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To: Follies who wrote (36225)	8/21/2011 10:02:56 AM
From: posthumousone	5 Recommendations Respond to of 119360

I guess we can blame the tea party for going back in time and making O look like the true hypocrite he is. The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the U.S. Government can’t pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government’s reckless fiscal policies. Over the past 5 years, our federal debt has increased by $3.5 trillion to $8.6 trillion.That is “trillion” with a “T.” That is money that we have borrowed from the Social Security trust fund, borrowed from China and Japan, borrowed from American taxpayers. And over the next 5 years, between now and 2011, the President’s budget will increase the debt by almost another $3.5 trillion. Numbers that large are sometimes hard to understand. Some people may wonder why they matter. Here is why: This year, the Federal Government will spend $220 billion on interest. That is more money to pay interest on our national debt than we’ll spend on Medicaid and the State Children’s Health Insurance Program. That is more money to pay interest on our debt this year than we will spend on education, homeland security, transportation, and veterans benefits combined. It is more money in one year than we are likely to spend to rebuild the devastated gulf coast in a way that honors the best of America. And the cost of our debt is one of the fastest growing expenses in the Federal budget. This rising debt is a hidden domestic enemy, robbing our cities and States of critical investments in infrastructure like bridges, ports, and levees; robbing our families and our children of critical investments in education and health care reform; robbing our seniors of the retirement and health security they have counted on. Every dollar we pay in interest is a dollar that is not going to investment in America’s priorities. Senator Barack Obama Senate Floor Speech on Public Debt March 16, 2006

To: Follies who wrote (36225)	8/21/2011 10:29:11 AM
From: posthumousone	3 Recommendations Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 119360

ok i had to dig deep to see where this tea party anti education rap was coming from......i know i can read and i dont see an anti education agenda. I see get the bloated govt programs that don't work out. These out of work people can work for the TSA.. Some stuff i could care less about...like homos....but really if it comes down to time in school between math and homosexuality......i think i will take math Is it any wonder why Siemens has 3000K jobs open that only 300 people quaify for because they cant pass the basic math test!!!!!!! Tea Party for Kids Supports Traditional Education *We support* traditional education. *We support* a classical curriculum to equip students with a broad base of knowledge. *We oppose* dumbing down the educational curriculum through liberal biased programs that include diversity, multiculturalism, and self-esteem. *We oppose* homosexuality indoctrination in our schools. *We support* English as the official language in our schools. *We support* the teaching of accurate information about our Founding Fathers and American history. *We support* students receiving a solid grounding in understanding our founding documents and American Exceptionalism. *We oppose* curricula and classroom activities that indoctrinate students with liberal propaganda, political correctness, global society, and hatred of America. *We support* enforcing the Protection of Pupil Equal Rights Amendment, including the right of students to refuse to answer personal questionnaires, submit to psychological testing, and take physical examinations and mental-health screenings without parental consent. *We support* parents’ rights to guide the rearing and educating of their children and protect them from immoral teachings and materials. We support parents’ rights to school choice, including home-schooling their children without government interference and intrusive regulations. We support historical accuracy in information dispensed, both written and oral, at National Parks and other national historical sites. THE BEST PART IS THIS WHICH I not being affiliated with any group WHOLEHEARTEDLY SUPPORT Tea Party for Kids Supports States’ Rights in the Control of Education We support dismantling the U.S. Department of Education and federal education agencies and ceasing all federal funding to education. We support education control at the state and local level. We support** getting unions out of American education.