Questions surround feds’ raid of Stockton home

Money quote: “OIG is a semi-independent branch of the education department that executes warrants for criminal offenses such as student aid fraud, embezzlement of federal aid and bribery, according to Hamilton. The agency serves 30 to 35 search warrants a year”

However, earlier in the article we are reassured that it wasn’t about simple default. But fraud now, that deserves an armed entry early in the morning and terrorizing the people, (not the person accused-not that it matters.)

So, maybe the ED does think it needs weapons.

That’s easy. I saw someone trying to be sincere but possibly not exposed to all points of view. Conservatives have the loudest voices and that is what people hear, and many people accept the right-wing talking points as facts, which often times they’re not.

Now, to change the subject to something more interesting to me, if you’re game. I’m honestly very curious: what made you comment on my post after reading it? What’s your goal? Interesting conversation? Attempting to learn other points of view? Trying to change my mind? Just trying to win an argument?

More right-wing talking points. How do you place the blame on Democrats? What specific legislation have they passed that created the problems we have today?

The “standard right-wing talking point” is to blame every Congress and President for the last 80 years for the problem we’re in? Really? I must have missed that Offical Memo from the party (or the mind control waves, obviously, since you called me brain-washed). It’s probably closer to the standard libertarian talking point than to anything else, wouldn’t you say? I blame the entire special interest, big government structure setup during the 1930′s for our problems today. So far, at least, the Republicans haven’t lifted a finger to dismantle it when they’ve held the reins of power, so they share the blame for where we are today.

That said, seriously, Obama/Pelosi/Reid has certainly slammed the accelerator towards the cliff during the last 4 years. It’s actually kind of rediculous.

I didn’t say anything about Bush. You’re brainwashed into giving standard right-wing talking point answers, and that’s a big part of the problem. People like you do what you’re told, facts be damned.

Nope, you could reinstate Clinton-era tax rates and completely abolish the military (as well as the NEA, Amtrack, and the Department of Education) and you’d still have a massive deficit. The old “it’s all Bush’s fault!” canard is tired. It’s the entire leadership caste’s fault. We’ve been heading towards a cliff now for almost 80 years. If we’re lucky, we’re still a long way off, but I wouldn’t bet on it. The problem seems to be exponential, when smoothed out over the decades.

Cutting funding for the NEA isn’t going to do anything to put even a slight dent in the deficit. It will hurt our country, though. What we need is a rollback of the Bush tax cuts and severe cuts in military spending. But those things aren’t going to happen any time soon.