Monday, February 27, 2012

Re: Rick Santorum Dragged Down By Support Of Bush Initiatives

Name one Bush ll program that was cancelled by Obama.... Name one that was not amplified by Obama....

I won't hold my breath.. you can't.

On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 2:05 PM, Tommy News <tommysnews@gmail.com> wrote:

The Little Annointed None is clueless.

On Feb 25, 11:00 am, THE ANNOINTED ONE <markmka...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Greg,
>
> It not a long list.... Simply say "All of them with NO exceptions".
> Obama is Bush lll , Tommy just refuses to open his eyes.
>
> On Feb 24, 10:07 am, GregfromBoston <greg.vinc...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Ted Kennedy sponsored No Child Left Behind.
>
> > Now if you'd like a list of Bush initiatives Obama has ramped UP,
> > lemme know, its kinda lengthy
>
> > On Feb 24, 10:50 am, Tommy News <tommysn...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > Santorum Dragged Down By Support Of Bush Initiatives
>
> > > George W. Bush Still A Drag On Rick Santorum's Prospects
>
> > > WASHINGTON - In 2006, Rick Santorum was decisively tossed out of his
> > > Senate seat in Pennsylvania by 18 points, in a wave election where
> > > Democrats romped largely because of President George W. Bush's
> > > unpopularity.
>
> > > Six years later, Santorum is running for Bush's old job, but the
> > > former president is still a weight around his neck.
>
> > > Santorum was dragged down in Wednesday night's debate by his support
> > > for a few of Bush's initiatives.
>
> > > The 2002 No Child Left Behind legislation was the Bush agenda item
> > > that hurt Santorum most in the debate. Santorum said his support for
> > > the measure was "a mistake."
>
> > > "It was against the principles I believed in, but, you know, when
> > > you're part of the team, sometimes you take one for the team, for the
> > > leader," Santorum said.
>
> > > Mitt Romney, ignoring the fact that he himself supported No Child Left
> > > Behind, made hay Thursday with Santorum's ill-advised quip.
>
> > > "I wonder which team he was taking it for," Romney said at a campaign
> > > stop in Phoenix. "My team is the American people, not the insiders in
> > > Washington."
>
> > > Others said it was no mystery which team Santorum was on.
>
> > > "The team he was taking it for was President George W. Bush in his
> > > first year in office," said Bill Kristol, the founder of the
> > > conservative Weekly Standard, on Fox News.
>
> > > But Kristol said that Santorum's admission that he had erred was to
> > > the Pennsylvanian's credit, and that Romney's 2006 health care
> > > overhaul when he was governor of Massachusetts is a bigger problem for
> > > him.
>
> > > "Maybe No Child Left Behind was bad legislation. Rick Santorum said
> > > last night, 'I made a mistake.' Mitt Romney has never said about
> > > RomneyCare, 'I made a mistake.' And as a conservative, I think
> > > RomneyCare is a heck of a lot bigger mistake than the No Child Left
> > > Behind bill," Kristol said.
>
> > > Romney also dinged Santorum Wednesday for two other times that
> > > Santorum helped Bush, namely his 2004 endorsement of fellow
> > > Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter -- which was important to the White
> > > House at the time so that they kept control of the Senate -- and
> > > Bush's imposition of tariffs on imported steel in 2002.
>
> > > Santorum's steel tariff decision was driven as much by parochial
> > > self-interest as any loyalty to Bush, but it was nonetheless a
> > > controversial decision with conservatives for Bush to put the trade
> > > barriers in place, and Santorum's support -- at a time when he was the
> > > number three Republican in the Senate -- was a help to the White
> > > House.
>
> > > The way in which Bush's legacy has begun to hurt Santorum is a
> > > microcosm, some said, for how the former Republican president
> > > negatively impacted the conservative movement as a whole.
>
> > > "Santorum is a perfect example of what Bushism did to the Republican
> > > Party," said a former Senate GOP aide with detailed knowledge of
> > > Santorum's work in GOP leadership, who feels Santorum "undermine(d)
> > > fiscal conservatives."
>
> > > Many conservatives see No Child Left Behind, along with Bush's
> > > expansion of Medicare and his failure to veto any spending bills for
> > > most of his presidency -- while Republicans controlled Congress -- as
> > > betrayals of conservative belief in limited government. They believe
> > > Bush accelerated a trend of expanding the federal government that has
> > > in turn been sped up by President Barack Obama.
>
> > > A win for Santorum in next Tuesday's Michigan primary would be a
> > > game-changer, badly wounding Romney and thrusting Santorum forward
> > > into the driver's seat. But Santorum's Bush association is one of the
> > > major factors -- past statements on social issues is the other big one
> > > -- that has been a drag on his momentum this week, as Romney has moved
> > > to make up ground in the polls.
>
> > > Yet Andrew Card, who was Bush's White House chief of staff from 2001
> > > to 2006, said that Santorum was not an automatic Bush ally in every
> > > fight.
>
> > > "He was not always a dependable vote to be honest with you. We had to
> > > work hard for it," Card told The Huffington Post. "But he listened
> > > well and gave us the benefit of the doubt when we came to him with a
> > > challenge."
>
> > > On No Child Left Behind, Card said he "put Rick in the leaning
> > > favorable-skeptic category" going into the effort to pass the
> > > legislation. Santorum's caution, Card said, was based on concerns
> > > about the federal government's role in education.
>
> > > "I still think it's the right policy," Card, currently acting dean of
> > > The Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M
> > > University, said of the law.
>
> > > "It didn't always get implemented to live up to people's expectations.
> > > But it was a noble and historic reform that was brought into education
> > > that you were going to hold people accountable and have some measure
> > > of success," Card said. "It did crack the establishment to bring more
> > > accountability to it."
>
> > > More:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/23/bush-santorum-_n_1298273.htm...
>
> > > --
> > > Together, we can change the world, one mind at a time.
> > > Have a great day,
> > > Tommy
>
> > > --
> > > Together, we can change the world, one mind at a time.
> > > Have a great day,
> > > Tommy- Hide quoted text -
>
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Union workers don’t like volunteers

