Friday, September 20, 2002

 
Sigh..the more it changes, the more it stays the same
"They're in an ideological rut," says McBride, who pledges to raise revenue for public schools with a cigarette-tax increase.
Hmmm..and that's not the same? Gee, more money thrown at the school system, from raising taxes, and let's jump on the eeeeevil cigarettes to get it.
"The problem for Bush and his conservative legislature is that their emphasis on testing and vouchers--and controversial tax breaks for businesses that fund scholarships to send students to private schools--seems out of step with the peninsula's apparent new desire to invest in public education."
How about just educating kids? Regardless where it comes from. Isn't that the goal, rather than having more kids shoveled through a school system that teaches them how to surf the internet, but they can't read? Speaking of which, they don't even do that well: from the same article, "poll workers couldn't even boot up many of the new touch-screen voting machines." The problem obviously isn't the technology, after all, these are the same people who couldn't understand a ballot.

And it's funny, the stereotype is that the Republicans are the party of money and greed; but who keeps raising taxes? Whose focus is to "raise revenue"? Usually the Democrats...and yet, nothing seems to improve....I'm not saying all Republicans have the answers, but as long as no one is getting the right answer, let the people--the citizens--us--keep more of our money, since you're not doing anything effective with it anyway.
posted by Tony 15:34