Posted on November 19 at 11:57 a.m. (Suggest removal)

The 1963 Communist Goals were entered into the Congressional record by Albert Herlong, Jr. in 1963.
I thought of a few in relation to this topic.

15) Capture one or both of the political parties in the US.
17) Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for Socialism, and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers associations. Put the party line in text books.
20) Infiltrate the press. Get control of book review assignments, editorial writing, policy-making positions.
32) Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture - - education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.
36) Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.

I also think of the environmental movement since the fall of the Berlin wall, and the flood of communist bureaucrats that took positions in these groups since then.

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Posted on November 19 at 8:18 a.m. (Suggest removal)

The unions are sure working hard to spread socialized health care. I see they are still "fighting" and the elected officials they support are also "fighting" for "fairness" and for "working" people and not those industries or companies.

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Posted on November 18 at 11:32 a.m. (Suggest removal)

There are a substantial number of voters (legal and illegal) who vote for more entitlement programs. These programs are a major portion of State and the Federal budgets. The modern Democrat will not allow any real cut in spending, in my opinion, because that is how they get elected.

It is good to see a real conservative push at the local level. Eventually this will affect the national level I feel.

Warhog, wait until the Bush tax cuts expire in 2010.

On Federal gov’t needs to stop deficit spending

Posted on November 18 at 7:11 a.m. (Suggest removal)

So Superintendent Mike Funk, seems to says schools need more money. More specifically he would like to see the way money is divided up by the state addressed. But it is again the need for more money along with the claims of "cuts" and "disparity" and a few tired percentages that could easily be cut and pasted with every other story about education funding. Why is the public not provided with real numbers, again? Why is there no expectation that a budget explanation be posted along with this repeated claim that the schools need more money? A one page summary of the budget with plain english descriptions I think would be great.

On Minnesota needs to fix school funding

Posted on November 17 at 3:40 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Remember all these stories when Hillary was running for office, both Senate and for President...?

On Why does Sarah Palin talk Midwestern?

Posted on November 17 at 6:48 a.m. (Suggest removal)

I am amazed at how easy it is to amend the state constitution to dedicate additional taxes or expand some role of government but when it comes to any sort of limit on government we see the left and the press resist. The reasoning is that it is to difficult to limit spending to the taxes collected. You would hope common sense would limit spending to what money you have on hand, but we have seen little of that for some time.

On Editorial: Pawlenty could have fixed the problem

Posted on November 13 at 6:19 p.m. (Suggest removal)

I love online for certain things because it is quick and easy and I too would rather pay for S/H rather than taxes.

As for a foreign country, does Iowa count?

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Posted on November 13 at 6:11 p.m. (Suggest removal)

To simply reprint a press release from the office of Congressman Tim Walz and commit to print and imply an agreement that the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act created jobs calls into question media bias. Some people question taking money out of the economy, where it actually produces something, and passing it through a government bureaucracy as a means to create jobs.

Again, if it is not a purposeful bias but rather laziness or lack of understanding it certainly benefits one party primarily.

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Posted on November 11 at 8:56 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Is anyone going to post the budget in question? How about a short synopsis of the contract, current or proposed?

NoDFL I think it might be the same old "we need more money" line is wearing thin on more and more people. All this discussion in light of $34 Billion is also not enough to run the State for two years?

On Teachers’ pay contract still unresolved

Posted on November 11 at 11:13 a.m. (Suggest removal)

Why doesn't one of the parties involved simply post a simple one page breakdown of the school budget?

This, I think, has nothing to do with the salary but rather the cost burden of the benefits and retirement package. I would love to retire at 55 with health and medical benefits. My employer can not afford this. It is time for the taxpayers to see what they are really paying for and finally make an educated decision.

We have in the last ten years doubled the amount of money for K-12 education and have roughly the same number of K-12 students. Even after adjusting for inflation, this is not a money starved bureaucracy. I do not buy the argument we do not spend enough on education or pay the teachers enough.

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