Wisconsin Recall Election: Officials Unknowingly Break Law With Facebook Posts

And so, you think Unions, general and Public Employee, aren't "special interests," don't influence, don't marshall their resources to provide unfair advantage to their "chosen" candidates who slip their special favored legislation "under the door?"

As to purchasing elections, I think the whole system stinks; "one man, one vote, do it in person (disability excepted) and identify yourself as a Registered U.S. Citizen."
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Leon Panetta Responds To Mitt Romney's Afghanistan Comments (VIDEO)

You may be partly correct, however, what hs has said so far indicates a reasonabbly firm stance on important historical security and treaty issues.

I would prefer a much more robust stance on using economic weapons to achieve compliance with foreign policy goals. Like, "Cut off ALL trade and financial activity with Iran, or forget about doing ANY business with the U.S., and by Presidential decree, I am ordering an embargo on any trade or financial transactions with you including shipments already under way, unless you comply."

Fortunately the U.S. still has enough economic strength to carry this off, and I bet that cheaters and non-compliers would soon feel real pain.
About Afghanistan
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Leon Panetta Responds To Mitt Romney's Afghanistan Comments (VIDEO)

So, if I have this correctly, we are leaving Afghanistan without a "victory," no matter what anybody says. We are leaving one of the most corrupt governments, top to bottom, in charge of billions of dollars of our funds, and funds of other NATO countires, plus giving them Billions more over time after we leave, and tons of equipment, mainly used to haul dope. We are leaving our relationship with nuclear power Pakistant in worse shape than ever, and we've allowed Iran to increase their influence in Afgh. during our campaign. We have allowed Afghanistan to become the one of the largest, repeat, largest drug growers and processors in the world, with little NATO activity to interrupt their activity, which supports the Taliban's terrorist and guerilla efforts. Military commanders say that it would take another 150-200,000 troops and at least three years to defeat the Taliban, and that effort would also result in failure without getting control of the tribal areas of Pakistan, and the border territory with Iran, which, big secret, is used to provide literally tons of Iranian military gear, including IED's and advisors, to guess who?

"Class, can we say SNAFU?"
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No Holiday for Hunger

Poor program design and management, politically correct eligibility, no follow up to monitor continuing qualification (some have been on for a generation or more!) are a problem. When government substitutes for parents, even down to the feeding of children, we transfer responsibility from those who should have it, to those that shouldn't. Using her logic, we would just take children at birth, house them in nurseries and dormitories, a nnd in effect, make the state their parents. Think that would produce good results? Hint: Look at Russia and other countries experience with "factory-farm raising of children.Ms. edelman's charitable attitude and comittment is appreciated for it's oodness, but the dependence on the state, ever-growing, ever more demanding, does no service, actually hurts, her constituents-the children.
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No Holiday for Hunger

We have free and accessible birth control.

We have sex ed in public AND private schools.

Regarding the hand up. If there are no consequences for the parents because of the irresponsibility (including not using available birth control methods) one reaches one of two conclusions;

a. it "happened" on purpose (surveys show that many, if not most, girls who get pregnant do so by choice, not by "accident." or

b.The minority, the 1-2% who are pregnant by way of incest or rape ARE entitled to society's protection, but they must cooperate. Many refuse to name potential father(s), even when the pregnancy is voluntary, knowing that the system will provide support.

While innocent children are not responsible for the irresponsibile decisions of their procreators, we make a mistake by not asking/requiring the community-the geograpjhic, political and religious "commmunity" to take leadership not only in caring for children, but in counseling prevention in the first place. Americans are by far the largest charitable givers in the world, but charity without compassion, which includes the willing participation in community moral structure and yes, opprobrium when necessary, is doomed to failure. There will NEVER be enough resources to take care of ever-growing populations of poor and minority children, absent making more important resouces available for most through population planning which divides the pool among less each year, making more available for all.
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Barney Frank Criticizes House Republican On Jobs, Wall Street Reform

I have never suggested let starving children die. I have suggested that starting immediately we MUST provide populaion control planning, and incentives, otherwise we will NEVER get this under control,, never.

You seem to have skipped the part where I extolled American values of "personal decisions, personal consequences; individual opportunity, individual achievement."

No one who knows me has ever accused me of bigotry, or unfairness.

I can only assume you have misread what I wrote, or are replying to someone else.
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No Holiday for Hunger

The newly released Census report provides a clue..." In 2011 children born to minorities, Latino, Blck and Asian, outnumber white births for the first time in American history.And, notwithstanding the "mix" between poor and not-poor births, the fact is that those children born to poor minority parent(s) are proven to be less healthy, more dependent on social programs, less likely to get educated, while at the same time their mostly unmarried parent(s) also place great demands on society, and lose their own opportunity to prosper through education and training. We have created this mess through misguided social policies, compounded by poor leadership, not one of whom I have every heard counsel poor and minority girls to avoid unprotected sex, eschew unmarried parenthood, value their selves and look toward personal achievement.

Poverty persists because there are little or no consequences for bad decisions. Poverty persists because it is of benefit to so-called community and religious leaders who generate power through numbers of constituents, and so want more constituents, not less.
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