Are you out of your ever living mind?!?!?!

Have you not seen what destruction on our economy and morale this man has wrought for three years?!?!

And you want him to go back to Washington, D.C.? Congress too? You are out of your mind.

The correct answer is STAY ON VACATION ALL OF YOU. The stock market tends to do better when Congress is gone. The world tends to run fine when this President is on vacation. Our freedoms cannot be further encroached while Obama is in Martha’s Vineyard.

Please, stop asking this man to come back to Washington where everything he touches tends to break down.

When he comes back in September he says he will have a plan to create jobs. The last several plans he had to create jobs killed or destroyed more private sector jobs than even the most radical leftist could have hoped for. Please, please, please stop saying he needs to come back to Washington.

Mr. President, you take as much vacation as you want. In fact, if you want to leave the country and go visit your relatives in Kenya or just go for a safari or go see your old stomping grounds in Indonesia or, heck, take the family to see penguins in Antarctica or even go to Bora Bora, I’d be glad to have you take say . . . the next twelve months off.

And even better, I’m sure we can find some people to fund your vacation other than the American taxpayers who you’ve been using to fund your political campaign bus tour.

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 Paul R. Hollrah is a freelance writer. He is a member of the Civil Engineering Academy of Distinguished Alumni at the University of Missouri - Columbia and a Senior Fellow at the Lincoln Heritage Institute. He currently resides in Tulsa, Oklahoma. 
 

After waiting patiently for almost one year, I have finally had the opportunity to watch “Waiting for Superman”, a documentary directed by Davis Guggenheim. He also directed the much-publicized documentary, “An Inconvenient Truth”, so I do not think he can be characterized as a crazy conservative. If you know of this Documentary, you must be paying attention below the radar, because it has not received the publicity it deserves. This Documentary has just been released for home movie rental.  I encourage all who are interested in the teacher union protests in Wisconsin, Ohio and, today, in Lansing to order this film and to encourage your state lawmakers to watch it as well.

I was a teacher when teacher unions were in their infancy. I appreciate what they have done to improve teacher salaries. It was needed. What I did not appreciate, even then, however, was the demoralizing system of teacher tenure. It was frustrating and disheartening to work all year to ignite a spark of interest and motivation in at risk, low income students only to see them passed on to tenured teachers who had given up teaching years earlier but who, because of tenure, could not be removed from the classroom. These “burned-out” teachers do as much harm to dedicated teachers as they do to students and to our nation. It is my opinion that teacher union’s persistence in treating tenure as their “holy grail” and their refusal to consider a merit/performance based pay scale is the reason our public schools have deteriorated steadily since the 1960’s.

As you will learn from the documentary, teacher unions are the single highest source of political contributions (both Democrat and Republican) of any political lobby group. Witnessed by recent news events, any elected official brave enough to challenge them does so at his/her peril. This bravery deserves our support.

We all have fond memories of dedicated teachers who awakened our curiosity, enriched our understanding of the world and who perhaps even gave meaningful direction to our life. We all, also, have experienced the deadening effect of wasting a year with a teacher who was merely “putting in time”.

I do not now know the result, if any, of the vote on SB153-158 that was being protested today in Lansing. I have, however, read the bill. It provides for temporary State appointed management of financially distressed municipalities and school districts. It allows for nullification of previously negotiated (and unaffordable) union contracts. I understand why unions would resent this loss of power by fiat, but it is not as draconian as the unions have portrayed it to their members. If unions can be forced to acknowledge the financial realities of their municipality or school distract, maybe they will also start to look at what their “all teachers are equal” stance has done to our education system.

I can only hope. On Wisconsin!

Sandra K, Saginaw
 

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703559604576176663789314074.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop 

I whole-heartedly agree !!!

Gov. Rick Snyder took a bold but risky step in proposing that the state end its practice of exempting most pension income from taxes.

Opponents have rapidly cast the debate as taxing on senior citizens to finance massive tax cuts for business. And, as lawmakers already know, angry seniors are quick to action - and they're committed voters.

This is no easy sell. It is, though, a discussion Michigan needs to begin:

http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/article/20110219/OPINION01/102190308/It-s-time-talk-about-pension-income?odyssey=mod%7Cnewswell%7Ctext%7CFRONTPAGE%7Cp