Apparently, anything that reverses the trend of Progressives to control everything in the life and property of an individual is considered "sharp right".

Just shows us how far left we have moved as a society.

Wrong. Local government employees in Boulder do not contribute to SS. Contract workers might but actual government employees do not.

Have to disagree on PERA. PERA is nothing like any large corporate retirement plan. First and foremost, all private sector persons have to participate in SS, government workers in Colorado and several other states (NY, CA and some others) do not. They should all be required to be a part of SS. To tell the taxpayer that a government employee, paid by the taxpayer, should be able to get special privileges the tax payer does not, is simply morally wrong at its very core.

Also I have not read about or heard about a single corporate retirement plan where the corporation pays 65-75% of the retirement and the employee only pays 25-35%. Every single one of them, per my limited but well read knowledge, requires a 50/50 split in contributions.

The argument that PERA receivers get retirement contributions in lieu of wages some government workers make is biased and self serving.. The average government worker, of similar education to a private sector worker, already gets paid the same (in may cases more) and also receives much better additional benefits not counting retirement.

Move all government workers to SS and install similar plans to similar size corporate entities as the level of government employer in question. A local government entity with 1200 employees should be compared to a similar sized private sector corporations.

PERA is a major and unfair expense on the taxpayer, which simply does not exist in the private sector and should not exist in the government sector and it is costing the taxpayers $billions in unnecessary expenses that could be used elsewhere.

Other than that minor disagreement, I certainly agree with everything you say especially getting the Federal government out of education.

We need to "repair" several broken things at once.

First, eliminate PERA. Why are only government employees exempt from SS that 95% of all Americans pay. Eliminate PERA, make all teachers part of SS system and then give them matching 401K plans just like those of us paying the tax bill. PERA is "inequality" at its best.

Second, eliminate government delivered education only, or at least test a limited voucher system with 10% of revenues for a while and see if it delivers better choices. Will it be better? Don't know but certainly can't be any worse than now and historically, competition nearly always delivers a better product.

Third, eliminate unions from all public employee situations. Public employees already have more safeguards and more benefits than anyone in the private sector, why on earth do they need a union. if unions remain, no state mechanisms should be used to remove union dues from any paychecks. Unions members ought to pay on their own not through a tax payer financed mechanism.

Fourth, make sure the majority of all new taxes go to students and not to staff.

Fifth, bring back trade and industrial arts type programs to schools. About 1/3 of all students, especially males, are simply not cut out for college bound educations.

Do those things and many of us will be happy to increase funding for schools, until then not a penny more.

Education needs to grow and change with society not against it.

The solution is to simplify the system and remove judges from the decision making process. We don't need federal judges making these decisions. It was an administrative decision/law that established the rule that federal judges make the decisions.

Simply change those laws and allow lower ranking administrators make the decisions and have judges simply go over any challenges (but limit the challenges). No reason reason at all that a federal judge needs to be making these decisions. All routine cases can be handled this way and the more difficult cases can be handled by existing judges.

Some sort of ombudsman with expertise and training in immigration law would be less expensive, less permanent and more efficient and speed up the process.

But then again, when is government ever expected to be efficient?

Trumpster is not going to get elected. Any other less ignorant solutions?

Blacks lives matter....but apparently only when white people kill them.

Among inner city black males themselves, they apparently have little if any value what so ever.

That's why police " disproportionately" have problems dealing with young black males-the police are scared shitless every time they have to approach or deal with them.

Get ahold of the bad behavior of young black males and you will solve the police issue.

The police abuse is directly related to the rampant murder, maiming and killing by young black males....not the other way around.

Just look at all the problems we are having with combat veterans and delayed stress syndrome and yet, Mr. Pitts, you assume police officers, who are humans, with human frailties and have to deal with delayed stress syndrome and threats on their lives, every single day, will some how magically over come the daily deluge of violence they are forced to witness and treat young black males the same way they treat grandma.

Just doesn't happen that way.

If the students didn't have so much disrespect for this community in the first place, they wouldn't have to clean all the crap up. Just 2 weeks ago I watched as someone moving out of a student apartment. The trash bin was full and he just dumped a large trash can full of loose trash trash right on the ground next to the bin. The wind was blowing and it blew all over the place. He then went back into his apartment and came back out and got into a white SUV with California license plates and drove away. Thanks.

Not just him though, go along any alley on the hill during the year and you see tons of trash spilling out of trash cans. I don't know how many times I have seen someone (I have worked on the hill for years) just toss a bag of trash over the fence from a yard and into the alley.

And when you students move, many of you just dump your stuff on curves, sides of streets, alleys, everywhere with no concern for other other people. Not to mention the abundant new tags that show up on fences and signs every fall.

And to think you are our children. And it's not a few of you, it's a lot of you, that treat the rest of us and our local environment with total disrespect.

But I am thankful for the efforts of this small few group of students that once a year try to do a little something about the bad behavior of so many.

Extreme response as usual.

The difference between a pragmatist, like myself and an extremist, like yourself, is that I recognize the need for a government, but limited one, while you desire an unlimited one.

I recognize the need for limited government oversight over the private sector, you and many Progressives, advocate for unlimited control.

I recognize that the private sector can certainly be bad, but the alternative, a government dominated and run society is far worse.

That's a fundamental difference between responsible fiscal conservatives and irresponsible Progressives.

I find it truly amazing to watch the Progressive left attack corporations with one breath and then in the next foster the development and call for the growth of the biggest corporation and abuser of human rights of all......government.