JFlorio Loc: Seminole Florida

I also donate to Judicial Watch. Great minds and all that.

lindajoy Loc: right here with you....

Whoaaaa, I’m giving you a big, yuge hug right now!!! Great minds and all~~

dtucker300 Loc: Vista, CA

I spent many years tutoring College Freshmen who are a product of our educational system. Their basic understanding of arithmetic is appalling. Trying to teach algebra to someone who can't do simple multiplication and division is very time-consuming and exhausting. Most already had math phobia coming in. I had to correct their fears of math and show them that they could actually do Algebra without using a calculator even though they were sorely lacking in the basics. How does one graduate from high school these days without having at least passed Algebra? I am happy to say that nearly every student I tutored earned an "A" grade and came away much more secure and confident in their ability to do Math. Several went on to finish Trigonometry and Calculus.

The only way many can count change when working in retail is when the computer tells them how much change to give to the customer. However, if you want to really screw them up, give them the exact change amount after they enter $20.00 into the computer. I go to In-N-Out burger occasionally and have never had my order messed up; always correct. The other day it finally happened. I bought food through the drive-thru and my total was $15.26 I handed the clerk $20.26 so that she could give me back a $5 dollar bill. Instead, I got 4 $1.00 bills and a dollar's worth of change; Two quarters, four dimes, one nickel, and five pennies. At least I received the correct amount of change.

promilitary

If we don't maintain a strong military, which we have now, we won't have a future.

dtucker300 Loc: Vista, CA

Prager U,
Judicial Watch,
Nat'l Assoc for Gun Rights,
Heritage Foundation,
Hoover Institution at Stanford,
Hillsdale College,
Project Veritas, and
Consumer Reports.

No politicians, especially not until the completely repeal Obamacare (thanks McCain) get comprehensive immigration reform, and balance the budget!

son of witless

You are preaching to the choir. I said I was fortunate early on. Unfortunately my later education was totally hit or miss. Some of that was due to my Father's occasional abandonment of our family and subsequent returns which threw me into several school districts and then back to my original one.

For some reason I got algebra, it just clicked in my head. That helped me enormously in Physics and Chemistry. Unfortunately I was put into the back of the class when it came to geometry, which I always had to struggle with. Two of the school districts I was thrown into actually introduced me to things I wouldn't have experienced otherwise, namely biology classifications and English literature.

What you said about getting change back from kids, I saw that first all the way back in the 1980s when pocket calculators became prevalent. Kids cannot do simple subtraction in their heads. I was in a fast food place when their registers went down and they had to make change with pencil and paper. The older adults could do it easily and the teenagers were lost.

One of the things that my early teachers did that I never hear being done since were arithmetic and spelling Bs. I used to be in the top 3 in my class when we had them and it taught me to think.

My kids I think were fortunate that my wife and I had the ability and time to help them when their teachers failed them. I thought at the time about the kids who did not have that.

Cuda2020

We don't have a future if we're not marketable competitive. Education secures our future in the world economy, which we are now ranking around 38th depending on the poll.

The Military is also a big expense without revenue. It is not an investment in our future as the military complex would like all of us to believe. We outspend in the military by

U.S. ECONOMY SLIPS FROM FIRST TO THIRD PLACE IN GLOBAL COMPETITIVENESS RANKING AMID TRUMP'S TARIFFS

While the U.S. dropped in the rankings, Asian-Pacific countries fared much better. Eleven of the 14 regional nations analyzed stayed the same or rose in the evaluation. Indonesia and Thailand both experienced significant rises.

Some Middle Eastern nations also experienced significant progress in the rankings, with Saudi Arabia leaping 13 places and Qatar rising four to earn its spot as the world's tenth most competitive economy.

The United States spends more on national defense than China, Saudi Arabia, India, France, Russia, United Kingdom, and Germany all put together.

These reasons shown here, shows our over focus to the military, we are being manipulated by the military complex and big oil, these are the very reasons Bernie has gained so much support. This country has turned it's back on its people.
and is indulgent to the parties who have been in control from the right.

lindajoy Loc: right here with you....

Member of: Hillsdale College, Nat’l Assoc of Gun Rights, Hoover Institution at Stanford...

Like Veritas and Consumer Reports just not read as often...✨👍✨

lindajoy Loc: right here with you....

Please consider, the USA has never paid off its debt while systemic cyclical corruption turns around to exploit the debt that provides their undeserved indulgences ...
There is no market, industry, necessity, right, or else that is not bailed out, propped up, subsidized, exploited, & distorted in the socio-ecchonomic illusion created by both parties!! We didn’t get where we are in 3 years and we sure won’t get out of it in 3 years either...

