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[Cervantes]

Originally Posted by preakness

We will go from 3 staff in each classroom to 2 and maybe a floater/sub in the entire building if teacher assistants get minimum $15

Interesting...they throw money around at the teachers in NV like we're made of money. LOTS of wasted money here for them.

[preakness]

Originally Posted by Cervantes

Interesting...they throw money around at the teachers in NV like we're made of money. LOTS of wasted money here for them.

Was talking Support staff (behavior coaches, teacher assistant)

Teachers paid decent 43-65k

[Skipscards]

Originally Posted by jarrodsalas

Yep!! You're right!!


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Ironic they built a wall to keep them out.

[Cervantes]

Originally Posted by preakness

Was talking Support staff (behavior coaches, teacher assistant)

Teachers paid decent 43-65k

I understand that; NV school employees are living well.

[jdandns]

Originally Posted by jarrodsalas

Yep!! You're right!!


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Fortunately for Hillary, she's got enough voters to win without the Anarchist vote. Trump's been courting it, but they are a remarkably temperamental people. Even when they get what they want, they tend to not want that anymore.

[jewcer2k5]

Like I keep saying. I'm right in the middle. Lol.


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[Nyfancam01]

Originally Posted by jewcer2k5

Like I keep saying. I'm right in the middle. Lol.


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I just took the quiz also.

got 86 % CLINTON

[jewcer2k5]

Originally Posted by Nyfancam01

I just took the quiz also.



got 86 % CLINTON

I think if I did the more detailed answers my trump % would go down. I sorta just picked a lot and stayed moderate on my choice. But I tend to vote socially more than economically.


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[green4407]

I don't know how to screenshot like you guys but here's mine:

Gary Johnson 86%
Donald Trump 75%
Jill Stein 73%
Darrell Castle 72%
Hillary Clinton 69%

[Nyfancam01]

Originally Posted by jewcer2k5

I think if I did the more detailed answers my trump % would go down. I sorta just picked a lot and stayed moderate on my choice. But I tend to vote socially more than economically.


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Trump was like 50% for me.

[Anderdale]

Wow wow wow! I did kind of rush through it but I had no idea I was this one sided! Makes no sense because when I took this quiz last election, I was like 70% Romney and 65% Obama.

[cruiserdaddy7]

Originally Posted by JosieD

Please feel free to share your 5. I'd like to see it.

1.) Massive reduction of entitlements
2.) Education (end common core)
3.) Higher military spending
4.) Keeping corporations in the U.S.
5.) Healthcare being reformed to allow competition across state lines.
6.) Foreign policy(not the liberal idea of drawing red lines and then doing nothing, nor the idea of invading (Libya) and the doing nothing to oversee it.
7.) Elimination of Planned Parenthood. Yes, there will still be plenty of womens health clinics and free birth control. Just no need to fund an abortion clinic with taxpayer dollars.

I could go on and on.

[cruiserdaddy7]

Originally Posted by Anderdale

Wow wow wow! I did kind of rush through it but I had no idea I was this one sided! Makes no sense because when I took this quiz last election, I was like 70% Romney and 65% Obama.

That's what 4 more years of liberal leadership did to you.

[Clarka3]

Originally Posted by cruiserdaddy7

1.) Massive reduction of entitlements
2.) Education (end common core)
3.) Higher military spending
4.) Keeping corporations in the U.S.
5.) Healthcare being reformed to allow competition across state lines.
6.) Foreign policy(not the liberal idea of drawing red lines and then doing nothing, nor the idea of invading (Libya) and the doing nothing to oversee it.
7.) Elimination of Planned Parenthood. Yes, there will still be plenty of womens health clinics and free birth control. Just no need to fund an abortion clinic with taxpayer dollars.

