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Liberal Media Bias- Again
Samantha Bee flies but Roseanne dies
Shows media and corporate double standard
Rosanne Barr
Makes racist remark on twitter
Described former obama adviser valerie jarrett as the product of what would happen if “the muslim brotherhood and the planet of the apes had a baby.”
Quickly apologizes
“I apologize to Valerie Jarrett and to all Americans. I am truly sorry for making a bad joke about her politics and her looks. I should have known better. Forgive me-my joke was in bad taste.”
gets fired anyway
Samantha Bee
Makes vile remark about Ivanka Trump
Uses the “c” word
makes a fake apology
“I would like to sincerely apologize to Ivanka Trump and to my viewers for using an expletive on my show to describe her last night,” Bee wrote. “It was inappropriate and inexcusable. I crossed a line, and I deeply regret it.”
Bees remark came one day after Roseanne Barr was fired for her offensive tweet.
backtracks on apology during tv academy awards broadcast
“Our piece attracted controversy of the worst kind,” Bee said of the segment about the Trump administration’s immigration and border policies that ended with her calling Ivanka Trump a “feckless cunt” who needed to “do something about [her] dad’s immigration practices.”
“We spent the day wrestling with the repercussions of one bad word, when we all should have spent the day incensed that as a nation we are wrenching children from their parents and treating people legally seeking asylum as criminals,” Bee added. “If we are OK with that then really, who are we?”
former comedy central host jon stewart comes to her defense
“I’m going to tell you something about Sam Bee, because I’ve known her for a very long time. You could not find a kinder, smarter, more lovely individual than Samantha Bee. Trust me, if she called someone a cunt…” Steward said, according to the Daily Beast, with a silence allowing the audience to finish his thought.
actress Minnie Driver
Academy Award-nominated actress Minnie Driver said Thursday that Ivanka Trump does not possess the intelligence or personality to be described as a “c*nt,” the profane term used by comedian Samantha Bee.
“That was the wrong word for Samantha Bee to have used,” Driver wrote on Twitter. “But mostly because ( to paraphrase the French ) Ivanka has neither the warmth nor the depth.”
keeps her job
Libertarian perspective
ABC should be able to fire Roseanne Barr
TBS should be able to retain Samantha Bee
If you are offended they did nothing, stop watching the show
Consumers can vote with their feet
Teachers Strike
Several states from West Virginia to Arizona
Asking for more pay and school funding
LMV Perspective
Education should be privately funded
Public schools are a monopoly
Home schooling or private school parents have to pay twice
“Too important to leave to the market”
Food more essential than education
tremendous variety provided by the market
No competition decreases quality
How much to pay teachers?
An example of the mises’ calculation problem
Problem solved by a free market
Teachers compensation underestimated by media
From the fee.org article entitled “How Media Outlets Misinform the Public about Teacher Pay.”
…During recent teacher walkouts in Oklahoma that captured national attention, many major media outlets reported misleadingly small figures for teacher pay. By failing to reveal all aspects of teacher compensation, these outlets hid the true costs to taxpayers—which now amount to an annualized average of about $120,000 for every public school teacher in the United States.
…CNN, for example, published an article by Bill Weir claiming that in “most districts” of Oklahoma, “a teacher with a doctorate degree and 30 years’ experience will never make more than $50,000 a year.” That claim, which CNN neglected to document, is at odds with comprehensive data from the U.S. Department of Education and the U.S. Department of Labor. This information for Oklahoma and the entire nation follows.
…For the 2016–17 school year, the Department of Education reports that the average salary of full-time public school teachers was $58,950 in the U.S. and $45,245 in Oklahoma. Those figures generally exclude benefits, such as health insurance, paid leave, and pensions.
…According to the Department of Labor, benefits comprise an average of 33 percent of compensation for public school teachers. Including benefits, teachers’ average annual compensation jumps to $87,854 in the U.S. and about $67,429 in Oklahoma. This excludes unfunded pension liabilities and certain post-employment benefits like health insurance.
…That, however, still doesn’t tell the complete story because full-time private industry employees work an average of 37 percent more hours per year than full-time public school teachers. This includes the time that teachers spend for lesson preparation, test construction and grading, providing extra help to students, coaching, and other activities.
…Accounting for the disparity between the annual work hours of full-time public school teachers and full-time private industry workers, the average annualized cost of employing teachers in the 2016–17 school year was $120,578 per teacher in the U.S. and about $92,545 in Oklahoma.
…There is yet more to this picture because the costs of living vary between states. Adjusted for this, the average annualized immediate compensation of Oklahoma teachers in 2016–17 was about $102,943, or roughly twice what CNN says “a teacher with a doctorate degree and 30 years’ experience will never make” in “most districts” of Oklahoma.
Partial end to Federal marijuana ban?
Trump said probably would support Sen. Cory Gardner(R-CO) bill
Would end Federal prohibition in states that have passed laws already
Gardner had earlier threatened to hold up Trump’s DOJ appointments
Trump quote
“I support Sen. Gardner,” the president said before departing for the G-7 summit in Canada, as quoted by the Los Angeles Times. “I know exactly what he’s doing. We’re looking at it. But I probably will end up supporting that, yes.”
LMV opposition to Federal ban
Violates personal sovereignty
Smoking weed does not violate the non-aggression principle
Not a power delegated to Congress under article one section eight of the U.S. Constitution
Violates states’ rights
States can have a ban provided it does not violate their state constitution
GOP not a small government party
From the reason.com article entitled “Stop Calling the GOP the Party of Small Government.”
There was a time when GOP lawmakers called for the elimination of entire federal agencies. Today, milquetoast promises to pursue smaller government are followed by votes for ever bigger government.
As Milton Friedman noted, the true size of the state is measured by how much money it spends. Budget data show that all modern presidents, regardless of party affiliation, have increased the federal fiscal footprint—but Republican administrations have generally increased the amount spent at a faster rate than Democratic ones.
Under George W. Bush, who was elected on a platform of fiscal restraint, total federal spending increased in real terms by 53 percent. Enabled and encouraged by a Republican-led Congress, his administration adopted the politically self-serving notion that “deficits don’t matter.” No Child Left Behind, Medicare Part D, and bank bailouts serve as a vivid reminder that shrinking the state doesn’t stand a chance.