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HEADLINES FOR ROMNEY
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Massachusetts Ranked 47th Out Of 50 In Jobs Growth While Romney Was Governor; Manufacturing Declined by Twice National Average
2006: Romney Cut $37.8 Million For Higher Education.
2003: Romney Wanted To Cut $150 Million From Higher Education Spending.
Romney Called For $100 Million In Higher Ed Cuts And $50 Million In Tuition Increases
Romney’s 2004 State Budget Proposal Increased Tuition By 15 Percent
College And University Fees Increased By 63% As A Result Of Romney’s $140 Million In Higher Education Cuts.
Former Romney Backer: “Higher Education Really Stood Still” During Romney’s Time In Office
Romney Wanted To Cut $12 Million From Job Training Initiatives.
Romney Opposed, Vetoed Workforce Training Funding.
Romney: “I Became Governor And We Had To Cut Back On Our State Funding Of Institutions Of Higher Learning."
” Romney When Asked If He Could Help With High Interest On Federally Subsidized Loans: “Hopefully Get You A Real Good Job That Gets You Real Good Pay.”
Tom good Morning. Hope you have a wonderful Memorial day weekend. I don't think its a Chinese holiday but you have the best of both worlds.
Romney must had big problems with math when he went to school! His private education is so far removed from charter schools and public education its unbelievable. Every time he speaks you can see the dollar signs in his eyes. Education for profit and children ,like private prisons are cash cows. I remember hearing once on the radio when they were privatizing prisons a man talking years ago. He said" Where will they look to fill these prisons? They will look to our high schools. How many young kids are tried as adults now and how many prisons across this nation are full of the youth of this nation? Charter schools do not have all the advantages a public school does and how far will we slide off the education grid ? For many inter city schools these are the last straw for many who have had problems in public schools. If you even reach one its a monumental moment. The children of today go through so much more than we did. I wish they could be children and enjoy the once in a life time child hood . But today's world wants them to grow up in Kindergarten . Where has the village in this nation gone so wrong? There are many amazing kids in this world! Einstines, Mozarts, there are Presidents in the making,those that will find a cure for cancer. We just need to nurture them and give them the can do spirit and tell them they can be anything and the sky's the limit!!! We need to support our teachers because they teach the world! Have a wonderful weekend Tom!
Tom, #182 That's our boy, Romney, what a guy!! Let's all make sure people get out and vote for him for president.......
of a corporation in Timbuktu!
I read the white paper on Mitt's education reform. So.....wasn't the Department of Education one of the departments he said he was going to eliminate? This sounds like double speak.
For public education, not education for the people who can p-a-y for it. He and son tag are in the business of education for profit.
Hey! A Progressive called out an 'r' or 'tp' that he was debating with on Jansing & Co. for not answering his request for sources in her rebuttal. She parroted one of the many air filled falacies that we have heard thousands of times before about Obama and the recovery. Follow this guy's lead and do it everytime on air when you're a guest on any political progam and/or debating!!! Most of the r/tp's have gotten away with pulling crap out of their asses for far too long.
Didn't we hear Ryan lying through his teeth with "facts" about Obama the other day? Not a single original lie. He would make a "wonderful" Cheney-type VP candidate. Oh my goodness, folks....Ryan's ears grow with every lie he tells. Pretty soon he'll have Eddie Munster's pointy ears. Does he sleep in a coffin?
17 of Romney's foreign policy staff were in the Cheney/Bush regime. Cheny has Romney's ear! This Country can't take four more years of the Cheney administration. It will surely be the death knell of America if that war profiteer continued to have such an influence in the WH again. Cheney...buzz off! You're the epitome of evil! Your "services" and lackies in public service and....your favorite....foreign policy are no longer needed.....they never were!!!
Romney is more interested in education for profit than knowledge.....Knew there had to be a way to make bucks in there somewhere. That is why he said more students in the class room......and the University of Phoenix made heavy campaign contribution to him.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/davidhalperin/mitt-romney-education_b_1541067.html
Thankful Mom- You sound like an Angry Mom. Look you need to think outside the box. If Romney wants to profit on private education that's his business. You don't like his schools then don't attend. This America, His rights are as equal as your hideous comments on this forum, Instead of barking about.his education plan research it with an open mind.. What your asking takes money, taxes increased with building expansion. Are you prepared for.that type of sacrifice. Many jobs.are lost. What Romney is saying is finding the top teachers who performance is exceptional with student capacity of 20-25 . The children needing advance care will be filtered for special attention, its the law. When the economy picks up, more tax revenue, then you can down size your class rooms
Think outside The Box = What- Do You Work At Taco-Bell ?? Robme And The Like Want To Privatize Schools - Yeah - So THEY Can Cash In On It = NO Other Reason !!! Public Schools Have Been Around In This Country For A Long Time !!! So Just Who Are THEY To Interrupt OUR System And CRAM It Down OUR Throats ?? And Also Just Who Can Afford Private Schools In This Country These Days ?? The Wealthy Thats Who - NOT The Average AMERICAN !!! Wake-Up And OPEN Your Eyes - Little Girl !!! Just Ask Yourself - WHY - WHY Do These Teabaggin - gop Want To Throw A Monkey Wrench Into The USA System ???
