First off, i base my opinions more off of actions rather than a speech specifically designed to give people feeling that they will be taken care of.
But if I were you, I wouldn't be talking either. In fact, McCain makes hundreds of millions of dollars look like spare change. McCain's own economic adviser, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, said that McCain's anti-earmark uses the Congressional Research Service's (CRS) definition of the term. However, the CRS identifies U.S's aid to Israel as an earmark.
Which is absolutely stupid, a ear mark in the purest sense is something that a cannidate reserves for his or her own community. Trying to put this Internation Aid or Internation Money is a ear mark is the absolute same insanity that Big Al tried to make. It doesn't work.
Obviously McCain is "a very strong proponent to the State of Israel." (Quoting McCain himself) So how much has McCain helped Israel with these defined earmarks. Not one hundred million. Not a billion. Not even ten billion, but 52 billion dollars per year on Israel alone.
And is that McCain alone? Or the Federal Budget for aid to Isreal? Did McCain ask for that alone by himself placing them inside the budget? Or is that the usual aid we spend on Isreal? See trying to say a Over Seas Budget is a ear mark is just well, sad.
Also saying McCain is a strong supporter/advocate to the State of Isreal and then tying him to the Budget of Isreal is really quite insane. Most of Congress is a strong supporter of Isreal, Obama has even said he is a supporter of the State of Isreal. OMG! OBAMA HAS 52 BILLION DOLLARS IN EAR MARKS!
Even more interesting, in 2001, McCain got himself an approved $500,000 earmark for a small town named Wasilla. If you're not familiar with this city, it happened to be a town in Alaska, with a mayor named (you guessed it) Sarah Palin. It seems that, for her time as mayor, Sarah Palin had gathered a total amount of 27 million dollars for her town.
And you have proof of this?
You would think this town must have desperately needed this to survive, but strangely, Wasilla had received few if any earmarks before Palin became mayor. Of course, it seems that not only was Sarah Palin not against earmarks, but she believed, and i quote her, that "The federal budget, in its various manifestations, is incredibly important to us, and congressional earmarks are one aspect of this relationship." So either Sarah Palin is doing some cliched flip-flopping or she is keeping some secrets from the country she says she's backing.
And lets see where that aid was going to before we start throwing out accusations. Especially since you just tried to make the very insane accusation that Federal Aid to a Country is a ear mark.
Wow, I'm hoping that the last comment there wasn't serious, because if it is, its way off track. Just to make things clear, teachers obviously don't come close to 6 figures.
In 2005 Obama visited the Thorton Township Highschool in South Chicago as explained in his book. The average teacher working at Thorton Township makes 83,000 a year. Some of the teachers in attendence that day made over 100,000 a year. Becuase of this, the school was not able to keep it's teachers for full days. Worse yet the Chicago Teachers Union, a early endorcer of Obama, resist any attempts to increase instruction time. The best that the school has been able to do was increase it by 15 minutes a school day, in exchage of a seven day reduction in the school year.
Any chance for teachers to teach past 5 hours and 45 minutes has been thrawted. Their last contract contained NO new hours, but significant pay raises.
Average starting pays for teachers from elementary to high school is a mere 40,000. Not even halfway to a six figure. Of course, on the other side, the range pay for the top Harvard professors is 115,000.
Actually if we use the Chicago School again, they start out at $43,702 a year, with a $3,059 Employer Pension. If he or she stays for four years they make $57,333 with a $3,992 Pension. As well as a guaranteed raise every year.
Now for the most educated, skilled, and experienced teachers in the Chicago Public School system, they make.... wait for it.... above $100,000 a year.
Lets look at some of the worst of just this one high school.
Name: Allman Esther M
Salary: $105,395
Assignment: English (Grades 9-12 only)
Name: Anderson Paul M
Salary: $106,338
Assignment: Instrumental Music
Name: Beilfuss Bradley R
Salary: $100,476
Assignment: Economics (Grades 9-12 only)
Name: Conry Leo M
Salary: $105,930
Assignment: Spanish
Name: De Veranez Sharon T
Salary: $102,503
Position: Student Dean
Name: Fulton Karen C
Salary: $101,813
Assignment: Learning Behavior Specialist I
Name: Hall Carolyn M
Salary: $106,517
Assignment: Basic and/or General Math
The list goes on and on, man I am in the wrong line of work!
, school boards have concocted ways to make sure that even the good teachers are still in danger to being fired. My mother's a teacher is a teacher, i should know. By the way, she makes 40,000 a year, in prosperous California nonetheless, and has been teaching for 5 years.
Your mother should move to Chicago or any other city in which the Teacher Union has a stranglehold.
I would like to see your proof on this,
Rasmussen came out with the poll today.
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/pub...fresh_face_now_more_popular_than_obama_mccain
but true or not, I wouldn't be celebrating that a VP candidate that most people hardly heard of less than a couple weeks ago is more favored than your own candidate for president. (whether we debate on it or not, its pointless to try to debate that very many people were expecting her to be picked, including herself) Of course like i said, I would like to see the proof.
And you got your proof.
