This post is not about birds, its about BUCKS. OUR BUCKS

[Baobab]

Please stop posting things that are not about key issues

For example, TPP is important because it will "ensure" that many generic drugs become unavailable and therefore, make affordable healthcare impossible.

This Canadian NGO has tons of stuff on trade deals that all applies to us too. Exampe of a good pub they have on TPP.

https://www.policyalternatives.ca/sites/default/files/uploads/publications/National%20Office/2016/02/Major_Complications.pdf

Also, an existing and three pending trade deals could make ANY CHANGE that enabled free public healthcare or education impossible long before the election, just as the one we already signed is claimed to be doing in India.

The same trade deal is also the real reason US health care is so screwed up.

How valuable is free community college tuition? read this- In the future people are going to need advanced degrees to get jobs, not two or four year degrees. Community colleges can be useful for saving money IF the credit is transferable, howwever, much isnt-

See:

http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2014/03/19/report-1-in-10-community-college-transfers-lose-nearly-all-course-credits

http://ccrc.tc.columbia.edu/media/k2/attachments/what-we-know-about-transfer.pdf

[VulgarPoet]

1. Even more reason to rail against the TPP, to be fair

This shit is bad. And on the subject of college transference in terms of credits, that needs to be figured out stat-- hell, we're in a day and age where I've heard tons of veterans saying that a bachelor's is the new associate's degree. And I mean in the IT fields of the military; those in mechanical and avionics could easily translate to trade work, but when you've got someone with say four, six, eight or more years in IT, you can't exactly give them a spot welder and tell 'em to get to work on an aluminum panel, y'know? At least, not very easily.

[Baobab]

8. People should try to get the best education in whatever they want to do as possible.

Jobs are going away and services liberalisation is going to hollow out the bottom and middle of the job market.

(Similar to this but much wider in scope, soon)

[TDale313]

2. Feel free to post what you want.

Posts about the issues are needed and important. But there's room for lighter stuff too and no reason to lecture people for enjoying a nice moment. And btw, yesterday may have been one of Bernie's best days media wise in this whole campaign, so good for the birdie.

[sarge43]

3. Thank you.

It is possible to do more than one thing at a time.

[Baobab]

5. I certanly DO feel very stongly about the symbolism of the dove of peace.

We need peace so badly. We should not be spending more on wars and war related stuff than the entire rest of the world combined. We should not be the worlds #1 ams dealing country.

[Kip Humphrey]

4. Think of all the birdies the TPP will kill!

by gutting environmental regulations.

[LiberalElite]

6. I think most of us in

this group are aware. Can we please have a little respite from contemplating our impending doom?

[Wilms]

7. K&R for the Berd AND for TPP-awarness.

No worries, Baobob. That little birdy told a handful of people to check out that guy Bernie Sanders.

And you know what happens when people familiarize themselves with him.

[dana_b]

9. "Please stop posting things that are not about key issues"

um... nope!

We can multi task - promise.

We are on board with those issues. We post about them a LOT!! But we also like a little fluff (or feathers) once in a while.