Russ Feingold on Atlas Shrugged and Wisconsin

Russ answers a question about the book Atlas Shrugged and what it means for Wisconsin during his debate with Ron Johnson on October 11th, 2010.

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[nwguys]

Why don't politicians like Feingold, Kucinich, Sanders (I know he's an Indie / Socialist) get more support from their party or progressives in general? People like Russ and the others i mentioned are marginalized in favor of the Bluedog Dems...

Simply pathetic!

[wrxwagon100]

Russ is one of the few Dems NOT afraid to say and do what's right, even if that means that yes, he has to tell a bunch of greedy Repugs that they're acting in their own self-interests and don't give a damn about anyone else.

[booley]

@booley Anyway, probably not going to keep responding to you.

For one I have work to do.

For another you simply dont' give a shit what the facts are. Rather then conforming your opinions to reality, you expect reality to conform to your beliefs and ignore any time that doesn't happen.

I already know that people like you are the economic equivalent of creationists. Since you dont have to be correct in your posts, you can simply deluge this thread with bull shit.

[booley]

@cheeseburger12 Funny you are certainly happy using the benefits provided by "other people's money"

Again, get a damn dictionary. It's not stealing if you get something back. All your doing is voting into office people who wont' use that money for anyone's benefit but their own.

[booley]

@cheeseburger12 Oh so you concede that the private sector can't produce wealth without an infratsructure created by the public sector.

And it's not even 30%. The gov has been ignoring infrastructure and public investments for the most part since Reagan in favor of tax cuts and military spending.

It's not just the spending. We also let the revenues drop in favor of some mythical trickle down theory.

[booley]

@cheeseburger12 that's not what I said.

Funds that should be going to public schools are instead going to charter schools which dont' even do any better job (and many times do worse)

Please try to follow along.

[cheeseburger12]

@booley Does New York City have a strong teachers union with hundreds of teachers that can't be fired? Supposedly they were being eliminated in 2010 (I'd like to see the evidence of fired teachers) - at the time they were about 550 costing $30 million a year. I guess New York needs to raise more taxes on the rich to help educate the poor.

[cheeseburger12]

@booley Oh please, I don't want someone else's money and would be happy to cut corporate welfare and farm subsides, to the bone. But I am forced to vote for the one who will steal from me least.  And I know that isn't you.

[cheeseburger12]

@booley "No roads & no goods can be shipped. No public education & not enough educated workers. No police & security costs become prohibitive." Zero all of these out of the federal budget (and lets zero out the military stuff also). Guess what, our spending would still be out of control. Because all of that is about 30% of the federal budget.

[cheeseburger12]

@booley Oh...the millions of dollars being spent on public school teachers not being fired but still being paid is the fault of charter schools. Not. Charter schools are so bad parents are trying so hard to get into them.