Month: September 2016

Trump gets credit for “telling it like it is.” Should not Clinton also be credited when she does likewise? She didn’t claim ALL Trump supporters were “deplorable”, only that half who are “racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic, you name it.” How else could you describe those characteristics if not “deplorable”? And if Trump can tell it like it is, why can’t Clinton?

If you want to see the most egregious fallout from the so-called Republican revolution of the 1980s, look no further than the way we treat our public school teachers. When the public school system was originally established, teaching was considered “woman’s work” and their pay was set accordingly low. It was considered to be a second income in a family. And there it has stayed. With tax cut after tax cut, public schools have been repeatedly and progressively more underfunded. We have known for years how teachers have been purchasing supplies, etc., out of their own pockets, now we learn from a feature article in a recent issue of The Nation Magazine how teachers in high rent areas are forced to take second jobs, like driving for Uber and Lyft, not only to buy supplies, but to pay their rent and put food on the table. And many are still unable to live in the community where they teach. It is hard to imagine a situation more disgraceful. And do any of our presidential candidates have an answer?

To Paul Fleishman regarding your September 18, 2016, Your email 42 I don’t know 42 registered on so I don’t know has to be, and it otherwise wouldn’t have that manyletter on the “demonization of taxes”: Well said, Sir. That, along with the demonization of government, itself, formed the basis of the Reagan revolution of the eighties which split the country apart and directly led to the super majority of Americans who feel that we are on the wrong track.