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To: tejek who wrote (122743)	8/22/2000 4:29:51 AM
From: Joe NYC	Respond to of 1571105

Ted, he seems sometimes to come from his gut and not his brain. His choice of a Jew to be his running mate blew me right out of the water and apparently everyone else. I was not moved by the fact that he happens to be a Jew, but I have to say I was pleasantly surprised that he picked one of the remaining handful of Democrats that I consider to be reasonable. I guess we are impressed by different things. That suggested to me for a moment that Gore himself may really be a somewhat reasonable guy, someone closer to the earlier reincarnation of Al Gore the Senator from a conservative Southern state with somewhat reasonable record. For a moment I thought that Al Gore only pretended to be part of that awful group of people now in the White House - out of loyalty. My hopes however completely disappeared when I heard him speak the tired old rich vs. poor diatribe. Joe

To: tejek who wrote (122743)	8/22/2000 12:22:32 PM
From: Joe NYC	Respond to of 1571105

Ted, I think his stance on schools and the environment are right on....it worries me that we have allowed our school systems to deteriorate so badly and that so many of my friends are sending or planning to send their children to private schools. What aspect of the schools and education in general that you feel Gore is right on. I think education is THE weakest point of Gore, something Bush will beat him over the head with from now until November. He and his puppet masters - teacher's unions are in charge of the system. They turned US education into a third world status. Nominally, the schools are run by the governments (local through federal), but who really is in charge are the teacher unions, who use it as a power base for their political ambitions. Do you know that your tax money that you think is going to educating the young is being used for political purposes? 18% of the delegates to the Democratic convention are members of teacher unions. They hold huge percentage of local offices, whose main responsibility is to decide on school funding. (What a coincidence?) They hold the children hostage. They hold the whole communities hostage. There was an incident locally of a person asking about teacher salaries in a school funding hearing. He did not receive an answer publicly. He knew the answer and said it publicly in the meeting. The person was later found beaten unconscious. Al Gore will be the very last person to attempt to free the children from NEA (National Educational Association). He will not stop their gravy train - and I don't mean all the teachers, but the union bosses with political ambitions. The system is unfixable. The teacher unions are too powerful. They are untouchable. The only way to help the kids is to rescue them from the influence of the NEA, and the only way to do it is to move the children to institutions not run by NEA. I think Bush mentions charter schools and vouchers. That's the only way. This is why the issue of vouchers is so explosive. To the teacher union, it's a declaration of war, and all means to defeat it are justified. So how will Gore, given the fact that he is on their payroll improve the system? Let me make a completely WAG: He will propose spending more money. He will oppose any dollars to go non-NEA controlled entity. Joe