Perhaps looking at deficit and debt helps to understand more of what’s going on??

I posted this elsewhere but works here too.. Since one effects the other~< If not for timing shifts of certain payments, the federal government would actually have realized a $1 billion surplus in January 2020 and a $12 billion deficit in January 2019.) > Timing as in previously agreed upon debt owed at certain times..

The US isn’t about to go broke or slip credit worthy wise like it did under Obama.. Not because we can just print more money.( inflation would do us in) rather, because the domino effect of such an act would break every other country as well.. World wide bankruptcy in effect... While countries scream, trade is argued, etc you can bet not a one will risk losing their standing to collapse.. The US included...✨💫
Tracking the Federal Deficit: January 2020
The Congressional Budget Office reported that the federal government generated a $32 billion deficit in January, the fourth month of fiscal year 2020. January’s deficit is a $40 billion change from the $9 billion surplus recorded a year earlier in January 2019. (If not for timing shifts of certain payments, the federal government would actually have realized a $1 billion surplus in January 2020 and a $12 billion deficit in January 2019.) January’s deficit brings the total deficit so far this fiscal year to $388 billion, which is 25% ($78 billion) higher than the same period last year (or $23 billion higher once timing shifts are accounted for). Total revenues so far in FY2020 increased by 6% ($67 billion), while spending increased by 10% ($145 billion), compared to the same period last year. (After accounting for timing shifts, spending rose by 6% or $90 billion.
Analysis of Notable Trends in This Fiscal Year to Date: Through the first four months of FY2020, revenue from corporate income taxes rose by 27% ($16 billion). Additionally, Federal Reserve remittances increased by 14% ($3 billion) partly due to lower short-term interest rates that reduced its interest expenses. On the spending side, after accounting for timing shifts, total Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid outlays rose by 6% ($41 billion). Outlays for the Department of Defense rose by 7% ($14 billion), largely for procurement and research and development....~~snip~~

Methodological Note:
The monthly tracker entries report preliminary spending, revenue, and deficit data from CBO’s Monthly Budget Reviews. These summaries are released around the fifth business day of every month and preview the release of official budget data from the Treasury Department, which follows on roughly the eighth business day of every month (except end-of-year data, which tends to be released later in October). Historically, CBO’s preliminary data is accurate, often differing from Treasury’s final figures by only a few billion dollars, if at all. For example, CBO preliminarily reported that the total FY2019 deficit was $984 billion in their September 2019 review, matching the official figure that Treasury later reported.
The deficit tracker graphic is updated retroactively with official Treasury data, whereas the monthly text entries are not.

https://bipartisanpolicy.org/report/deficit-tracker/

Cuda2020

See there's your twist when you talk about our credit slipping under Obama, when clearly that was the fault of the republicans holding out by the budget approval, from monies that were spent before Obama ever came into office. Do you not remember? It was all about them manipulating in order to keep their tax cut from Bush.

You can throw up the numbers all you want, it still doesn't hide the fact we spend too much on the military and not enough on improvements to our country or making higher education more possible for all, which will support our future, more than being the police of the world.

JFlorio Loc: Seminole Florida

You were almost right on something. We do spend to much on the military. There are now more support staff than soldiers. Yet in typical liberal fashion your answer to the deficit, keep spending. Just on what you believe is important.

lindajoy Loc: right here with you....

Did you read the first paragraph I wrote where I blamed both parties? I pointed out the downgrade in credit worthiness when Obama was in office because it actually did occur when Obama was in office. I kept it or at least tried to keep it from being a partisan condition starting the way I did and using a site that accumulates it’s DATA from government numbers not other sorted news sources...

I didn’t twist anything and cited what was factually witnessed..Could have gone off on some tyrannical rant but I don’t like to reply to people that way, it’s useless!

You also don’t get to blame Trump for everything either.. Like I also said we didn’t get in this mess in 3 years nor will
We get out of it in three years..

The numbers I posted are just as relevant as your numbers.. Perhaps You see I didn’t throw some flippant remark at you relative to the numbers you posted, I presented you with an opportunity to look at others taken from the government records..

On Education I’d agree with you if DOE hadn’t introduced dumb downing our children and making them illiterate i***ts having to redo their basic classes when they enter their first year of college. Not to mention all the changes made relative to our history from the books not what the teachers are trying to pass as teaching material...

We rank 38th because when looking to cut funding, education gets hit first with bare minimum funds barely enough to do anything.. I support state authority, get government out of it and let the state run their programs with required sk**ls and academics taught at a higher standard than the minimal they now have in place...

promilitary

Why would you think the military is supposed to bring in revenue???
And I say again, without a strong military, which we have now, we won't have a future.