“Well because, if you take a trillion dollars for instance, out of the first year of the federal budget, that would shrink GDP over 5 percent. That is by definition throwing us into recession or depression. So I’m not going to do that, of course,” ~Mitt Romney  Read the sentence above.  Well – YEAH.  That’s [...]

We have to serve them and their families as well as they have served us: By making sure that they get the healthcare and benefits they need; by caring for our wounded warriors and supporting our military families; and by giving veterans the chance to go to college, find a good job, and enjoy the [...]

“How do you teach homosexuality?  Is it like French?  I was born of heterosexual parents, taught by heterosexual teachers, in a fiercely heterosexual society. So why then am I homosexual?  And, no offense meant, if it were true that children mimic their teachers, we’d have a hell of a lot more nuns running around.” ~Harvey [...]

Republicans know that their policies towards the Latino community are HORRENDOUS.  They have said…if “WE LOSE HISPANICS THIS BAD, WE LOSE THE WHOLE ELECTION. PERIOD.“ But there is a reason that Latinos don’t support the Republican party…they have great reasons (as in more than one).  The Republicans are targeting them…time and time and time again.  They’re [...]

“Farm bills can take two weeks or a year and half which happened to me in 96.  We don’t want that now.  We have a Sept. 30 deadline, farmers and ranchers and lenders—especially lenders—are getting nervous.” ~Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KS) For all of the constant b.s. in the air about socialism this and socialism that….support [...]

The chart above highlights the separate and unequal opportunities at a good education in America.  As the chart shows – a top scoring low income student has less of a chance to complete college than a low scoring wealthy student.  That’s modern America for you.  And yet – despite that inequality of opportunity…that huge gap [...]