I feel the same way about social security. We keep kicking the can down the street and no one wants to accept that tough changes have to happen to prevent a much worse fallout.

States have often balanced their budgets and funded other areas of government by slashing education funding and “borrowing” from teacher pension funds. Teachers aren’t responsible kicking the can; they’re the ones being kicked.

They have been kicking the can down the road. I’m a teacher in Kentucky, and I pay 13% of my check to the pension fund. The state, on the other hand, hasn’t been funding their portion. They’ve been borrowing from the pension fund for years and now want to blame teachers for the shortfall. . The legislature needs to…

You fund the pension system by increasing revenue, such as raising taxes combined with employee contributions. Cutting the benefits for a drastically underpaid and underappreciated profession (who also happen to be women, no one ever discusses cutting cop, fireman or politician benefits) is not the way you balance…

If Hillary gets paid for speeches, she’s a greedy bitch. If she gets paid less, she’s a failure. If she goes away (to, say, walk in the woods) she’s ridiculed. If she writes a book. If she trips while on vacation. If she has pneumonia. If she wears makeup. If she doesn’t wear makeup. She’s the patron saint of Women…

Thank you. So sick of the lack of reflexivity here and the internalized sexism.

I went to one of her book signings - more than a thousand of us waited in line for hours to get to meet her. There was no media there.

All the stars.

And if she WERE silent the same purported liberals who attack her for speaking would complain that she’s not doing anything to help the resistance (I DID hear that in the ‘wandering through the woods’ days). She can’t win with some people.

So basically she should just be quiet and let Trump use her as a scarecrow whenever he needs to distract from his latest revealed crime...yes, if she totally sat down and shut up no one would ever speak her again, of course.

My god, you people are still doing this.

It’s not like she’s appearing at Democratic party gatherings, trying to campaign for Democratic candidates, or even giving interviews to the press. She’s doing a normal post loss speaking engagements, many of them private, but since she’s Hillary Clinton, people are making sure the things she’s saying get fed back to…

I wish this site would admit their role in constantly perpetuating the sexist stereotypes against her and singing creepy gun nut bernie’s praises when he spouted some sexist and racist bullshit.

Not everyone turns their campaign book into a year plus egotistical pity party that regularly makes news when they relitigate the election at promo stops.

Hillary writes a book, and everyone tells her to shut up and go away.

i’m sorry but is bernie sanders not a failed presidential candidate? has bernie sanders publicly acknowledged his campaign’s failures? talked about how he consistently failed to take womens and POCs issues seriously without telling them to just wait for the revolution? can he shut up and go away?

She is still held responsible for Bill’s cheating and sexual harassment/assault allegations by the same people who praise Melania for her beauty and elegance.

She got almost three million more votes. And our election was jacked by a foreign power. Girlfriend has a much better reason for being pissed and a little bitter. Shit, I’m bitter and I wasn’t the ‘victim’ of a goddamn crime - she was. And now, we’re all suffering because of President Collusion and we’re on the brink…

Oh come on. At this point Clinton could say “we’ve been having nice weather lately” and the media would immediately start screaming “CLINTON OUT OF TOUCH WITH PLIGHT OF FARMERS AS DROUGHT WORSENS!” or “CLINTON ADMITS CLIMATE CHANGE A HOAX!”

I suspect I’m in the minority but this: “...it isn’t necessarily helpful at this very moment.” fucking irks the shit out of me. Like, what, she’s supposed to slink off back to the kitchen where she should’ve stayed to begin with, because that’s what’s HELPFUL for us right now? Fuck that.