret money into our elections is a formula for disaster...

7. Tax policies that promote US corporations laying off American workers contributes to the unemployment...

8. Giving a tax break to the rich will not produce one single job because they already have lots of excess cash and aren't using it for produce jobs...

9. Allowing rich people to set up off-shore accounts for the purposes of evading taxes is bad policy...

10. Allowing a FCC licensed media company to use publicly owned airwaves to promote the Republican Party is against the original intent of having the airwaves owned by all of us...

11. Sitting back watching the working class's wages stagnate for 30 years is a recipe for disaster...

12. The US now boasts the highest poverty rates of any civilized/industrialized nation in the eastern hemisphere...

13. The US also boasts the highest infant mortality rate among those nations...

14. Allowing our Senate to impose "minority rule" with the filibuster rule has further chizzled in stone that our Senate is the place where legislation goes to die and makes the US more vulnerable because of a government that is unable to act (govern)...

15. The "Age of Emotionalism" that the US is stuck in has produced endless wars since the end of WW II... The US needs to think before it shoots...

16. One in 5 children now live in poverty in the US...

17. The Wall Street bailout (TARP), which was the correct thing to do to head off a complete financial collapse, was done on George Bush's watch...

18. The government is not the enemy... Greed is...

19. Negotiating involves compromise... Coming to the table saying that everything is on the table except ____________ is dishonest...

20. The US is in a downward spiral that is going to involve hard choices and compromise...

There, LH... Them's is just fir starters...

As for my assertions that ceratin folks are "morons"??? Hey, when I look around me and see people droppion' outta school and bustin' on folks that don't the word "moron" ain't all that much a stretch here...

And when I hear folks who obviously know nuthin' about basic economics preaching to me about economic theories that are as backwards as using leeches then I think I think "moron"...

Maybe "stupid" is a better word, I donno... Hey, there ain't no away around this little situation where some very emotional folks harbor flat-earth beliefs and want to impose them on the country because the governemnt was bought by people who only want to make/steal money by gaming the system...

We've had 30 years of bad policy based less on facts and science and more on folks emotions and it clearly ain't workin' for US so, hey, excuse me if I stoop to callin' them what they are: okay, you like ignorant any better???

B~