Hoosiers don’t expect to get rich from their labor. They just want a basic, good life as a reward for their work. Yet, more and more, a hard day’s work is not being rewarded with a fair day’s pay.

The corporate executives of the manufacturing plants that used to dominate Indiana have stripped the state clean of jobs, shipping them overseas to foreign sweatshops in search of a quick boost to profits. The result is that the top one percent is making more money than ever, while the bottom 99 percent is struggling just to avoid financial disaster.

In the midst of this economic difficulty, Newt Gingrich comes along and tells Indiana that its teenagers should have to work extra evening shifts in the public schools as janitors in order to keep their schools up and running. Gingrich wants working families to be the ones making more of a sacrifice, when the top 1 percent has more than enough to keep the system running.

Using Indiana’s kids to help balance the accounts of corporations that have outsourced jobs away is a step too far. Indiana voters won’t stand for it, and that’s why, in the 2012 presidential contest, Indiana is against Newt Gingrich.

Jodie Brekke writes, “Perry cut the budget, the Legislature cut education funds and teacher’s pay. It won’t be long before we have a huge shortage of teachers in Texas. Is this really the best move for Texas?”

Rick Perry has cut state funding for education, and then diverted money from the federal government intended for education – after he complains that the federal government should butt out!

This spring, a crowd of 11,000 parents, students and teachers protested Rick Perry’s anti-education agenda.

Now, Rick Perry wants to become President of the United States – why, so he can wreck education across the United States like has in Texas? No thanks, Governor Perry. We’re listening to the Teachers Against Rick Perry.

The bumper sticker you see here is for the liberal side of the equation. When it comes to a choice between war and words, we choose words. We choose knowledge. We choose enlightenment.

That’s why we liberals will choose the Books Not Bombs bumper sticker. We’ll work hard for education, but we’re not going to fight for war.

So much for the rainbow state. So much for people who care for one another in Hawaii. So much for protection of these beautiful islands. Are you angry? Have you had enough of Linda Lingle’s vision for Hawaii? Then say so.

That’s the argument made by a growing number of Americans, who say that they don’t trust science, and think that major policy decisions should be made merely on the basis of “common sense” or “gut instinct” – emotional guesses about what people want to be true.

This bumper sticker responds to the critics. Science doesn’t matter, unless you care about reality.