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on Primary Conversations: Washington's 3rd
Quit repeating the same right wing Obama got us in all the debt dogma! He didn’t get us in two wars lasting longer than any war in our history. Red Herring, Red Herring Red Herring! Quit with the talking points and get to the solutions.
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on Primary Conversations: Washington's 3rd
The congestion on the I-5 corridor in the Portland-Vancouver area is the result of poor personal choices by the residents of that area and should not be solved by building a huge taxpayer subsidized bridge. People moved to Washington and commute to Oregon because Portland has jobs and Washington had cheap land. Why should the rest of us subsidies the poor choices of these people? Your guests talk about cutting the federal government out of one side of their mouths and then say the Feds should pay for a new bridge, typical right wing thinking.
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on Primary Conversations: Washington's 3rd
We need to get over this bickering about what administration is ruining our economy and how and talk about how we are going to reinvent our economy. We have been on a downhill slide for 35 years, outsourcing our jobs and borrowing to support lifestyle and now it has come home to roost. As important as small business is selling a burger to your neighbor isn’t going to fix the trade imbalance. We need to fix the trade imbalance and quit falling for the partisan politics that distracts us from real issues.
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on Foreclosing in Oregon
I agree, I have owned my home in Bend for over 20 years now, was going to sell and retire about now but can’t because the Bend market is so far below all other markets I can’t sell it and buy in somewhere else without loosing a lot of value. The irresponsible City Council, irresponsible builders and irresponsible borrowers have ruined my equity and walked away form the problem with a big handful of cash.
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on Foreclosing in Oregon
When I bought my first house 30 years ago if you defaulted on your loan they foreclosed on your house, sold it at auction, and came after you for the difference. I can understand bankruptcy, but why are banks allowing borrowers that are able to make the payments walk away from their obligation with no consequences? Allowing people to default just because they are upside down just serves to further deflate home values. What is the lesson for these 30 somethings? Just borrow borrow borrow and if the deal goes bad walk away, completely irresponsible.
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on Classes To Cut
Home school has no PE requirement, why should students attending a brick and mortar school have more requirements than home school students? PE provided very little physical activity and little to no life long physical activity behavior pattern. If anything schools should have a workout club environment where students could get on a treadmill for 30 minutes a day and get some actual exercise and develop a life long pattern of exercise and health.
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on Classes To Cut
What should be cut in addition to PE is transportation. In California the parents pay for school bussing if they need it. We are no longer a rural agricultural economy, why are we being taxed to pay the bussing costs of people that can afford rural McMansions? No bussing might lead to smarter decisions about school size and location.
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