Question 1. Black lives matter. No time needs to be wasted on this. All lives matter! White criminal, Mexican criminals, and black criminals have all been abused by police. Blacks are not any different.
Question 2: minimum wage increase. Minimum wage jobs were never, nor will they ever be ment to raise a family on. Since when did people start thinking they were? A minimum wage job, or "McJob" is really just for high school kids, retired people, or unskilled workers.
Question #3: climate change. This is not a proven science. The planet had done this for millennia and always will. Everytime the "scientists" claim one thing, good Ol' mother nature does the exact opposite. Not a very compelling argument for the "climate experts" to convince the public. Most people see through this bull shit by now.
Question #4: paid sick leave... Americans want this but don't want to pay for it through thier taxes. If it is mandated by the feds, then businesses will simply cut jobs to compensate for the costs. Shot right in the foot!
Question#5: investment in public education. Everyone knows the public schools are a mess. If you want your kids to get a quality education, you don't send them to a public school! Why would we want to send money on a failing system? Schools would perform much better if run by the private sector.
Free-market is the term used at ALEC, and is also what the media uses. It is unfortunate because it is not free of influence or control, and describing it as “corporate dominated market” is certainly more reflective of how our market operates. I think we can do a service to the public by pointing out how the free market is not free and is an abstraction found nowhere in the world.
Thanks, Chris, for continuing to inform us about ALEC and hanging in there against the Republican majority and its crushing of the public interest and promotion of all things corporate and private. Without the EPA, and the attacks here on the DNR, it will be difficult to watch what is happening to our environment, and of course the other issues in the state.
Your characterization is off base. Sounds to me like you did not bother to read the story, which accurately recounted precisely what Waller told the Koch-funded conference. The article put her comments claiming that she would be in jail or out of business if she ran her business the way the government works by documenting her actions, such as her approval of huge retention bonuses to bankers that helped crash the U.S. economy along with her efforts to transfer manufacturing process out of the U.S. despite assurance that were made to employees. Her gender is not an issue in her actions which have supported the Koch agenda and which have undermined corporate accountability.
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