Mark Hickey <
[email protected]> writes:
> Oops. Seems Jobst thinks the Bush government is to blame for any
> education ills in the US. Think he knows that Bush has dramatically
> increased spending for education, and that he's instituted the only
> realistic method for improving public education in decades?
Good grief. What planet are the Bushites living on, anyway? The Bush
education "plan" has damaged education in Minnesota drastically, to
the point that the state is debating opting out and foregoing all
federal monies for education because the Bush plan is another unfunded
federal mandate and costs us more than it provides. "No child left
behind" apparently only applies to the children of the suburbs and
denies adequate funding (yet again) for special education.
It's always hilarious to see Republican plans like this that violate
their own professed values. "Local control" and "states' rights" was
the cry of the Republicans just a few short years ago, but now we see
the true colors of the conservatives in power: fascism creeping under
the cover of "moral values." The Bush administration, with the help
of its cronies in the Legistative and Judicial branches, is creating
themost intrusive and draconian government in the history of the
United States and yoking the population into servitude for decades to
come by destroying any semblence of rationality in fiscal policy.
One score and four years ago, our fathers brought forth on this
continent a revised nation, conceived in profitability and dedicated
to the proposition that all wealth should rise upwards. We are now
engaged in great social engineering, testing whether any nation so
conceived and so dedicated can be permanently mired in conservative
ideology. The world will little note what we do under cover of
secrecy, but it will not be able to stop what we set in motion. For
the government of the people, by the people, for the people shall be
replaced by a conservative autocracy that holds itself above
accountability to the people. Welcome to the American Taliban.
Bumper sticker of the week: Bush/Cheney 1984: War is Peace.