For Starters THEY - The Teabaggin-gop Want To Dismantle The Unions - Actually - That IS Their Main Objective - And Lets NOT Forget That THEY Want To Over-Throw OUR Government AND Constitution So THEY Can Run Rampant And SUCK ALL Of The Money Up Into Their Coffers And Piss On ALL Other AMERICANS - You Know The Ones {US} That Helped To Make Them Wealthy - And Now That THEY ARE Wealthy - They Want To Turn Their Backs On US and Toss US Aside Because THEY Could Care-Less About US NOW !!!! You Know What Is Really Amazing - Is That THEY Have Sooo Much Money - And THEY Will NEVER Be Able To Spend It ALL Within Their Lifetime - And It Is Just NOT ENUFF - Does The Word "GREED" Apply Here Somewhere ???
No, I don't work.for TACO Bell. I own a business, employees 14 great individuals. I started my business out of my garage 18.years ago. Put up every cent, my house, and an additional 40 hours a week for two years before I could quit then my employer. FOR THE AMERICAN DREAM. I pay 35% Corporate tax, compliments of Bill.Clinton. Pay for complete health care and dental for my employees. Match 25% of there 401k. Now NUMB NUTS WHAT CAN YOU BRING TO THE TABLE.
Many - Many Years Of Very Hard Work - Back Breaking Work - And Now That My Back Is Broken = THEY Just Simply Cast Me Aside - Treated Me As Though I Was Faking It !!! And Believe Me - I Have Helped THEM To Make Millions Of Dollars = But - They Didnt Say Yeah Thanx - But Rather - Goodbye - See-Ya !!!!!
Outlaw12,
IMO you owe MD/MI an apology. You got his name wrong there at the end, didn't you?
Ooops, collapsed! Just when I told him off, too! Wow!
India - Thank You For The Back-up - It Doesnt Matter - He and Others Dont Have a Clue As To Who I Am Or What I Have Done and Obviously They Could Give A Crap About Their Fellow AMERICANS = Just Like RobMe/RobUS And Others That Are Out Of Touch And Destroying America !!!!
I apologize for.your misfortune. Any business we choose to work or profession we up take nobody can predict the outcome. But I promised my self if decided to employee individuals, I must be in the position pay a living wage with health care. It's a two way street. They need me as well as I need them. Please remember 20 years ago I was sitting in the same position you were. For.the sake of sanity I choosed a different direction. This country gave me that opportunity. My.company pay the taxes and Medicare for your own survival. We.donate funds to.special charities. You as an individual is as important to me as.the next guy. But with the understanding the limitation must be placesd for the company own survival. But to impose higher taxes on on any business would be jeopardizing any expansions or employees layoff. I wish you much fortune.
HDRK......?
Since in my life time, I have worked as a teacher and a professor on all different levels of education......I don't need lessons form a person who has not been there. As MD said, you don't know who we are. You just want to make assumptions that you are the only one here who has a say....
Considering all the money, time and effort I spent to get my degrees I sure wasn't getting rich for it. I call it dedication to children and people to see that they also got educated. It is long hours, hard work and low pay. If I had worked all those hours at Taco Bell, I'd have been rich.
OUTLAW 12,
Thank you. I appreciate that very much. MD is a good guy and there's no need to insult someone in order to make a point. We can disagree without that.
It offends me when my friends are insulted.
I am guilty of insults from time to time, too, and will have to watch my own temper! I notice that I am in no position to judge! It's so easy to fall into that.
outlaw - You Sound Like A Good Person - Treat Your Employees Well - Sounds As Though You DO !!! I Respect That !!! I Wish You Good Fortune As Well - Thanx - Bud !!!
TM -And - India = Once Again Thanx For The Back-up - Both Of You !!! Seems WE ALL Work Very Hard - For Others And NEVER Get The Respect For Doing So !!! Ease Up On outlaw a Little Bit - He Does Sound Like Good People !!! And I DO Appreciate His Apology "Very Much" = And I Also Apologize To outlaw - For My Own Comments = Sorry Brah !!!!
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MD/MI,
You know I love Pink Floyd!
All in all it's just another brick in the wall!! Well, I'm off for the night. Hold down the fort.
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5 Mitt Fits.....
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It is always his turn, and if you don't play by his rules, he will yell you down......more mitt fits to come.
My goodness, the foolish and ignorant ranting on this thread is astonishing! lol
Somebody please tell me how taking money from the top heavy and wasteful Public Education Establishment and Teachers Unions and giving that same money to poor and disadvantaged students is a bad thing?
There is a reason why poor parents stand in line for hours, hoping to win a lottery to get their kid into a good DC. charter school. And there is a reason why poor parents put their kids on waiting lists, sometimes waiting 2 years to get enrolled into other private or charter schools.
The reason is simple! The Liberal Left's insistence of backing the current Public School System, with it's top down, one size fit's all approach and it's support of the NEA's stranglehold on keeping the status quo in tact at all costs.