I could go on and on.

more military spending? we spend the absolute most money in the world on the military already. IF you said SMARTER military spending, i'd be right there with you.

as for number 7, i don't know of any women's clinics aside from PP. do you? How plentiful are they?


edit- in a simple google search, 2/5 women's health clinics near me are PP. Do you really think cutting 30-40% (if we extrapolate, which i'm sure other areas have more options) of the options means there will be enough clinics for women?

[GoJays]

Originally Posted by Clarka3

more military spending? we spend the absolute most money in the world on the military already. IF you said SMARTER military spending, i'd be right there with you.

As an outside observer, this is one of the issues I wished candidates would address more. By many accounts, there is a lot of wasted spending throughout the military that could be cut down. Trump said this early in the race, but appears to have backtracked and supported increased spending.

There is also no need to increase military spending. The United States spends more on the military than the next eight biggest spenderst combined; most of which are allies.

I find it ironic, too, that conservatives are the ones wanting an increase in military spending, despite it being a wholly un-conservative request.

[TheFrenzy]

Originally Posted by cruiserdaddy7

1.) Massive reduction of entitlements
2.) Education (end common core)
3.) Higher military spending
4.) Keeping corporations in the U.S.
5.) Healthcare being reformed to allow competition across state lines.
6.) Foreign policy(not the liberal idea of drawing red lines and then doing nothing, nor the idea of invading (Libya) and the doing nothing to oversee it.
7.) Elimination of Planned Parenthood. Yes, there will still be plenty of womens health clinics and free birth control. Just no need to fund an abortion clinic with taxpayer dollars.

I could go on and on.

1. So ending Social Security and Medicare?
3. Really??? So the opposite of small government and lower taxes...
4. Corporations or jobs? Also, reducing entitlement would mean reducing corporate entitlements.
5. My family sells medical equipment. If you want to reform it, institute price ceilings because the normal laws of supply and demand don't apply to medical billing.
6. Invasions and occupations?

Seems pretty contradictory in many respects.

[Clarka3]

Originally Posted by GoJays

As an outside observer, this is one of the issues I wished candidates would address more. By many accounts, there is a lot of wasted spending throughout the military that could be cut down. Trump said this early in the race, but appears to have backtracked and supported increased spending.

There is also no need to increase military spending. The United States spends more on the military than the next eight biggest spenderst combined; most of which are allies.

I find it ironic, too, that conservatives are the ones wanting an increase in military spending, despite it being a wholly un-conservative request.

if we cut spending by 1% of the GDP (when we spend around 3.9% now) all of that money could fund not only the pensions of government and public employees, but also education, research, and infrastructure repair (just think of all the jobs to be created with funding going toward repairing crumbling bridges and roads!),

we waste quite a bit right now on programs that just aren't necessary. that F-35 worked out real well, while costing us a mind-boggling sum of cash. we also "lost" something like 8 trillion that just disappeared in the pentagon.

[cruiserdaddy7]

Originally Posted by TheFrenzy

1. So ending Social Security and Medicare?
3. Really??? So the opposite of small government and lower taxes...
4. Corporations or jobs? Also, reducing entitlement would mean reducing corporate entitlements.
5. My family sells medical equipment. If you want to reform it, institute price ceilings because the normal laws of supply and demand don't apply to medical billing.
6. Invasions and occupations?

Seems pretty contradictory in many respects.

Social security disability is the newest welfare scam. When I speak of entitlements, I speak of food stamps and medicaid. Not to mention housing and all of the other handouts to citizens that are a drain on society.

Military spending can be upped with funds that are re-allocated from entitlement programs. Want to eat? Work. Want healthcare? Work. Want a roof over your head? Work.

It's funny to me listening to the DNC speakers mention slavery. In this society, the people who go out and earn a living are slaves to those on food stamps and so on. So things have turn around quite a bit. I am a slave to the very people complaining about slavery hundreds of years ago.

Talk about double standards and hypocrisy.

