“This new high school, which was located near Weston Town Center by the current Weston Public Library, Country & Woodland Elementary Schools, was renowned as the “architectural achievement of the century” by the Boston Herald when it opened in January 1950. The nation’s first million-dollar public building, Weston High School offered resources and technologies never before seen in a public school. Revolutionary architecture and layout of the school allowed for unprecedented new teaching and class organization methods. The building remains in active service as the Field Elementary School, though plans are underway to tear it down and replace it with a new complex on the same lot.

“In 1961, the current Weston High School was built as one of the most expensive schools in the nation at $8,930,000 (1961 dollars). This building is the fifth public high school in Weston and is designed to be in active service far longer than many contemporary schools, thanks to constant renovation and a high-quality initial design and build.”

Since Grover’s dad was a vp of Polaroid, I’m somewhat surprised he didn’t attend private school, but probably the local public school, supported by taxpayers, was a better place to go.

As wrong-headed as ever, Norquist said he sees the CEOs’ “careful choice of wording” as support for his position, not as opposition.

It’s amazing that people allow Grover and many other conservatives to continue to get away with this lie. It’s never been true and especially not in the 90s.

We let them do it, of course. They pander to us, and we have tolerated it.

There are other plans, even a Progressive one to reduce the deficit, which you might examine:
http://schakowsky.house.gov/images/stories/1202_Schakowsky_Deficit_Reduction_Plan.pdf

This manages the goal without destroying the elderly middle class of tomorrow in the name of tax “fairness” for the mighty.

If we do nothing, the deficit gets cut by a substantial amount, as the scheduled spending cuts occur and the Bush tax cuts expire. As far as I can tell, all of the deficit reduction plans under discussion cut the deficit far less than has already been baked in. Most of current discussion is an attempt to obscure this fact, usually with the goal of avoiding tax increases on the best off and also avoiding cuts to powerful military interests.

Cutting the deficit short term is highly counter-productive, as has been discussed at great length here (and hasn’t penetrated to the political class, the pundit class or the population). Fiscal cliff means the economy slows, not the deficit increases. This is another item that doesn’t seem to have penetrated.