You f*cking hypocrites! lol
Look at public education today and tell me those who have been the gate keepers should not all be kicked to the curb permanently. And you can't blame Conservatives for the current situation, because they do not run these poor cities and districts.
Yeah, liberals run the educational system just about everywhere because of the Department of Education and it's stupid political mandates and thru their picking winners and losers.
Parents should be given the right to put their child into a private or charter school if they so wish. If this were allowed, half of the dead weight administrators and "support staff' would be eliminated and it would be for the betterment of all.
I have been a registered Independent since 1980. I will vote Romney for President and Democrat for Senator in Arizona this year. I will also vote Democrat for Congress again too.
Obama has done nothing but divide this Country and should be defeated in November!
Then there is reality, funny how the US went from #1 in education to #17 after the GOP started to "fix" the education system. This country was divided when Reagan started slandering and lying about liberals and people on welfare. So don't blame Obama when GWB went around for 7 years saying you are either with me or with the terrorists.
The US went from #1 to #17 in education because of union protection of nitwits and slackers. You can't be fired from a teaching job unless you assault someone or molest a kid. If you're an imbecile, thanks to the union, if you've been there for longer than two years you have a job for life.
If you want our kids to be #1 again we can start by abolishing the union and basing salaries on performance instead. No more tenure. If we want the smartest kids, we need the best teachers. There is no way we will attract them when a unionized system that by it's very nature offers zero incentives for any teacher that goes above and beyond what's expected of them and at the same time protects incompetent workers.
You can thank the Department of Education for pumping money into the college education system and driving prices steadily up by doing it. At the same time, the quality of education in colleges has gone down.
Now it's impossible for someone with modest means to better themselves with a college degree unless they want to be an indentured slave to the Department of Education for life paying off exorbitant loans. Liberals pass this BS off as "helping people" when the truth is all it does is help them out of 50 grand plus interest for an education.
Got news for you, educational loans are the next big bubble that's about to pop. We're pushing a trillion in outstanding debt for education loans right now.
ROTFFL. no thank you gop version of education.
OK, you're the parent mom. If you want dumb kids who are enslaved in debt and can't keep up with the rest of the world that's your prerogative. I hope you've got some extra rooms available because they'll be living with you while they work at a job they're overqualified and underpaid for. If they're lucky they'll pay off their student loans by the time they turn 30.
Chitown = Open Your Eyes =Many Many People Are Enslaved In Debt and Cannot Keep Up With It !! I Wouldnt Call That A Perrogative - I Would Call That A Trap - Just LOOK At ALL Of The People Out There That Have Gone To College And Cannot Find Jobs Or Carriers And Are Stuck In A Debt That They Cannot Pay Back = OH - THANX GW/CheNey For Putting This/OUR Country Into Such A State !!!!! Oh OH OH - Thats Rite - Its President Obama's Fault That GW/CheNey Put This Country Into THE Position That ARE IN TODAY ??? Whaaaat ???? Go AWAY !!!! Ya Know - These Fools Seem To Think That EVERYONE In The US Makes At Least $100,000 Per Year = Just WHERE Do THEY Come Up With That Notion ????????????
Duh. That's exactly what I just said. It does become a prerogative when you choose to keep the ineffective unionized education system in place and ignore the truth. Choosing to fail is a choice.
Choosing To Fail - Is A Choice ????? What Planet Are You From ????
Nobody's suggesting we throw out the current system here are they? You want to keep the teachers unionized and continue to let the Dept of Education loan money to people and keep them enslaved in debt.
That system is a failure, and by choosing to keep it, you are in fact choosing to fail. Good luck with that.
Just WHAT Are YOU Typing About ??? Yes We Are Talking About Throwing Out The System That We Have - According To The Teabaggin-Gop !!!!! You Counterdict Yourself In Your Statements !!!???? D-D-D-D-DA-DA-DUH !!!!!! ARe You Related To RobMe ?????
Poor chi just can't understand that the economic policies he supports demands credit buying which is why the economy crashes every time the GOP use it. chi just can't grasp that fact. But the again he is a republican supporter who keeps wanting to blame other for his life failures.
WHOMI what is deficit spending but credit buying by the government/ Too bad i happened by just when you were trying once again to rewrite econ books. Busted again . Aren't you getting tired of being shown up for your hypocrisy?????
TC he's not tired, he thinks his ten talking points are facts, and he will continue to recycle them here regardless of any proof any of us provide to the contrary.
I've faced the fact that some people here are beyond reach and will only get a clue when the handouts dry up. Then we'll see how far the mantra "entitlements are rights" gets them.
Oh...twwwelllve...
Look...you need to get a clue...it's in your box...you can work your way out from there.
If Romney want to profit on private education by privatizing *our* schools it is *our* business....they are not *his* schools....they belong to the real Americans. Your comments are as hideous as your presumptions about any of the people on this Liberal blog and just as hideous as Romney's education plan. Instead of barking BS at people, open that brain that the good Lord gave you so you can think outside of the r/tp box...Romney wants to take your money and your taxes too in his rush to dismantle public education for the benefit of himself and his puppet masters. I don't know what State you live in but, in my State, we have numerous schools boarded up because of a lack of funds due to them going to the top 1%....remember the "job creator" tax welfare? So what is this nonsense about building expansion....I worked on the new school projects and expansions in the more populated Puget Sound areas from the Canadian border to our State Capitol. Many jobs are lost because of teacher layoffs and what they may have had when they had expenable income to contribute to the local economy.
