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

To: Neocon who wrote (328756)	12/13/2002 2:54:37 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Re: " Those are sound arguments against it. I would guess that any claim of discrimination or undue impediment to voting would be taken to the federal courts, and that a standard would be worked out." >>> So it would be Federalized... and interpreted ad nausium by the Courts. >>> Wouldn't it just be better to get the overall level of Literacy in the United States up to the high nineties... and keep it there? >>> That way, this problem - and many others - is solved without adding to a big, bloated bureaucracy... and partisan fights for generations. >>> (If Cuba, and Iraq, and the Netherlands, and Finland, and Iceland, and Japan, and Singapore, etc., can all achieve consistently high literacy levels... all spending far less per pupil than we do... it would seem that we should be able to figure out how to do it... and THAT should be our main concern.)