Republicans want - demand - something done about crime. Everything the Democrats and Obama have proposed to slow down crime and mass shootings, the Republicans vote NO or tie it up. Then they say Obama and the Dems have done nothing to stop these mass shootings. They are simply and deliberately creating an agenda to further their own agenda. It's the same as if I sold you a car and didn't include the engine to make it run. Republicans give Obama and the Dems and opportunity to fix things, but they keep control of the engine to drive the ideas home.
Republicans have been in a “war” against public education for many decades; invariably against funding to support America’s most vital institution(s). Techniques are to oppose state and Federal initiatives to decrease taxes spent to support public schooling in states under their control; encourage charter schools owned by wealthy, private Republican donors; supporting anti-education individuals to “run” the State and Federal systems (DeVoss?); allow absurd tuition increases; closing schools in desperately needed areas; cutting educators’ salaries; lacking raises, pensions, maintenance, supply, extracurricular activities, new books and supportive materials; and, much more. They profess their “support” of education; even falsely claiming to be the “party of education.” This includes K-12, H.S. and College/University levels. Schoolbooks, such as those produced primarily by the Texas Republican State Board of Education, deny mention of significant historic...
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