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It seems to me that any article about "budget cuts" should include a mention of what the budget is.
Well here it is: The 2008-09 budget for the St. Paul Public School System was $658,651,850. With 38,000 students enrolled that comes out to $17,333 per child.
(For some reason, the 2009-2010 budget is not available)
Think about that. If you had $17,333 per child per year to spend on their education, would you send them to the government schools? Me neither.
"In a special election, in January of 2002, she easily won election to the seat that her husband had held since 1972."
Translation: the democrats know that name recognition would be all that's necessary with the rubes up north.
"He’s not new anymore."
And that's his weakness. He's not running on the empty rhetoric of hope and change. He has a record now. And it doesn't matter who the republicans run against him, the election will be about Obama and whether he deserves another term.
"Brain-imaging studies have even suggested that conservative brains are hard-wired for fear, while the part of the brain that tolerates uncertainty is bigger in liberal heads."
HA! That's rich. If that were true the conservatives would be the admitted collectivists fighting to hold onto their union jobs while huddled together in the city, demanding that government provide for their every need from cradle to grave and the liberals would be the individualists who risk their lives,...
"Haiti donations on track to break records"
"Celebrities, companies, sports teams and regular Americans are mobilizing to help in the wake of the Haiti earthquake with an outpouring of generosity that could exceed private donations made after Hurricane Katrina and the 2004 Asian tsunami."
"After Hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Wilma struck the Gulf Coast in 2005, private donations by Americans totaled $6.47 billion, says Indiana University's Center on Philanthropy. Almost $2...
Danie, tax cuts are only spending if it was your money (or the government's) to begin with. Otherwise it's giving people their own money back.
Like Bruce says, as a political strategy, if you promise to rob Peter to pay Paul you can always count on the support of Paul.
Since he's not going to get what he says he wants, and he knew this going into the speech, this was obviously a campaign speech to stake out the "democrats want to give you stuff but the republicans only love rich people" position for 2012.
If you thought it was anything else, where are the specifics that counter the Ryan plan? He criticized the Ryan plan, which basically cuts spending back to 2008 levels, without saying what he would cut instead. Yet he says he's going to balance...
Alex and Paul and confusing Clinton's tax bill with the spending bills which were authored by the republican congress and signed into law by Clinton with mostly republican support. It was the spending bills, not the tax bill that balanced the budget.
Paul, Clinton was dragged kicking and screaming to the republican congress' balanced budget and now today takes full credit for it. And the press appears to have the same selective memory.
Remember, all of Clinton's successes were from signing republican legislation. He was re-elected in '96 but people seem to forget that for all the bashing the republicans took for balancing the budget (kind of like today), they retained congress.