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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Frank Griffin who wrote (39527)	9/24/2000 10:50:02 PM
From: Mr. Whist	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Frank: Re: "Dems don't have true leadership qualities or vision." That's an interesting discussion point. I saw former Sen. Paul Simon (D-Ill.) on C-Span this weekend. He said just the opposite ... that Gore was one of the few senators he worked with who had true vision. While people like Trent Lott were only worried about whether the next submarine contract would go to the Biloxi shipyard, Gore was looking ahead 10, 20 years, posing questions about the world's water supply and the like, Simon said. Re vouchers: Obviously, the public schools in Austin are better than those in D.C. The question should be, if Bush were living in D.C. the past four years, would he have sent his kids to D.C. public schools as Jimmy Carter did with Amy? I doubt it. The plight of schools in D.C. and in virtually every big city in this country underscores the need to do all we can to improve these schools. The voucher program doesn't address that more important underlying issue. Numerous opportunities exist at present for inner-city parents who don't want to send their kids to public schools. Where I live there's a well-funded program that allows inner-city kids to attend Catholic schools on scholarship. I'm sure Christian, Lutheran and Jewish schools offer similar financial aid to needy families. I've got a better idea: Let's tie a widespread voucher program with a pledge that maximum class size at every inner-city school in the country will be 18 students. What's wrong with that idea?