In These Times

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• • 11 Oct 05
  • 1:08 pm

  Hi ho, Thank you for the new book,I'll certainly get one as soon as possible.May you live a thousand years.

  Posted to Kurt Vonnegut's In These Times Opus

• • 06 Oct 05
  • 5:51 am

  Hi Ho, What?No experience as a judge? You spent your legal career representing big corporations? Well,say no more!This administration thinks you'd be perfect to interpret law for our nation! By the way,what is that smell? The smell of a right-wing agenda.That's what. Come on,buying that kind of influence to ramrod/railroad/ripoff an election doesn't come cheap,you know.

  Posted to Judging Harriet Miers

• • 11 Oct 05
  • 1:23 pm

  Hi ho, Take a good look at what is happening to education,with the right-wing in power.It is their ultimate goal to privatize education and putit under corporate control.As a teacher I've watched the system's quality erode while the demands placed upon teachers increases. What will happen with school choice is the upper middle class will put their children into "private" schools and claim they don't have to pay taxes for education.Furthermore those who teach at those"private schools will be manipulated into submission by the parents,their bosses,with the threat of job loss and being forced to work in public schools which,thanks to …

  Posted to All for One, None for All

• • 12 Oct 05
  • 6:49 am

  I also attended a private school from grades three to six,a Catholic school with a students body composed of military brats.Talk about discipline!Although,academically,the standards were far more diverse than what one would expect and markedly superior.When I returned to the public schools,even at the age of twelve,the difference in my educational developement was apparent to me.I am thankful. This point must be considered.My state's public schools,at that point,were some of the best.If one paid money to attend a private school,one expected to get one's money's worth,or get a comparable education for free.what will happen with the large scale implementation of"School Choice"will …

  Posted to All for One, None for All

• • 11 Oct 05
  • 1:33 pm

  Education IS the key to a better life and an egalitarian society.Republicans are dleiberately frustrating the process.Elitists who feel that no one should have what they have are making sure it never comes about. I don't know anyone naive,or downright stupid, enough to honestly believe that elimination of the minimum wage will cause wages to go up instead of down.i guess they're the ones who keep the lucky amulet industry humming.Hey, scamsters have to eat too.

  Posted to Alls or Nothings