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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jttmab who wrote (10086)	1/31/2002 4:04:33 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 93284

A few comments: no child should be left behind. You thought it was worthwhile throwing in a somewhat sarcastic comment that the bolded phrase was NEA originated. But when you were told that it was a Bush phrase, you didn't find any need to comment. Sarcasm, my ***. That phrase was in use by the California NEA in radio (first) and TV (later) ads well before the 2000 election. Feel free to accuse Bush of plagiarism. But my approach is simple. Screw the States.<s> It's their kids; that ought to take care of them and collect whatever taxes they deem necessary to school their children. If they want their kids to be ignorant...well, the US can use a pool of ill-educated adults to form a low-wage labor pool and we can keep more manufacturing in the US. [BTW, this is not a devil's advocate point, I mean screw the States.] I have no problem with that point. Besides, Rumsfeld is having some difficulty in getting States to volunteer some bases for closure. If the Feds cut out the funds sent to the States for those military dependents, maybe he could get a couple of base closures that he wants. Gee, that sounds familiar. Happens every time DOD wants to close bases. On the other hand if they are related in the sense that more funding means better education then you increase funding to those States that already do well, and penalize those States that don't do well, which seems to be the exact opposite of what I thought we were trying to do. The kids that are left behind, get further left behind. LOL!! Yeah. There seems to be a problem with that! (Given a correlation between funding and results.) And re the education results-vs-funding matter: My wife served on a local committee several years back that did a study on this. I'll see if she still has the report. I remember that the conclusion was that there was no correlation.