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

To: RON BL who wrote (113122)	12/12/2000 7:51:15 PM
From: y2kate	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

That doesn't make any sense at all. Republicans oppose funding adequate to maintain, let alone improve, the quality of our schools. Republicans support anti-public education initiatives such as 'school voucher' programs which would siphon off the meager monies currently available for public education, and further insure the monied class has no personal stake in the quality of public education. The attitude is pretty perilously close to, I've got mine, and those aren't my kids, and who cares? Who cares that those voters in Florida got disenfranchised? Bush is our president, 'get used to it'- who cares if the election is fair? Who cares if some children we don't know in a rural area or in the inner city don't have heat, or food, or feel safe at school? You get what you pay for, but Republicans have said time and time again that when it comes to improving our schools, money isn't the answer. But hypocritically, those same people are spending thousands of dollars a month to insure their own children are getting a safe and superior education- by sending them to private schools. Here in L.A., that's the way it is, and if you can't afford to send your kid to a private school, then God help you.

To: RON BL who wrote (113122)	12/12/2000 8:32:47 PM
From: RON BL	Respond to of 769670

Republicans oppose funding !!!! Well you sound like a religious fanatic who says this child doesn't need medicine he just needs prayer. Of course there is nothing wrong with the teachers ,the methodology, the curriculum, the lack of discipline, No of course not . It's just we just need more money. MOoey will solve it all. That's the liberal mantra today. We can solve everything if you just give us your money. What ever happened to ideas. It's now always money will solve everything. What don't you rename the party to the "WE NEED MONEY PARTY" BY the way the biggest joke in decades was the Democrat National Convention where there were all these people wildly cheering the public school system when not one person in the crowd had a kid in the public school system Bush sent his kids to public schools Gore didnt !!! Even half the teachers send their kids to private schools. IF they are so poorly paid it shows you how bad the public schools must be. Get your head out of the sand and have an open mind. You have already wasted one generation of children how many before you admit your methodologies are wrong ? Want to make the public school system better then mandate that every politician has to send their kids to public schools