Still reading Romney's mind there, Wannbe-Kreskin?
You only worked 40 additional hours a week to start your business???!!! Save me from your drama. Boooo-hoooo! Nobody ever promised you a rose garden. I would have loved to do that when I started my business in my garage 22 years ago when my youngest Son was a tiny tot....maybe you shouldn't have loaded your house with a pile of debt....had some foresight to put some money away before you started your business....to each his own as long as I don't have to pay for it. I would have loved working only 40 more hours a week when I was only employed. Get a freakin' clue and for Heaven's sake stop cryin'. Need a tissue? Go buy some...buy a pair of those too while you're at it.
Hey TM....got any extra cheese to go with my whine? I'm too lazy to get my own out of the refrigerator. Don't think I'm qualified to get any Government cheese either and, even if I did, I'm still to damn lazy to find out where that corporate farm made product, subsidized by real working people through Government subsidies, is and go pick it up. I get tired just thinking about it. You're probably tired by now if you read this non-sense.
There are people here of both the right and left persuassion that have lost everything but their car at some point in their lives because their businesses went bust or their jobs disappeared for no darn good reason....what a callous person you are to presume otherwise.
You don't pay 35% in corporate tax compliments of Clinton...nor do you pay 35% in corporate tax now. I'll bet you $10,000 Romney bucks that you don't. If you did, you can run along and points fingers at your account or envy the wealthy or cry that you didn't get your fictional trickle down.
Had to step away for a minute....you're still here. Go earn some damned money and spend the worthless currency it's printed on. Hey....did you know that eagle is really a phoenix that Benjamin Franklin fancied. He wanted a turkey to be our National bird too....he was a forward thinker.
This Country didn't give you anything....you earned it, correct? That's what you seem to be implying. Your company, mine, MD and our previous employers have paid into a benefit we earned and was paid into FICA for our benefit....our previous employers hopefully did too. Your hero Robme and Paul Lyin' Ryan want to dismantle Social Security. I suspect that it has a lot to do with not having to pay back the IOU's sitting in the fund for various reasons....a lot of it comes from a war profiteer named Dick Cheney and his pirates. I suspect that your heros would like to help out that war profiteer and give him a gift by forcing us to foot that bill. You did know that we own almost all of our debt right now don't you or did somebody forget to convey that through the tin foil hat? For the sake of sanity, that's what I want think about that. Any problem with that? Didn't think so. We both live in a free Country....do we or don't we?
What some cheesy grits with all your whine?
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Hi MD!
Could this be H-dork in his 11th re-creation? I lost track. Might surpass "politicalwatcher" for the record for meanest troll to date on this "forum".
Hi Kathe - Thanx !! How Are Ya - Hope ALL Is Well Your Way !!! Geeeez - You Went Ta Town = Hey !!! You GO Young Lady !!!!!! IF That IS HDRK = He Actually Does Have A Good Heart !!! Hey - Dont Start Smackin' Me !!!! Hey !!!!
MD/MI
Handshake and welcome back, good to see you again.
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If education is privatized, then the consumer can "fire" the provider of that education at will and go somewhere else.
Try that at PS42 in the Bronx.
If you prefer public education because you can distance yourself from your kid's education, that's your business.
Anything run by the private sector is better.
Hi Kathe and India
something for Saturday night
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And replacing it with what? I haven't seen one word about that.
More half-assed hope and change doublespeak I suppose.
Project much? My education is paid off and I don't have any kids. Go ahead and tell me I'm bragging now. That means so much coming from a government parasite.
The failure will be for them to inherit.
YOU GOOF = Privatize -Privatize - So THEY Can Make Cash From Our School Systems And Other Programs That THEY Want To Privatize - - GOMER - OPEN Yur Eyes !!!!!!! just sayin' --- Hey !!
Congratulations on your public education. I see you were asleep during English class. You are living proof of why Johnny can't read, or write, or think.
What Are You Spewing About ??? You State That You Do Not Have ANY Kids - Then You SPIN And State That THEY Will Inherit The Debt ?????? D-D-D--DUH-WE !!!!
Told you MD he suffers from sever bouts of delusions and memory loss, he thinks it makes him as admirable as Ronnie the insane GOP clown but we know better then that. Truly a legend in his own mind.
Whom = Thanx For The Back-up Brah = Just Where Do These Goofballs Even Get There Line Of Thought ???? From Sticking Their Head Into A Blender and Pushing The Non-Puree Button ?????
My education is paid off and I don't have any kids.
Me too!!
Again your projection is profound, and embarrassing.
MD/MI I realize you are beyond hope of learning to read but to clarify:
I said I don't have kids, and I said it's the kids (as in not mine) who are going to inherit the mess.
How do you function in the real world without a translator?
