re: Things I disagree with Trump over----and every conservative should

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The system worked for many of them pre Katrina.

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OMG. Revisionist history there.

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system is not bureaucracy

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BS--most of the dollars go to bureaucracy. It is bureaucracy that will not let teachers teach or in school administrators act.

It is bureaucracy that made my daughter's public school let this girl with a disorder that causes her to throw violet fits--so violet she had a helmet--into the classroom. 8 times in the first three months of her 7th grade year the class was forced to go into the hall while the girl threw fits. I feel sorry for the girl but 30 others student should not be held back to accommodate her. She needs some kind of special education somewhere. The school BTW because of local bureaucracy had to stay on a parish wide curriculum and my daughter's class simply never got those 8 days of instruction.

One example of the idiocy of dictating school management from Baton Rouge or DC or even from a Parish school central office.

It is stupid.

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The problem with our education system is poverty pure and simple

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So you want every one to have a shitty education because some are poor (that is not an excuse) and some have parents that don't care--how twisted is your thinking.

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There is no evidence that supports charter schools being better for students who come from poverty.

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Why are there waiting list for vouchers and charters in New Orleans? Why do you want to deny anyone choice? You simply want the bureaucracy to continue.

You logic is twisted and can only be explained as being from someone that profits from the government school system some how.

If there is only one family in a school district that cares about the education of their child they should be able to send their kid to any school they wish and should not have to send them to a dangerous, crappy school that mikelowery1911 says they must attend.

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Fact: the charter schools that took over failing schools in Baton Rouge and NOLA are still struggling

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Says who? there are waiting lines for people to enroll their kids there. But you know what--if they don't do the job they will close. Name one government school that was ever closed for not doing the job.

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Fact: the charter schools that do well generally have selective admissions or service students from middle class backgrounds.

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Just your ramblings. MLK the third disagrees. LINK But even if true why would you deny them access to choice.

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St. Tammany

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Loaded with private schools and there should be vouchers there too.

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So what you are telling me is school choice is so awesome they are only letting poor people have it?

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Because of the opposition of the educational bureaucracy. An organized and in some ways taxpayer funded opposition.

I got your stance---you know better than parents and you want to tell them where they have to go to send their kids to school. You support a bureaucracy that grows every year. A behemoth that syphons money at 4 levels yet never improves on educational results. He want to blame parents and make excuses. We have poverty--the system isn't working for the poor but you want to keep it. My grandfather was a share cropper. I am not going to listen to some fat bureaucrat make excuses for government failures.

I am for teachers and parents. I want the teachers to be free of the government strangulation that keeps them from doing the job they know has to be done. I want parents to have choice.

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First off Trump is not a conservative. His goals are not really smaller government.

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Yep.

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1) government purchasing of prescription drugs---he said last week the government should be more active in negotiating drug prices for medicare and medicaid. I disagree. It is the government purchasing of these drugs that have driven the prices up over the years. The changes need to be FAR more extreme for the good of us all. The government should get out of the direct purchasing of healthcare and should instead simply subsidize the purchase of healthcare by individuals. Voucher if you will. It works for the GI bill. It works albeit too much for food stamps. It will work for healthcare. (Imagine what food would cost if the government bought half of it for us.)

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I think this is an unfair criticism. The "he should do even more" charge when someone is moving us in the right direction is neither realistic or helpful.

Trade, Immigration and Military spending-basically agree.

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1) big government is inherently corrupt and Trump knows this. I feel he is going to be looking at who profits and who loses on government action and will act accordingly. I don't think he seeks to profit from his time in office.
2) he is right to question NATO.
3) he is right on school choice and I think DeVos may have been his most important appointment. If we can move to universal school choice it will be wonderful.
4) he is right to challenge republicans and the democrats
5) he is right to lower taxes and should do it ASAP.
6) he will make good supreme court nominees I think

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Besides the Supreme Court nominee I am very CAUTIOUSLY optimistic.

I would add I LIKE his discussion of infrastructure spending. And just the anti-PC, anti-left wing media rhetoric is wonderful. That needed to be done and he could check that off the list already (but of course he won't stop).

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) military spending--I am tired of the military complex. Let's defend ourselves and build a budget that does just that. Hopefully he will get us out of this endless war that Bush, Obama and Hillary supported.

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He's going to lift the cap on military spending. So the military complex pockets are going to get even fatter. So much for draining the swamp.

Neocon garbage.

With regard to vouchers the idea is just an byproduct of the assumption that racial achievement gaps are largely the result of environment. Neocons who believe this can then have their fun calling leftists/teacher union types who oppose it "racist" for not allowing struggling kids a chance to learn in a better environment. Except it doesn't matter.

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I think this is an unfair criticism. The "he should do even more" charge when someone is moving us in the right direction is neither realistic or helpful.

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the government's role in the direct purchasing of healthcare is the primary reason cost have increased greater than the rate of inflation.

We should move to end that and make shoppers out of everybody.

I heard a VERY good proposal this morning by Rudy Giuliani He wants to end the tax deductibility of health care for employers but give it to employees. I hope Trump listens to this. I think he sent Rudy out to say that as a trail balloon. I would take it one step further---I would make some portion of it a tax credit. Getting employers out of the healthcare business would be WONDERFUL and would be a very LARGE step in making US manufacturers more competitive.

Crap mikelowery1911 want us to continue to suffer with and spend money on--

The Education Burecracy At Work in Shreveport

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Jesus dude, I wish I had more than one downvote to give you.

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Did you read the rest of the paragraph where I explain that "legal immigration" should have requirements of insurance purchases, employment, tax paying and gainful employment AND no welfare is available to non citizens?

Why would you be against a person who has a job, does not get welfare and pays taxes???

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Did you read the rest of the paragraph where I explain that "legal immigration" should have requirements of insurance purchases, employment, tax paying and gainful employment AND no welfare is available to non citizens?

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If I understand your proposal correctly, you believe that anyone who meets the above requirements should be allowed to legally move to the US, with no restrictions whatsoever on the number of new immigrants. Even if that means, say, as much as 30 million a year (which, incidentally, represents roughly .005 of the rest of the world's population).

How is that 'conservative'?

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Look with my requirement the number of immigrants coming here will go down "hugely". They can't even come unless they have an employer confirm their employment and they prevent they will be covered by health insurance while here and have secured an unsubsidized place to live. Do you think even 1% of the immigrants today can do that?

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People are glossing over this part