[jlzinck]

2200+ posts of "I'm right. You are wrong."...."No jackwad I'M RIGHT and you are WRONG"

God Bless

[ajlaxmn]

Originally Posted by Clarka3

more military spending? we spend the absolute most money in the world on the military already. IF you said SMARTER military spending, i'd be right there with you.

as for number 7, i don't know of any women's clinics aside from PP. do you? How plentiful are they?


edit- in a simple google search, 2/5 women's health clinics near me are PP. Do you really think cutting 30-40% (if we extrapolate, which i'm sure other areas have more options) of the options means there will be enough clinics for women?

Originally Posted by GoJays

As an outside observer, this is one of the issues I wished candidates would address more. By many accounts, there is a lot of wasted spending throughout the military that could be cut down. Trump said this early in the race, but appears to have backtracked and supported increased spending.

There is also no need to increase military spending. The United States spends more on the military than the next eight biggest spenderst combined; most of which are allies.

I find it ironic, too, that conservatives are the ones wanting an increase in military spending, despite it being a wholly un-conservative request.

Originally Posted by Clarka3

if we cut spending by 1% of the GDP (when we spend around 3.9% now) all of that money could fund not only the pensions of government and public employees, but also education, research, and infrastructure repair (just think of all the jobs to be created with funding going toward repairing crumbling bridges and roads!),

we waste quite a bit right now on programs that just aren't necessary. that F-35 worked out real well, while costing us a mind-boggling sum of cash. we also "lost" something like 8 trillion that just disappeared in the pentagon.

I agree that we could cut military spending, by A LOT. No need to spend so much when we aren't even on the verge of a Major world scale war.

So much money is spent on advancing weapon systems and programs when there isn't a dire need for them. I think the time and money should be put forth into extensive research, before they do some research, then estimate off that, which leads to many cost overruns.

There is no need for all the military spending, we already have some of the most advanced weapons in the world. How many other countries have advanced aircraft carriers, let alone aircraft carriers in general? Three years ago didn't China just unveil its first carrier? Our AF and Navy have some of the most advanced weapon systems in the world.

Military spending NEEDS to be cut. More oversight into the acquisition process and the actual spending would probably save a good amount of money. Just imagine how much money would be free if spending was cut by 3%.

[jrinne17]

Candidates you side with...
87% Donald Trump
83% Darrell Castle
62% Gary Johnson
11% Hillary Clinton
10% Jill Stein

[jstephens24]

Candidates you side with...
92% Donald Trump
73% Darrell Castle
72% Gary Johnson
31% Jill Stein
17% Hillary Clinton

[JosieD]

Originally Posted by cruiserdaddy7

Social security disability is the newest welfare scam. When I speak of entitlements, I speak of food stamps and medicaid. Not to mention housing and all of the other handouts to citizens that are a drain on society.

Military spending can be upped with funds that are re-allocated from entitlement programs. Want to eat? Work. Want healthcare? Work. Want a roof over your head? Work.

It's funny to me listening to the DNC speakers mention slavery. In this society, the people who go out and earn a living are slaves to those on food stamps and so on. So things have turn around quite a bit. I am a slave to the very people complaining about slavery hundreds of years ago.

Talk about double standards and hypocrisy.

The biggest issue with that is the amount of people on entitlement programs that are mentally ill. we would need to differentiate people who utilize these programs. A large number in PA have a mental health disorder that prohibits them from working. My husband was trying to help on of his higher functioning clients obtain employment. The poor guy wants to work and no one will hire him. We would need to make sure the job market is there for them. There has been significant rise in the amount of mental health diagnosis recently in children. I would like to see the ratio between adults vs children on welfare.

Also, those us that work are not slaves to those on entitlement programs. That's a bit dramatic of a statement. If you want to change the system, I encourage you to volunteer. Maybe you could start a club that teaches inner city boys the importance of growing up to be respectable young men. Or, a job placement group. It's probably harder for someone in poverty to get a job than it is someone with a middle class background.

[JosieD]

Jill 82
Hillary 77
Gary 73
Donald 70

[Brobocop]

Not shocked with my results. Gary Johnson baby!