Sorry but again not a liberal trait. That can only be found in conservatives because it requires that the person believes he is more important then those around him. That you suffer from sever delusions of grandeur is a well known fact and that you think your opinion, which in reality is just rewritten Fox news fake outrage that you pass off as your own. That you then claim that you a self serving, self seeking, self centered person has concerns other then those he believes will affect him is rather laughable at best and just shows a tendency to be less then truthful as well as more proof of delusional thinking. A shrink could make a fortune off you.
C = Apparently YOU Are The One That Needs To Go Back To School { Kindergarten or PRE-School } To Learn How To Read - Little Girl !!!!! Perhaps You Have Lessdickcia ? Or Dhd-d-D-D-D-D ??? just sayin'
Well, this is your opinion, albeit incorrect. It's called free thought, and you've managed to demonstrate consistently that you're incapable of it. You call it repeating fox news because that's just the category you lump any opinion that doesn't align with your closed minded leftist rhetoric.
As for liberal traits, you are an expert at only examining/accepting liberal sources for your information and dismissing anything independent of it as a lie. That is called closed loop logic and it's a fundamental trait of liberals.
Finally, you're falsely perceiving my self-importance with the knowledge that I'm clearly superior to you in every way. That doesn't make me better than everyone else, it just makes me better than you.
The Republican Party is well known for its conservative ideology, as well as its beliefs in a small national government and strong military involvement. The Party is also generally pro-life, pro-business (as opposed to pro-environment), opposed to social spending, opposed to gay rights and skeptical of open immigration
The GOP as we know it does not believe in this. They are lying when they say this You are confusing Republicans with Libertarians. Libertarians are the only conservative group that believes in smaller government.
FYI I'm pro-choice.
Pro business is not the opposite of pro-environment.
Opposition to social spending - Make that opposed to mandated social spending where you take from one group and give to another by law. That is called theft.
Opposed to gay rights - In favor of individual rights of every citizen, regardless of their race, gender, sexual preference, etc. Opposed to collectivism which is grouping people into a categories which is by it's very nature the opposite of individual liberty.
Example: Black rights. Categorizing people by the color of their skin regardless of whether the intent is to discriminate against them or show favoritism to them is in itself inherently racist. The reason is because you are creating a collective based on skin color. That is racism.
Skeptical of Open Immigration - Make that skeptical of illegal immigration. I don't have a problem with people coming to this country as immigrants through legal channels. My family immigrated here from Italy, but they did so legally, were sponsored by American citizens and earned their way to citizenship.
GWB sure didn't have a handle on small government. Obama, on the other hand, keeps it fairly small. Under him, it has grown far less than in recent administrations.
I don't believe Obama is keeping government small. Many of the things he's proposed with regard to regulation and social programs will make government much larger and much more intrusive.
"Many of the things he's proposed with regard to regulation and social programs will make government much larger and much more intrusive."
and those would be?
Universal health care for openers is going to cost twice as much as he promised.
In Obama's mind, hope and change are things that come from the outside, things that the government or a new social order can provide for people. The fact that the wealth gap in the United States continues to get bigger proves this reasoning is false.
To suggest he's in any way trying to keep government small is ridiculous.
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Romney Names Education Profiteer As Co-Chair Of His K-12 Education Committee
By Zaid Jilani posted May 23rd 2012 at 11:25AM
EdWeek reports that presumptive GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney has named the members of his K-12 Education Committee for his campaign:
Rees is a particularly interesting choice. She served as the deputy under secretary for Innovation and Improvement at the Department of Education under the Bush administration, where she advocated for school privatization through the expansion of school vouchers and other schemes that funnel public dollars to private educational institutions.
Shortly after leaving the government, Rees was immediately snatched through the revolving door by Knowledge Universe, a massive for-profit education company. She currently works for the company under the title of Senior Vice President of Strategic Initiatives.
Knowledge Universe was founded as a for-profit education company by former junk bond king Michael Milken in 1996. By 2010, the company was reaching $1.6 billion in annual revenue, running a large variety of private early childhood, primary and secondary, higher education, and online education schools and programs.
Now that Rees has a strong hand in making Romney’s K-12 education policy, one has to wonder if she will craft policies overly friendly to the very same industry she works for (and which she also advocated for while still in government). It’s a potential — and powerful — conflict of interest that has great implications for America’s students?
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Sulphurdunn 2 comments collapsed CollapseExpand
Knowledge Universe is part of a transnational corporation headquartered in Singapore. We need it to operate schools in America like we need Mitt Romney to be President. These people and the political hacks they purchase should all be required to wear corporate logos on their civies the way soldiers wear insignia on their uniforms.
