This is what we need, Democrats not afraid to call it like it is.
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House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) would like Nancy Pelosi to apologize for her remarks suggesting that Republicans don't care about "struggling families and really hungry children."
But that's not going to happen.
Over the weekend, the Democratic House minority leader said at the California Democrats State Convention in Los Angeles that an anonymous Republican friend told her that struggling Americans "are invisible, and the Republican caucus is indifferent to them.That's outrageous. We all want to help inner city kids. We all want to help people. And the debate should be around what's the best way to help people."
You want to help inner city kids? Really? When your hand-picked budding "Super Genius" budget committee chairman is going around saying that their real problem is some kind of "
cultural deficiency" that good, clean, honest, rich, (
fweeee... white-folk) so don't have, because clearly poor people "
don't really care about their kids"? Meanwhile the GOP mouthpieces over at Fox are telling us allowing people to keep earning the Overtime Pay that
they worked for -
will make them "Greedy" but somehow Executive Incentive pay doesn't do that, or that we need to cut Food Stamps to keep down
all the Lap Dances and Weed people buy with them, even though they
can't. When exactly have the House GOP - in the
four years that they've been in control - MOVED AN INCH to help any struggling families and hungry children?
They've CUT SNAP! They've tried to cut head start. They've done nothing on helping those families with job training and further education. They've done absolutely nothing to help small business grow in their communities. What exactly have they done - in those Four Long Years - to make anything better for those people?
Of course, there is no such thing as a commonly known fact that will make a Republican refrain from playing the victim when they've been caught in their incessant Bully Act.
Cantor told a story about a New Orleans boy he met named Brian, whom he said came from a broken family but was working to go to college, and was able to attend an inner city school because of a "conservative policy of education choice."
The Conservative Policy of Education Choice? You mean
Vouchers for SOME CHERRY PICKED students - often chosen on racial grounds - to attend private and charter schools which are paid for by draining the coffers of public schools that are left to flounder with the least funds and the most challenging pool of students who've been discarded as if on a heap of refuse?
Just as they've done in Wisconsin.
Governor Scott Walker’s unprecedented $900 million cut to school funding, coupled with a scheme to create a state-run system of charter schools, will kill off both the school and the town, they said. Under S.B. 22, the bill they came to oppose, students and funds that used to go to schools like Montello’s will be siphoned off to virtual charter schools run by a state board of political appointees.
“There will be no turning back,” Sheller said. “Small schools and their communities will wither and die—and for what? A political maneuver to allow privatization of public education at the expense of Wisconsin’s history as a leader in student achievement. This is giving away our future.”
Is that what you mean, Rep Cantor? Is that what you call "Help"?
Yes because we all know that when you take tax payer dollars, and tax payer paid for facilities and give them over to private corporate hands things always go swimmingly.
Like did with with BlackWater.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department on Thursday brought fresh charges against four former Blackwater Worldwide security contractors, resurrecting an internationally charged case over a deadly 2007 shooting on the streets of Baghdad.
A new grand jury indictment charges the men, who were hired to guard U.S. diplomats, in a shooting that inflamed anti-American sentiment abroad and heightened diplomatic sensitivities amid an ongoing war.
The guards are accused of opening fire in busy Nisoor Square on Sept. 16, 2007. Seventeen Iraqi civilians died, including women and children
And
KBR.
PITTSBURGH — A federal appeals court revived a lawsuit Thursday against a military contractor in the death of a Pittsburgh-area soldier who was electrocuted in his barracks shower at an Army base in Iraq.
Staff Sgt. Ryan Maseth died in 2008 when an improperly grounded water pump electrified his shower water. In the lawsuit, Maseth's parents say Houston-based contractor Kellogg Brown & Root Services Inc. was legally responsible for the shoddy electrical work that was common in Iraqi-built structures taken over by the U.S. military. KBR disputes that claim.
And
Wackenhut.
Eight former Wackenhut employees were arrested and charged with violating the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act related to the overbilling of Miami-Dade County on a contract to provide security services for the county’s public transportation system (see G4S instance “Miami-Dade County Transit Security Officers Contract Audit”). The defendants were accused of participating in a scheme between 2002 and 2005 to submit falsified billing records to the county in order to fulfill Wackenhut’s contractual staffing requirements.
And since the subject was education, here are some example reviews/complaints about private education companies like the
Sylvan Learning Center.
My grandson was enrolled at Sylvan in Mobile, AL. Had to pay up front. He missed some days in which my son called and told them that he would not be there that day and he was told my grandson could make them up. Never allowed to make up. Evaluation lasted about 30 seconds and he is now reading worse than when he started there AND they sent a bill for an additional $650.00. Not going to pay.
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I paid 1,500 for my son to enrolled in the writing programme for 36 hours at sylvan learning centre. And all he was taught was how to use commas, periods and slashes. The director of the centre said by the time your son finishes his 36th hour he would have done 6 essays. Which is 6 hours per essay. That wasn't true at all because he had only finished two...
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the sylvan that my child attended in pasco county florida is owned and operated by a group of the most unprofessional women (maybe even mentally unstable) that i have ever encountered. the director at the zephyrhills, florida office romps around and actually acts like she has a mental problem. when speaking to the owner about her misconduct.
So sure, we should thank Mr. Cantor and his Republican allies for crippling our public schools instead of fixing them and sending tax payer dollars to shady corporations like Sylvan.
Thanks, Cantor. We need tons more of that kind of help in our inner cities.
Anyhoo....
Pelosi stands by her remarks.
"Leader Pelosi's statement is consistent with the House Republican record, with which Leader Cantor is surely familiar," Drew Hammill, a top spokesman for the Democratic leader, told TPM in an email on Friday.
As well she should stand behind them, because they are simply "true". Particular when
Eric Cantor Himself was one of the Prominent Republicans who opposed continuing to extend the Obama Administration's
Payroll Tax Cut which was designed specifically to HELP Struggling Families. When the option was on his table to do
exactly that - USING TAX CUTS YET - Cantor was against it.
Mellssa Harris-Perry: “We could take care of seniors for decades to come, make Social Security solvent for our young people, if we simply taxed everyone’s earnings the entire 12 months… but instead of making that choice, which is not class warfare, it’s just basic fairness… instead what the GOP has decided to do is claim that a little bit of relief for the most marginal, the most vulnerable, the most poor” is not acceptable.
Yep.
When the GOP routinely distorts the facts regarding the lives and character of the poor in a way to blame them for their situation, they show that they are "Mean" - to put it mildly. When Republican Governors and Legislatures refuse to expand Medicaid benefits to the poor, even when it's 100% paid for by the Federal Government leaving about 5 Million People without care. When practically None of them rise to dispute the claims of their own Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney that "the 47% refuse to take care of their lives" it is all to abundantly clear that they truly don't care about the struggling people they only care to help Corporations who aren't struggling in the least.
There are a lot of things that we should be working on together as one nation, we should be banding together to help those among us who truly need the most help, through our communities, through our churches, through local organizations, through beneficial companies and sponsorships and also through our government. It should be an "All of the Above" strategy and not an either/or zero-sum slugfest where we repeatedly Rob Peter to pay Paul to the ultimate benefit of next to no one. Republicans have long proven they want the latter, not the former.
Vyan