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Union workers don't like volunteers

by DCG

Volunteers save cities billions, but unions cry foul

Fox News: With budgets tighter than ever, cities across America are increasingly looking for more free labor. Nowhere is that trend more evident than Yakima, Washington.

"More and more every year, a large part of what we do is volunteers," says Archie Matthews, Yakima's director of neighborhood development services, "It saves us a ton of money."

Matthews says begging for volunteers is not beneath him. And to his surprise, he usually gets them. Once signed up, they do a variety of tasks, including construction work for low-income housing, painting over gang graffiti and keeping senior centers from having to close their doors.

Mary Lizotte, 74, volunteers eight hours a week at a senior center, where the paid staff has been trimmed to just three employees. "We've been faced with cuts in the budget and threatened to be closed down a couple of days a week," Lizotte said. "It's not only good for them, it's good for us volunteers." The center is able to stay open seven days a week with volunteers doing everything from clerical work to preparing and serving the food.

According to a Volunteering in America study, last year 63 million Americans volunteered more than eight billion hours. When you calculate average wages and benefits for city employees, local governments saved $173 billion.

But not everyone is thrilled about the civic spirit. Some unions are pushing back, fearing volunteers are cutting into their territory. "They're eroding the number of hours for our people," says Ian Gordon of Laborer's Union 1239 in Seattle. "It's of great concern that they might be doing further work that we would normally do."

Gordon's union represent 900 city employees, nearly half of them maintenance workers in the Parks Department, which cut staff by 14 percent. He's met with city officials over the volunteer issue and insisted on a significant roadblock. Volunteers are not allowed to drive work trucks or use power equipment of any kind. No lawnmowers, no weed whackers, no leaf blowers.

Len Gilroy of the Reason Institute says it's about protecting their turf. "Unions see a threat to jobs and lavish benefits that they've secured for their employees," says Gilroy. Ian Gordon won't dispute that. "I need to be concerned about our people, who have lives, families and who need to make a living wage," says Gordon.

Some unions don't have a problem. The Police Guild in Redlands, Calif., has welcomed a big spike in volunteer cops even after 21 paid officers were laid off. The city now has nearly four times as many volunteer officers as full-time, paid cops. Many of the volunteers do everything their paid counterparts do, from chasing down suspects to making arrests. "It's essential for us," says Redlands Police Chief Mark Garcia, "especially in tough financial times."

City officials admit there is a balancing act. They want to keep city services going in the wake of cutbacks. The only way to do that is with volunteers. The trick, they say, is to tap into a growing pool of free labor without angering their organized labor.

This is the problem with government - they aren't designed to make a profit. They are driven by the unions that seek to keep employees and their lavish benefits.

A private sector firm would 1) budget for staff that allows them to make a profit and 2) welcome volunteers (interns) to supplement their staff and keep their payroll at a minimum.

I say you could cut government staff (at all levels) by 1/3 or more and not see a difference in their services. Especially if volunteers stepped up to make sure their communities still functioned at a high level and their tax dollars were put to the best use.

DCG

DCG | February 26, 2012 at 7:00 am | Tags: big government | Categories: Culture War, Liberals/Democrats, Taxes | URL: http://wp.me/pKuKY-cIY

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Re: SANTORUM: SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE 'MAKES ME WANT TO THROW UP'

Tommytomtom,

Please show me "separation of church and state"... it does guarantee
"freedom of religion" NOT "freedom from religion"

On Feb 26, 2:24 pm, Tommy News <tommysn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> From Greg
>
> SANTORUM: SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE 'MAKES ME WANT TO THROW UP' -
>
> Alana Horowitz reports on the Huffington Post:"Rick Santorum on Sunday
> took on of separation of church and state."'I don't believe in an
> America where the separation of church and state are absolute,' he
> told 'This Week' host George Stephanopoulos. 'The idea that the church
> can have no influence or no involvement in the operation of the state
> is absolutely antithetical to the objectives and vision of our
> country...to say that people of faith have no role in the public
> square? You bet that makes me want to throw up.'
>
> "The GOP candidate was responding to comments he made last October. He
> had said that he 'almost threw up' after reading JFK's 1960 speech in
> which he declared his commitment to the separation of church and
> state. "Santorum also on Sunday told Meet The Press host David Gregory
> that separation of church and state was 'not the founders' vision.'
>
> "The GOP candidate has been doubling down on religious rhetoric in an
> effort to court evangelical voters ahead of Super Tuesday. Last week,
> he questioned Obama's spiritual beliefs."'[Obama believes in] some
> phony ideal, some phony theology ... not a theology based on the
> Bible, a different theology,' he said."
>
> More:
> HuffingtonPost.com
>
> --
> Together, we can change the world, one mind at a time.
> Have a great day,
> Tommy
>
> --
> Together, we can change the world, one mind at a time.
> Have a great day,
> Tommy

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