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and being singapore, would Knowledge Universe be in the 'Madrasa' business, too? I have a little different take on the soldiers uni's. Wouldn't it be/look better if they were more like NASCAR drivers, with their corporate logos? haha
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Yep, poor kids don't need social justice or functional communities. All they need are for profit schools financed with public money. Not to sound too cynical, but if you aren't making money off this scam, or you think it will benefit public education, then you have to believe that Enron was good for public utilities and that billionaire foundations and hedge funds care about poor children. If you do you're just another useful tool.
the dissenter, Christian dating: Deuteronomy 21:11-13 (King James Version) 11-And seest among the captives a beautiful woman, and hast a desire unto her, that thou wouldest have her to thy wife; 12-Then thou shalt bring her home to thine house, and she shall shave her head, and pare her nails; 13-And she shall put the raiment of her captivity from off her, and shall remain in thine house, and bewail her father and her mother a full month: and after that thou shalt go in unto her, and be her husband, and she shall be thy wife. 1 comment collapsed CollapseExpand
You're absolutely correct. If you want to see the perfect example of the devastating results of this conversion, take a look at New Orleans.
Stripey_Magee 1 comment collapsed CollapseExpand
Everything should be privatized, just ask a Chicagoan how they like their privatized parking meters. How about the private prisons which lobby congress, federal and state, to pass laws that make everyone at one point or another criminals?
Padreis 12 comments collapsed CollapseExpand
Oh yeah, I want all of our schools to be privately owned and then we can get rid of the children who aren't white and/or who don't have professional parents who can donate a lot of money to the school....NOT! Corporations are trying to take over every blamed thing in this country. It isn't corporations who make sure our drinking water is clean, our drugs are safe and effective, our roads and bridges are built safely, who insure the money we put in banks (FDIC), who manage Medicare, Medicaid and S.S. for about 3%, and many other things that we take for granted. People who work for the government don't get salaries of millions of dollars yearly and they work hard for us.
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tim holt 11 comments collapsed CollapseExpand
I look to what our education system is putting out as a product right now and think, NOBODY could do worse than we are doing right now.
Kevin Schmidt 10 comments collapsed CollapseExpand
That's because Dubya's 'No Child's Behind Left' became OBusha's 'Race to the Bottom.'
palinisamoron 9 comments collapsed CollapseExpand
Do you have anything interesting, or are you just a garden-variety troll?
the dissenter, Christian dating: Deuteronomy 21:11-13 (King James Version) 11-And seest among the captives a beautiful woman, and hast a desire unto her, that thou wouldest have her to thy wife; 12-Then thou shalt bring her home to thine house, and she shall shave her head, and pare her nails; 13-And she shall put the raiment of her captivity from off her, and shall remain in thine house, and bewail her father and her mother a full month: and after that thou shalt go in unto her, and be her husband, and she shall be thy wife. 7 comments collapsed CollapseExpand
Instead of launching an ad hominem, why don't you try to prove the guy wrong? Show us some facts to convince us that Obama is different than Bush or that improving education - and not decimating it - is his goal. Please indulge us.
Insulting others because you don't like or agree with their opinion is the last refuge of the partisan scoundrels.
palinisamoron 6 comments collapsed CollapseExpand
I should prove his comment wrong? Did you read it? There's nothing to prove wrong, @!$%#head!
the dissenter, Christian dating: Deuteronomy 21:11-13 (King James Version) 11-And seest among the captives a beautiful woman, and hast a desire unto her, that thou wouldest have her to thy wife; 12-Then thou shalt bring her home to thine house, and she shall shave her head, and pare her nails; 13-And she shall put the raiment of her captivity from off her, and shall remain in thine house, and bewail her father and her mother a full month: and after that thou shalt go in unto her, and be her husband, and she shall be thy wife. 1 comment collapsed CollapseExpand
PS: Palin is not the only one who is a moron...if you catch my drift (which, of course, you won't).
the dissenter, Christian dating: Deuteronomy 21:11-13 (King James Version) 11-And seest among the captives a beautiful woman, and hast a desire unto her, that thou wouldest have her to thy wife; 12-Then thou shalt bring her home to thine house, and she shall shave her head, and pare her nails; 13-And she shall put the raiment of her captivity from off her, and shall remain in thine house, and bewail her father and her mother a full month: and after that thou shalt go in unto her, and be her husband, and she shall be thy wife. 4 comments collapsed CollapseExpand
LOL! Well, thank you for proving ME right there. BTW, feel free to come back and call me more names, the more you do it, the more you'll prove that you are not doing it. Isn't that the Right Wing's mentality?
ROFL! The Left Wing, exactly the same as the Right Wing. ~palm to forehead~
palinisamoron 3 comments collapsed CollapseExpand
Derp. You got nothing as usual, except false equivalency.
the dissenter, Christian dating: Deuteronomy 21:11-13 (King James Version) 11-And seest among the captives a beautiful woman, and hast a desire unto her, that thou wouldest have her to thy wife; 12-Then thou shalt bring her home to thine house, and she shall shave her head, and pare her nails; 13-And she shall put the raiment of her captivity from off her, and shall remain in thine house, and bewail her father and her mother a full month: and after that thou shalt go in unto her, and be her husband, and she shall be thy wife. 1 comment collapsed CollapseExpand
Better to open your mouth and remove doubt than letting them think you're a fool, eh?
Avaritia 1 comment collapsed CollapseExpand
Dude, you are hysterical. All you do is accuse others of that which you are guilty of. A perfect example of a right wing troll you are.
