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To: Mr. Whist who wrote (119560)	12/26/2000 2:29:06 PM
From: Sedohr Nod	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

You just touched on the key to the problem. You and those that think like you seem to think that the only answer is the government and more taxes and money spent. Those waiting for something as cold and sterile as the government to be their salvation are truly doomed to a pitiful life. Opportunity abounds, but not for those sitting and waiting for help.

To: Mr. Whist who wrote (119560)	12/26/2000 4:21:09 PM
From: jlallen	Respond to of 769667

I don't agree that money is the key to all urban or other problems. The level of discourse needs the most improvement. And people need to learn that doing for yourself works, not waiting for some bureaucrat to hand it to you. The Republican philosophy is just that. JLA

To: Mr. Whist who wrote (119560)	12/26/2000 4:30:43 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769667

How about starting with this: Prove that spending more money on education improves education. Federal aid to education started in the late '50's. The amount spent on education has increased steadily since then; the quality of the output has declined. Utah is close to the top in educational achievement and close to the bottom in spending. Pouring more money into a bureaucracy does not produce a better bureaucracy, just a bigger bureaucracy.

To: Mr. Whist who wrote (119560)	12/26/2000 4:44:19 PM
From: Don Pueblo	Respond to of 769667

Yeah, that's been the Big Plan for about 60 years, and the "meaningful changes" for the problems you mentioned are not working as well as the people who planned it all out wanted them to. The fact of the matter is that if all welfare checks stopped going out for two months in a row, this country would be in complete chaos instantly. Total, complete chaos, instantly. That's not the way things ought to be, flapjack. People should be paid for working.

To: Mr. Whist who wrote (119560)	12/28/2000 10:08:17 PM
From: Wayners	Respond to of 769667

Yep definitely need more money to throw at it. Now read this: Detroit Public Schools officials have fired three more school employees in an ongoing investigation of missing and embezzled money in the city's schools. A dozen audits released by the district late Wednesday showed it fired office personnel at Kosciusko, Grant and Courville elementary schools amid questions about missing school funds. A bookkeeper at Barbour Magnet Middle School was released for job abandonment, a school official said. All cases will be turned over to the Wayne County Prosecutor's Office for further investigation, said Virgil Lobring, the school district's chief of staff. "We still have 216 school audits to complete. We'll release them as we get them done," he said. The audits eventually will include every Detroit public school, the first time the schools have been audited in more than 10 years. Audits of Detroit's 29 high schools, released last month, found hundreds of thousands of dollars missing, incorrectly recorded or misspent. One bookkeeper pleaded guilty to embezzlement and two others are facing criminal charges. Two principals were fired.