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To: Scumbria who wrote (133807)	3/1/2001 5:32:50 AM
From: fyodor_	Respond to of 1570751

Scumbria, I know you guys discuss the US education system from time to time... on that subject, here's a small CNN article (yes, it's a real CNN article): (http://fyi.cnn.com/2001/fyi/teachers.ednews/02/23/school.hugs.ap/index.html) Minnesota school bans hugging February 27, 2001 Web posted at: 3:04 PM EST (2004 GMT) PEQUOT LAKES, Minnesota (AP) -- Teachers at Pequot Lakes School are telling students to just say no to hugs. Hugging has become a standard greeting and way to say goodbye at Pequot Lakes, with some students saying they get 40 to 60 hugs a day from friends. But the school isn't embracing the idea. Teachers are doling out reprimands to students caught hugging in the hallway. They are punished with detention if caught three times in a day or four times a week. School officials "think it's sexual and it's not appropriate," said Ashley Bennett, 12, who has been written up for hugging. "But that's how people express their feelings. It makes people feel better." The school doesn't have an official policy, but administrators believe the hugging is unnecessary. "We don't have a hugging epidemic because we've clamped down on that," said Chuck Arns, a Pequot Lakes principal. "It has a tendency to change the atmosphere in school." -fyo

To: Scumbria who wrote (133807)	3/1/2001 9:27:38 AM
From: hmaly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1570751

Scumbria Re..I love this Reagan Republican game where they buy votes with a tax cut, and then leave it up to the Democrats to fix the budget damage ten years later.<<< That is your version of the truth. The version GW is putting out has more resonance and will carry the day. Congress has never been able to control itself. 8% increase in spending last yr. was atrocious. If you gave your wife 5 unlimited credit cards and told her to have a ball but spend wisely, how far in debt will you be in a quick hurry. Thats the problem here. With a slowdown in GDP, the gov. also needs to slow down its spending. With a recession looming, now is not the time for gov. to be piggish. You can see how far that piggish attitude got Bill and Hillary. We have one shot to pay off the debt, and Bush is flushing it down the toilet Get real. Now is not the time. Hoover also cut the budget back in 1929 when a recession was looming. Look how far that got him. Getting the economy going again is far more important. Getting a massive drive going to find new energy sources, new and alternate sources, could give the country a huge lift now and in the future. What we need is a plan to address this country's problems, not individual groups.