Avaritia 1 comment collapsed CollapseExpand
Oh, the irony of that post bites!
deke4 2 comments collapsed CollapseExpand
Tim Holt. When teachers are reduced to teaching rote just to pass tests all education suffers. You don't need creative educators then, all you need is automatons who give as homework copies of previous state tests at their grade level and repeat and repeat ad infinitum until all students have the same right answer. A question at a jr hi level such as "if the government took away all your rights how would the people get them back?" Most would answer, petition the government for redress of the greivance, or vote them out of office. The critical thinkers would say I don't have the right of petition or vote anymore, I must fight to get my rights back. This is a facet of a privatized education system that would be shunted aside and questions requiring critical thinking would no longer be part of the curriculum. Just another poser. The Maine, sunk in Havana Harbor was refloated towed somwhere into the mid Atlantic and resunk without any civilian or government committee (that I know of) being allowed to see what caused the Maine to explode in the harbor. True historians are gnashing their teeth because they will no longer be able to find out what happened.
the dissenter, Christian dating: Deuteronomy 21:11-13 (King James Version) 11-And seest among the captives a beautiful woman, and hast a desire unto her, that thou wouldest have her to thy wife; 12-Then thou shalt bring her home to thine house, and she shall shave her head, and pare her nails; 13-And she shall put the raiment of her captivity from off her, and shall remain in thine house, and bewail her father and her mother a full month: and after that thou shalt go in unto her, and be her husband, and she shall be thy wife. 1 comment collapsed CollapseExpand
Not sure if it was your intention and/or if you realize it but what you described is the agenda. An educated populace is more difficult to rule and to keep oppressed. Look at the Right Wing that's how they have been able to get them to vote against their own best interests thru dogma and the ignorance of religion. I have long contended that the agenda starts in the church and when they're nice and pliable, they're turned over to the state to complete the job. And that would be the reason why in so-called Communist regimes, they ban religion because it is their only natural enemy. Religion does a better job of brainwashing the sheep than the state ever could.
deke4 1 comment collapsed CollapseExpand
No one wants to face the real problem in education because it would bring the spotlight to rest frequently on the very people who complain about
the school system not doing it's job. The classroom teachers' hands have been tied. I don't mean that they use those hands for corporal punishment, but their authority has been eroded. Our system does need some readjustment and I mean from the top down. Most "principals" today prefer to be called "administrators". A title that conveys the meaning they have little to do with what goes on in the classroom. They have abandoned the British definition of "principal" which means academic leader. All too frequently potential administrators are promoted to their positions because they did not like the heat of the classroom. I would suggest that if there is to be a principal opening in a school district, the bboard throw all applications submitted in the waste paper basket and then seek a teacher who enjoys the heat of the classroom and make that person the administrator. Chances are much better that their choice would be an "academic leader". I would go on but my time is limited.
Earl Callahan 1 comment collapsed CollapseExpand
Why am I not surprised? Let's continue with what has proved not to work. It has been said that if educators formed a firing squard, they would get in a circle. If they vote for this and rom-money wins, that's exactly what they'll be doing, and I know some dyed in the wool teachers who are dyed in the wool Repuglicans.
deke4 10 comments collapsed CollapseExpand
Privatizing public education is just another Romney Ponzi scheme. I suspect if this abortion to education is ever put into practice you will see your local and state education taxes go up to help this Ponzi scheme succeed. There will be evaluations by favored evaluators stressing the great strides being made and even greater strides will be made if the government would pour more money into the scheme. Then out of the blue these private companies will develop financial difficulties (after their profits had been disseninated) and they will go into bankruptcy leaving as assets the buildings (paid for with taxpayer dollars) athletic fields and other physical structures (paid for with tax payer dollars) and the private companies absconding with bags of money and a smile on their face. Ask Mitt. Not once has he answered a direct question about Bain that should be spelled Bane as to just what companies went bankrupt and why they were able to reap huge profits from a bankrupted company.
the dissenter, Christian dating: Deuteronomy 21:11-13 (King James Version) 11-And seest among the captives a beautiful woman, and hast a desire unto her, that thou wouldest have her to thy wife; 12-Then thou shalt bring her home to thine house, and she shall shave her head, and pare her nails; 13-And she shall put the raiment of her captivity from off her, and shall remain in thine house, and bewail her father and her mother a full month: and after that thou shalt go in unto her, and be her husband, and she shall be thy wife. 9 comments collapsed CollapseExpand
I hate to tell you this but, in this particular case, Romney would only be following the footsteps of and finishing the job that our illustrious president has started. If you take the time to check, you'll find out that privatization of education is Obama's pet project. Vote for him and give him another 4 years and you'll see him bring that little project to fruition.
deke4 8 comments collapsed CollapseExpand
It seems Bush started the "no child left behind" by requiring passinf standarized tests, I have heard no Democrat endorsing the riddance of public schools and installing privatized education, It seems to me the party most favoring privitization is on the right. It seems the right thinks the government has no role in a civilized society but yet we would all look pretty silly if each of us had afire truck in our driveways. I do not use airports yet my tax dollars go to build airports. And what I really abhor is my tax dollars going to build a super-stadium then charge me outrageous prices to see a game, suckle a beer and eat a hotdog let alone be invited to sit in the air conditioned, personal chefs and bartenders on seats that probably cost more than a month's supply of food for the average family.. Now isn't that a form of welfare
Avaritia 7 comments collapsed CollapseExpand
In that case, you heard it here first then:
Presidential Proclamation -- National Charter Schools Week, 2012
NATIONAL CHARTER SCHOOLS WEEK, 2012
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
A PROCLAMATION
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-...
