bjobotts
bjobotts's JournalPrayer was never taken out of school. FORCED prayer was.
Students can pray whenever they want but if Mary thinks her beliefs should be forced on others she misses the point of freedom from religion. Quakers tried to force prayer on others and it was why they wee thrown out of England. Our second great principle is tolerance...and prayer and religious beliefs are tolerated but should never be forced on others. I went from a MO school where you were sent home if you wore a t-shirt under a sweater or didn't wear socks to Phoenix HS where they had beard growing contests for rodeo week and were wearing shorts and sandals. Suddenly I felt free and loved going to school. Sorry Mary but you need to stop living in the past...in Mayberry. Watch Michael Moores' new movie "Where to Invade Next" and look at what Finland did to become number 1 for best educated students out of HS. They used to be like us but decided to make a change to make it better for students. Fearful people pray...spiritual people live... in the now.
We have the answers to all our problems but are being obstructed by a greedy few.
End our dependence on fossil fuel and going 100% renewable energy.
End our trade agreements making more expensive to make products or provide services out side of America and then bring it back here as it would be to just make it or provide it here at home through tax incentive and tariffs bringing the factories and jobs back home.
Rebuild our infrastructure making the government the employer of last resort.
Medicare for all bringing us single payer universal health care
Increase SS benefits and lower the retirement age.
Free college education
End Citizens United
This is the short list. But we have in power those who only want to enrich themselves and don't care about the well being of the society in which he lives.
She had 700 pledged super delegates before campaigns ever started.Running for pres past 25yrs
Look who heads the DNC-Clinton supporter. Who runs the states primaries and caucuses...Clinton supporters. MSNBC in the bag for Clinton. Benen blogging at the Maddow blog never says anything negative about Clinton but every story on Sanders is negative and biased. It's the process not the moment. Forget Clinton and Sanders for a moment and look at what has happened to the Dem party and what it stands for today. It's why Bernie has been so successful bringing so many young people into the process...he stands for the people and is not a multimillionaire spokes person for the Money party.
Hard to ignore her repressed anger and condescending attitude. Matched against Trump she
could lose it for us due to all the Hillary hate that has mounted for years. A whole different attitude develops when one is a multimillionaire, hanging with other multimillionaires and accepting huge contributions from them. Is she more focused on their needs and issues than she is with the poor and middle class? How can any democrat oppose what Bernie supporting?
BTW... besides regulating donations made to candidates we need to pass legislation that makes it illegal to profiteer from our democratic elections. It's the media's gravy train and they would run it all year long if they could forcing politicians to raise the huge amounts of money they demand. No political ads until 3mos before an election. Equal free time for parties and candidates since we own the air waves and this is the fundamental process for a functioning democracy. It's the first mistake which leads to corruption when the process demands huge sums of money to run for office due to people profiteering from the process. Call it the "Free Elections bill" No more profiteering from our elections.
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