Look, I personally don't like the idea of giving money away to people who can actually get a job a pay for their own way. Even if things are not that great today, these people could make more money working in a KFC, Wal-Mart or AMC Movie Theaters than what they get from the Gov't, but it's better for them when they can just stay home and get a check thru mail for just sitting there. Besides they would be contributing to the Gov't by paying the taxes they are meant to pay. I personally look forward to getting money back at the end of my pay year. We may not agree on this but lets just agree to disagree.
When it comes to education, I believe that we are not doing good enough, not now, not before Bush. We are not raising smart kids anymore, at least not smart in an academic view, but more like in a I-can-get-away-with-anything view. I think we should pour more money into education, I also believe that we need to add things that will help our children become better people in the future. Like example, I believe it's never too early to learn certain things they will need when they reach 18 years old, such as finance (learn how to save and spend money), politics (learn how to vote, to understand the system), Law ( basic laws like speeding, J-walking, stealing, etc.). All these things are things I believe children should learn and understand before they reach 18 so that they can get an idea what it's gonna be like to be an adult and to eventually be the ones who will run the country. But who do we depend on to teach this to our children, the parents, the ones who don't know it in the first place (I don't mean all parents, but many don't).
I personally don't care about Big Company tax cuts, either way they will find ways to make more money by firing people, or bringing up prices. I worked in a KFC at the age of 18 and I knew that their policy was to have employees that worked for minimum wage as often as possible, that way they could make more money by not having to pay employee a lot of money. Those who were there for more than a year would easily find a way out by either getting fired for little things like loosing a knife or quiting because they were yelled at often for no reason or had their hours cut. Since the KFC work system was so easy to learn, getting a replacement was a piece of cake. I was lucky to get to a supervisor position within a year and trained a few of them. Eventually the new boss found a way to get rid of me as well. So you see they will always find ways to make money, they mostly don't care about the employee, it's all about the money.
Catch my drift? We may not always agree on a lot of things, but somewhere along the line we will meet on the same level and agree. What you need to learn is that not everyone will always agree and you have to except that. You also have to except that ones ideas are not always right and that looking at facts from other people will not kill you. All you have to do is refute those facts to keep you point going, repeating yourself, screaming and completely disregarding the other persons words is not the way to go. the point is to reach a middle point where we can all agree for the better of our nation and our people. Cutting each other at the throat will not help anyone. Just look at our Gov't now, they can't make any decisions without busting each others balls first. And that is a shame.
