Not my state, but.......conservative to the core. Liberal ways kill a society. And I love a truck

Comparison grid is clear & comprehensive. Thanks for the link, Les!

Hmmm, it says Warren is the intellectual creator of the Occupy Wall Street Movement. Is radical ideology like that supposed to help break the gridlock in Washington?
Given that the ‘left’ has completely dominated Massachusetts politics as of late, what do we have to show for it? Well, we have higher unemployment and a higher sales tax (6.25%!!!), we have significantly higher MBTA fares and a dilapidated MBTA system, we have thrown money at things like windmills, and now the people of mass have to pay for the crime lab scandal were some 34000 cases have been compromised as well as the integrity of the state. And apparently, it’s all “Annie Dookhan’s” fault – not the supervisors or anyone in the management chain. We also have more than our fair share of politicians taking bribes and other criminal activities. So, what are the choices? A far left $350K professor that wants to spend more on education and student loans or some badly needed fiscally conservative thinking? Does anyone care about the debt we are handing off to the younger generation? Why is this race even close? I don’t get it

You "don't get it" because what passes through your head as "fiscally conservative thinking" is the hands-off-the-"job creators" approach that got us into the economic disaster the President--with little or no help from your Republican favorites--is slowly getting us out of. The economy was driven into a ditch by the people who think like you (and those who went along with them). Now you want them back in the driver's seat because they're your kind of people. "Radical ideology" is what you espouse. Republicans are the only major ideologically driven party. Some folks never learn.

The mortgage meltdown, which ultimately caused the economic disaster was primarily caused by some very reckless fiscal policies of our government (B. Frank was a key player) to pressure banks to lower their lending standards so that people who really could not afford to purchase a home could still get a mortgage anyway.

"--but Frank and others thought these standards made it too difficult for low income borrowers to buy homes. The affordable housing law required Fannie and Freddie to meet government quotas when they bought loans from banks and other mortgage originators"
Banks later started purchasing Credit Default Swaps which are supposed to be insurance policies to cover defaults on mortgages, but CDS's were an unregulated market and the sellers of CDS's did not necessary have sufficient capital to payout the CDS's when the number of mortgage defaults exploded.

The biggest cause of high tuition costs is the steadily increasing supply of students versus the physical capacities of the colleges/universities to service them. So, basic economics says the prices will rise until the supply eases. Warren wants to either subsidize or make student loans more easily affordable (sounds similar to the mortgage problem?) but that really won’t fix the problem as tuition costs will just increase further. Online universities will eventually fix the problem for a small fraction of the cost, we are slowly getting there. Instead of sitting in a large lecture hall (where you can’t really ask questions) and jotting down calculus notes, isn’t it easier to watch an online lecture? Go back and watch again if you have questions? Or watch a second or third professor teach the same material? Not the most exciting way to learn, but there are networks for students to collaborate, local study groups, and teaching assistants that you can interact with.

As Biden says, "malarkey". Warren a "radical"? Democratic "rules" about finances? Education as a market oriented function of society? These are the squabblings of competing interested parties from the same side of the economic spectrum. Warren is no more than an enlightened liberal. Brown is to the right of her, but in the scheme of things , he is mired in the 300 year old liberal experiment called the USA, a European colony. To the the right of her is the Tea Party! To the left of her is the esteemed Senator from the past, Ted Kennedy, hardly a "radical' himself. The system is a corporatist political economy with absolutely no interest in social democracy. Your rulers want you to "squabble" babble about the issues listed by the above contributors. They would use armed force if we took to the streets or if we discussed any real issues of what a just society wouild be like or who really owns America and what it really represents in the evolution of human society.

Poppycock. I have no idea what you mean by your first illogical sentence. They would use force against those who disagree with me? What rubbish is that? They would use violence against Brown, the Tea Partiers, The capitalists? Read some history. All of the violence against the people has come from those who control the state. Who used violence against the liberals who forced Independence? The already rotten and dying Crown had that power. That was not a revolution. That revolution had already eliminated the royaltyin the colonies by 1787. That movement was merely a solidification of the middle class take over of the means of production. They are the ones now using violence against the working class in this country and they have been doing it for 250 years. You are woefully wrong. You are not even a part of it, merely a psychophant of it. A lackey as they call hangers on.

Carl's drunk rants are always a source of amusement. While he may have a solid point or two it is entrapped in his tangle of hatred and arrogance...and a need to fight and argue. He's never agreed with a single person on here....even if they agree with him. It's pretty sad actually.

poppycock and rubbish? Carl must have been watching Mary Poppins....way to keep it fresh?