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

To: JDN who wrote (528560)	1/24/2004 3:55:33 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

Someone who wasnt a diligent saver like I was surely would be unable to afford them. Everyone serves a purpose. Some of us as bad examples. So everyone who DID exercise caution and scrimp and save during their best years should pay the price for these grasshoppers???? However, now I take 5 prescription drugs However, I now take 12 prescriptions drugs costing about $4500 a month retail. I would have a problem if I didn't have good medical insurance. But one of the things I saw to was that I DID have good medical insurance. some of them I believe are because of doctors practicing defensive medicine as I am very much opposed to taking any drug but these doctors wont work with me on finding other methods (I am a big believer in alternative medicine). Find a different doctor. It's your body. You have to live with the consequences of what is done to it. I've fired numerous doctors when I was sure they were wrong. It's fairly easy to find alternative treatments using the web search engines these days. And you don't need a doctor to get the treatment. My uncle was Scottish and he taught me to PAY MYSELF FIRST by depositing 10% of whatever I made first and live on the rest. Basically what I did. Personally, I dont have a big problem with education spending IF its spent wisely as I consider it an investment in the future. Know what I've noticed? The spending on education has increased steadily ever since Federal Aid to Education (signed by Eisenhower and passed by a Republican Congress) in the late 1950s. And the quality of education has decreased steadily. When you throw money at a bureaucracy, you don't get more results, you get more bureaucracy. Now here's more data on education than you will ever want to see. You show me how increasing expenditures on education improves results. I've run the numbers and I don't see it. edweek.org nces.ed.gov Message 19218032