And, of course, this is neither the first nor the last time that he'll hear the agenda straight from the horse's mouth.
deke4 6 comments collapsed CollapseExpand
"Whether created by parents and teachers or community and civic leaders, charter schools serve as incubators of innovation in neighborhoods across our country. These institutions give educators the freedom to cultivate new teaching models and develop creative methods to meet students' needs. This unique flexibility is matched by strong accountability and high standards, so underperforming charter schools can be closed, while those that consistently help students succeed can serve as models of reform for other public schools."
The above paragraph is taken from the web site you sent me. Nowhere does it mention that a charter school is a privatized school! Take a look at the very first sentence, does it say charter schools are created by private companies for profit. I realize in some states there are for profit privatized schools and I also realize that there is evidence that those for profit privatized schools have cooked the books, so to speak, to give themselves a better rating. For some reason Houston, Texas and I believe it was Maryland have proven this to be so.
Charter schools I am familiar with are operated within school districts with the authority of the state and use staff from within the same district and funds from within the district with the state contributing to aid those educators that were already employed by the district.
Avaritia 5 comments collapsed CollapseExpand
I see...you're one of those who covers his eyes so that he can triumphantly claim that the sun doesn't exist. In this case, you choose to believe that the particular brand of charter schools that Obama is cheering for is the not-for-profit kind (coincidentally, I never heard of any charter school that wasn't for profit but I also realize that Texas is not in the US but it's a country in and by itself). In that case, please, do carry on. Defending Obama's disaster capitalism, elitism and corporatism is a dirty job but someone's gotta do it.
And whatever you do, do not ever look into so-called charters schools in New Orleans or New York City just to name a couple or your little Obamabubble will burst.
CatKinNY 1 comment collapsed CollapseExpand
NYC has a long history of charter schools, especially at the HS level, that channel students into particular fields based on talent/interest. They run the gamut from the famous, like Bronx Science, or the High School for the Performing Arts (the setting of 'Fame'), to the more mundane, like a couple that prepare students for jobs in health care or culinary careers. They are public schools, and their teachers are members of the Teachers Union. Bloomberg is allowing some private charters to open, but you're dreaming (or maybe hallucinating?) if you think that there are no public charter schools.
deke4 3 comments collapsed CollapseExpand
"Defending Obama's disaster capitalism, elitism and corporatism is a dirty job but someone's gotta do it." And others will just not let the sunlight in. "Obama's disaster capitalism?" Perhaps you don't remember that Clinton left that transplanted Texan, Bush, a half trillion inheritance that Bush quickly squandered on tax cutsa for the unneedy, Perhaps you forgot the Bush promise of getting Osama, Texas style, dead or alive. Bush did neither, in fact at one point he said getting Osama was not important to him. Perhaps you forgot the second unfunded tax cut Bush gave to the wealthy. Perhaps you forgot fighting two unnecessary wars, one for supposedly getting Osama and destroying his training camps, and the other fought with a nation that had nothing to do with 9/11, a nation that was a paper tiger that we defeated 10 years earlier, a nation that would not produce "a mushroom cloud within a year, a nation that had no wmds. Both wars were fought on supplemental budgets. Just for your edification a supplemental budget is only a budget paid for by credit card by some other administration down the road. Let alone the unfunded Bush health act.
Obama inherited the Bush incompetency wars and budgets. It was Obama who got Osama. It was Obama who saved the auto industry. It is Obama who is slowly bringing us out of the Bush depression. Perhaps it might enlighten you to study some recessions and depressions to see what party was in power when these economic disasters started and which party pulled us out of the disasters. Try the depression of 1872, and 1929, but if historical data does not interest you, check Reagan who left office leaving a 2 trillion dollar deficit then jump to Bush and try to educate me a bit more.
Avaritia 2 comments collapsed CollapseExpand
I'm well aware. You on the other hand...not so much. You are the one who seem to be unaware of the fact that Clinton, Bush and Obama and the same @!$%# with a different name. But you keep on batting for your wonder boy Obama, as I said before, it's a dirty job but someone's gotta dot it. Once again, you Obamabots are just the same as the FAUX NOISE drones. All the same @!$%#, different day.
deke4 1 comment collapsed CollapseExpand
Disqus generic email templateAvarita, And here I thought we were having a somewhat civil discussion without curses. "Clinton, Bush and Obama and the same @!$%# with a different name" As to the different named same @!$%#, there are extreme differences in their policies. There was some talk at the end of the Clinton administration about eliminating our now small National Debt and the effect it would have on the world economy. That was Clinton policies that almost eliminated th
Sorry, got some add ons from somewhere....Not intended. You can stop reading at America's students.