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Politics : Did Slick Boink Monica? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: greenspirit who wrote (9040)	3/1/1998 1:35:00 PM
From: Janice Shell	Respond to of 20981

Janice, the American public is not woefully ignorant. That's the elitism in you speaking. I didn't say stupid, I said ignorant. I have many friends who teach. None would say that today's students aren't as bright as those of the past, but they don't know dick. Most don't read, can't write, can't express themselves coherently much of the time. They know nothing of history, very little of literature, don't study foreign languages, see a university education not as an opportunity to learn something, but as--they hope--a ticket to a well-paying job. College shouldn't be vocational school. But that's another topic...

To: greenspirit who wrote (9040)	3/1/1998 1:35:00 PM
From: Lady Lurksalot	Respond to of 20981

Mike, You write, "One of the biggest problems we have is elected a bunch of lawyers to do the peoples work in the House of Representatives." I emphatically agree and would add that these office-holders hire expensive, often incompetent, tax-dollar-gobbling consultants to do their homework for them while they are out ensuring their reelection. The same can be said for state and municipal and county office-holders. Does anybody know what these elected folk really do to justify their existence on the beleaguered taxpayers' dole? Holly