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The Rake.......... are these song lyrics or something?

Shit, something I could have added valuable confusion to and I missed out. Wasn't able to take a break at all this morning.

I don't see Bernie on the Dem ticket, the DNC just doesn't want him. Will $15.00 in California get you the same thing it will get you in Mississippi? If you implement the "Free college for everyone!", will there be grade standards to be kept in order to maintain your student status or will it be just extending high school for many by another 4 years?

Still waiting on what the experts on this site have to say. All I get is deflection on how I don't want to pay taxes or that I must hate teachers. If his wife is the sole bread winner of the family as a public educator and his argument is she needs to be paid more due to the poor financial planning on their part then he should have included this in the discussion. There are barely any single income middleclass families left in this country, I wouldn't expect the salary of a public school teacher to provide privilege to his family so he can sit his fat ass on a couch all day while she works. No sarcasm there......

How about you focus on the discussion rather than my sarcasm. I don't mind paying taxes, my kid is in a good school system and most of my tax money goes towards it. You have an idea what a teacher should be worth or you going to just throw out comments like this as a response?

Why the blanket statement, can you give me an answer? You accuse me of sarcasm in one response and then throw out a statement like this when I ask a question. How about an answer tough guy? I told you my mother was a teacher for 20+ years, your statement about my tone is misdirected and the comment was obviously made to guide this thread which I'm sure was apparent to most of the readers. Put your fishing pole down and tell me what your thing a salary range for todays teacher should be.

No one here wants these hard working teachers to live a difficult life in or outside of work. I'm happy that most teachers are able to live a pretty good life. I'm just questioning what type of salary this admirable group of people should be taking home. What salary range from a starting teacher with a bachelors degree, to a teacher with a masters degree and a couple years in to a teacher with 10+ years be making? I know a majority of my tax dollars go towards education and I'm told by people on this site that it's still not enough so give me an idea of how underpaid teachers are.

So what should teachers make? $250K a year? More than half of my town tax is for education, I live in the town I do for the quality education it provides but like everyone else when my kid finishes high school there will be "Congratulations Graduate!" balloons tied on one side of the mailbox and a "For Sale" sign hanging off a post on the other side. What's a reasonable salary for a teacher? I'm not saying they should be paid crap, just asking.......

The problem I have with salary discussions on the public side is how much should a teacher / fireman / policeman make and at the end of the day how is it going to get paid for?

My Mom taught back in the 70's through the 90's, when I ask her about it she pretty much says it had it's pro's and con's. She taught math (algebra), I can remember her grading papers at night a couple days a week but I also remember her having a lot of time off. She did get basic supplies for the kids that needed them. She started with a bachelors and got her masters while working. Did complain about her pay back then but had very good medical/dental/vision/etc. benefits. Biggest problem was disruptive kids which for the most part had to do with the family. Just like any other job if your a teacher and feel your underpaid or don't enjoy what your doing then go find other employment.

A white Jew interviewing a young black woman, call me racist but that would just mean you didn't watch this.

You would have thought they would have told her that they have enough info to put her in jail and to please leave quietly and they would sweep it all under the rug. She did go off in the woods for a while, is that when she realized there was no longer any meaning to her life and instead of hanging out with her new grandkid or baking cookies or something she decided to get back into politics? Who at this point is actually supporting her? Where is Bill?

I would have accepted Hillary leaving quietly but with her choosing to try and remain relevant I'm now all for digging up the Clinton Foundation, Russia, Bill's airplane meeting, and everything else. The Clintons should have packed their bags and got out quietly, instead they stayed and pushed their agenda to create government dysfunction.

Molly Ringwald on John Hughes: In the interview, I asked him if he thought teen-agers were looked at differently than when he was that age. “Definitely,” he said. “My generation had to be taken seriously because we were stopping things and burning things. We were able to initiate change, because we had such vast numbers. We were part of the Baby Boom, and when we moved, everything moved with us. But now, there are fewer teens, and they aren’t taken as seriously as we were. You make a teen-age movie, and critics say, ‘How dare you?’ There’s just a general lack of respect for young people now.” Made me think about this statement John Hughes made and how true I think it is. My generation came after the baby boomers and I often think how I believed we had no voice at the time of our teen years. Was it because we were smaller in numbers as compared to the boomers? I then look at todays youth and how they are trying to be relevant with their stance on gun control, social issues and "taking a knee" during the national anthem.

And so concludes our anti Republican rhetoric for Tuesday, April 10th, 2018. Can't wait for tomorrow!

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/03/18/meal-on-wheels-trump-budget-proposal-cuts/99308928/ Also, its "meals"

I worked for a small American company that did semiautomatic through hole and pick and place machines. A lot of work went into that that equipment, a lot of cool technology from the vision system, motors & drives, motion system..... was cool to get the thing together and then "dialed in" to run all day. Did this equipment take away jobs? Sure, but there were still people needed to keep the thing running, move things around, etc.. Some of what this technology did couldn't be done by people (fine pitch part placement / soldering). I can see automation put in place in more and more environments but there still has to be people on site to keep the things running. You may take a couple out of the picture but you need people to maintain the equipment and do setups, loading, etc... Need qualified people so some idiot like Mainecat with his "screwdriver and hammer" doesn't make things worse.

Is Hillary a Russian operative? Does she have a telephone in her shoe? Is that why she keeps falling down stairs? Russia needs to work on better spy toys.

Wait a minute........I thought the Dems were laughing when a repug stood up and said Russia was our biggest threat? Why does it seem like the Dems jump on any little thing they can to try and look relevant? I thought you guys wanted to cut back on military spending? Why does it seem your more bent on dividing the country when Hillary keeps saying crap about bringing the country back together? You haven't faulted Trump on any social issues lately, please consider this with your next post.

For some reason this post makes me think of "Sleddie Eddie"

Makes me wonder what the Kennedy legacy would have been if JFK and Bobby had played out there rolls and Teddy was kept out of office.

Love this president! Can't wait for the second 4 years! If only he could tackle nepotism in the workplace when it unfairly favors old shitbags that sit on the internet all day when there are more qualified players out there. Keep fish'n Mainecat you smelly old man!

Not even going to read this.........stopped at Hillary Clinton. Put down the paper and get off the internet......get out of your room and interact with real people. There's a whole world out there.....

I would consider buying Mainecat toilet paper with the Freedomsledder logo on it.

Add makes me think. Makes me think of how someone that loves his country and has taken up a career to defend his beliefs is put in a situation that as you say further divides the country. Makes me wonder why people would choose to burn a flag when they are aware of the impact it has on a group of people that made significant sacrifices so that stupid people would have the freedom to do things like burn a flag.